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font-size:1.2em; font-weight:bold'>The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Black Watch at Ticonderoga, by Frederick B. 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Richards</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: September 9, 2021 [eBook #66252]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Brian Coe, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BLACK WATCH AT TICONDEROGA ***</div> - - -<div class="transnote"> -<p><strong>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE</strong></p> - -<p>Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been -placed at the end of the book. Appendix H and J have many unnumbered -footnotes, which have not been moved and remain under the relevant -paragraph with an indent of 6 spaces. Appendix L and N also have one -each.</p> - -<p class="customcover">The cover image was created by the transcriber -and is placed in the public domain.</p> - -<p>Some minor changes to the text are noted at the <a href="#TN">end of the book.</a></p> -</div> - - -<div class="chapter"></div> - - <div class="bbox2"> -<div class="bbox"> -<h1> -<span class="fs60 lsp3">THE</span><br /> -<span class="fs180 lsp">Black Watch</span><br /> -<span class="fs100">at Ticonderoga</span><br /> - -<span class="fs70"><em>and</em></span><br /> -<span class="fs100">Major Duncan Campbell</span><br /> -<span class="fs100">of Inverawe</span></h1> -</div> -<br /> -<div class="bbox"> -<p class="pfs120">By FREDERICK B. RICHARDS, A. M.</p> -<p class="pfs70">Secretary of N. Y. State Historical Association: Glens Falls, N. Y.</p> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowe10_625" id="indian"> - <img class="p2 w100" src="images/indian.jpg" alt="(icon of Indian warrior)" /> - <p class="p2"> </p> -</div> - -<div class="bbox"> -<p class="pfs60">AN EXCERPT FROM VOLUME X OF THE PROCEEDINGS<br /> -OF THE NEW YORK STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION</p> -<hr class="fulla" /> -<p class="pfs60">PRINTED FOR FORT TICONDEROGA MUSEUM LIBRARY</p> -</div> - </div> - - -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="frontis" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="p2 w100" src="images/frontis.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="right">—Courtesy of the Glens Falls Insurance Co.</p> -The Black Watch at Ticonderoga July 8, 1758</div> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[Pg 1]</span><br /></p> - -<h2 class="p2 nobreak" id="THE_BLACK_WATCH_AT_TICONDEROGA">THE BLACK WATCH AT TICONDEROGA</h2> -</div> - -<hr class="r20" /> -<p class="pfs100"><span class="smcap">By Frederick B. Richards</span>, A. M., Glens Falls, N. Y.</p> -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p>A residence of ten years in Ticonderoga inspired me with an -appreciation of the history of that most historic spot in America, -and when as secretary of the Ticonderoga Historical Society I -was instrumental in securing the erection of the Black Watch -Memorial in that village, I became particularly interested in the -record of that famous Highland Regiment which this building commemorates.</p> - -<p>It has for several years been my wish to write so complete an -account of the Black Watch at Ticonderoga that one would need -look in no other place for any detail in the history of that regiment -from the time it left Scotland in 1756 until after the capture -of Ticonderoga by Amherst in 1759. As a meeting of the New York -State Historical Association on Lake Champlain seemed an appropriate -time to present such a paper and the printed histories of -that period give only meagre accounts on this subject, Mrs. Richards -and I made this an excuse for a trip to the British Isles and -a large part of August and September, 1910, was spent on a Black -Watch pilgrimage. We had a very enjoyable trip and gained many -interesting facts but I am sorry to say that the story is still far -from complete.</p> - -<p>The reason for the lack of more detailed information about the -Regiment in the Ticonderoga period is found in the following which -is copied from the preface of Stewart of Garth’s first edition:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The origin of these Sketches and Military Details was simply -this: When the Forty-second regiment was removed from Dublin -to Donaghadee in the year 1771, the baggage was sent round by -sea. The vessel having it on board was unfortunately driven on -shore by a gale of wind, and wrecked; the greater part of the cargo -and baggage was lost, and the portion saved, especially the regimental -books and records, was much injured. A misfortune somewhat<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span> -similar occurred, when the army, under the Earl of Moira, -landed at Ostend in June, 1794. The transports were ordered -round to Helvoetsluys, with orders to wait the further movements -of the troops. But the vessels had not been long there, when the -enemy invaded Holland in great force, and, entering Helvoetsluys, -seized on the transports in the harbour. Among the number of -vessels taken were those which had conveyed the Forty-second to -Flanders, having on board every article of regimental baggage, -except the knapsacks with which the officers and soldiers had -landed at Ostend in light marching order. Along with the baggage, -a well-selected library, and, what was more to be regretted, all that -remained of the historical records of the regiment, from the period -of its formation till the year 1793, fell into the hands of the enemy.</p> - -<p>“After the conclusion of the late war, his Royal Highness, the -Commander-in-Chief, directed that the Forty-second should draw -up a record of its services and enter it in the regimental books, for -the information of those who should afterwards belong to the -corps. As none of the officers who had served previously to the -loss of the records in 1794 were then in the regiment, some difficulty -arose in drawing up the required statement of service; indeed, -to do so correctly was found impossible, as, for a period of fifty-four -years previous to 1793, the materials were very defective. In -this situation, the commanding officer, in the year 1817, requested -me to supply him with a few notices on the subject.”</p> -</div> - -<p>It seemed to have been the custom in the British army of that -period for a Regiment to carry its entire belongings with it from -place to place and this unfortunate practice has swept from existence -every trace of the Regimental records of the Black Watch of -Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>It may be readily seen that if Colonel Stewart who had all the -information in 1817 which the British government was able to -supply and who was also fortunate in having had an intimate -acquaintance during his service in the Regiment with officers who -have served almost from its formation, was unable to write a complete -record, the task nearly one hundred years later might be -considered well nigh hopeless. There was the hope, however, that -some record which was then lost might have been discovered since -Colonel Stewart’s time or that interesting matter might be found in -the archives of the families who had sons in the Black Watch of -1758. It is a fact that only recently the regimental records of the -Black Watch of two decades later were found in an old second-hand<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span> -book store in Portsmouth and it is still possible that the regimental -records of 1758-9, which are now lost, may yet come to light.</p> - -<p>We find that nearly all the histories of the Highland Regiments -follow Stewart of Garth nearly word for word in their accounts of -the early history of the Black Watch. A notable exception, however, -is “A Military History of Perthshire,” which has much -that is new. There are also many interesting letters and other -records in “The Chronicles of the Atholl and Tullibardine Families,” -relating to the service of those of the Black Watch who came -from the Atholl Family or estate, and at London we found some -dispatches in the Public Record Office in the War Department -which I have not seen published. The chief merit, however, if any, -which I can claim for this address is that while it does not add -much that is new, it does, I think, collect in one article nearly all -that is known about the Black Watch of the Ticonderoga period.</p> - -<p>I might say here, also, that whatever was lacking in information -was more than made up by the cordiality of our reception, -as we found nearly every Scotsman interested in the oldest -Highland Regiment of the British Army and glad to help us in any -way possible. We are under special obligation, which I here wish -to acknowledge, to Lt. Col. Hugh Rose, the present commander -of the First Battalion of the Black Watch; Major D. L. Wilson -Farquharson, D. S. O., who represented the Regiment at the unveiling -of the memorial tablet at Ticonderoga, July 4, 1906, now -retired and living in Allargue in Aberdeenshire, the home of the -Farquharson’s for many generations; W. Skeoch Cumming of Edinburgh, -artist and authority on Scottish costumes and tartans of the -18th century; Mrs. Campbell of Dunstaffnage, present owner of -old Inverawe House; the Marchioness of Tullibardine, editor of -“A Military History of Perthshire,” and the Duke of Atholl, present -head of the Clan Murray, Honorary Colonel of the Third Battalion -of the Black Watch and compiler of the “Chronicles of the Atholl -and Tullibardine Families.”</p> - -<p>Before proceeding to the Black Watch of Ticonderoga, it would -perhaps be well to give a brief history of the Regiment. There is -considerable difference of opinion as to just when the independent -companies which were afterwards to become the present regiment<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span> -of the line were raised. The earliest record I have seen is that on -the 3rd of August, 1667, King Charles II issued a commission under -the Great Seal to John, second Earl of Atholl “to raise and keep -such a number of men as he should think fit to be a constant guard -for securing the peace in the Highlands” and “to watch upon the -braes.”<a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></p> - -<p>From this time until 1739 the Black Watch was in various -stages of formation.<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a></p> - -<p>It was at the period of the independent companies that the -name Black Watch was given—Black from the sombre tartan in -contrast to the regular soldiers who at that time had coats, waistcoats -and breeches of scarlet cloth, and Watch because their duties -were to watch or keep order in the Highlands. The character of -the rank and file of the Black Watch of this period was exceedingly -high, many gentlemen with servants serving as privates, and in -addition to the enlistment being from the best families it was also -possible to select only “men of full height, well proportioned and -of handsome appearance.” There were several reasons for this, the -principal one being probably the fact that at that period the carrying -of arms was prohibited by penalties and it became an “object -of ambition with all the young men of spirit to be admitted even -as privates into a service which gave them the privilege of wearing -arms.” Our interest in the Black Watch, however, is principally -in the Regiment of the line as such and this dates from the commission -given by George II, October 25, 1739, as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“GEORGE R.—Whereas we have thought fit, that a regiment -of foot be forthwith formed under your command, and to consist -of ten companies, each to contain one captain, one lieutenant, one -ensign, three serjeants, three corporals, two drummers, and one -hundred effective private men; which said regiment shall be partly -formed out of six Independent Companies of Foot in the Highlands -of North Britain, three of which are now commanded by -captains, and three by captain-lieutenants. Our will and pleasure -therefore is, that one serjeant, one corporal, and fifty private men, -be forthwith taken out of the three companies commanded by captains, -and ten private men from the three commanded by captain-lieutenants, -making one hundred and eighty men, who are to be<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span> -equally distributed into the four companies hereby to be raised; -and the three serjeants and three corporals, draughted as aforesaid, -to be placed to such of the four companies as you shall judge -proper; and the remainder of the non-commissioned officers and -private men, wanting to complete them to the above number, to be -raised in the Highlands with all possible speed; the men to be -natives of that country, and none other to be taken.</p> - -<p>This regiment shall commence and take place according to the -establishment thereof. And of these our orders and commands, -you, and the said three captains, and the three captain-lieutenants -commanding at present the six Independent Highland Companies, -and all others concerned, are to take notice, and to yield obedience -thereunto accordingly.</p> - -<p>Given at our Court at St. James’s, this 25th day of October, -1739, and in the 13th year of our reign.</p> - -<p class="right padr4">By His Majesty’s Command,</p> -<p class="right">(Signed): Wm. Yonge.</p> - -<p class="negin2">To our Right Trusty and Right Well-<br /> -Beloved Cousin, John Earl of<br /> -Craufurd and Lindsay.”</p> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp52" id="i004" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i004.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="right"><span class="smcap">PW Reynolds</span><br /> -1909.</p> -<span class="smcap">Grenadier, 42<sup>nd</sup> Reg<sup>t</sup> 1751.</span><br /> -(<em>From a painting at Windsor Castle.</em>)<br /> - -<p>The tallest men of the Regiment of that period were formed into a -Grenadier Company and wore the Grenadier bearskin. The rest of the -uniform as above and the substitution of the blue bonnet for the bearskin -was the uniform for the rest of the Regiment.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>May, 1740, these ten companies were mustered in a field between -Taybridge and Aberfeldy and in the army list of that year -were known as “Earl of Crawford’s Regiment of Foot in the Highlands.”<a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> -There have been several changes of the official name of the -Regiment but the “Black Watch” was always the familiar one in -the country where it has drawn its recruits and since 1881 has been -the official name in the British Army List.<a id="FNanchor_4" href="#Footnote_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>The uniform of this period was a “scarlet jacket and waistcoat, -with buff facings and white lace, tartan plaid of twelve yards -plaited round the middle of the body, the upper part being fixed -on the left shoulder, ready to be thrown loose and wrapped over -both shoulders and firelock in rainy weather. At night, the plaid -served the purpose of a blanket, and was a sufficient covering for -the Highlanders. These were called belted plaids, from being kept -tight to the body by a belt, and were worn on guards, reviews, and -on all occasions when the men were in full dress. On this belt -hung the pistols and dirk when worn. In the barracks, and when -not on duty, the little kilt or philibeg was worn, a blue bonnet with<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span> -a border of white, red, and green, arranged in small squares to -resemble, as is said, the fess cheque in the arms of the different -branches of the Stewart family, and a tuft of feathers, or sometimes, -from economy or necessity, a small piece of black bearskin. -The arms were a musket, a bayonet, and a large basket-hilted -broadsword. These were furnished by Government; such of the -men as chose to supply themselves with pistols and dirks were -allowed to carry them, and targets after the fashion of the country. -The sword-belt was of black leather, and the cartouch-box was -carried in front, supported by a narrow belt round the middle.”<a id="FNanchor_5" href="#Footnote_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a></p> - -<p>“While the companies acted independently, each commander -assumed the tartan of his own Clan. When embodied, no clan -having a superior claim to offer an uniform plaid to the whole, and -Lord Crawford, the colonel, being a Lowlander, a new pattern -was assumed, and which has ever since been known as the 42d, or -Black Watch tartan, being distinct from all others.<a id="FNanchor_6" href="#Footnote_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> Lord John -Murray gave the Athole tartan for the philibeg. The difference -was only a stripe of scarlet, to distinguish it from that of the -belted plaid. The pipers wore a red tartan of very bright colours, -(of the pattern known by the name of the Stewart or Royal Tartan), -so that they could be more clearly seen at a distance. When -a band of music was added, plaids of the pipers’ pattern were given -to them.”<a id="FNanchor_7" href="#Footnote_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a></p> -</div> - -<p>Having given briefly the origin of the Regiment, we will pass -to the period which is the subject of our article.</p> - -<p>May, 1756, war having been formally declared between France -and England, a body of troops, the Highlanders forming a part, -were embarked under the command of Lieut. General James Abercrombie -and landed at New York, June, 1756. These were soon -followed by more troops under the Earl of Loudon who was appointed -Commander-in-Chief of the Army of America.</p> - -<p>The official name of the Regiment at this time was the 42d -Regiment of Foot, but they are often spoken of in dispatches -simply as the Highlanders, because they were the only Highland -Regiment then in this section, or as Lord John Murray’s Highlanders -from the custom of the times of calling a Regiment by the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span> -name of its Honorary Colonel. The commander of the Black -Watch at this time was Lieut. Col. Francis Grant, son of the Laird -of Grant, who had served in the Regiment from the time he had -received his commission as Ensign, October 25, 1739. He was made -Lieutenant Colonel December 17, 1755 and was in command of the -Regiment all through the American campaign. The only other -officer who had served continuously from the formation of the -Regiment in 1739 was Gordon Graham of Drainie, who in 1756 was -senior captain.</p> - -<p>The record of the Regiment from the landing in June, 1756, -until the battle of July, 1758, is exceedingly meagre. In fact -nothing of importance was done by the whole army. As one author -puts it “Loudon was so engrossed in schemes for improving the -condition of his men that he seemed to have no time for employing -them against the enemy.” The following extract from a letter -from the Earl of Loudon to William Pitt dated New York, March -10th, 1757, will illustrate the method of quartering troops of that -period.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“In the end of your letter you have acquainted me, that words -shall be inserted, in the mutiny act to take away every doubt about -the Right of Quartering extending to America.</p> - -<p>When I writ on that subject, I was but just arrived, and the -troops were mostly encamped. Since that I have had disputes to -settle, all over this Continent, in settling the winter quarters for -the Troops from whence I find, that the manner of quartering in -England, as in time of peace, on Publick Houses only, will in no -shape answer the intent in this country, for there are few Publick -Houses and most of them sell nothing but spirits, where they possess -only one room in which they sell the liquor, where men cannot be -quartered.</p> - -<p>Whilst the war lasts, necessity will justify exceeding that rule, -as Troops must be under cover, in the places where it is necessary -to post them, for the security of the country and carrying on the -service, but as soon as a peace comes, it will, by the English rule, -be impossible to quarter any number of Troops, in this country, -without a new regulation, and the only remedy that occurs to me at -present, is adopting the method of quartering in Scotland, where -for the same reason of there not being Publick Houses sufficient -for the reception of Troops they are by law quartered on private -houses.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span></p> - -<p>I must beg leave to give you one instance of the situation of -quarters here. When I arrived at Albany, I do not believe it was -possible to have quartered Fifty men on that town, on all the -Publick Houses in it, and taking a full survey of it, I found that -by quartering on the Private Houses, I can, without incommoding -them, in the parts of their houses, in which they live, quarter -Fourteen Hundred men, and for a short time, in case of necessity, -I could quarter Two thousand. I have mentioned this to show you -what the situation of all the Frontier Places, in this country that -are liable to attacks, must be, if quartering is likely to be kept to, -on Publick Houses only.</p> - -<p>On the 10th instant arrived the Harriet Packet which brought -me the duplicates of your letters of the 9th and 11th of January, -and the next day came in here His Majesty’s ship the Hampshire -commanded by Captain Norbury, having under his convoy the -nine additional companies of the Highlanders,<a id="FNanchor_8" href="#Footnote_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> -<ins class="corr" id="tn-8" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'wha had a passage'"> -who had a passage</ins> -of twelve weeks from Cork, and met with very bad weather; of -this convoy there were missing on his arrival in this Port, the -Arundal and Salisbury Transports. The last we have, since, -accounts of her getting into Rhode Island.</p> - -<p>The Troops being sickly, I have cantooned them in villages -adjacent to this Port, for the sake of fresh provisions and vegetables.”</p> -</div> - -<p>In the published histories of the time it is stated that the</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“42d remained inactive in or near Albany during 1756 and that -throughout the winter and spring of the following year the men -were drilled and disciplined for bush fighting and markmanship, -a species of warfare for which they were well fitted, being for the -most part good shots and experts in the management of arms.”</p> -</div> - -<p>From the following letters found in the Public Record Office -in London the quarters for the winter of 1756-7 were probably -at Schenectady. Extract from letter from Loudon to Pitt, -New York, 25th April, 1757,</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The Highlanders were set in motion -from Schenectady <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> they marched without tents and lay -in the woods upon the snow making great fires and I do not find -the troops have suffered <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> We have on that River (Mohawk) -at Schenectady and up to the German Flats, the Highland Regiment -upwards of a thousand men,” etc.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span></p> -</div> - -<p>The second letter reads as follows, and while it is chiefly of -interest in this connection because it is dated from Schenectady, -it also illustrates the custom of selling commissions:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p class="right">Schenectady, April 24, 1757.</p> -<p class="noindent">Francis Grant, Lt. Col. 42d Regiment.</p> - -<p class="noindent">Sir:—</p> - -<p>I am convinced from several things that have happened me -since I have been in the Regiment that my continuing to serve any -longer in it would be disagreeable to the whole corps of officers and -being likewise sensible of my own unfitness for a military life I -have resolved to quit the Army as soon as I can obtain leave to -resign my commission. But as I have nothing else in the world to -depend upon and finding myself at present at a distance from -my family and friends or anyone whom I can depend on for -advice, interest or assistance and having frequently experienced -your goodness and favor, I have made bold to apply to you that -you would be pleased to intercede with his Excellency the Earl of -Loudon, in my behalf that His Lordship in consideration of my -distressed situation and circumstances might be moved to give me -leave to resign in favor of some person that would be willing to -allow me wherewithal to support me till I can settle and apply to -some other way of life.