Catharine is a town in Schuyler County, New York, United States.

[2] The town is one of two in the county named after Catherine Montour, a Native American interpreter and leader in the area.

The Seneca and other Iroquois allies of the British were forced to cede their lands in New York.

The Town of Catharine was created by the New York State Legislature in 1798, with its first elections occurring in the same year.

By 1805 the town had grown sufficiently that a Methodist congregation was formed in the eponymous hamlet of Catharine.

Part of Catharine was in turn divided to form the Towns of Veteran and Catlin (both in Chemung County) in 1825.

The Lattin-Crandall Octagon Barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.