written using family information calls her Frances Montuzan, relating that her father was a British colonel killed in the French and Indian War. Popular opinion makes John Montresor the father of Frances, due in no small part to his role in a popular best-selling novel of the time. Fiction John Montresor has gained a certain notoriety beyond his historical role due to the writings of his first-cousin Susanna Haswell Rowson. One of the main characters in her popular novel Charlotte Temple, named John Montraville, was based, at least in part, on Montresor. In the sequel, Lucy Temple, Charlotte's Daughter, Montraville is even said to have lived at Portland Place, once Montresor's residence. In the original novel, Montraville seduces the title character, an innocent English schoolgirl, and induces her to run away to America. He then abandons her, destitute and pregnant, to die in childbirth. Some authors have taken this to be a verbatim account of an event in Montresor's life, with only the name changed (the author subtitles the work, "A Tale of Truth"), while others see in it a fictionalized account of the circumstances surrounding the birth of the future Frances Allen. However, the tale also bears strong similarity to one told of General John Burgoyne, and it seems likely that the author had broader inspiration for her tale. References General Finigan, H.: "Montresor Papers on microfilm" David Library of the American Revolution, Washington's Crossing, PA Skull, G. D., The Montresor Journals, Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1881. "John Montrésor" Dictionary of American Biography XIII, 101–102. Montrésor, Frank Montrésor, "Memoirs of the Montresors", mss. 1941, Library of Congress. Montrésor, F. M., "Captain John Montrésor in Canada", Canadian Historical Review, vol. 5 (1924), pp. 336–340. Montresor pedigree, Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London, 1917, facing p. 293, along with "Notes and Jottings in connection with the Montresor Pedigree", ibid, pp. 293–300. Family and fiction Montresor, F. M., "Who was Ethan Allen's wife?", New York Historical and Biographical Record, vol. 75 (1944), pp. 29–30. Buehner, Terry L., Green Mountain Women, thesis, University of Vermont, 1992, pp. 113–139. Hall, Benjamin H., History of Eastern Vermont, (New York: Appleton & Co) 1858, pp. 604. Parker, Patricia L., Susanna Rowson, (Boston: Twayne) 1986 External links Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online Biography, Copley portraits of John Montresor and of Frances Tucker Montresor, and a Montresor map