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="padr2">In doing me this favor you’ll forever oblige, Sir,</span><br /> -Your respectful and gratefully obed’t hum. serv’t,<br /> -George Maclagan, Ens.</p> - -<p>P. S.—If it is agreeable to your Lordship I am willing to pay -fifty pound Sterling for Mr. Peter Grant Voluntier.</p> - -<p class="right"> -Francis Grant, Lt. Col. 42d. Regt.”</p> -</div> - -<p>With these two dispatches from the British War Office as a -clew I have tried to learn more about the winter quarters of the -Black Watch and have looked through the Colonial manuscript in -the New York State Library,<a id="FNanchor_9" href="#Footnote_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> the Records of the City of Albany -and the published works of the period but so far without success. -I have been unable to find any Schenectady records of this period. -It seems that a valuable collection of Glen-Sanders papers from the -old Mansion across the Mohawk from Schenectady was recently -sold and I have been told that in these there were several references<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span> -to officers of the Black Watch. As the Glens<a id="FNanchor_10" href="#Footnote_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> were Scots it -would be quite likely that if this collection were not now scattered -to the four winds much information about the Highlanders could -be obtained. It is said that Schenectady was only a frontier village -in 1756 and not large enough to take care of a regiment and -it seems to be a fact from the reference given above that only a -part of the thousand men were stationed here as it states that the -Regiment was stretched along the Mohawk from Schenectady to -the German Flats, but that it was a station for troops is proven by -the list in the Public Record Office of the winter quarters for the -troops in America for 1758, which states that the Black Watch -was quartered in New York and Lt. General Murray’s at Schenectady. -There is in the Public Record Office no list of winter quarters -of the troops in America previous to 1758.<a id="FNanchor_11" href="#Footnote_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a></p> - -<p>It appears, however, from the Town Records of Stamford, -Conn., that a committee representing that town made a claim on -the “General Court” of the Colony of Connecticut to reimburse -them for £369-13-4½ which the town had expended “in taking -care of the Highlanders from November 30, 1757, to March 30, -1758. The soldiers numbered 250 officers and men and they had -also belonging to them 17 women and 9 children.” They were -probably part of the Black Watch. The only other Highland regiments -of that time were Montgomery’s and Fraser’s, both raised in -1757 and their arrival at New York from Halifax is noted in the -“Post Boy” of April 11, 1757. This town record also further -illustrates the custom of that time as previously stated and as an -officer of the present Regiment aptly puts it, “they took not only -their mess plate but their wives also, on service with them, and -sometimes lost both.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp91" id="i010" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i010.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption">Copy of an old Engraving showing the method of wearing the Belted Plaid<br /> -Drawn from the ... by Jn<sup>n</sup> Sebastian Müller. <span class="pad10pc">Published Apr ... 1746.</span> -<span class="pad10pc">Engraved by J. S. Müller.</span><br /> - -<p class="noindent">An Highlander standing Centry, another walking,<br /> -both of them with their Cloaks gather’d ... the left Shoulder.</p> - -<p class="right">Two Highlanders with their Cloaks over their<br /> -Shoulders as in rainy weather.</p> -</div> -</div> - -<p>This 250 at Stamford would only be a quarter of the Regiment, -however, if Loudon had upwards of a thousand at or near -Schenectady the winter before and it is probable that the rest were -quartered at or near Schenectady as in 1756.</p> - -<p>Another statement that I have tried to confirm is the account -by James Grant in his “Legends of the Black Watch” of the 50 -chosen men under orders of MacGillivray of Glen Arrow, who went -to reinforce Col. Munro at Fort William Henry. It is also said -in a foot note of Wilson’s Orderly Book that Capt. Gordon Graham -was at Fort William Henry at the time of the surrender, and this -is repeated in N. Y. Colonial Mss. by O’Callaghan, page 728, Vol. -10, but I have not been able to find any other reference that would -substantiate these statements.</p> - -<p>The only time the 42d emerges from the haze of mystery from -June, 1756, to the spring of 1758, is that they were a part of -Loudon’s expedition against Louisbourg in 1757, and this was more -a summer vacation than an act of war.</p> - -<p>If the English could have attacked Louisbourg in the spring -or early summer, success would have been certain but Loudon -couldn’t seem to get started. As a messenger from the Governor -of Pennsylvania, who had waited in vain for a reply to a message, -said about him he was like “St. George on a tavern sign, always -on horse back and never riding on.” The expedition did not -start from New York until June 20th and entered Halifax harbor -the 30th. Even after this delay he was there before Admiral Holbourne, -who did not arrive from England with his fleet of 15 ships-of-the-line -and 3 frigates, with 5,000 troops until July 10th. Then -there was more delay, the 12,000 troops were landed and weeks -spent in drilling and planting vegetables for their refreshment. -Lord Charles Hay was put under arrest for saying that the “nation’s -money was spent in sham battles and raising cabbages.” The -troops were embarked again, but Aug. 4th a sloop came from Newfoundland -bringing news of the arrival of three French squadrons -at Louisbourg and as an attack after this reinforcement would be -hopeless, the costly enterprise was abandoned and Loudon and the -troops sailed back to New York where he arrived Aug. 31st. Delay<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]<br /><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span> -was the ruin of the Louisbourg expedition and drew off British -forces from the frontier where they were most needed.</p> - -<p>The troops were started immediately up the Hudson as soon -as they were landed at New York but Fort William Henry had -already been captured Aug. 9th and the French forces had fallen -back to Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>The spring of 1758 opened up with bright prospects. Lord -Loudon had been recalled and General Abercrombie, with the able -assistance of Lord Howe, was in command. Admiral Boscowen -was appointed to command the fleet and Major-General Amherst -and Brigadier-Generals Wolfe, Townsend and Murray were added -to the military staff. Three expeditions were proposed for this -year, Louisbourg, Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and Fort DuQuesne. -The army in America had been largely reinforced during -the winter and spring. Of these reinforcements the 42d was strengthened -by three additional companies and recruits bringing the Regiment -up to about 1,300 men.</p> - -<p>As we have considerable information about these three companies -through the Atholl Records, it will be interesting to turn -back and follow them from the start to the beginning of the Ticonderoga -campaign. The first item and one of interest because it -shows the method of raising companies in those days, is a letter -from the Duke of Argyll to the Duke of Atholl, dated London, -July 9, 1757.<a id="FNanchor_12" href="#Footnote_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“My Lord:—This is to acquaint your Grace that there is to be -3 additional Companies raised for Lord John Murray’s Regiment. -I believe the nomination of the officers will be left to me and consequently -to Your Grace; there will be 3 captains, 6 lieutenants and -3 ensigns and 100 men each company. The raising the men will -be the merit of those who shall desire to be officers and if any can -be found who have served in Holland, so much the better. Your -Grace will have your thought on this but don’t promise anybody -till you let me hear from you. I shall speak to Lord John but I -will bid him consult you and will plainly tell him that the commissions -must all be given gratis. The other two Highland Regiments -will likewise have the same addition made to them.</p> - -<p>I am with the greatest truth and respect, My Lord, Yr Gr’s -most faithful and obt. h’ble Servant, Argyll.”</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span></p> - -<p>By the Duke of Atholl’s recommendation the three companies -were given to James Stewart of Urrard; James Murray, nephew -of the Duke of Atholl and son of Lord George Murray; and -Thomas Stirling of Ardoch. Three of the new subalterns were from -the Atholl estate, namely Lieut. Alexander Menzies and Ensigns -Duncan Stewart, son of Derculich, and George Rattray, son of -Dalralzion. The three companies were mustered in October and -marched from Perth to Glasgow, where they remained until November -15, when they marched to Greenock and embarked December -1st in transports for Cork en route to America.</p> - -<p>April 22, 1758, Capt. James Murray wrote from New York to -Mr. Murray of Strowan announcing his safe arrival after a voyage -of eleven weeks from Cork. The joys of a voyage in those times -when it could take ten days to sail from Scotland to Ireland, is -illustrated by a letter from Capt. Murray, dated Youghall, 11 -Dec., 1757.<a id="FNanchor_13" href="#Footnote_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>My dear Brother:—This is to let you know that I am just now -in good health and safely arrived here with my company. My -transport, together with the other five, set sail on the 1st cur’t in -the evening along with the Convoy; we had a fair wind and good -weather until Sunday, early in the morning (when we were past -Waterfort in our way to Corck) about eight, there came on one -of the most prodigeous storms that the sailors said they had never -seen the like before. About two in the afternoon we lost sight of -the Convoy and all the transports and have not yet any sure -accounts whether they have got all safe into harbours or not. But -since I came here I hear that there was five or six ships lost on the -Coast that day. The storm abated somewhat Monday morning -but it continued bad weather until Friday evening, during which -time we were often in risk of our lives especially twice, once being -within two yards of a great rock and the other time when we were -on two fathom water going on a sandbank.</p> - -<p>During all that time we were near several harbours, such as -Doublin, Waterfort, Corck and others but all without success. -Saturday and this day we had good weather by which means we -got into harbour.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="padr2">Your most aff’te brother,</span><br /> -James Murray.</p> -</div> - -<p>From November until April seems a long voyage from Scotland -to America even in those days of primitive navigation, but another<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span> -of the three additional companies was blown into Antigua and did -not arrive at New York until June.</p> - -<p>With the activities of the preparations for the Ticonderoga -campaign a number of dispatches were sent to the Home Government -and it is possible to follow more closely the fortunes of the -Black Watch.</p> - -<p>The addition of these three companies raised the Regiment to -1,300 men, and we find among the official documents a petition from -Capt. Gordon Graham, endorsed by Lt. Col. Grant and General -Abercrombie, asking to be made Major in addition to Major Duncan -Campbell, as follows:<a id="FNanchor_14" href="#Footnote_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>To His Excellency James Abercromby, Esq., General and Commander -in Chief of all His Majesty’s forces in North America, -etc., etc., etc.</p> - -<p>The Memorial of Gordon Graham, eldest Captain in His -Majesty’s 42nd Regiment of Foot in North America.</p> - -<p>Humbly sheweth</p> - -<p>That your memorialist hath had the honour to serve His -Majesty upwards of twenty-five years, twelve of which as Captain -in the above Regiment and is now eldest in that Rank.</p> - -<p>That he hath served in Flanders and elsewhere during all the -last war, some part of which he was employed as Major of Brigade, -and had a commission as such from General St. Clair, on the -expedition under his command in the year 1746.</p> - -<p>May it therefore please your Excellency to lay his case before -His Majesty that he in his great wisdom may be graciously pleased -to promote him to the Rank of Major when an opportunity offers, -all which is humbly submitted.</p> - -<p>To His Excellency, James Abercromby, Esqr., General and -Commander in Chief of all his Majesty’s forces in North America, -etc., etc., etc.</p> - -<p>The Memorial of Colonel Francis Grant, Commanding his -Majesty’s 42nd Regiment of Foot.</p> - -<p>Humbly sheweth</p> - -<p>That his Majesty having thought proper to augment the said -Regiment to 1,300 men by adding three additional companies to -it, and such a body of men being too numerous to be exercised and -disciplined by one Major only, <ins class="corr" id="tn-14" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'your memoralist humbly'"> -your memorialist humbly</ins> conceives, -that it would be for the good of his Majesty’s service to have -another Major added, as has been already done to the other two -Highland Battalions commanded by the Colonels Montgomery and -Fraser.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span></p> - -<p>May it therefore please your Excellency to lay this matter -before His Majesty that he in his great wisdom may be graciously -pleased to give such directions thereupon as shall be thought -necessary, all which is humbly submitted.</p> - -<p>Colo. Grant, commanding His Majesty’s 42nd Regiment, and -Mr. Gordon Graham, a Captain in the same, having each of them -presented me with a memorial, the contents of which I know to be -true, I herewith transmit them to your Lordship, to be laid before -the King, and to know His Royal Pleasure therein.</p> -</div> - -<p>Extract from a letter signed James Abercromby to the Right -Hon. Lord Viscount Barrington, dated New York, Apr. 28, 1758.</p> - -<p>As will be seen later Capt. Graham became Major before hearing -from the King.</p> - -<div id="letter_1"></div> -<p>The next dispatch which is of interest and which makes changes -in the list of Commissioned Officers is as follows: Extract from -letter signed by James Abercromby to the Right Honorable the -Lord Viscount Barrington, dated Albany, May 27, 1758.<a id="FNanchor_15" href="#Footnote_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“In the list of the Commissions which I had the honour to -transmit to your Lordship, by my last letter, you will have -observed two vacancies in the 42nd Regiment, occasioned by the -removal of Sir James Cockburn into the 48th which could not be -filled up at the time my letter went away, as the gentlemen, whom -it was proposed should purchase those vacancies were then at -Albany,<a id="FNanchor_16" href="#Footnote_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a> and their answer not arrived; since that the Lieutenancy -has been made out in the name of Mr. Patrick Balnevas, and bears -date the 1st of April; and Mr. Elbert Hering succeeds to the -Ensigncy, dated the 3rd of the same month.”</p> -</div> - -<p>Then we have the dispatch just before the battle from Abercrombie -to Pitt, dated Camp at Lake George, June 29, 1758, saying:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“Arrived Fort Edward on the 9th, where Lord Howe was -encamped with the 42nd, 44th, and 55th Regiments and 4 companies -of Rangers. Remainder of Regulars were at posts below on Hudson -River and were working up the stores, etc. On the 17th Lord -Howe marched to the Brook, half way between Fort Edward and -the Lake with the 42nd, 44th, and 55th. This Half-way Brook -was judged a proper post for the first Deposit in a Portage of 15 -miles.<a id="FNanchor_17" href="#Footnote_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a> After the carriages had made several trips Lord Howe -advanced to the Lake with the 42nd, 44th, and 55th.”</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span></p> - -<p>Attached to this letter is a report of troops at Lake George, -June 29, 1758, and the roll of the 42nd was as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“10 companies, 1 Lt. Colonel, 1 Major, 8 Captains, 18 Lieutenants, -7 Ensigns, 1 Chaplain, 1 Adjutant, 1 QuarterMaster, 1 -Surgeon, 2 Mates, 40 Sergeants, 18 Drummers; Rank and File—981 -fit for duty, 11 sick present, 6 in general hospital, 2 on command, -1,000 total. 1 drummer and 40 rank and file wanting to complete.”</p> -</div> - -<p>We find the solution of why there were only 1,000 of the -Black Watch with the Ticonderoga expedition when its strength -was known to be 1,300 at that time, in another extract of the -Report of June 29th from Abercrombie to Pitt: “I have left two -additional Companies of Lord John Murray’s to garrison Fort -Edward. The other additional company of the 42nd which was -blown into Antego (Antigua), I hear is arrived at New York, -which I have ordered up to Albany.”</p> - -<p>This is confirmed in more detail in a letter from Sir Robert -Menzies to Mr. Murray of Strowan, dated Rannock, 6th Sept., -1758, in which is an extract from a letter received by Menzies from -“Jamie Stewart.”<a id="FNanchor_18" href="#Footnote_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“That, after the additional Companies arrived in Fort Edward, -the best men were picked out to compleat the Regiment in -place of the sick and old men that were put in their place. That, -as Capt. Reid was left behind sick at Albany, Capt. Murray was -appointed to his company and Reid to the additionals, as Capt. -Abercrombie was to Capt. Murray’s Company. That the additional -companies, with Captains Sterling, Reid, and Abercrombie, etc., -were left at Fort Edward, where they had nothing to do but to -garrison the Fort and divert themselves.”</p> -</div> - -<p>Everything is now in readiness for the attack <ins class="corr" id="tn-16" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'on Ticonderogt'"> -on Ticonderoga</ins> and an army of six thousand three hundred seventy-seven regulars -and nine thousand thirty-four provincials (Abercrombie to Pitt -July 12, 1758) embarked at Lake George early on the morning of -July 5th. There were nine hundred batteaux, a hundred and thirty-five -whale boats and a large number of heavy flatboats carrying -the artillery and from front to rear the line was six miles long.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i016" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i016.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="right">—Courtesy Glens Falls Insurance Co.</p> -The Embarkation of Abercrombie’s Army at Lake George, July 5, 1758</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span></p> - -<p>Parkman in his “Montcalm and Wolfe” paints the scene as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The spectacle was superb; the brightness of the summer -day; the romantic beauty of the scenery; the sheen and -sparkle of those crystal waters; the countless islets, tufted with -pine, birch, and fir; the bordering mountains, with their green -summits and sunny crags; the flash of oars and glitter of weapons; -the banners, the varied uniforms, and the notes of bugle, trumpet, -bag-pipe, and drum, answered and prolonged by a hundred woodland -echoes. ‘I never beheld so delightful a prospect,’ wrote a -wounded officer at Albany a fortnight after.</p> - -<p>“Rogers with the Rangers, and Gage with the light infantry, -led the way in whaleboats, followed by Bradstreet with his corps -of boatman, armed and drilled as soldiers. Then came the main -body. The central column of regulars was commanded by Lord -Howe, his own regiment, the fifty-fifth, in the van, followed by the -Royal Americans, the twenty-seventh, forty-fourth, forty-sixth, -and eightieth infantry, and the Highlanders of the forty-second, -with their major, Duncan Campbell of Inverawe, silent and -gloomy amid the general cheer, for his soul was dark with foreshadowings -of death. With this central column came what are -described as two floating castles, which were no doubt batteries to -cover the landing of the troops. On the right hand and the left -were the provincials, uniformed in blue, regiment after regiment, -from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and -Rhode Island. Behind them all came the batteaux, loaded with -stores and baggage, and the heavy flatboats that carried the artillery, -while a rear-guard of provincials and regulars closed the long -procession.”</p> -</div> - -<p>It will be unnecessary to go into the details of this disastrous -campaign as it is not only well known to most of you but three -papers bearing on the subject will be read at this meeting.<a id="FNanchor_19" href="#Footnote_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a> Briefly -the army landed at the foot of Lake George the morning of the -6th and the afternoon of the same day Lord Howe at the head of -a Ticonderoga party was killed at the outlet of Trout Brook. This -is the beginning of the end as Lord Howe was the real head of the -army. Abercrombie took until the eighth to make up his mind -what to do and this interim gave the French time to build the -fatal breastworks across the ridge about one-half mile west of the -Fort and enabled Lévis to arrive with reinforcements.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span></p> - -<p>As the breastworks play a most important part in the Battle -it will perhaps be well to again quote from Parkman who gives a -most comprehensive description.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The trees that covered the -ground were hewn down by thousands, the tops lopped off, and -the trunks piled one upon another to form a massive breastwork. -The line followed the top of the ridge, along which it zigzagged in -such a manner that the whole front could be swept by flank-fires -of musketry and grape. It was so high that nothing could be -seen over it but the crowns of the soldiers’ hats. The upper tier -was formed of single logs, in which notches were cut to serve as -loopholes; and in some places sods and bags of sand were piled -along the top, with narrow spaces to fire through. From the central -part of the line the ground sloped away like a natural glacis; -while at the sides, and especially on the left, it was undulating -and broken. Over this whole space, to the distance of a musket-shot -from the works, the forest was cut down, and the trees left -lying where they fell among the stumps, with tops turned outwards, -forming one vast abattis, which, as a Massachusetts officer -says, looked like a forest laid flat by a hurricane. But the most -formidable obstruction was immediately along the front of the -breastworks, where the ground was covered with heavy boughs, -overlapping and interlaced, with sharpened points bristling into -the face of the assailant like the quills of a porcupine. As these -works were all of wood, no vestige of them remains. The earth-works -now shown to tourists as the lines of Montcalm were begun -four days after the battle to replace the log breastwork; and though -on the same ground are not on the same plan.”