Following the demise of her brother, Marie is left as the responsible aunt to Ellen Phipps. Ellen and her mother were among the British civilians captured at Fort William Henry and trafficked by the Abenaki—when Ellen was still only three—to Guerlac. When the mother died, the girl was placed in Marie's old convent in Montreal; Marie now moves her to the chateau of Moses Hazen, athwart the western prong of the rebel advance.Rabble in Arms, pp.84, 85