</p> -</div> - -<p>Behind these breastworks the battalions of LaSarre and Languedoc -were posted on the left under Bourlamaque, the first battalion -of Berry with that of Royal Roussillon in the center under -Montcalm and those of LaReine, Béarn and Guienne on the right -under Lévis. A detachment of volunteers occupied the low grounds -between the breastworks and the outlet of Lake George and on -the side toward Lake Champlain were stationed 450 regulars and -Canadians, about 3,600 in all.</p> - -<p>It is always easy to criticise an event after it has occurred, -but the result certainly shows that Abercrombie could not have -planned his campaign more to the advantage of the French. He -first gave them time to build those formidable breastworks and then -instead of choosing any one of half a dozen plans which would have -brought victory, he decided to throw his army unsupported by -artillery, which was still at Lake George, at the strongest part of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span> -the French position, he himself staying in safety at the saw mill -(about which we heard this afternoon in the able paper read by -Mr. Delano at the unveiling of the tablet) a mile and a half in -the rear of his army.<a id="FNanchor_20" href="#Footnote_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a></p> - -<p>The sad result is too well known to dwell on and we pass at -once to the part played by the Black Watch. They, with the 55th -were to have formed the reserve but impatient at being left in the -rear the Highlanders could not be restrained and were soon in the -front endeavoring to cut their way through the fallen trees with -their broadswords. Captain John Campbell, who was one of the -two soldiers presented to George II in 1743, with a few men, were -the only ones to force their way over the breastworks and they -were instantly dispatched with the bayonet.</p> - -<p>Lieut. William Grant of the Regiment writes as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The attack began a little past one in the afternoon and about -two the fire became general on both sides. It was exceedingly heavy -and without intercession insomuch as the oldest soldier never saw -so furious and incessant a fire. The fire at Fontenoy was nothing -to it. I saw both.”</p> -</div> - -<p>An officer of the 55th regiment, of which Lord Howe had been -the commander, wrote as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“With a mixture of esteem, grief and envy, I am penetrated -by the great loss and immortal glory acquired by the Highlanders -engaged in the late bloody affair. Impatient for the fray, they -rushed forward to the entrenchments which many of them actually -mounted, their intrepidity was rather animated than dampened by -witnessing their comrades fall on every side. They seemed more -anxious to avenge the fate of their deceased friends than to avoid -a like death. In their co-operation we trust soon to give a good -account of the enemy and of ourselves. There is much harmony -and friendship between the two regiments.”</p> -</div> - -<p>Even the French were impressed with the valor of the Black -Watch as Garneau writes in L’Histoire du Canada.<a id="FNanchor_21" href="#Footnote_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The Highlanders above all, under Lord John Murray, covered -themselves with glory. They formed the head of the troops confronting<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span> -the Canadians, their light and picturesque costume distinguishing -them from all other soldiers amid the flame and smoke. -This corps lost half of its men and 25 of its officers were killed or -severely wounded.”</p> -</div> - -<p>Lossing writes,</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The whole army seemed envious to excell -but the Scotch Highland Regiment of Lord John Murray was foremost -in the conflict and suffered the severest loss.”<a id="FNanchor_22" href="#Footnote_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a></p> -</div> - -<p>The following letters from Captain Allan Campbell are of -interest:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="right">Camp at Lake George, 11th July, 1758.</p> - -<p>Dr. Broyr.,—The 8th of this month we had a hot brush at the -lines of Ticonderoga where we lost a considerable number of men -and officers. The officers of your acquentance wounded are Major -Campbell and his son. Both in their arms, and I hope will do well. -Captain Stratchur slightly in the breast, Ltt. Archd. Campbell -Sheriff Badly in the Breast, Lt. John Campbell Glendaruel slightly -in the arm, Capt. Ltt. John Campbell Duneaves killed, Ltt. Hugh -Macpherson ditto, Capt. Graham, Duchra, and Broyr. Both -wounded slightly and several other offrs. of the Regt, but not of -your acquentance are killed and wounded.</p> - -<p>Our Regt, acquired great glory by their good behaviour of both -men and officers, tho’ we were unsuccessfull. I have the pleasure -to aquent you that both my nephew George and I eskeaped without -a scratch, tho’ both in the heat of the action. George is a pritty -Lad: he’s now a Ltt. in Coll. Gages Regt, of Lt. Infantry. Your -son the Major was well about 2 months ago at Philadelphia. We -are now at the end of Lake George Encampt. I have told you now -all the news that can occurr to me or that I have time to write you, -and I thought it my duty to acquent you and my other Broyrs. of -my being well after a smart action. I have no time to write you -more being excessively hurried having no Body to assist me in the -affairs of my Company having my three Ltts. killed or wounded viz. -Ltt. Balie killed and Ltts. Archd. Campbell and William Grant -wounded. I’ll write you very fully in my nixt. My best wishes to -my sister, to your family and all our friends, and I am Dr. Bryr, -your most affec. and Lov. Broyr, while</p> - -<p class="right">Allan Campbell.</p> -</div> - - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="right">New York, 6th January 1759.</p> - -<p>Dr. Brother,—I writt you the 11th July in a great hurry after -our retreat from Ticonderoga to let you know of mine and George’s -welfair, after that unlucky afair, where severall of our friends and -a great many worthy Fellows suffer’d. Our Regt, lost more than -any other Corps at the attack of the Lines. We have had killed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span> -and wounded since the beginning of the Campaign 520 (officers -included) of which about 300 were left dead on the field or have -dyed of their wounds, and of 37 officers that were present with the -Regt. that day 11 only came off unhurt, of which number I was -lucky enough to be one.</p> - -<p>You would certainly hear before now of poor Major Campbell -Inveraw’s death, he liv’d about a fortnight after he receiv’d -his wound, the Doctors thought it necessary that his arm should be -cut off, and he dyed soon after the operation at Fort Edward, all -the rest of our wounded officers are quite recover’d except his son, -Sandy, Jock Campbell Glendaruel, and Archie Shirreff, but they -are out of all danger, only their cure will be tedious.</p> - -<p>Poor George had a narrow escape the day we landed at the -French end of the Lake, having had a scratch along the face with -a musquet Ball. He was in a smart little action that happen’d in -the woods a mounth afterwards between a detachment of 500 of -our army under the command of Major Rogers and much the same -number of Indians French and Canadians, where the latter were -repulsed with the loss of 100 men, and I assure you his behaviour -at that affair was much aplauded by his Broyr. officers on their -return to the Army.</p> - -<p>He’s now second oldest Lieut, in General Gage’s Regt. of light -arm’d infantry, for which he’s obliged to the late Major Campbell, -Inveraw; and as they talk at present of agmenting that corps, he’ll -have a good chance of getting Higher up, and in any event he’s -better off by being so High in that Regt. as they are now an -Establish’d Corps, than if he had staid in ours, where he could be -but a young Lieut. His Coll, has a great regard for him, and very -Deservedly for he’s a lad of good morals, a good spirit, and very -fit for his Business. He has acted as Adjutant to that Regt. since -July last, by which he has nothing yet but Troble, there being no -Adjutant allow’d, and that his Collonel means it for him; if he’s -lucky enough to get that, I think he’s very well provided for for -the time he has served.</p> - -<p>I have advanc’d him Twenty Guineas for which he gave me a -Bill on you. I hope you’ll not Disaprove of my conduct for doing -it, nor blame him for running so much short, when I explain to you -the cause of it; its trew he came over very well Riged out, but his -changing Corps put him under a necessity of Buying new Regimentals, -as these Differ in Colours from the rest of the Army, being -Brown, besides his expense must be greater upon his first comming -in among Strangers, and he had the misfortune of being sent a -recruiting last winter, which really is a misfortune to an officer<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span> -in this Country unless he is very carfull and happens to be successful, -and I belive George lost by it. This I ashure you is truth, -and when you consider it was owing to these accidents, that he -could not possibly guard against, I am hopfull you’l easily forgive -him. I was likewise oblig’d to advance our Unkle Corries’ son, -Colin, Twenty two Pounds eighteen shillings and tenpence or he -must have gone naked, having lost all his things at Fort William -Henry. I have sent both Bills to Brother Robert. George and -Colin are sent this winter a Recruiting to Pensilvania.</p> - -<p>I had a letter dated the 30 Novr. from my nephew, the Major, -from where Fort du Quesne stood, he was then very well. I expect -dayly to hear from him, he’s had as troublesome and Fatigueing -Campaign of it, as ever any Body had, our Army has been above -a Month in Winter Quarters befor thers got to Fort du Quesne, -which the French burnt upon ther near aproach, and an immense -long march they have to get back to Philadelphia, wher ther Regt, -is to be Quarter’s this winter, and where I intend to go and see -him, when I hear of ther arrival, its about 100 miles from this -place that our Regt, is now quartere’d in.</p> - -<p>We long much for a Pacquet here having no news from Europe -for some months, I take the opportunity of writing you now by the -Kennington Man of War that carries home General Abercrombie. -<span class="nowrap">* * *</span></p> - -<p>There is no News here at Present. All our Friends in this -Country are Well. Remember my best wishes to my Sister, and the -rest of your Family whom may God Almighty bless and I ever am, -Dr. Brother, your affec. and Lov. Broyr.</p> - -<p class="right">Allan Campbell.<a id="FNanchor_23" href="#Footnote_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a></p> -</div> - -<p>I also give in full the letter written by Capt. James Murray -to his brother, Mr. Murray of Strowan, dated Albany, July 19, -1758, as his description of the country and the events during and -after the battle lend color to the picture.<a id="FNanchor_24" href="#Footnote_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>My Dear Brother:—The last letter I wrote you was dated -from Fort Edward camp about 18th June. We proceeded on to -Lake George where Fort William Henry formerly stood which was -taken and destroyed by the French last year, where we remained -until the 5th curt. and then the whole army embarked on the lake -in batteaux that hold 23 men with a month’s provisions all the -artillery stores was likewise embarked, and everything else belonging -to an army. We were divided into brigades. There was in all -about 5,000 regulars and 12,000 provincials. We had also light -infantry and rangers who had whale-boats which are the lightest -and best going boats that can be made. We put off about 8 and got -fairly into the lake which I took to be about 20 miles long and not -above two miles at the broadest part of it. There are several small -islands which are quite covered with wood and all around the lake -is very hilly and quite covered with woods, as the most part of the -country is, at least what I have seen on’t.</p> - -<p>This lake abounds in fine trout the meat of which is red, -pearch, suckers and several other sorts of fish. There is also plenty -of beavers. On the side of the lake there is plenty of deer but I -have not seen any since I came to the country. Sometimes when -I have been out on command I have killed rattle snakes about four -feet long and as thick as the small of one’s leg, with 18 rattles, -which altogether might be about four inches long. They say some -have twenty or more. They have both teeth and a sting. The -rattles being at the tail makes them that they can stand up on end -and spring a short way at one. When touched they make a great -noise with their rattles. Their bite is not so bad as called for it -can be easily cured with oil or salt. They smell exactly like a -goat, rather ranker if possible before they are seized but afterwards -have almost no smell at all. They make the richest and best soup -that can be which I eat of and like much. The meat is but insipid.</p> - -<p>The 6th we disembarked at the lower end of the lake. In the -morning out light infantry and rangers had some skirmishing with -the French pickets. Lord Howe was killed at the second shot and -he is very much regretted. There was taken that day about 150 -prisoners, five of whom were officers. They had a great many killed -so that very few of their pickets escaped which consisted in all -of about 350.</p> - -<p>The next day being the 7th, we were making preparations to -invest a fort called Theenderora which is five miles from Lake -George and is situate on a neck of land that runs into Lake Champlain. -As to the dimensions of that lake I can’t say, and marched<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span> -within a mile and half of it that evening. The next morning the -light infantry made the French sentries and small posts retire to -their entrenchments for the French had an encampment about half -a cannon shot before their fort, and were entrenched after the -following manner: They had large cut trees one laid above another -a man’s height and in the outside there was brush and logs for -about 15 paces from it which made it impossible to force their -breastworks without cannon which we had not taken up that length -as then. They were also under cover of the fort or if we could beat -them out of their trenches, they could have retired pretty safely.</p> - -<p>Between one and two we marched up and attacked the trenches -and got within twenty paces of them and had as hot a fire for about -three hours as possibly could be, we all the time seeing but their -hats and the end of their muskets. About half an hour before we -were obliged to retire I received a shot through my thigh after -which I stayed a few minutes but finding if I stayed any longer my -thigh would turn stiff and losing a great deal of blood I with help -got into the road and that evening with Capt. Gordon Graham, our -paymaster, got into a whaleboat and against the next morning got -to the upper end of Lake George and was transported down here. -I am confined to my bed but the surgeons say my wound looks as -well as can be expected, nor is there any sort of danger in it as it -has only grazed the bone, so I shall be well soon again. I am in -perfect good health, have a good appetite and sleep tolerably well.</p> - -<p>Our regiment has suffered much. There was the captain, -lieutenant and six subalterns killed on the spot and since the major -and the lieutenant have died of their wounds. The colonel, four -captains, and twelve subalterns are wounded. 180 men killed and -280 wounded. None of the other regiments’ losses were near so -great. Capt. Stewart was not touched, Capt. Sterling nor Farquharson -were not there so are well, but Lieut. Farquharson’s younger -brother was killed. Lieut. David Mills, my lieutenant, is not ill -wounded and is pretty well, so if you would inform his father-in-law, -Mr. Hamilton, of Hutcheson, who stays near Glasgow, you -would oblige me. Neil Stewart at Perth knows him.</p> - -<p>I received a letter from Lord John 15th May letting me know -you are all well which gave me a great deal of pleasure but it would -much more so to hear from some of you for it is very long since I -had that satisfaction, the last being at Ireland, for Lord John wrote -me no particulars.</p> - -<p>Offer my humble duty to my dear mother and elsewhere due -and best love to dear Lady Charlotte, Lady Sinclair, George, Charlotte -and Invercauld, and my best blessing attend all the young<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span> -ones. My kind compliments to Shusy Moray and tell her I had her -hair about my neck when I received my wound which might have -probably gone to my heart if it had not been wounded already.</p> - -<p>I am ever your most effectionate brother,</p> - -<p class="right">James Murray.</p> -</div> - -<p>Thus had the army which landed so proudly two days before -been disastrously repulsed, with a loss in killed and wounded and -missing of nineteen hundred and forty-four officers and men. In -his report of July 12, 1758, Abercrombie gives the casualty of the -42nd as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“Killed—Capt. Lt. John Campbell; Lts. George Farquharson, -Hugh McPherson, William Bailey, John Sutherland; Ensigns Peter -Stewart and George Rattray.</p> - -<p>Wounded—Major Duncan Campbell; Captains Gordon Graham, -Thomas Graeme, John Campbell, James Stewart, James Murray; -Lieutenants William Grant, Robert Gray, John Campbell, -James Grant, John Graham, Alexander Campbell, Alexander McIntosh, -Archibald Campbell, David Mill,<a id="FNanchor_25" href="#Footnote_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a> Patrick Balnevis; Ensigns -John Smith and Peter Grant.</p> - -<p>Summary—1 major wounded, captains 1 killed, 4 wounded; -lieutenants 4 killed, 11 wounded; ensigns 2 killed, 2 wounded; -adjutants 1 wounded; quarter master 1 wounded; sergeants 6 killed, -13 wounded, rank and file 190 killed, 265 wounded.”</p> -</div> - -<p>Stewart of Garth writes as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“Of these the 42nd regiment had 8 officers, 9 serjeants, and -297 men killed, and 17 officers, 10 serjeants, and 306 soldiers -wounded. The officers were, Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe, -Captain John Campbell, Lieutenants George Farquharson, Hugh -McPherson, William Baillie, and John Sutherland; Ensigns Patrick -Stewart of Bonskied and George Rattray killed; Captains -Gordon Graham, Thomas Graham of Duchray, John Campbell of -Strachur, James Stewart of Urrad, James Murray (afterward General); -Lieutenants James Grant, Robert Gray, John Campbell, -William Grant, John Graham, brother of Duchray, Alexander -Campbell, Alexander Mackintosh, Archibald Campbell, David -Miller, Patrick Balneaves; and Ensigns John Smith and Peter -Grant, wounded.”</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span></p> - -<p>Capt. James Murray writes from Albany 17th August, 1758:<a id="FNanchor_26" href="#Footnote_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“As I observed in my last, our regiment has suffered greatly. The -Major has since died of his wounds, Sandy Farquharson has got -his lieutenancy by seniority which one would not have thought that -the youngest ensign of the additionals would have been so soon a -lieutenant. I am recovering pretty well and can walk about although -I am much pained in my knee but hope will be able to -soon joint the regiment.”</p> -</div> - -<p>Capt. James Stewart writes 14th July from Lake George:<a id="FNanchor_27" href="#Footnote_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“That all the Captains were wounded, less or more, excepting -Captains McNeil and Allan Campbell, that Major Campbell got his -right arm wounded, but not dangerous and his son, Lieutenant -Alexander Campbell had his arm broke betwixt the elbow and -shoulder, but he was in a good way.”</p> -</div> - -<p>Parkman states that Lt. Alexander Campbell was severely -wounded but reached Scotland alive and died in Glasgow.<a id="FNanchor_28" href="#Footnote_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a></p> - -<p>Abercrombie reports to Pitt from Lake George, Aug. 19, 1758;</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“Major Duncan Campbell of the 42nd who was wounded in the -arm at the battle on the 8th was obliged to have it cut off and died -soon thereafter.”<a id="FNanchor_29" href="#Footnote_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a></p> -</div> - -<p>It would seem therefore that the wounds of Major Campbell -and his son were not necessarily fatal and that modern surgery -would have cured them. The following however, taken from Garneau’s -L’Histoire du Canada might explain the unexpected mortality. -“Scarcely any of the wounded Highlanders ever recovered -and even those sent home as invalids; their sores cankered, owing -to the broken glass, ragged bits of metal, etc., used by the Canadians -instead of shot.”<a id="FNanchor_30" href="#Footnote_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a></p> - -<p>Or this extract from letter of Brig. General James Wolfe to -Lord George Sackville:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="right">Halifax 24″ May 1758.</p> - -<p>“Some of the Regiments of this Army have 300 or 400 men eat -up with the Scurvey. All of them that are wounded or hurt by any -accident run great risks of their lives from the corrupted state of -the blood.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span></p> - -<p>“The curious part of the barbarity is that the scoundrels of -Contractors can afford the fresh meat in many places and circumstances -as cheap as the salt.”</p> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="i026" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i026.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption">Original headstone at Grave of Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe.<br /> -(Jane McCrea lot in Union Cemetery, between Fort Edward and Hudson Falls.)</div> -</div> - -<p>Abercrombie states in his report of July 12, 1758,</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“I sent the -wounded officers and the men that could be moved to Fort Edward -and Albany.”</p> -</div> - -<p>Major Campbell was sent to Fort Edward and upon his death -nine days after the battle he was buried in the family lot of the -Gilchrists, in the old cemetery at Fort Edward. The body was -moved to the Gilchrist lot in the new Union cemetery between -Sandy Hill and Fort Edward in 1871, and in 1920 was moved -again to the Jane McCrea lot in the same cemetery. The original -stone may still be seen and bears the inscription: “Here Lyes the -body of Duncan Campbell of Inversaw, Esqr Major to The old -Highland Regt. Aged 55 Years. Who died The 17th July, 1758, -of wounds he received in the attack of the retrenchments of Ticonderoga -or Carillon, 8th July, 1758.”</p> - -<p>Stewart of Garth says,</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The old Highland Regiment having -suffered so severely <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> they were not employed again that -year.”</p> -</div> - -<p>In the N. Y. Colonial Records, however, we find that some -regulars of the 42nd and 6th Regts. amounting to 155 men (probably -one company of each) were with Bradstreet in his exposition -against Fort Frontenac.<a id="FNanchor_31" href="#Footnote_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a></p> - -<p>In Abercrombie’s report of Aug. 19, 1758, he states that part -of the additional companies of the 42nd were sent to reinforce -Brig. General Provost at Fort Edward and that one company -of the 42nd and some of the recovering men were stationed at -Albany. From this it might be inferred that the only part of the -Black Watch fit for duty were the three additional companies which -had not been in the battle of July 8th and it is possible that the -one company of the 42nd that had been blown out of its course to -Antigua and had not arrived at New York until June did not get -further north than Albany. The winter quarters of the 42nd for -1758 were at New York. (Abercrombie to Pitt, No. 25, 1758.)<a id="FNanchor_32" href="#Footnote_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a></p> - -<p>The official title is now changed to the “42nd or Royal Regiment<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span> -of foot,” and the regiment is commonly called the Royal -Highlanders. It has erroneously been stated that the Black Watch -was granted this honor of being a “Royal” regiment because of its -gallantry at Ticonderoga, but it is all the more to its credit that it -had earned this distinction before the battle at Ticonderoga. The -title was granted by special warrant dated July 22, 1758, while the -news of the defeat did not reach London until the arrival of -Abercrombie’s <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr"><ins class="corr" id="tn-28" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'aid de camp'"> -aide de camp</ins></span> with dispatches Aug. 20, 1758.</p> - -<p>A copy of the warrant is as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>George R</p> - -<p>We being desirous to distinguish Our Forty Second Regiment -of Foot with some mark of Our Royal favor, Our Will and Pleasure -therefore is, and we do hereby direct, that from henceforth -Our said regiment be called, and distinguished by the title and -name of Our Forty-Second, or Royal Highland Regiment of Foot, -in all commissions, orders, and writings, that shall hereafter be -made out, or issued for and concerning the said regiment. Given -at Our Court at Kensington this 22nd day of July 1758, in the -thirty second year of Our reign. By His Majesty’s command.</p> - -<p class="right">(Signed) BARRINGTON.</p> -</div> - -<p>The vacancies occasioned in the 42nd were filled up in regular -succession and the seven companies which had been ordered at the -same time as the change of title were immediately recruited. These -were completed in three months and embodied at Perth, October -1758, each company being 120 men strong, all with few exceptions -Highlanders and hardy and temperate in their habits. (Lord John -Murray’s orders were preemptory that none but Highlanders be -taken, but a few O’Donnels, O’Lachlans and O’Briens passed muster -as MacDonnels, MacLachlans and MacBriars.)</p> - -<p>These seven companies with the three additional companies -raised in 1757 were formed into a Second Battalion. The officers -appointed to the seven new companies were Robert Anstruther, -who was senior captain and served as Major, Francis MacLean, -Alexander Sinclair, John Stewart of Stenton, William Murray of -Lintrose, Archibald Campbell, Alexander Reid, and Robert Arbuthnot, -to be captains; Alexander MacLean, George Grant, George -Sinclair, Gordon Clunes, Adam Stewart, John Robertson, son of -Lude, John Grant, James Fraser, George Leslie, John Campbell,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span> -Alexander Stewart, Duncan Richardson and Robert Robertson, to -be lieutenants and Patrick Sinclair, John Macintosh, James MacDuff, -Thomas Fletcher, Alexander Donaldson, William MacLean, -and William Brown, to be ensigns.</p> - -<p>The seven new companies embarked for the West Indies where -they joined with <ins class="corr" id="tn-29" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'the Old Bluffs'"> -the Old Buffs</ins>, Kings, 6th, 63rd, 64th, 800 marines -and a detachment of artillery amounting in all to 5,560 men under -the command of Major Generals Hopson and Barrington and -of Brigadier Generals Haldane, Armiger, Trapaud and Clavering, -in an exposition against Martinique and Gaudaloupe. This resulted -in the capture of Gaudaloupe but was not altogether a success -and a great many men were lost by fever and sickness. Of the -Royal Highlanders Ensign MacLean was killed, Lieutenants MacLean, -Leslie, Sinclair and Robertson were wounded, and Major -Anstruther and Captain Arbuthnot died of the fever. One hundred -and six privates were killed, wounded or died of disease.</p> - -<p>This was a severe initiation for the new recruits who had been -herding sheep on their native hills nine months before, but as has -always been the case with the Black Watch they acquitted themselves -with distinction. The seven companies were then embarked -for New York to join the First Battalion where they arrived in -July. They just missed being at the capture of Ticonderoga. Major -Gordon Graham was ordered at the end of July by General Amherst -then at Crown Point to take command of the seven companies -and to march them up to Oswego. In August they were ordered to -join the First Battalion, Capt. Stewart with 150 men being left at -Oswego and the First and Second Battalions, now united, served -together for the rest of the campaign.</p> - -<p>We will now return to the Veterans of the previous year. -After wintering in New York (or on Long Island, as another -authority states) the old Black Watch now the first Battalion of -the Royal Highlanders, recruited again to its full strength and the -three additional companies now a part of the Second Battalion, -joined Amherst at Fort Edward in June, 1759.<a id="FNanchor_33" href="#Footnote_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a> Col. Grant of the -42nd with the Royal Highlanders and light infantry of the army<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span> -moved forward to Lake George the 20th and the main part of the -army followed on the 21st. For five years now Lake George had -been the annual mustering place of armies.</p> - -<p>The campaign this season comprehended three very important -enterprises—Wolfe was to attack Quebec from Lower Canada, -Prideaux was to proceed against Niagara, and Amherst, now Commander -in Chief and successor of General Abercrombie, was to -drive the French from Lake Champlain and if possible join Wolfe -on the St. Lawrence.</p> - -<p>The army under Amherst consisted of the Royals, 17th, 27th, -Royal Highlanders, two battalions of the 55th, Montgomery’s -Highlanders, nine battalions of Provincials, and a battalion of -light infantry and a body of Rangers and Indians with a detachment -of artillery. When joined by the 2d battalion of the Royal -Americans from the West Indies, this army amounted to 14,500 -men.</p> - -<p>Major Alexander Campbell of the 77th writes from Fort -Edward, June 19th, 1759:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“Our General is beloved by his soldiers, Honoured and Esteem’d -by his officers, Carful of mens lives and healths, in short he is the -man I would choose to serve under of any I know in the service. -Our Regiment are healthy and in High spirits as are the whole -army, and I hope we soon will stricke a stroke that will bring -credite and Glory to our General and Army and Satisfaction to -our Country and friends.”</p> -</div> - -<p>Amherst never remained long in one place without building a -fort. Fortified places were built at intervals of three or four -miles along the road to Fort Edward and especially at the station -called Halfway Brook, while for the whole distance a broad belt -of wood on both sides was cut down and burned to deprive a -skulking enemy of cover. At Lake George he started a fort, now -called Fort George, the ruins of which are in the Lake George -Battle Ground Park of which this Association is custodian.</p> - -<p>July 21st, 1759, Lake George again witnessed a military -pageant as the army embarked for its second attack on Fort Ticonderoga. -At daylight they landed, beat back a French detachment<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span> -and marched by the portage road to the sawmill. There was little -resistance and the army marched to the former line of entrenchments -which had proved so fatal to Abercrombie. These had been -reconstructed partly of earth and partly of logs, and as the French -made no attempt at their defence the English encamped along their -front and found them excellent shelter from the cannon of the fort. -It is the general impression that the French retreated with only -faint resistance and that there was hardly a shot fired at the -second attempt to capture Fort Carrillon but the following letter -from Capt. Murray would correct this impression:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="right">“Camp at the Lines of Burning Theanderoga, 27 July, 1758.</p> - -<p>My Dear Brother:—I write you these few lines to acquaint you -that I am in perfect good health and that the army landed at this -end of the lake the 22nd, invested the Fort the 23rd and was very -buisy carying on the worcks till the 26th in the night, at which time -we had three batteries ready to open, when the enemy abbandoned -and set fire to the fort. During the time that the enemy remained -they could not keep a hotter fire, for I dare say that fired ten -thousand cannon shott and five hundred bombs and I don’t believe -there has been forty men killed and wounded during that hott fire, -altho’ all the Bombs fell in different parts among us and that we -were nigh point blank of the cannon shott but the line that had -been of so much hurt to us last year saved our men this.</p> - -<p class="right">Your most afft. Brother, James Murray.”</p> -</div> - -<p>I also add Amherst’s report to Governor James DeLancey:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="right">Camp at Ticonderoga 27th July 1759.<a id="FNanchor_34" href="#Footnote_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a></p> - -<p>Sir:—</p> - -<p>On Saturday morning last I embarked with the army at Lake -George, the next day landed without opposition and proceeded to -the saw mills, and took post on the commanding grounds, meeting -only a trifling opposition from the enemy. We lay on our arms all -night and early on the 23rd we continued our march to the ground -which I took possession of in the forenoon, the enemy having -abandoned the lines without destroying them, first having carried -off their effects as well as sent away the greatest part of their -troops. As soon as I was set down before the place and after having -reconnoitered it, I ordered the trenches to be opened and batteries -to be made, which were finished last night, and were to have opened -at break of day, but the enemy did not think proper to wait till -then, having about ten of the clock yesterday evening blown up a<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span> -part of the Fort, and made their escape all to about 20 deserters. -Our loss considering the fire we sustained is inconsiderable. We -have only two officers killed, vis. Colonel Townshend, Deputy Adjutant -General and Ensign Harrison of late Forbe’s.</p> -</div> - -<p>Bourlamaque had on receipt of <ins class="corr" id="tn-32" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'orders from Vandreuil'"> -orders from Vaudreuil</ins> retired -down Lake Champlain leaving four hundred men under Hebecourt -to defend the fort as long as possible and then to abandon Ticonderoga -and later when pressed Crown Point and to retreat to Isle-oux-Noix -at the outlet of Lake Champlain, where defense was to be -made to the last extremity. When the English battery was ready -to open fire Hebecourt saw that further resistance was useless and -lighting a slow match to the magazine the French escaped down the -lake in their boats and a few hours later an explosion which hurled -one bastion of old Fort Carrillon skyward shook the promontory. -Thus did French Carillon become English Ticonderoga and “Ticonderoga -1758-9” should be among the battle honors to be borne on -the colors of the Black Watch. It is true that these honorary -distinctions are awarded by the King only in case of victory but -Ticonderoga 1758-9 would certainly be as much a victory as “South -Africa 1899-1902,” which has been granted. South Africa was not -all victory and the Black Watch suffered at Magersfontein as it -did at Ticonderoga under Abercrombie.</p> - -<p>The length of time elapsed since the battle would also be no -objection to the honor being now granted as it was not until 1910, -two and one half centuries later that the armies that upheld -British honor on the Coast of Morocco were authorized to bear -“Tangier 1662-1680” on their colors and appointments.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i032" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i032.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="right">Copyright 1930 by William H. Hill, Fort Edward</p> -FORT EDWARD, 1759</div> -</div> - -<p>Ticonderoga is the one place on the American continent where -Great Britain and France, Canada and the United States can all -unite on one common ground. The Yankees and British can meet -here and clasp hands over the time when they once fought together -and there is not even a sectional feeling which detracts from the -unanimity. The North, South, East and West of the United States -all join with equal fervor. Each nation had its defeats here at -different times but each also had its victories. Therefore there -is no battle honor which could be conferred on any British regiment -that would please more people of different nations than “Ticonderoga<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span> -1758-9.” The fact that there is at present in the village of -Ticonderoga a public library and historical building dedicated to -a British Regiment, even though this same regiment in its line of -duty fought against us in a later war, is sufficient proof that we -consider Ticonderoga of international history and above matters -of local prejudice.</p> - -<p>The rest of the story is soon told. Crown Point was captured -and the army was to have moved forward to Isle oux-Noix and to -the St. Lawrence but a succession of storms so delayed operations -that further active movements were abandoned for the remainder -of the season. Amherst profiting by the fatal precipitation of his -predecessor was slow but sure and in this campaign was successful -in every enterprise that he undertook.</p> - -<p>After the capture of Crown Point the army under Amherst -was mainly employed in building operations on Lake Champlain, -Fort Amherst at Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga in place of -old Fort Carrillon at Ticonderoga. The Black Watch was stationed -at Crown Point and helped to build Fort Amherst. In November, -they went into camp for the winter and in his report of “Garrisons -and Winter Quarters of His Majesty’s forces in North America -under the command of His Excellency, Major General Amherst, -Headquarters at New York, 15 Dec., 1759” in the Public Record -Office, the stations of the Black Watch were as follows: 1st -Battalion Royal Highland Regiment, 1 company Halfway Brook, -5 companies Fort Edward, 1 company Fort Miller, 1 company -Saratoga, 1 company Stillwater and 1 company Halfmoon, 2d -Battalion Royal Highland Regiment, Albany, one Battalion of -the Inniskilling (27th Foot) and two companies of the Rangers -were left at Crown Point, six companies Late Brig. Gen’l Forbe’s -(17th Foot) at Ticonderoga, and four companies 17th Foot at Fort -George. The following season (1760) the Black Watch was with -Amherst at the capture of Montreal which was the end of the -French domain on the American Continent.</p> - -<p>In 1761 the Black Watch with ten regiments embarked for -Barbadoes there to join an armament against Martinique and -Havana. After the surrender of Havana, the first battalion of the -42nd and Montgomery’s Highlanders embarked for New York<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span> -which they reached in the end of October, 1762. Before leaving -Cuba most of the second battalion of the 42nd fit for service were -consolidated with the first, and the remainder shipped to Scotland -where they were reduced the following year.</p> - -<p>The Black Watch was stationed at Albany until the summer -of 1763, when they, with a detachment of Montgomery’s Highlanders -and another of the 60th, under command of Col. Henry -Boquet were sent to the relief of Fort Pitt then besieged by the -Indians. The 42nd passed the winter at Fort Pitt and during the -summer of 1764, eight companies were sent with the army of -Boquet against the Ohio Indians. After subduing the Indians -they returned to Fort Pitt, January 1765. The regiment remained -in Pennsylvania until the month of July, 1767, when it embarked -at Philadelphia for Ireland. Such of the men who preferred to -remain in America were permitted to join other regiments. These -volunteers were so numerous that along with those who had been -previously sent home disabled and others discharged and settled in -America, the regiment that returned was very small in proportion -to that which had left Scotland.</p> - -<p>Let us now turn our attention to Major Duncan Campbell as -not only would no sketch of the Black Watch of Ticonderoga be -complete without the legend with which his name is associated, but -we are perhaps more interested in him than any other officer of -the Regiment of that time because he lies buried in the cemetry -midway between Hudson Falls (formerly Sandy Hill) and Fort -Edward. The other officers and men who were killed July 8, 1758, -were doubtless buried on the field of battle and if the graves were -ever marked, these marks have long since been destroyed.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp55" id="i034" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i034.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption">AT INVERAWE<br /> - -<p>Old Inverawe House from the River Awe with Ben Cruachan in the -background.</p> - -<p>View from the West. X marks the window of the Ghost Room.</p> - -<p>Bridge over the Awe built by Captain William Piman about 1756.</p></div> -</div> - -<p>No ghost story is more widely known or better authenticated -than that of Duncan Campbell of Inverawe. It has been made the -subject of an address before this Association by the late Robert O. -Bascom at the meeting of July 30, 1901, and has been repeated in -many forms and in various publications but it will bear still one -more repetition. The following is taken from Parkman’s “Montcalm -and Wolfe” and is the story as was told by Dean Stanley and -endorsed by the family of the hero of the tale:</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The ancient castle of Inverawe stands by the banks of the -Awe, in the midst of the wild and picturesque scenery <ins class="corr" id="tn-35" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'of the Westtern'"> -of the Western</ins> -Highlands. Late one evening, before the middle of the last -century, as the laird, Duncan Campbell, sat alone in the old hall, -there was a loud knocking at the gate; and, opening it, he saw a -stranger, with torn clothing and kilt besmeared with blood, who in -a breathless voice begged for asylum. He went on to say that he -had killed a man in a fray, and that the pursuers were at his heels. -Campbell promised to shelter him. “Swear on your dirk!”<a id="FNanchor_35" href="#Footnote_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a> said -the stranger; and Campbell swore. He then led him to a secret -recess in the depths of the castle. Scarcely was he hidden when -again there was a loud knocking at the gate, and two armed men -appeared. “Your cousin Donald has been murdered, and we are -looking for the murderer!” Campbell, remembering his oath, professed -to have <ins class="corr" id="tn-35a" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'no knowlodge'"> -no knowledge</ins> of the fugitive; and the men went on -their way. The laird, in great agitation, lay down to rest in a large -dark room where at length he fell asleep. Waking suddenly in -bewilderment and terror, he saw the ghost of the murdered Donald -standing by his bedside, and heard a hollow voice pronounce the -words: “Inverawe! Inverawe! blood has been shed. Shield not the -murderer.” In the morning Campbell went to the hiding place -of the guilty man and told him that he could harbor him no longer. -“You have sworn on your dirk” he replied; and the laird of Inverawe, -greatly perplexed and troubled, made a compromise between -conflicting duties, promised not to betray his guest, led him -to the neighboring mountain (Ben Cruachan) and hid him in a cave.<a id="FNanchor_36" href="#Footnote_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a></p> - -<p>In the next night, as he lay tossing in feverish slumbers, the -same stern voice awoke him, the ghost of his cousin Donald stood -again at his bedside, and again he heard the same appalling words: -“Inverawe! Inverawe! blood has been shed. Shield not the murderer!” -At break of day he hastened, in strange agitation, to the -cave; but it was empty, the stranger had gone. At night, as he -strove in vain to sleep, the vision appeared once more, ghastly pale,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span> -but less stern of aspect than before. “Farewell, Inverawe!” it said; -“Farewell, till we meet at TICONDEROGA!”</p> - -<p>The strange name dwelt in Campbell’s memory. He had -joined the Black Watch, or Forty-Second Regiment, then employed -in keeping order in the turbulent Highlands. In time he became -its major; and, a year or two after the war broke out, he went with -it to America. Here, to his horror, he learned that it was ordered -to the attack of Ticonderoga. His story was well known among -his brother officers. They combined among themselves to disarm -his fears; and when they reached the fatal spot they told him on -the eve of the battle, “This is not Ticonderoga; we are not there -yet; this is Fort George.”<a id="FNanchor_37" href="#Footnote_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a> But in the morning he came to them -with haggard looks. “I have seen him! You have deceived me! -He came to my tent last night! This is Ticonderoga! I shall die -today!” and his prediction was fulfilled.”</p> -</div> - -<p>As will be seen by the preceding pages, Inverawe lived nine -days after the battle and was not even mortally wounded if it had -been possible in those times to have had antiseptic treatment, but -the real point of the legend is that he had been warned of Ticonderoga -when he did not know there was such a place, years before -there was any prospect of his being sent there and when Ticonderoga -was only the Indian name for a point of land on a lake in the -wilderness of a far off continent.</p> - -<p>To one interested no place could be more fascinating than old -Inverawe;<a id="FNanchor_38" href="#Footnote_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a> everything connected with it breathes of legend and -romance and naturally this was one of the first places visited in -our Black Watch pilgrimage last summer. Taynuilt, the railroad -station nearest Inverawe is a small village across the Awe and -about a mile away as the crow flies, but to drive to our destination, -one must follow the road two miles up the River to the old bridge -which was being built at the time that the Major left for the war -in America in 1756. The builder was Captain William Pitman -apparently a good friend of Duncan of Inverawe as he charged him -with the safe keeping during his absence of his daughter Janet and -his favorite dog. History does not record what happened to the -dog but the Captain married the daughter and in time Inverawe -became her property.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i036" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i036.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p>Two Views of Library</p> -<p class="right">Photo by Miss Dorothea E. Seaton, Edinburgh</p> -<p class="right padr4">A Corner of the Ghost Room</p></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span></p> - -<p>After crossing the Awe the road turns down the north side of -the River and winds through a magnificent park, some of the trees -of which must certainly have been there before the Major’s time. -This is all the more remarkable because with the exception of the -parks of the private estates, Scotland is nearly a treeless country -and even the mountains and wild land which with us would be -covered with forests, have there only grass and heather. Then at the -end of a delightful four mile drive was old Inverawe house and a -most cordial and hospitable welcome from its present owner.</p> - -<p>The old house has had many additions in the past one hundred -and fifty years but the entrance hall and the main part of the -building and particularly the room where Duncan Campbell saw -the ghost, are still very much as they were in his time. We endeavored -to learn as much as possible of the family history of the -Campbells of Inverawe, but like the records of the Black Watch -of that time, there was in 1910, little left but tradition.</p> - - -<h3><em>The Campbells of Inverawe</em></h3> - -<p>Twenty years have passed since the account of the Black -Watch at Ticonderoga as written for the 1910 meeting of the New -York State Historical Association was published, and while we -regret that very little can be added, we are pleased to say that -few corrections have had to be made in the story as then told. -It was thought that the records of the Regiment of the 18th Century -were discovered in 1913 among the military manuscripts in -the Royal United Service Institution, but while they purported -to be the original records, careful examination disclosed that they -had been written early in the nineteenth century so nothing new -was learned of the Regiment of the Ticonderoga period. The preceding -pages therefore are practically unchanged.</p> - -<p>The part, however, about the family history of Major Duncan -Campbell of Inverawe has been entirely rewritten. We are indebted -for this additional information to the descendants of Alexander, -a brother of Duncan of Inverawe, to the late Major Sir -Duncan Campbell of Barcaldine, to the late Captain Douglas -Wimberly, and others. No one feature of the Black Watch at -Ticonderoga has been of such general interest as the ghost story -of its Major, Duncan Campbell of Inverawe, and the straightening<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span> -out of the family puzzle which was such a mystery in 1910 has -been a fascinating study.</p> - -<p>The Major’s memory has been honored recently by two celebrations. -In 1920 when his bones were moved to the Jane McCrea -enclosure, just inside the main gate of the Union Cemetery between -Hudson Falls and Fort Edward, where his ancient tombstone now -has the protection of a high iron fence, and in 1925 when a monument -to the Black Watch and its Major was unveiled at Fort -Ticonderoga. Both occasions were under the auspices of the St. -Andrews Society of Scots of Glens Falls and vicinity, and the New -York State Historical Association.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i038" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i038.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="right">Photo by Miss Dorothea E. Seaton, Edinburgh</p> -OLD INVERAWE HOUSE<br /> - -<table class="autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Showing Door to Ghost Room from Balcony in Entrance Hall</td> -<td class="tdl">Entrance Hall (Door to Ghost Room may be seen in upper left hand corner)</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">View from North showing Main Entrance</td> -</tr> -</table> - -</div> -</div> - -<p>Of all the new material which has been found since 1910 none -is so important or so interesting as the following letter from Major -Duncan Campbell of Inverawe:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p> -Albany, 14th March, 1758.<br /> -</p> - -<p>Dear Sir,</p> - -<p>I received your letter from Inveraw of the 25th November and -the first from you since we parted, tho I have been informed by -letters that come to hand, of your writing formerly. The State you -sent me of my affairs is not very agreeable nor encouraging for -me to make a retreat that I had in view, and in a little time I -believe might be in my power but I am not disappointed; and -notwithstanding I shall do all in my power to assist you. I am -sorry that no other scheme of living can be accomplished upon -the fund, than the one fixed on; to me it gives uneasiness of minde, -tho I’m sensible the consequence may be worse if it is not followed, -and therefore bear it with concern. I don’t choose to mention my -reasons or enter upon particulars as letters from this part of the -world to yours are lyable to inspection and many accidents. I -see a separation must be that will expose them to the disrespect -and ridicule of many; coud they live together in the way proposed -it might prevent much of that but I can’t hope or expect it from -what I know.</p> - -<p>As to my advice or directions with regard to any plan you, -and my other freinds, to whom I fear I have given much trouble -and to whom in any event I shall rekon myself oblig’d there is no -sort of use for them, you are best judges, and as I am well satisfied -that everything will be don and ordered for the best, I shall be -as satisfied with any consequence. I am glade you think of raising -nurseries and planting, I sent from this Country to be forwarded -by Mr. Gatty from Belfast two Barrels of the different kindes of -Timber tree seeds &c. but I doubt they will be too late excepting<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span> -the Pines which seed will do when two year old.</p> - -<p>Your letter came a few days ago by an advice Ship of War, -which superceeded My Lord Loudoun in the Command and General -Abercrombie appointed in his place, with many other changes and -promotions in our Military affairs in this Continent, how far they -may change our Luck I shall not pretend to judge, but we have -need of some sort of medicine for that end. We have a prospect -of a very warm and vigorous campaign, and I hope it will be successful. -Our Regiment is appointed for the Lewisburgh Expedition, -but as we are so far up in the Country where the Generall is to -have his department and opperations it is yet uncertain but he may -keep us with him; we are all in very good health and compleat for -service.</p> - -<p>I cannot yet know what remittance I can make for this year, -some I will and shall, sometime before we take the field or the -midle of May. To prevent a relaps of my last years companion -I travelled to the Southard during the severity of the winter to N. -York and Philadelfia &c. which have had the desyrd effect and -I’m now as chois as ever, but it will not enlarge the remittance.</p> - -<p>I have had no letter from Sandy Campbell since Aprile last, -Nor from Jesie since July, I received one from Mr. Richardson -with yours which I shall answer by next Pacquett and tell him so -with my compliments. Lykways please tell Peter Campbell that -his letter came at the same time, and that as Adam Fisher is here -I had are opportunity of enquiring about his son who is at present -out as master, not Capt. of a Privateer there was no such prizes -or Fortoune as Peter believed what may be now I know not but -there is no great prospect of it. This is the only letter I write -by the first Pacquett, so that you may communicate it to my -friends as a proof of my being well and youll in the same course -make my compliments to them all.</p> - -<p id="tn-39">I’m sorry that Captain Campbell should make objections to -the payment of his Bill; he brought me 3 <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> for which I cleared -him all his charge and gav <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> at that time 20 guineas over for -his own trouble <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> expense this he knows and will appear by -my <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> which you can see; <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> this indeed I thought suitable -any expense he coud incur in Mull and that it <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> my power to -give him or not the raising of an <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> rather than have any -difference about it let h <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> what I had allowed me by the -Regiment which was £3 per man for the first two years and two -guineas for the remaining years that at a medium or the full as -you please but I hope he’ll allow interest upon what Ballance may<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span> -be due by him upon such an amot from the time it fell due April -46 when he went to the Regt.</p> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="padr11">I am,</span><br /> -<span class="padr7">My dear Sir,</span><br /> -Your affect, humble servant.<br /> -<span class="padr2">Dun. Campbell.</span></p> - -<p class="noindent">To</p> - -<p> -John Campbell of Cloichombie Esqr.<br /> -<span class="pad3">Inveraray,</span><br /> -<span class="pad5">North Brittain.</span><br /> -<span class="pad1">(edge of letter torn off—hence gaps) (J.F.C.)</span></p> -</div> - -<p>The letter bears the Inverawe arms on seal and is endorsed, -probably by the addressee “14th March 1758, from Inveraw concerning -his familie and affairs and Lieut. Collonel Dugd. Campbell’s -Bill.”</p> - -<p>This letter will bear reading and re-reading. The first -and to the writer the most important part of the letter was -some financial and family problem. Unfortunately his guarded -and cryptic message caused by the fear that the letter might -be opened by another than the addressee will perhaps leave -it always an unsolved mystery. It would be interesting to -know what success attended the planting of the two barrels -of timber seed. His guess that the Black Watch might be used -in the Ticonderoga campaign rather than the Lewisburgh as planned, -proved correct. It would be interesting to know what the -malady of the previous winter was, to prevent a relapse of which -it had been necessary to travel to the Southard. The letter closes -with another financial problem. If he means that he was allowed -ten or fifteen dollars per man for the thousand men in the Regiment, -that would be a very sizable income for those days and the bill -must have been a large one. The allowance, however, might have -been for recruits secured or some other regimental activity. But -aside from the interesting contents of this letter its real value is -that it gives an opportunity to learn something of the character of -its writer. One can read between the lines that Duncan of Inverawe -was a reserved man of a strong but a quiet, kindly nature, he -would suffer loss himself rather than make trouble for others, and -after having done his best was willing to take whatever came -without complaint. It quite matches the Inverawe of the ghost -story who promised to protect a fugitive and then stood by his -oath even though the refugee was the murderer of his cousin. The -reader of this letter can not help but feel drawn towards its writer.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i040" style="max-width: 145.9375em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i040.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p>The Black Watch of Canada at the dedication of the Black Watch -Memorial Tablet July 8, 1925, the inscription of which reads:</p> - -<p>A. D. 1925. The Saint Andrews Society of Glens Falls, N. Y., erected -this tablet to commemorate the heroic gallantry of the 42nd Regiment of -Foot, better known as “The Royal Highlanders” or “THE BLACK WATCH” -who on July 8, 1758, lost here in killed and wounded over six hundred of -the thousand men engaged. Mortally wounded on that day was their Major, -DUNCAN CAMPBELL OF INVERAWE, the hero of one of the most noted -ghost stories of Scottish history and of Robert Louis Stevenson’s poem, -“Ticonderoga.”</p></div> -</div> - -<p>Now what was the immediate family and what was the background -of our hero. One version of the ghost story was that he -made his will the night before the battle, but no sensible man waits -until death is at the door for this very important transaction and -we find the following in Vol. XV, Abstract of Entry in Sheriff -Court Books of Argyll at Inveraray.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“Disposition by Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe to Lieut. -Dugald Campbell, his eldest son procreated between him and Mrs. -Jean Campbell, his wife, whom, failing, to Lieut. Alexander Campbell, -his second son, whom failing, Duncan Campbell, his third and -youngest son, whom failing, to any other sons he may lawfully -have, and the heirs male of their bodies in succession, whom failing, -to Janet Campbell, his only daughter now in life procreated between -him and the said Mrs. Jean Campbell, of his whole lands -and estate of Inverawe and others, under certain reservations; dated -at Glasgow 17th April, 1756; witnesses, John Campbell of Cloichombie, -Alexander Campbell in Achalion, and others.”</p> -</div> - -<p>This establishes Inverawe’s family and we will see what became -of them. Dugald was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the 21st or Royal -North British Fuziliers, December 28, 1755, joined his Regiment -at Gibraltar in 1756, died and was succeeded by John Wallace, -March 1st, 1758.</p> - -<p>Alexander was appointed Lieutenant in the Black Watch Jan. -28, 1756, was wounded at Ticonderoga and invalided to Glasgow -where he was promoted to a Captaincy in the Argyllshire Regiment -of Fencible men, July 21, 1759, died unmarried Feb. 8, 1760 and -was buried in Grey Friers Burying Ground. A powder horn said -to have belonged to Lt. Alexander and bearing the coat-of-arms -of the Campbells of Inverawe is at the McCord Museum of McGill -University in Montreal.</p> - -<p>Duncan, third son of Inverawe, is still a mystery but the fact -that Janet was proven heir to Inverawe February 5, 1762 would -seem to show that he had died without issue before that date.</p> - -<p>Major Duncan, born Nov. 22, 1702, married March 20, 1732 -Jean, daughter of Col. Alexander Campbell of Finab. She died<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]<br /><a id="Page_42"></a>[42]</span> -at Edinburgh August 20, 1761. When Janet succeeded to Inverawe -in 1762 therefore her father, her mother and three brothers had -all predeceased her—a tragic mortality in six short years. There -is a family tradition that Major Duncan mortgaged Inverawe to -his brother-in-law, Col. Robert Campbell of Finab and Monzie -and that according to old Scottish law the property was handed -over to the man who advanced the money until the rental had -paid off the debt, and that this arrangement was called a wadset. -Whether Col. Campbell of Finab and Monzie acquired the property -by wadset or purchase, it passed into his hands soon after Janet -proved her title and it is said that when she left the estate she -washed her hands in a bottle of wine at the border, which we were -told was an old Highland custom. The owner of Inverawe in 1910 -was a descendant of Col. Robert Campbell of Finab and Monzie, -a Mrs. Campbell of Dunstaffnage. Since then we are informed it -was purchased by the late Mr. James Currie and is now for sale -to settle his estate.</p> - -<p>Janet who married Capt. William Pitman, had only one daughter, -Susan, who died unmarried. So with her the descendants of -Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe are at an end.</p> - -<p>There is a very interesting tale about an Inverawe cup. It -seems that in 1714 the three brothers, Archibald of Inverawe, -Dugald of Shirvan, and Alexander of Kilmartin, each got a silver -cup. The Kilmartins always kept their cup but both those of -Inverawe and Shirvan were lost. This was such a grief to the -Inverawes that the fact was often mentioned. On one occasion -a friend who had heard of this cup was hunting in Ireland and -stopped at a wretched little inn to get a drink for himself and his -horse. The place was so disreputable looking that he would not -go in but had his drink brought out to him. It came in a battered -old metal cup and on the chance that it might be of value, he -bought it from the landlord. To his great pleasure he found on -having it cleaned that it was the long lost Inverawe cup. He had -an inscription put on it, recording the finding, and sent it to -Archibald Campbell of Blackhouse, a nephew of Major Duncan, -and the representative at that time of the Inverawe family. The -cup is still a treasured possession of the descendants of this Archibald, -the Campbells of Arduaine, Lochgilphead.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp46" id="i042" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i042.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="right">—From “Auchindarroch Miscellany”</p> -THE INVERAWE CUP</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span></p> - -<p>The will of the Archibald of Inverawe of the Silver Cup and -father of Major Duncan Campbell, is as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“1727, February 23rd—Disposition by Archibald Campbell of -Inveraw to Duncan Campbell, his eldest lawful son, and the heirs -male of his body, whom failing, to Dugall Campbell, his second -lawful son, and his heirs male, whom failing, Lachlan Campbell, -his third son, and Alexander Campbell, his fourth son, whom all -failing, the heirs of the Granter and Janet McLean, his spouse, -whom failing, his heirs of any other marriage of his lands of -Inveraw, Drumchoise, Dalneass, etc., with certain exceptions, -including a life rent right granted by the deceased Archibald -Campbell of Inveraw to Lilias Campbell, his spouse, now spouse to -Angus Campbell of Dunstagnage; dated at Inveraw 14th February -1722.”</p> -</div> - -<p>Another interesting fact in the Inverawe annals is that Dugald -Campbell of London in the parish of Saint Martin’s, Westminster, -and County of Middlesex, by his will bearing date the 2nd day of -June 1718, gave to old decayed men and young women of Campbell -of Inverawe’s family, the sum of £300, and that this “Inverawe -Annuity Fund” since augmented, is still administered by Trustees -chosen from the Inverawe heirs.</p> - -<p>The present known Campbells who are proud to claim that -they are of the Clan Inverawe are descended from Alexander, -brother of Duncan, the fourth son of Archibald, as named in the -foregoing will. Alexander was born in 1710 and married Ann -Somerville in 1747. If all of the descendants of this union have -been of as fine, high character as those whom we have been privileged -to meet, the world has indeed been richer for the Campbells -of Inverawe.</p> - - -<h3><em>Family Tree of The Campbells of Inverawe</em></h3> - -<p>The family does not seem to be entirely in agreement on the -line back of the 18th Century. The following is gathered from different -branches. One version is that the Inverawes descended from -Sir Archibald Campbell of Lochow, whose son Colin was knighted -by Alexander III, 1280, and died 1294. His son, Niel or Nigel of -Lochow, died 1360, and <em>his</em> son, Dugald or Duncan was the 1st -“Inverawe” and ancestor of the Clan Dhonnachie Campbells. He -got a grant of the estate of Inveraw and Cruachan from David II, -1330. A later Inveraw got a grant of lands from Queen Mary,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span> -1558. With the exception of a gap of about 60 years from 1460 or -so to 1510, we have a complete record of “Inveraws” practically -an unbroken succession from father to son.</p> - -<p>Another version is the following:</p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p>Archibald, c/v from 1st Earl of Argyll</p> - -<p>Dougal, c/v 22.11.1485, from 2nd Earl. Sasine Des. 1486. Officer -of Over Lochow to the Earl. (Inverawe deeds)</p> - -<p>Archibald, signs Archibald McCoul McConachie of Inverawe 1519, -(Thanes of Cawdor), c/v from 2nd Earl as heir to Dugal -(Inverawe deeds) married Margaret Campbell.</p> - -<p>Dougal, (Inverawe 1548-1562). (Register of Decreets and Acts) -said to have married a dau. of Lochnell.</p> - -<p>Archibald, (1562-1567 or 1576) married Margaret C. dau. of Dougal -C. of Ardcullour, sister of Sir James C. VIth of Ardkinklas. -(A. Charters)</p> - -<p>Dougal, (1576 or 1567-1583) married Christian Carswell, dau. (or -granddaughter) of Bishop Carswell. Relict of Dougal 1587. -She afterward married Neill Campbell, Bishop of Lismore.</p> - -<p>Archibald, (1583-1650)</p> - -<p>Dougal, (1650-1674), burned “Bonnie House of Airlie” 1640. married -1st, Agnes, dau. of Sir Robert C. of Glenarguhy (Braedalbane) -2nd, Janet, dau. of Rory McNeill of Barra.</p> - -<p>Archibald, (1674-1705), son of Dougal and Agnes. Married 1st, -Mary, dau. of Hector McNeill of Thayneis. 2nd, Lilias, dau. -of Sir James C. of Lawers.</p> - -<p>Archibald, (1705-1730) married Janet McLean of Torloisk. Served -heir to Cattinis 1700, later Inverawe, etc. Received Inverawe -cup 1714.</p> - -<p>Duncan (1730-1758), Major Black Watch, married Jane Campbell -of Finab.</p> -</div> - - <!-- class .pre emulates the <pre> mark, forcing a --> - <!-- monospace font with nowrap on whitespace. --> - <!-- --> - <!-- All whitespace in the "pre" sections uses nonbreaking --> - <!-- spaces (x00A0) instead of the normal spaces (x0020). --> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45"></a>[45]</span></p> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i045" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i045.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<div class="chapter"></div> -<div class="pre"> -<br /> - ARCHIBALD OF INVERAWE<br /> - b. abt. 1670. got cup 1714. d. 1730.<br /> - m. Janet Maclean of Tarloisk, in Mull, abt. 1700.<br /> - |<br /> - +-----+----------+-----------+-----------+-------------+--------+<br /> - | | | | | |<br /> - Duncan of Inveraw Barbara Archibald Dugald Alexander |<br /> - Maj. Black Watch b. 1703 b. 1705 b. 1706 b. 1710 |<br /> - b. 1702. d. 1758 Campbell d. before no issue m. 1747 |<br /> - m. Jean Campbell m. Archd. 1721 Ann Somerville |<br /> - of Finab of Jura | |<br /> - | | |<br /> - +----+-----+------------+-------+ | |<br /> - | | | | | |<br /> - Dugald Alexander Duncan Janet | |<br /> - Lieut. b. abt. 1705 Lieut. m. Wm. Pitman, M. D. 33d | |<br /> - d. unm. Lieut. Black d. unm. Regt. (Duke of Cumberland’s | |<br /> - Watch. d. of army.) Sold Inveraw 1762 to | |<br /> - wounds rec’d her uncle, Col. Robt. Campbell | |<br /> - Ticonderoga. of Monzie and Finab. One dau. | |<br /> - Unm. Susan, d. unm. | |<br /> - | |<br /> - +---------+-------+----------------+---------+---------+-----+ |<br /> - | | | | | | |<br /> - Jean John Archibald Ann Alexander Duncan |<br /> - m. Duncan of Blackhouse d. unm. b. 1763 d. 1815 |<br /> - Campbell m. Katherine Fish m. 1798 Harriot |<br /> - Achlian | 1817 Young, b. 1774. |<br /> - | | |<br /> - | | |<br /> - Alexander of Auchindarock | |<br /> - Pur’d 1829. Trustee sold See next page |<br /> - Tirvine to James A. C. 1830. |<br /> - 3rd Dragoon Guards, d. July 1902. |<br /> - m. Harriet Keir, dau. Sir James Keir. |<br /> - | |<br /> - +----------+-----+-------+---------------+-----------+--------+ |<br /> - | | | | | | | |<br /> - Archibald Julia Mary Alister James Walter Neil |<br /> - b. 1842 b. 1846. Killed Arthur b. 1854 b. 1858 |<br /> - d. Aug. 1885 Sakokunis Krael b. 1850 m. M. G. |<br /> - 74th Highlanders 1879. (Schipka d. Nov. 1929 Bovill |<br /> - m. Isabella C., dau. pass Campbell) m. Miss E. M. |<br /> - Col. Fairlie of Bruce |<br /> - Coodham A. | |<br /> - | Arduaine family |<br /> - | |<br /> - +------------------+--------------+------------+------------+ |<br /> - | | | | | |<br /> - Alister Magnus Roma Constance Archibald Zella Muriel Donald |<br /> - of Auchindarroch 1870 b. 1878 b. 1880 b. 1881 |<br /> - b. 1868. d. Aug. 1930 m. Eva, dau. m. Robertson d. 1886 |<br /> - m. 1st, Lilias Mary 1897 Col. Agnew Glasgow |<br /> - dau. Robt. Roberston of East |<br /> - Mountgrenan, Glasgow Warristoone +-------------------+<br /> - | |<br /> - +----------------------+ |--Lachlan b. 1709<br /> - | | | d. young<br /> - Alister Norman Colin C. |<br /> - b. 1898 |--Isobel b. 1711<br /> - m. 2nd Evelyn Sanderson |<br /> - 1903, Edinburgh |--Elizabeth b. 1713<br /> - | |<br /> - +-----------+-----------------+ |--Patrick b. 1714<br /> - | | | |<br /> - Amy Muriel Neil Arch’d Alan Keir |--Lilias b. 1716<br /> - 1905 b. 1906, d. 1907 b. 1908 |<br /> - |--Ann b. 1717<br /> - |<br /> - +--John b. 1719<br /> -<br /> -</div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46"></a>[46]</span></p> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp76" id="i046" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i046.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<div class="chapter"></div> -<div class="pre"> -<br /> - DUNCAN (son of Alexander who was brother of Duncan of Inveraw)<br /> - b. 1763 d. 1815 m. 1798 Harriot Young, b. 1774<br /> - |<br /> - +----------+------+---+---------+--------+--------------+----------+<br /> - | | | | | | | |<br /> - Henrietta Alexander | Ann Duncan Jane James Archibald |<br /> - b. 1800 b. 1801 | Eliza b. 1805 b. 1806 b. 1807, d. 1879 |<br /> - m. Rev. | b. 1803 d. at m. Sir m. 1st 1832 |<br /> - Bracken Robert Eton Alex Jane Augusta |<br /> - | b. 1802 Spearman. Pocklington |<br /> - | | d. 1842 |<br /> - Henrietta Eliza | m. 2nd Maria |<br /> - d. unm. | Grace Cameron |<br /> - | d. 1906 |<br /> - +----+----+------+----+-----+-----+----+ | |<br /> - | | | | | | | | |<br /> - Jane | Augusta | Edmund | Rudolph (see next page) |<br /> - | | | |<br /> - Henrietta Alex. Horace |<br /> - +-------------+------+<br /> - | |<br /> - Thos. Edmund Augustus<br /> - b. 1809 b. 1811<br /> - m. Henrietta d. young in<br /> - du Chesne snow storm<br /> - St. Hilaire in Alps.<br /> - Canada<br /> - |<br /> - +----------+------+----+------+-------+------+-------+-------+<br /> - | | | | | | | | |<br /> - Edmund Archibald | Bruce Laura Robert Duncan Donald Colin<br /> - b. 1843 d. 1899 | Hermione | m. Mabel<br /> - m. Nellie Jucherau d. | G. Allen<br /> - Lind | |<br /> - | +-------+--------+-------+ |<br /> - | | | | | |<br /> - | Duncan Archie Charles Lola |<br /> - +------+------+-----+ killed |<br /> - | | | | in war +-------+---+---+<br /> - Edmund Bruce Hugh Etta | | |<br /> - killed Enid Phoebe Colin<br /> - in war d.<br /> -<br /> -</div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47"></a>[47]</span></p> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp50" id="i047" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i047.jpg" alt="" /> -</div> - - -<div class="chapter"></div> -<div class="pre"> -<br /> - JAMES ARCHIBALD (son of Duncan, son of Alexander<br /> - bro. of Duncan of Inveraw).<br /> - b. 1807 d. 1879<br /> - m. 1st 1832 Jane Augusta Pocklington, d. 1842<br /> - |<br /> - |<br /> - +-------------+-----------+----------+-----------+---------+<br /> - | | | | | |<br /> - Jane Eliza Laura Duncan Edmund Alex’r Florence Lorne<br /> - b. 1833 Beatrice Pocklington d. 1887 Elizabeth Augustus<br /> - d. 1924 b. 1834 d. unm. m. Margaret d. unm. b. 1842<br /> - m. Rev. Walter d. 1917 Campbell d. 1893<br /> - Tait. Min. of unm. d. 1909 m. 1875<br /> - St. Madoes, | Cecilia<br /> - Perthshire | Martin<br /> - b. 1836 d. 1905 | d. 1898<br /> - | | |<br /> - | | +------+<br /> - | +-------+-------+----+--+--------+--------+ |<br /> - | | | | | | | |<br /> - +--------+ Marie Duncan Edmund Lorne Ronald James |<br /> - | | Grace McIver Alex’r Francis Bruce Arch’d |<br /> - J. H. M. Adam m. 1904 d. m. 1911 m. Bessie |<br /> - (Minna) Duncan Louis Carey May Anderson |<br /> - m. 1901 | Brockman | |<br /> - Evelyn Heath | | | |<br /> - | | +--------+ | |<br /> - +-------+--+ Estella Grace | | | |<br /> - | | and Patricia Bruce Neill | |<br /> - Barbara Ian Ford b. 1912 b. 1924 | |<br /> - Jean Duncan | |<br /> - b. 1904 +----------+---------+ |<br /> - | | | |<br /> - John Francis Patrick |<br /> - Anderson |<br /> - |<br /> - +----------+-----------+---------+----+<br /> - | | | |<br /> - Ethel Frederick Cecil Audrey Ian<br /> - m. 1897 d. 1918<br /> - Chas. O. A. S.<br /> - Desborough<br /> - |<br /> - +------+-------+<br /> - | | |<br /> - Jan Joyce Peter<br /> - -<br /> - James Archibald (b. 1807, d. 1879)<br /> - m. 2nd Maria Grace Cameron, d. 1906<br /> - |<br /> - |<br /> - +--+-----+---------+--------+----------+------------+-----------+-----+<br /> - | | | | | | | |<br /> - Grace Donald Henrietta James Maria Lilias Mabel |<br /> - m. Dr. Charles d. 1860 Archibald Josephine MacDonald Harriott |<br /> - Neill d. 1923 m. 1887 m. 1887 |<br /> - | d. 1888 Hugh Daubney |<br /> - | Rev. Reginald Lieut. RN |<br /> - John Letts d. 1914 |<br /> - m. | | |<br /> - | | |<br /> - Christian Francis +-------+------+ |<br /> - b. 1888 | | | |<br /> - Gladys Marjory Hugh |<br /> - M. W. L. b. 1900 |<br /> - Mellersh |<br /> - | |<br /> - +------+------+ |<br /> - | | | |<br /> - Mary John Veronica |<br /> - |<br /> - +-------------+-------+<br /> - | |<br /> - Dugal John Evan Cameron<br /> - m. m. Marie<br /> -<br /> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48"></a>[48]</span><br /></p> - -<h2 class="p2 nobreak" id="APPENDIX">APPENDIX</h2> -</div> - - -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_A">A</h3> - -<p class="pfs100">ROLL FROM AN OLD PAPER IN POSSESSION OF THE -7TH DUKE OF ATHOLL. OFFICERS OF THE 42ND -HIGHLANDERS, NEW YORK, MAY 22, 1757.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Lt. Col. Francis Grant, son of the Laird of Grant, wounded at -Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Major Duncan Campbell, of Inverawe, killed at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Captain Gordon Graham, of Drainie, wounded at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Captain John Reid, of Straloch, wounded at Martinique.</p> - -<p>Captain John NcNeil.</p> - -<p>Captain Allan Campbell, son of Barcaldine.</p> - -<p>Captain Thomas Graeme, of Duchray, wounded at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Captain James Abercrombie.</p> - -<p>Captain John Campbell, of Strachur, wounded at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Captain John Campbell, of Duneavis, killed at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant William Grant, of Rothiemurchus family, wounded -at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Robert Gray, wounded at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant John Campbell, younger of Glenyon, wounded at -Ticonderoga.<a id="FNanchor_39" href="#Footnote_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a></p> - -<p>Lieutenant George Farquharson, son of Farquharson of Micris, -Braemar, killed at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Sir James Cockburn.<a id="FNanchor_40" href="#Footnote_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a></p> - -<p>Lieutenant Kenneth Tolmie.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant James Grant (Adjutant), wounded at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant John Graham (quartermaster) wounded at Ticonderoga -and wounded at Fort Pitt.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Hugh McPherson, killed at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49"></a>[49]</span></p> - -<p>Lieutenant Alex. Turnbull, of Strathcavers, wounded at Martinique.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Alex. Campbell, son of Inverawe, wounded at -Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Alex. McIntosh, wounded at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant James Gray.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant William Baillie, killed at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Hugh Arnot.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant John Sutherland, killed at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant John Small.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Archibald Campbell.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant James Campbell.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Archibald Lamont.</p> - -<p>Ensign Duncan Campbell, wounded at Fort Pitt.</p> - -<p>Ensign Patrick Balneavis,<a id="FNanchor_41" href="#Footnote_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a> son of Edradour, wounded at -Ticonderoga, wounded at Martinique.</p> - -<p>Ensign Patrick Stewart,<a id="FNanchor_42" href="#Footnote_42" class="fnanchor">[42]</a> son of Bonskeid, killed at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Ensign Norman MacLeod.</p> - -<p>Ensign George Campbell.</p> - -<p>Ensign Donald Campbell.</p> - -<p>Ensign James McIntosh, wounded at Fort Pitt.</p> - -<p>Ensign Alex. McIntosh, wounded at Martinique.</p> - -<p>Ensign Peter Grant, wounded at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Three additional Companies embarked for America, November, -1757.</p> - -<p>Captain James Stewart, younger of Urrard, wounded at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Captain James Murray, son of Lord G. Murray, wounded at -Ticonderoga, wounded at Martinique.</p> - -<p>Captain Thomas Stirling, younger of Ardoch, wounded at Martinique, -wounded at New Jersey.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Simon Blair.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant David Barclay, killed at Martinique.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Archibald Campbell, wounded at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Alex. Mackay.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Alex. Menzies.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50"></a>[50]</span></p> - -<p>Lieutenant David Milne,<a id="FNanchor_43" href="#Footnote_43" class="fnanchor">[43]</a> wounded at Ticonderoga, wounded -at Martinique.</p> - -<p>Ensign Duncan Stewart, son of Derculich.</p> - -<p>Ensign George Rattray, son of Dalralzion, killed at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Ensign Alex. Farquharson.</p> -</div> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Ensign John Smith is added in ink to the 1858 Army List in the N. Y. -State Library at Albany and is also marked as “wounded at Ticonderoga.”</p> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp55" id="i048" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i048.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p>Blair Castle at Blair Atholl -<span class="pad10pc">Reviewing the Atholl Highlanders</span></p> -Sir John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray, K. T., Seventh Duke -of Atholl</div> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_B">B</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">ROLL OF CAPT. JOHN REID’S COMPANY, NOV. 1757.</p> - -<p>The following is the roll of Capt. John Reid’s Company of -the 42nd, which was commanded by Capt. James Murray during -the expedition. Taken from Atholl Records, page 440, Vol. III.</p> - -<div class="textcol"> -Capt. James Murray, wounded.<br /> -Lieut. Kenneth Tolmie.<br /> -Lieut. David Mill, wounded.<br /> -Ensign Charles Menzies.<br /> -Sergt. James McNab.<br /> -Sergt. John McAndrews.<br /> -Sergt. John Watson.<br /> -</div> - -<div class="textcol"> -Sergt. Alex’r Cumming.<br /> -Corporal John Cumming.<br /> -Corporal Jonathan Grant.<br /> -Corporal Angus McDonald.<br /> -Corporal John Stewart.<br /> -Drum Walter McIntyre, killed.<br /> -Drum Alan Campbell.<br /> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Privates</em></p> - -<div class="textcol"> -Wm. Anderson.<br /> -John Buchanan, killed.<br /> -Angus Cameron.<br /> -Hugh Cameron, killed.<br /> -Wm. Carmichael.<br /> -Donald Carr, killed.<br /> -Hugh Christie.<br /> -Alex. Cumming.<br /> -James Farquharson, killed.<br /> -Alex Fraser.<br /> -Donald Fraser.<br /> -Donald Fraser.<br /> -<br /> -Hugh Fraser.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51"></a>[51]</span><br /> -Hugh Fraser, killed.<br /> -John Forbes.<br /> -John Graham.<br /> -Donald Grant.<br /> -James Grant.<br /> -John Grant.<br /> -John Grant.<br /> -William Grant.<br /> -James Gordon.<br /> -William Gordon.<br /> -Donald Kennedy.<br /> -Donald Kennedy.<br /> -John Kennedy.<br /> -George McAdam.<br /> -John McArthur.<br /> -Donald McColl.<br /> -Donald McDiarmid.<br /> -Angus McDonald.<br /> -Arch’d McDonald.<br /> -Arch’d McDonald, killed.<br /> -James McDonald, killed.<br /> -John McDonald.<br /> -Lachlan McDonald.<br /> -William McDonald, killed.<br /> -Neil McEachern.<br /> -Peter McFarlane.<br /> -Peter McFarlane, killed.<br /> -John McGillvray.<br /> -Leonard McGlashan.<br /> -Alex McGregor.<br /> -Donald McGregor.<br /> -Robert McGregor.<br /> -John McIntosh.<br /> -Alex McIntyre.<br /> -Donald McIntyre.<br /> -</div> - -<div class="textcol"> -James McIntyre, killed.<br /> -Hector McInven.<br /> -Hugh McKay.<br /> -Alex’r McKenzie.<br /> -Hugh McKenzie.<br /> -John McKenzie, killed.<br /> -John McKenzie.<br /> -Roderick McKenzie.<br /> -Dougall McLachlan, killed.<br /> -John McLaren.<br /> -Roderick McLaren.<br /> -Neil McLeod.<br /> -<br /> -Norman McLeod, killed.<br /> -Donald McLeish.<br /> -Donald McLeish.<br /> -William McLinnion.<br /> -Neil McMillan.<br /> -Donald McNeil, killed.<br /> -Neil McNeil.<br /> -Hugh McPhee.<br /> -John McPhee.<br /> -Alex McPherson.<br /> -Donald McPherson.<br /> -Donald McQueen, killed.<br /> -James Michael.<br /> -Donald Murray.<br /> -James Murray.<br /> -James Rea.<br /> -Alex’r Reid.<br /> -Alex’r Ross.<br /> -Donald Ross.<br /> -Hugh Ross, killed.<br /> -John Ross.<br /> -Donald Robertson.<br /> -Neil Shaw.<br /> -John Sinclair, died of wounds.<br /> -John Smith.<br /> -Walter Spaulding.<br /> -Alex’r Stewart.<br /> -Charles Stewart, died of wounds.<br /> -Donald Stewart, died of wounds.<br /> -Walter Stewart, died of wounds.<br /> -Robert Urquhart.<br /> -Donald Watson.<br /> -Donald Wheet.<br /> -William Wishart.<br /> -Duncan Wright.<br /> -</div> - -<p>The above roll was made out at the muster in October, 1757, -and contains the names of those who served in the Company for<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52"></a>[52]</span> -the previous six months. Unfortunately the names of the non-commissioned -officers and men who were wounded at Ticonderoga -are not shown.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_C">C</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">ROLL OF CAPT. JAMES MURRAY’S COMPANY, NOV. 1757.</p> - -<p>This Company was at Fort Edward captained by Capt. James -Abercrombie and not in the battle of July 8, 1758.</p> - -<p>Atholl Records, p. 431, Vol. III.</p> - -<div class="textcol"> -Sergt. Wm. Grant.<br /> -Sergt. Charles Robinson.<br /> -Sergt, John McQueen.<br /> -</div> - -<div class="textcol"> -Corporal John Leslie.<br /> -Corporal Robert Lachlan.<br /> -Drummer Alan Campbell.<br /> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Privates</em></p> - -<div class="textcol"> -George Bremmer.<br /> -Donald Brown.<br /> -Duncan Cameron.<br /> -John Campbell.<br /> -Donald Conacher.<br /> -William Cowie.<br /> -James Douglas.<br /> -Donald Drummond.<br /> -James Duncan.<br /> -Alex Fraser (1).<br /> -Alex Fraser (2).<br /> -William Fife.<br /> -Robert Grant.<br /> -Alex Irvine.<br /> -James Kennedy.<br /> -Duncan McAndrew.<br /> -Donald McDiarmid.<br /> -Archibald McDonald.<br /> -Archibald McDonald.<br /> -Donald McDonald.<br /> -John McDonald.<br /> -William McDonald.<br /> -<br /> -Peter McFarlane.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53"></a>[53]</span><br /> -Alex’r McIntosh.<br /> -Robert McIntosh.<br /> -Robert McIntosh.<br /> -William McIntosh.<br /> -Donald McLean.<br /> -Donald McLean.<br /> -</div> - -<div class="textcol"> -Thos. McNab.<br /> -Alex McPherson.<br /> -James McPherson.<br /> -Donald McRaw.<br /> -Robert Menzies.<br /> -William Munroe.<br /> -John Murray.<br /> -Alex’r Nicholson.<br /> -Alex’r Norrie.<br /> -Alex’r Reid.<br /> -Alex’r Robertson.<br /> -Angus Robertson.<br /> -Archibald Robertson.<br /> -Charles Robertson.<br /> -Donald Robertson.<br /> -James Robertson.<br /> -James Robertson.<br /> -John Robertson.<br /> -Peter Robertson.<br /> -James Scroggie.<br /> -Alex’r Stewart.<br /> -Alex’r Stewart.<br /> -<br /> -Alex’r Stewart.<br /> -John Stewart.<br /> -Robert Stewart.<br /> -Thomas Stewart.<br /> -William Stewart.<br /> -John Wighton.<br /> -John Wighton.<br /> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_D">D</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100"><em>LIST OF PROMOTION 42D REGIMENT OF FOOT.</em></p> - -<p class="pfs100"><cite>From Paper in Public Record Office, London.</cite></p> - - -<table class="p1 autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdc" colspan="2">DATE</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2">RANK</td> -<td class="tdl pad3">NAME</td> -<td class="tdc" colspan="2">1758</td> -<td class="tdl pad4">IN ROOM OF</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Major</td> -<td class="tdl">Gordon Graham</td> -<td class="tdc">17th</td> -<td class="tdc">July</td> -<td class="tdl">Duncan Campbell, dead</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Captain</td> -<td class="tdl">William Grant</td> -<td class="tdc">23d</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Gordon Graham, promoted</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Capt. Lieut.</td> -<td class="tdl">Robert Gray</td> -<td class="tdc">22d</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">John Campbell, killed</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Lieut.</td> -<td class="tdl">Duncan Campbell</td> -<td class="tdc">23d</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">William Grant, promoted</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Donald Campbell</td> -<td class="tdc">24th</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Robert Gray, promoted</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">James McIntosh</td> -<td class="tdc">25th</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">George Farquharson, killed</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">John Smith</td> -<td class="tdc">26th</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Hugh McPherson, killed</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Peter Grant</td> -<td class="tdc">27th</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">William Baillie, killed</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Duncan Stewart</td> -<td class="tdc">28th</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">John Sutherland, killed</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Alex. Farquharson</td> -<td class="tdc">29th</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Hugh Arnotte, pref’d (80th foot)</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Ensign</td> -<td class="tdl">Arch. Campbell, Jr.</td> -<td class="tdc">21st</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Norman McLeod, pref’d (80th foot)</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">John Gregor</td> -<td class="tdc">22nd</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">George Campbell, pref’d (80th foot)</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Lewis Grant</td> -<td class="tdc">23d</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Patrick Stewart, killed</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Arch. Campbell, Sen’r</td> -<td class="tdc">24th</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">George Ratthray, killed</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">John Graham</td> -<td class="tdc">25th</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Duncan Campbell, promoted</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Allen Grant</td> -<td class="tdc">26th</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Donald Campbell, promoted</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">John Leith</td> -<td class="tdc">27th</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Jas. McIntosh, promoted</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Charles Menzies</td> -<td class="tdc">28th</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">John Smith, promoted</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl pad2h">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Archibald McNab</td> -<td class="tdc">29th</td> -<td class="tdc">”</td> -<td class="tdl">Peter Grant, promoted</td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54"></a>[54]</span></p> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_E">E</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">COMPARISON OF LOSSES OF BLACK WATCH AT TICONDEROGA -WITH THOSE OF OTHER WARS.</p> - -<p>In the “Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861, -1865. A treatise in the extent and nature of the mortuary losses -in the Union Regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled -from the official records on file on the State Military Bureaus -and at Washington, by William F. Fox, Lieut. Col. U. S. V., president -of the Society of the 12th Army Corps; late president of the -107th New York Veteran Volunteer Association. Albany Publishing -Company, Albany, N. Y., 1899.” The writer states that he has -examined the records of 2,000 regiments of the Union Army and on -page 2 he says, “The one regiment in all the Union Army which -sustained the greatest loss in battle during the American Civil -War was the 5th New Hampshire Infantry. It lost 295 men, killed -or mortally wounded in action during the four years of service -from 1861 to 1865. It served in the first division, second corps. -This division was commanded successively by General Richardson, -Hancock, Caldwall, Barlow and Miles and any regiment that followed -the fortunes of these men was sure to find plenty of bloody -work cut out for it. Its loss includes 18 officers killed, a number -far in excess of the usual proportions and indicates that the men -were bravely led.”</p> - -<p>“There were 34 regiments of the Union Army whose casualties -in killed, wounded or missing amounted to 58 per cent or over of -the men engaged in one battle in each case, however, there was -not a full regiment engaged. For example, the 1st Minnesota at -Gettysburg, which was the highest per centage, had 47 killed and -168 wounded, or a total loss of 215 out of 262 men engaged. This -is a loss of 82 per cent.</p> - -<p>The 9th Illinois at Shiloh had 61 killed, 300 wounded and 5 -missing, a total of 63.3 per cent.</p> - -<p>The Light Brigade which has been immortalized by Tennyson -took 673 officers and men into that charge at Balaklava in -which 113 were killed and 134 wounded, a total of 247 or 36.7 per -cent.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp52" id="i054" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i054.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption">Lord Howe’s Monument in Westminster Abbey<br /> - -<p>THE PROVINCE OF MASSACHUSETS BAY, IN NEW ENGLAND -BY AN ORDER OF THE GREAT AND GENERAL COURT -BEARING DATE FEB<sup>Y</sup> 1<sup>ST</sup> 1759, CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO -BE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE AUGUSTUS LORD -VISCOUNT HOWE, BRIGADIER GENERAL OF HIS MAJESTY’S -FORCES IN AMERICA, WHO WAS SLAIN JULY THE 6<sup>TH</sup> 1758, -ON THE MARCH TO TICONDEROGA, IN THE 34<sup>TH</sup> YEAR -OF HIS AGE: IN TESTIMONY OF THE SENSE THEY HAD OF HIS -SERVICES AND MILITARY VIRTUES, AND OF THE AFFECTION -THEIR OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS BORE TO HIS COMMAND.</p> - -<p>HE LIVED RESPECTED AND BELOVED: THE PUBLICK REGRETTED -HIS LOSS; TO HIS FAMILY IT IS IRREPARABLE.</p></div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55"></a>[55]</span></p> - -<p>The heaviest loss in the German army of the Franco-Prussian -war was the 16th Infantry (3d Westphalian) at Mars LaTour -which had 509 killed, 619 wounded, 365 missing, a total of 1,484 or -49.4 per cent. out of 3,000 men. The regiments of the German -army had 3,000 men.”</p> - -<p>The above are the greatest casualties suffered in three great -wars taken from a book compiled by an authority who had made -a study of the subject. Compare with these the loss of the Black -Watch at Ticonderoga given by Col. Stewart of Garth as 8 officers, -9 sergeants and 297 men killed and 17 officers, 10 sergeants and -306 soldiers wounded or a casualty of 647 (64.7 per cent) out of -the 1,000 men of the 42nd reported by General Abercrombie at -Lake George, June 29, 1758.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_F">F</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">TABLE OF LOSSES OF BLACK WATCH IN SEVEN -YEAR WAR.</p> - -<p>The loss sustained by the regiment during the seven years it -was employed in America and the West Indies was as follows:</p> - - -<table class="p1 autotable fs90" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="bt" colspan="13"></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bt" colspan="13"></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdc" colspan="6">KILLED</td> -<td class="tdc" colspan="6">WOUNDED</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bt" colspan="13"></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">F</td> -<td class="tdr">C</td> -<td class="tdr">S</td> -<td class="tdr">S</td> -<td class="tdr">D</td> -<td class="tdr">P</td> -<td class="tdrx">F</td> -<td class="tdr">C</td> -<td class="tdr">S</td> -<td class="tdr">S</td> -<td class="tdr">D</td> -<td class="tdr">P</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">i</td> -<td class="tdr">a</td> -<td class="tdr">u</td> -<td class="tdr">e</td> -<td class="tdr">r</td> -<td class="tdr">r</td> -<td class="tdrx">i</td> -<td class="tdr">a</td> -<td class="tdr">u</td> -<td class="tdr">e</td> -<td class="tdr">r</td> -<td class="tdr">r</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">e</td> -<td class="tdr">p</td> -<td class="tdr">b</td> -<td class="tdr">r</td> -<td class="tdr">u</td> -<td class="tdr">i</td> -<td class="tdrx">e</td> -<td class="tdr">p</td> -<td class="tdr">b</td> -<td class="tdr">r</td> -<td class="tdr">u</td> -<td class="tdr">i</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">l</td> -<td class="tdr">t</td> -<td class="tdr">a</td> -<td class="tdr">j</td> -<td class="tdr">m</td> -<td class="tdr">v</td> -<td class="tdrx">l</td> -<td class="tdr">t</td> -<td class="tdr">a</td> -<td class="tdr">j</td> -<td class="tdr">m</td> -<td class="tdr">v</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">d</td> -<td class="tdr">a</td> -<td class="tdr">l</td> -<td class="tdr">e</td> -<td class="tdr">m</td> -<td class="tdr">a</td> -<td class="tdrx">d</td> -<td class="tdr">a</td> -<td class="tdr">l</td> -<td class="tdr">e</td> -<td class="tdr">m</td> -<td class="tdr">a</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr">i</td> -<td class="tdr">t</td> -<td class="tdr">a</td> -<td class="tdr">e</td> -<td class="tdr">t</td> -<td class="tdrx"></td> -<td class="tdr">i</td> -<td class="tdr">t</td> -<td class="tdr">a</td> -<td class="tdr">e</td> -<td class="tdr">t</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">O</td> -<td class="tdr">n</td> -<td class="tdr">e</td> -<td class="tdr">n</td> -<td class="tdr">r</td> -<td class="tdr">e</td> -<td class="tdrx">O</td> -<td class="tdr">n</td> -<td class="tdr">e</td> -<td class="tdr">n</td> -<td class="tdr">r</td> -<td class="tdr">e</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">f</td> -<td class="tdr">s</td> -<td class="tdr">r</td> -<td class="tdr">t</td> -<td class="tdr">s</td> -<td class="tdr">s</td> -<td class="tdrx">f</td> -<td class="tdr">s</td> -<td class="tdr">r</td> -<td class="tdr">t</td> -<td class="tdr">s</td> -<td class="tdr">s</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">f</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr">n</td> -<td class="tdr">s</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdrx">f</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr">n</td> -<td class="tdr">s</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">i</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr">s</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdrx">i</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr">s</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">c</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdrx">c</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">e</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdrx">e</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">r</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdrx">r</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdr">s</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdrx">s</td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="tdr"></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bt" colspan="13"></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Ticonderoga, July 8, 1758</td> -<td class="tdr"> 1</td> -<td class="tdr"> 1</td> -<td class="tdr"> 6</td> -<td class="tdr">9</td> -<td class="tdr"> 2</td> -<td class="tdr">297</td> -<td class="tdrx"> -</td> -<td class="tdr"> 5</td> -<td class="tdr">12</td> -<td class="tdr">10</td> -<td class="tdr"> -</td> -<td class="tdr">306</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Martinique, January, 1759</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">8</td> -<td class="tdrx">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">2</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">22</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Guadeloupe, Feb. and Mar., 1759</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">25</td> -<td class="tdrx">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">4</td> -<td class="tdr">3</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">57</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">General Amherst’s E-pedition to the Lakes, July and Aug., 1759</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">3</td> -<td class="tdrx">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">4</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Martinique, Jan. and Feb., 1762</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">6</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">12</td> -<td class="tdrx">1</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">7</td> -<td class="tdr">3</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">72</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Havana, June and July, 1762, both battalions</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">6</td> -<td class="tdrx">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">12</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">E-pedition under Colonel Boquet, August, 1763</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">26</td> -<td class="tdrx">-</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">2</td> -<td class="tdr">2</td> -<td class="tdr">30</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Second E-pedition under Boquet, in 1764 and 1765</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">7</td> -<td class="tdrx">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">-</td> -<td class="tdr">19</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdr"></td> -<td class="bt" colspan="12"></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Total in the Seven Year’s War</td> -<td class="tdr">1</td> -<td class="tdr">3</td> -<td class="tdr">9</td> -<td class="tdr">12</td> -<td class="tdr">2</td> -<td class="tdr">384</td> -<td class="tdrx">1</td> -<td class="tdr">7</td> -<td class="tdr">25</td> -<td class="tdr">22</td> -<td class="tdr">4</td> -<td class="tdr">522</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bt" colspan="13"></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bt" colspan="13"></td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p class="pad3">Stewart of Garth, Appendix.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[56]</span></p> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_G">G</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">OFFICIAL TITLES OF BLACK WATCH AT DIFFERENT -PERIODS.</p> - -<p>1667 to 1739, The Black Watch.</p> - -<p>1739 to 1749, The Regiment was known during this period by -the names of its Colonels, as was the custom in the British Army -at that time, Earl of Crawford’s, Lord Sempill’s, Lord John Murray’s. -It was also called The Highland Regiment. It is said that -the Regiment was at first the 43d Regt. of Foot, but while it was -43d in order of precedence it is a question if it was ever officially -called the 43d.</p> - -<p>1749 to 1758, 42nd Regiment of Foot (The Highland Regiment).</p> - -<p>1758 to 1861, 42nd (or Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot.</p> - -<p>1861 to 1881, 42nd Royal Highlanders (The Black Watch).</p> - -<p>1881 to date, 1st Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>1758 to 1786, 2nd Battalion 42nd (or Royal Highland), Regiment of Foot.</p> - -<p>1786 to 1862, 73d (Highland) Regiment of Foot.</p> - -<p>1862 to 1881, 73d (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot.</p> - -<p>1881 to date, 2nd Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).</p> - - -<p class="p2 pfs100">PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGNS, BATTLES, ETC.</p> - -<p>* “Honors” on the Colors, the figures showing the Battalion -concerned.</p> - -<div class="textcol"> - 1743-47 Flanders.<br /> - 1745 Fontenoy.<br /> - 1745 Jacobite rising.<br /> - 1757-60 Canada.<br /> - 1758 Ticonderoga.<br /> - 1759 Guadeloupe.<br /> - 1762 Martinique.<br /> -<br /> - 1762 Havannah.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span><br /> - 1762-67 Indian Frontier.<br /> - 1763 Bushy Run.<br /> - 1775-81 America.<br /> - 1776 Long Island.<br /> - 1776 White Plains.<br /> - 1776 Brooklyn.<br /> - 1776 Fort Washington.<br /> - 1777 Pisquata.<br /> - 1777 Brandywine.<br /> - 1777 Germantown.<br /> - 1778 Freehold.<br /> - 1780 Charlestown.<br /> -*1783 Mysore (2).<br /> -*1783 Mangalore (2).<br /> - 1793 Pondicherry.<br /> - <ins class="corr" id="tn-57" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: '1893-95 Flanders'"> -1793-95 Flanders</ins>.<br /> - 1793 Nieuport.<br /> - 1794 Nimeguen.<br /> - 1795 Ceylon.<br /> - 1795 Guildermalsen.<br /> - 1796 St. Lucia.<br /> - 1797 St. Vincent.<br /> - 1798 Minorca.<br /> -*1799 Seringapatam (2).<br /> - 1799 Genoa.<br /> - 1799 Cadiz.<br /> - 1800 Malta.<br /> -*1801 Egypt (1).<br /> - 1801 Alexandria.<br /> - 1801 Aboukir.<br /> -</div> - -<div class="textcol"> - 1801 Mandora.<br /> -*1808-14 Peninsula (1).<br /> - 1808 Roleia.<br /> - 1808 Vimiera.<br /> -*1809 Corunna (1).<br /> - 1810 Busaco.<br /> -*1811 Fuentes d’Onor (1).<br /> -<br /> - 1812 Ciudad Rodrigo.<br /> - 1812 Salamanca.<br /> - 1812 Burgos.<br /> -*1813 Pyrenees (1).<br /> - 1813 Gohrde.<br /> -*1813 Nivelle (1).<br /> -*1813 Nive (1).<br /> -*1814 Orthes (1).<br /> - 1814 Antwerp.<br /> -*1814 Toulouse (1).<br /> - 1815 Quatre Bras.<br /> -*1815 Waterloo (1 and 2).<br /> - 1815 Netherlands.<br /> -*1846-53 South Africa (2).<br /> -*1854 Alma (1).<br /> - 1854 Balaclava.<br /> - 1854 Kertch.<br /> - 1855 Yenikale.<br /> -*1855 Sevastopol (1).<br /> - 1857-58 Indian Mutiny.<br /> - 1857 Cawnpore.<br /> -*1858 Lucknow (1).<br /> -*1874 Ashantee (1).<br /> -*1882-84 Egypt (1).<br /> -*1882 Tel-el-Kebir (1).<br /> -*1884-85 Nile (1).<br /> - 1884 El-Teb.<br /> - 1884 Tamai.<br /> -*1885 Kirbekan (1).<br /> -*1899-1902 South Africa.<br /> -*1900 Paardeberg.<br /> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_H">H</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">BRITISH REGIMENTS AT TICONDEROGA, 1758.</p> - -<p class="pfs100"><cite>With Notes From Farmer’s Regimental Records.</cite></p> - -<p class="pfs100">27th.</p> - -<p>1751-1881, The 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot. Also -1758 “Lord Blakeney’s.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[58]</span></p> - -<p>1881 (from) First Battalion “The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.”</p> - -<p>Nickname—“The Lumps.”</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Notes.—Formed from three Companies of the Inniskilling forces. It is -unique in using the old Irish war-pipes. While employed on the Isthmus -of Darien all but nine of six hundred men succumbed. For distinguished -gallantry at St. Lucia, in 1696, it was directed that the French garrison in -marching out should lay down their arms to the 27th, other marks of -favor being likewise accorded to the officers and men of the regiment.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100">42nd.</p> - -<p>1749-58, 42nd Regiment of Foot (The Highland Regiment).</p> - -<p>1758-1861, 42nd (or Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot. Also -“Lord John Murray’s,” 1758 and 59.</p> - -<p>1881 (from) 1st Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).</p> - -<p>Regimental Badges-“The Royal Cypher within the Garter.” -The badge and motto of the Order of the Thistle. Also (in each -of the four corners) the Royal Cypher ensigned with the Imperial -Crown. Also “<ins class="corr" id="tn-58" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'The Spinx'"> -The Sphinx</ins>” (for Egypt, 1801).</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Notes.—The 1st Battalion of this famous corps, the oldest Highland -regiment in the British army, was raised from six Independent companies -of Highlanders. Its sombre dress of black, blue, and green tartan gave -rise to its popular name. To enumerate its services is simply to narrate -the military history of Great Britain since the early part of the last century. -Hardly a campaign has been conducted, or a battle fought, in which -the Black Watch—one battalion or the other, or both in company—has not -participated; always with bravery, and frequently with conspicuous gallantry. -Thereto its records of services abundantly testifies. At Fontenoy, -Ticonderoga, and at Bushy Run “extraordinary and unexampled” gallantry -was shown. It received Royal distinction in its change of title in 1758, -and was privileged to wear the red heckle in the bonnet, in recognition -of its conduct at the battle of Guildermalsen in 1795. In Egypt (in 1801, -for which it bears “The Sphinx”), before Alexandria, it captured the -Standard of the French Invincible Legion. Since then it has heaped fame -on fame, and added “honor” to “honor” to its colours. Nor has the 2nd -Battalion (raised in Perthshire in 1758 as the second Battalion of the 42nd, -but, renumbered, long known as the 73rd prior to the territorial restoration -of the ancient status) failed to win fresh laurels as occasion arose. At -Mangalore (1783) against Tippoo Sahib, and side by side with the senior -Battalion at Waterloo, in the Netherlands, in the Indian Mutiny, and in the -Kaffir wars of 1846-53, it has worthily sustained the undying fame of the -regiment. Recent events in South Africa show that neither the officers -nor the men of today have lost one iota of that traditional dash, determination, -and the bravery which have won for the Black Watch so glorious a -place in British military annals.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100">44th.</p> - -<p>1751-82, The 44th Regiment of Foot. Also 1758, “General -Abercrombie’s.”</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[59]</span></p> - -<p>1881 (from) The First Battalion “The Essex Regiment.”</p> - -<p>Nicknames—“The Two Fours” (of the 44th). “The Little -Fighting Fours,” (the regiment saw hard service in the Peninsula, -and its men were of small average stature). “The Pompadours” -and “Saucy Pompeys.” (Tradition relates that when the facings -were changed in 1764 (the crimson not wearing well) the Colonel -desired Blue, but the authorities objecting, he chose Purple, a -favorite color of Madame de Pompadour, a mistress of Louis XV, -of France).</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Notes.—The 44th captured an Eagle of the 62nd French Infantry at -Salamanica.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100">46th.</p> - -<p>1751-82, The 46th Regiment of Foot. Also 1758 “Lieut. Gen. -Thomas Murray’s.”</p> - -<p>1881 (from) Second Battalion “Duke of Cornwall’s Light infantry.”</p> - -<p>Nicknames—These pertain to the late 46th; “Murray’s Buck’s” -(from Colonel name (1743-64) and its smart appearance on home -duty in Scottish Royal livery). “The Surprisers” (from an incident -(1777) in the American War). “The Lacedemonians” (its Colonel -once when under fire, made a disciplinarian speech concerning the -Lacedemonians). Also in early days, “The Edinburgh Regiment.” -“The Red Feathers.” “The Docs” (the initials).</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Note.—“The Two Feathers” is a distinction of the 46th, a Light company -of which, in 1777, with others were brigaded as “The Light Battalion.” -The Americans were so harrassed by the Brigade that they vowed -“No Quarter.” In derision, to prevent mistakes, the Light Battalion dyed -their feathers red; the 46th Foot alone has retained the distinction.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100">55th</p> - -<p>1757-82, The 55th Regiment of Foot. Also “Lord Howe’s” in -1858 and “Prideaux’s” in 1759.</p> - -<p>1881 (from) Second Battalion “The Border Regiment.”</p> - -<p>Nickname—“The Two Fives” (to the 55th for its number).</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Notes.—The Dragon of China is on the Regimental Badge of the 55th -in honor of the victorious campaign in China in 1840-42.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60"></a>[60]</span></p> - - -<p class="pfs100">1st and 4th Battalions 60th.</p> - -<p>1755-57, The 62nd (Royal American) Regiment of Foot; renumbered.</p> - -<p>1757-1824, The 60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot.</p> - -<p>1881 (from) Second Battalion “The Border Regiment.”</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Notes.—This regiment, though possessing no “Colors,” bears more honors -than any other regiment, the Highland Light Infantry coming next -with twenty-nine. Motto, “Swift and Bold,” bestowed according to tradition -by General Wolfe in recognition of its conduct at Quebec.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100">80th.</p> - -<p>1758-64, The 80th (Light-armed) Regiment of Foot. Also -“Gage’s.” (Disbanded 1764).</p> - - -<p class="pfs100">The Royal Regiment of Artillery.</p> - -<p>One arm or other of this branch of the Service has, obviously, -taken part in every campaign; a particularized list is therefore -unnecessary. The guns are the “Colours” of the Artillery, and as -such are entitled to all “parade honours.” Formerly, regimental -honors appear to have been worn by certain companies. Amongst -such are “Niagara,” “Leipsic,” “Waterloo,” and “The Dragon of -China.”</p> - -<p>Nicknames—“The Gunners;” “The Four-wheeled Hussars” (of -the Royal Horse Artillery).</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Notes.—Trains of artillery seem to have been raised in the time of -Henry VIII., and up to 1716 appear to have been disbanded after each campaign. -In 1716 several companies received permanent corporate existence, -since which exigencies of modern warfare have led to an enormous increase -in the number of batteries. But from first to last, the record of the -Royal Artillery has been one of distinction, and it may fitly be said to -share the honors of all other regiments. The Royal Irish Artillery were -absorbed in 1801, and the East India Company’s Artillery in 1858.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="p2 pfs100">BRITISH REGIMENTS AT TICONDEROGA, 1759.</p> - -<p class="pfs100">1st.</p> - -<p>1751-1812, The 1st, or The Royal Regiment of Foot, also the -“Royals.”</p> - -<p>1881 (from) The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment).</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61"></a>[61]</span></p> - -<p>Nickname—“Pontius Pilate’s Body-Guard.” It is a legend -of the Regiment that the Romans carried off a number of wild, -war-like Highlanders as prisoners after their conquest of Britain, -and these men and their descendants became soldiers of the Roman -Empire and as such they guarded the tomb of Our Saviour after -the crucifixion. This Scottish company, for it only consisted of -one hundred men under a centurion, was kept distinct from the -Roman Army proper. At the time of the crucifixion they were -called Pontius Pilate’s Scots Guards, and their descendants were -the nucleus of the First Royal Scots in later years.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Notes.—The oldest Regiment of Foot in the British Army. Traditionally -regarded as the ancient body-guard of the Scottish kings, this famous -corps was in the service of Sweden, as “Hepburn’s Regiment,” from 1625 -to 1633; and in that of France from 1633 to 1678, when (under Dumbarton) -it came to England. It received its title in 1684 in recognition of the capture -of a Colour from the Moors at Tangier. At Sedgemoor (1685) it also -captured the Duke of Monmouth’s Standard.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100">17th.</p> - -<p>1751-82, The 17th Regiment of Foot. Also “Forbes.”</p> - -<p>1881 (from) “The Leicestershire Regiment.”</p> - -<p>Nicknames—“The Bengal Tigers” (from its badge); “The -Lily-whites” (from its facings).</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Notes.—Mainly raised near London; twelve regiments in all were formed -in 1688, but this and the 16th (The Bedfordshire) are alone in commission -now.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100">27th.</p> - -<p>See above, <a href="#App_M">Ticonderoga, 1758</a>.</p> - - -<p class="pfs100">42nd.</p> - -<p>See above, <a href="#App_M">Ticonderoga, 1758</a>.</p> - - -<p class="pfs100">55th.</p> - -<p>See above, <a href="#App_M">Ticonderoga, 1758</a>.</p> - - -<p class="pfs100">77th.</p> - -<p>1756-63, The 77th (Montgomery Highlanders) Regiment; disbanded -1763.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62"></a>[62]</span></p> - - -<p class="pfs100">80th.</p> - -<p>See above, <a href="#App_M">Ticonderoga, 1758</a>.</p> - - -<p class="pfs100">Royal Artillery.</p> - -<p>See above, <a href="#App_M">Ticonderoga, 1758</a>.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_I">I</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">PROVINCIAL REGIMENTS AT TICONDEROGA.</p> - -<p>(The writer will have to admit that this list is more or less -incomplete, even the N. Y. State Library at Albany had only scattered -items. It would seem as if this would be a good subject for -an article for some future meeting of the Association and any -information will be gratefully received).</p> - - -<p class="pfs100">1758.</p> - -<p>The New York Colonial Manuscripts, edited by Callaghan, -page 732, in the list of regiments having officers wounded at the -battle of July 8, 1758, gives the following regiments: Col. DeLancey’s, -New York; Col. Babcock’s, Rhode Island; Col. Fitche’s, -Connecticut; Col. Worcester’s, Connecticut; Col. Bagley’s, Massachusetts; -Col. Partridge’s, Massachusetts; Col. Preble’s, Massachusetts; -Col. Johnston’s, New Jersey. <ins class="corr" id="tn-62" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Parkmen mentions'"> -Parkman mentions</ins> Col. Bradstreet -with his regiment of boatmen, armed and drilled as soldiers -and it is also certain that Roger’s Rangers were with the expedition.</p> - -<p>The year book of the Maine Chapter of the Society of Colonial -Wars for 1900 gives much information in regard to Col. Preble’s -regiment, Maine being in 1758 a part of Massachusetts. Mention -is made in this article of regiments officered by “Col. Doty, Col. -Joseph Williams, Col. Nickols, Col. Whitings.”</p> - -<p>Also in the New York Colonial Manuscripts, Vol. 10, P. 827 -it mentions a force of about 3,000 men nearly all of whom were -provincials, under Col. Bradstreet, in the expedition against Fort -Frontinac after the battle of July 8, 1758, and of the number of -soldiers engaged, the list is given as “New Yorkers 1112, Col.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63"></a>[63]</span> -Williams’ regiment 413, Col. Douty’s 248, Rhode Island 318, and -Jersey 418.”</p> - -<p>It is not clear whether these regiments were at the battle of -Ticonderoga and were not mentioned in list page 732 of the New -York Colonial Manuscripts because none of the officers were -wounded, or whether they were the same regiments but with -different officers, a change having been made after the battle.</p> - - -<p class="pfs100">1759</p> - -<p>The provincial regiments mentioned in Commissary Wilson’s -Orderly Book as being in the Ticonderoga expedition of 1759 are -as follows: Col. Lyman’s, Connecticut; Col. Whiting’s, Connecticut; -Col. Worcester’s, Connecticut; Col. Fitch’s, Connecticut; Col. -Willard’s, Massachusetts; Col. Ruggle’s, Massachusetts; Col. -Lovell’s, New Hampshire; Col. Schuyler’s, New Jersey; Col. Babcock’s, -Rhode Island.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_J">J</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF AS MANY OF THE -OFFICERS OF 1758 AS COULD BE TRACED.</p> - -<p class="pfs100"><em>James Abercrombie.</em></p> - -<p>James Abercrombie was promoted to a captaincy in the 42nd -or 1st Battalion of the Royal Highlanders on the 16th of February, -1756. On the 5th of May, 1759, he was appointed <span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr"><ins class="corr" id="tn-63" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'aid de camp'"> -aide de camp</ins></span> -to Maj. Gen. Amherst, with whom he made the campaigns of -that and the following year. On the 25th of July, 1760, he was -appointed Major of the 78th or Fraser’s Highlanders and in -September following was employed by Gen. Amherst in communicating -to the Marquis de Vaudreuil the conditions preparatory to -the surrender of Montreal and in obtaining the signature of that -governor to them. (Knox’s Journal). The 78th having been disbanded -in 1763, Major Abercrombie retired on half pay. On the -27th of March, 1770, he again entered active service as Lt. Colonel -of the 22nd Regiment then serving in America under the command<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64"></a>[64]</span> -of Lt. Col. Gage and was killed in the memorable Battle of Bunker -Hill on the 17th of June, 1775.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>New York Colonial Manuscripts by Broadhead, Weed, Parsons Co., -Albany, 1856, page 160.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Hugh Arnot.</em></p> - -<p>Hugh Arnot was taken from the half pay list and appointed a -Lieutenant in the 42nd Highlanders, 9th April, 1756, at the -augmentation of that Regiment on its coming to America, and was -promoted to a Company on the 27th December, 1757. He served -in the unfortunate affair of Ticonderoga in 1758, and in 1759 -accompanied Amherst as above. On the 16th August, 1760, he -exchanged into the 46th Foot, in which Regiment he continued to -serve until 1769, when his name was dropped from the Army List.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Wilson’s Orderly Book, p. 143.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Patrick Balneaves.</em></p> - -<p>Patrick Balneaves, of Edradour, entered the 42nd, as Ensign, -28th January, 1756, and was promoted to be Lieutenant 1st April, -1758; he was wounded at Ticonderoga, 1758; and again at Martinico -in 1762; became Captain-Lieutenant 23rd August, 1763, and left -the army in 1770.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Stewart. Army Lists. N. Y. Colonial Manuscripts, p. 729, Vol. 10.</p> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp57" id="i064" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i064.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption">AT TICONDEROGA<br /> -Tablet on Boulder near French Lines at Fort Ticonderoga<br /> -Tablet in Black Watch Memorial at Ticonderoga</div> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Allan Campbell.</em></p> - -<p>Allan Campbell, son of Barcaldine, entered the Army as -Ensign of the 43d (now the 42nd) Highlanders, Dec. 25, 1744, and -served that year against the Pretender. Was made prisoner of war -at Preston Pans, 21st Sept. 1745 and sent on parole to Perth. Was -appointed lieutenant Dec. 1, 1746. He obtained a Company 13th -of May, 1755, and the next year came to America, where he shared -the difficulties and honors of the Regiment. In June, 1759, he was -appointed Major for the campaign under Amherst, and was actively -employed at the Head of the Grenadiers and Rangers, clearing the -way for the army up the Lakes. He became major in the army -15th August, 1762, and went on half-pay on the reduction of the -regiment in 1763, having obtained a grant of 5,000 acres of land at -Crown Point. He served 19 years in the regiment. In 1770, he -was appointed Major of the 36th or Herefordshire Foot, then<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_65"></a>[65]</span> -serving in Jamaica; became Lieutenant-Colonel in the army in May -(1772), and of his regiment in January, 1778; Colonel in the Army, -17th Nov. 1780; Major-General in 1787; and died 1795. His -Regiment did not serve in America during the Revolutionary War.</p> - -<p>An extract from his will dated 2nd March 1787, reads:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“And whereas I am under a grant from the Crown intitled to a considerable -tract of land and heredits situate, lying and being in the -Province of New York in the County of Albany in America, -between Ticonderoga and Crown Point. <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> I do hereby give, devise -and bequeath unto my two sisters, Isabella Campbell, (wife of John -C. of Archalader, in the Shire of Perth, in North Britain, aforesaid -Esquire), and Jane Campbell of Edinchip, in the Shire of Perth, -aforesaid, widow of Colin Campbell of Edinchip, aforesaid, Esq. -deceased, their heirs, executors, Administrates, and Assigns, all my -said track of land and heredits, in America,” etc.</p> -</div> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Browne, IV, 150.</p> - -<p>Knox Journal, I, 373, 377, 387; II, 401.</p> - -<p>Army List. Commissionary Wilson’s Orderly Book. 1759. p. 18. Stewart -of Garth Appendix.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Archibald Campbell.</em></p> - -<p>Archibald Campbell. Born 1720. Eldest son of Duncan -Campbell of Glendaruel and Lockhead. His mother was Elizabeth, -daughter of the Rev. Archibald Campbell of Inverary. He was -appointed Ensign 42d Regt. 23d Jan. 1756, Lieut. 28th July 1757, -Captain 4th Dec. 1759. Died 3d June 1762.</p> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Donald Campbell.</em></p> - -<p>Donald Campbell, son of Donald Campbell Bailie of McKairn, -Taynuilt Argyll, was appointed Ensign in the 42d Regt. of Foot, -5th May 1756. He was with one of the additional companies in -the “Anandall” which sprang two leaks, lost her mizen mast, was -attacked three times by Privateers (which they beat off with small -arms), and was driven into the West Indies, so that she did -not arrive in New York, in time for the company to join the attack -on Ticonderoga. He was appointed Lieut. 24th July 1758 and -retired 13th June 1761, having served with the Royal Highlanders -from 1758 to 1761.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Highlanders in America by MacLean, page 176, N. Y. Colonial Documents, -page 629.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_66"></a>[66]</span></p> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Duncan Campbell (Killochronan, <ins class="corr" id="tn-66" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Island of Mall'"> -Island of Mull</ins>).</em></p> - -<p>Extract from the Memorial of Captain Duncan Campbell, -American Loyalist Claims.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“Humbly Sheweth, that he was a native of Great Britain and -he was appointed Ensign in the 42nd Highlanders 26 January -1756, in which Corps he served the war before last in America -and the West Indies. And in August 1763 the Regiment was -ordered on an expedition to the relief of Fort Pitt, then invested -by the savages.</p> - -<p>On the march he was severely wounded at the battle of Bushy -Run, and for a long time rendered unfit for service. (In this -skirmishing warfare the troops suffered much from the want of -water and the extreme heat of the weather) which occasioned his -retiring on half pay in 1764.</p> - -<p>He soon thereafter settled at Fredricksburg, Dutchess Co. in -the Prov. of New York (in 1769) and purchased a valuable track -of land from Colonel Beverly Robinson and others on good terms. -In 1775 he was Colonel of Militia and Magistrate for the said -county.</p> - -<p>That at the commencement of the troubles he took an early -and decided part in favor of His Majesty’s government, which -rendered him so obnoxious to the popular party where he dwelt -that he was obliged to fly to New York, to save his life, from the -family and abandon his property in June 1775. That soon after -his arrival there he engaged as an officer in the 2nd Battalion -Highland Emigrant’s in which he continued doing duty until the -cessation of hostilities, and consequent reduction of the Regiment -in Nova Scotia, in which Province he now dwells. (2 <ins class="corr" id="tn-66a" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Jannary 1784'"> -January 1784</ins>).</p> - -<p>That early in June 1775 he got on board the Asia ship of war -(64 gun frigate) then stationed in New York and soon after was -joined by some recruits he had engaged to follow him. In July -thereafter he went to Boston where Gen. Gage then Commander-in-Chief, -gave him command of an armed transport in which he -returned to New York where he enlisted and received on board -about 60 more recruits. That in September he returned again to -Boston where he left all his recruits except 26 which were left on -board as Marines, on the 8 October he was sent back on the same -service. But on the 16 of the same month was unfortunately shipwrecked -on the coast of New Jersey.</p> - -<p>On this service he lost all his money and baggage to the -amount of £100. This loss His Excellency Sir William Howe, then -Commander-in-Chief, would not think of reimbursing at the time.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_67"></a>[67]</span> -In consequence of the shipwreck he and his party had the misfortune -to be made prisoners and was carried to Philadelphia where -he was fourteen months in a small apartment of <ins class="corr" id="tn-67" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'the dismal goal'"> -the dismal gaol</ins> -where he contracted a sickness which was likely to prove fatal to -him.</p> - -<p>How soon he was taken his family were turned out of doors -and deprived of everything they had except some wearing apparell. -The distressed situation of the family so driven from their home -may be easier felt than described. It brought on for a beginning -the untimely death of an amiable wife, and deprived his five infant -children of a mother’s care whereby they for some time became -objects of compassion which he was unable to rescue them from. -Until he was exchanged and joined his Regiment (in January 1777) -he thereafter continued to serve during the war.</p> - -<p>N. B. The Memorialist was appointed Second Oldest Captain -in the 2nd Batt. 84th Regiment the 14 June 1775 and was reduced -in October 1783 without a step of preferment in the Regt. or in the -Line.</p> - -<p>Captain 4th Breadalbane Regt. of Fencibles 2nd Batt. 1 March -1793; Major 17 Feb. 1794; Lieut. Col. 9 Dec. 1795; Regiment disbanded -18 April 1799. He died at Edinburgh in Dec. 1799.”</p> -</div> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Major Sir Duncan Campbell of Barcaldine, Bart. C. V. O.</p> - -<p>Stewart, I, 279; II, Appendix No. 11.</p> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i066" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i066.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption">AT FORT TICONDEROGA<br /> - -<table class="autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Officers Quarters or West Barracks</td> -<td class="tdl pad5">The Block House, summer residence of Howland Pell</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl"></td> -<td class="tdl pad5">A reproduction of the Germain redoubt</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdl">Two views from same point showing before and after restoration</td> -<td class="tdl pad5">The Pavilion, summer residence of S. H. Pell. Built in 1826 by William F. Pell, Esq</td> -</tr> -</table> - -</div> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>John Campbell of Duneavis.</em></p> - -<p>John Campbell, of Duneaves, Perthshire, was originally a -private in the Black Watch. In 1743, he was presented, with -Gregor McGregor, to George II, as a specimen of the Highland -soldier and performed at St. James the broadsword exercise and that -of the Lochaber axe, before his Majesty and a number of General -officers. Each got a gratuity of a guinea, which they gave to the -porter at the gate of the palace as they passed out. Mr. Campbell -obtained an Ensigncy in 1745 for his bravery at the battle of -Fontenoy; was promoted to be Captain-Lieutenant, 16th February, -1756, and landed in New York the following June. He was among -the few resolute men who forced their way into the work at -Ticonderoga, on the 8th of July, where he was killed.</p> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>John Campbell of Glendaruel.</em></p> - -<p>John Campbell of Glendaruel, born in 1721, was appointed -Ensign of the 42nd Regt. of Foot 25th Sept., 1745; Lieutenant 16th<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_68"></a>[68]</span> -May, 1748; Captain Lieut. 2nd July 1759; and Captain 20th July -1760; Captain 27th or Inniskilling Regiment of Foot 25th March -1762; Major Supt. of Indian Affairs in the Province of Quebec 2nd -July, 1773; Lieut. Col. of Indian Affairs 29th August 1777; and -Colonel 16th Nov. 1790.</p> - -<p>He married Marianna St. Lucan (date not given) and died -Montreal, 23rd June 1795.</p> - -<p>“In the course of a long and meritorious service with his -Regiment, the 42nd Highlanders, in all its campaigns from the -Rebellion in 1745 to the attack on Ticonderoga, where he was -wounded on the 8th July, 1758, and the conquest of Canada, Martinique, -and Havanna. He subsequently served in the expedition -commanded by General Burgoyne, at the head of a number of -Indians, and was distinguished for his spirited conduct as an officer, -adorned by that elegance and politeness which mark the accomplished -gentleman and his virtues in private life endeared him to -his family and companions.</p> - -<p>His remains were attended to the grave in a manner suitable -to his rank. Not only by a very numerous assembly of citizens -of all ranks, but by a large body of Indian warriors, whose very -decent behavior evinced the sincerity with which they partook of -the universal regret occasioned by the loss of so very respectable -a member of society.”</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Major Sir Duncan Campbell of Barcaldine, Bart. C. V. O.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>John Campbell of Strachur.</em></p> - -<p>John Campbell of Strachur, in the Highlands of Scotland, -entered the Army in June, 1745, as Lieutenant of Loudon’s Highlanders; -served through the Scotch Rebellion; made the Campaign -in Flanders, 1747, and was promoted to a company on the 1st -October of that year. At the peace of 1748, he went on Half-Pay -and so remained until the 9th April, 1756, when he was appointed -to the 42nd Highlanders previous to the embarcation of that Regiment -for America. He was wounded in the attack on Ticonderoga -in 1758, and was appointed by General Amherst Major of the -17th Foot on the 11th July, 1759; was promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonel<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_69"></a>[69]</span> -in the Army, 1st February, 1762 and commanded his Regiment -in the expedition that year against Martinico and Havana. -On the 1st May, 1773, he became Lieutenant-Colonel of the 57th -or West Middlesex Foot, returned to America in 1776 with his -Regiment at the breaking out of the Revolution; was appointed -Maj. General 19th February, 1779, Colonel of his Regiment 2d -November, 1780, and commanded the British Forces in West -Florida, where after a gallant though ineffectual defence he was -obliged to surrender Pensacola to the Spaniards 10th May, 1781. -He became Lieutenant-General 28th September, 1787; General in -the Army, 26th January, 1797, and died in the fore part of 1806.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Brown, IV., 155, 159.</p> - -<p>Stewart’s Sketches of the Highlanders, I, 295, 306, 359, 370; II, 5, app. -iii; Knox Journal, I, 373; II, 401; Beatson’s Naval and Mil. Mem. V, 50, 226-233; -VI, 274-280; Army Lists. Wilson’s Orderly Book, page 94.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Moses Campbell.</em></p> - -<p>A native of Scotland, joined the 42nd Regt. and was promoted -Sergeant.</p> - -<p>Served with this Regiment throughout the war of French and -Indians in America of 1756-63, discharged at the reduction, and -settled with his family on a portion of Maj. Allan Campbell’s -(same Regt.) grant of land, situated on the south (bank) side of -Lake Champlain, between Crown Point (about 5 miles above the -point) and Ticonderoga.</p> - -<p>Also served (possibly in the Royal Highland Emigrants, bounty -50s rendezvous Lake Champlain, 1775) in the War of Independence -of 1775, (for which his property was confiscated, including boats.)</p> - -<p>He died in active (British) service on the 18th Feb. 1781.</p> - -<p>His widow, Elizabeth, and seven children claimed 366 pounds -for losses, allowed 80 pounds.</p> - -<p>N. B. On behalf of her son, Alexander, (aged 21 years), 50 -pounds, who complained that one of the rebels was now living in -his house, Feb. 1783.</p> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Gordon Graham.</em></p> - -<p>Gordon Graham of Drainie in the Highlands of Scotland, was -appointed ensign in the 43rd Highlanders in Oct. 25, 1739, and was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_70"></a>[70]</span> -made lieutenant June 24, 1743. He served in Flanders and shared -in the defeat at Fontenoy in 1745, after which the Regiment -returned home. In 1747 he made another campaign in Flanders. -On August 7, 1747, he was appointed captain. In 1749 the number -of the regiment was changed to the 42d and Mr. Graham obtained -a company in it 3d June, 1752, came to America in 1756, was at -the surrender of Fort William Henry under Colonel Munro in -1757, and was wounded at Ticonderoga in 1758. The Major of -the Regiment having been killed on that occasion Captain Graham -succeeded to the vacancy, July 17th, 1758, and made the campaign -of 1759 and 1760 under Amherst. He next served in the West -Indies in the expedition against Martinique and July 9, 1762, -became Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment, which returned to New -York, and in the year 1763, proceeded to the relief of Fort Pitt, -defeating the Indians on the way in the Battle of Bushy Run. In -December, 1770, he retired after 31 years of service in the Regiment. -As his name does not appear in the army list of 1771 it is presumed -that he died at this time.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Brown’s Highland Clans IV, 139, 159. Beatson’s Naval and Mil. Mem. -II, 530. Wilson’s Orderly Book, p. 14.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>John Graham.</em></p> - -<p>John Graham was the brother of Thomas; entered the 42nd -regiment as Ensign and was promoted to a Lieutenancy 25th -January, 1776; was wounded at Ticonderoga 1758; became Captain -in February, 1762, and was again wounded at Bushy Run in 1763; -shortly after which his company having been disbanded, he went -on half pay. He rejoined the regiment 25th December, 1765, and -is dropped in 1772, having attained the rank of field officer.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Stewart I, 359, Army Lists. N. Y. Col. Manuscripts, p. 729, Vol. 10.</p> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i070" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i070.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption">Grave of Jane McCrea, Union Cemetery, between Hudson Falls and Fort Edward -Major Duncan Campbell is now buried in this lot.</div> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Thomas Graham.</em></p> - -<p>Thomas Graham, or Graeme, of Duchay, entered the 43rd, or -Black Watch, as Ensign June 30, 1741; was promoted to a Lieutenancy -August 6, 1746, and obtained a company February 15, -1756, shortly before the regiment, then the 42nd, came to America. -He served in the several Campaigns on the northern lakes; was<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_71"></a>[71]</span> -wounded at Ticonderoga in 1758; was again wounded at the battle -of Bushy Run, near Pittsburg, in 1763; served in the subsequent -campaigns against the Indians, and embarked for Ireland in 1767. -He succeeded Major Reid 31st March, 1770, and became Lieutenant-Colonel -12th December following. He retired from the army -December, 1771, after 30 years of service.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Army Lists. Stewart. N. Y. Colonial Manuscripts, p. 729, Vol. 10.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Francis Grant.</em></p> - -<p>Francis Grant, son of the Laird of Grant, and brother of Sir -Ludovick Grant, of Grant, Scotland, was received from half-pay -in Loudon’s Regiment and was made ensign in the Black Watch -Oct. 25, 1739. Nov. 5, 1739, he was made lieutenant; June 18, -1743, captain; and Oct. 3, 1745, he became major. A vacancy -occurring in the lieutenant-colonelcy, in December, 1755, the men -of the Regiment subscribed a sum of money among themselves to -purchase the step for him, but it was not required; he had already -obtained his promotion. He accompanied the Regiment to America -in 1756 and was present at the bloody battle of Ticonderoga, July -8, 1758, where he was wounded. In the following year he accompanied -Amherst on his expedition, and in 1760 was in command -of the van of the Army from Oswego to Montreal. In 1761 he -commanded the Army sent to the south to chastise the Cherokees. -He served as Brigadier-General in the expedition against Martinico -in 1762, and on the 19th of February of that year became colonel -in the army. On July 9, 1762, after twenty-three years of service -in the Black Watch Regiment, he was removed and appointed to -the command of the 90th Light Infantry. In August, 1762, he -commanded the 4th Brigade at the siege of Havana and went on -half pay at the peace of 1763. In November, 1768, he became colonel -of the 63rd; Major-General in 1770; and Lieutenant-General in -1777. He died at the beginning of 1782 (Army Lists).</p> - -<p>Lieut.-Gen. Grant’s daughter was married to the Hon. and Rt. -Rev. George Murray, fourth son of the Duke of Athol, and Bishop -of St. David’s.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Brown’s Highland Clans, IV, 155.</p> - -<p>Knox’s Journal, II, 404, 410, 465.</p> - -<p>Beatson N. and M., Mem. III, 363, 359.</p> - -<p>Debrett’s Peerage. Wilson’s Orderly Book, p. 3.</p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_72"></a>[72]</span></p> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>James Grant.</em></p> - -<p>James Grant, appointed Ensign, Nov. 20, 1746; Lieutenant, -Jan. 22, 1756; Captain, Dec. 26, 1760; removed Aug. 13, 1762, -after 16 years of service in the Regiment and was made Fort-Major -Limerick. Died in 1778. He was wounded at Ticonderoga.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Stewart of Garth, Appendix.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>William Grant.</em></p> - -<p>William Grant, appointed Ensign, Oct. 1, 1745; Lieutenant, -May 22, 1746; Captain, July 23, 1758; Major, Dec. 5, 1777; retired -August, 1778, after 33 years of service with rank of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel. -He was wounded at the battle of Ticonderoga.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Stewart of Garth, Appendix.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>James Gray.</em></p> - -<p>James Gray was taken from the Half-pay list and appointed -Lieutenant in the 42nd Royal Highlanders 30th January, 1756. -His name is omitted in the Army List of 1765.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Stewart’s Highlanders. Wilson’s Orderly Book, page 83.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Robert Gray.</em></p> - -<p>Robert Gray, appointed Ensign, June 6, 1745; Lieutenant, June -9, 1747; Captain, July 22, 1758. He was wounded at Ticonderoga. -Aug. 2, 1759, after 14 years of service in the Regiment, he was -promoted to the 55th Regiment. He died in 1771 with rank of -Lieut.-Colonel.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Stewart of Garth, Appendix.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Alexander McIntosh.</em></p> - -<p>Alexander McIntosh was taken from half pay in 1756 and -appointed Lieutenant in the 42nd. He was wounded at Ticonderoga, -1758, and again at Martinico in 1762, and was promoted to a -company 24th July of the same year. He went on half pay in 1763 -and was not again called on active service until 25th December,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_73"></a>[73]</span> -1770, when he was appointed to the 10th regiment then serving in -America. Captain McIntosh was killed at the storming of Fort -Washington, 16th November, 1776.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Army Lists. Beatson’s Naval and Military Memoirs. N. Y. Colonial -Manuscripts, p. 729, Vol. 10.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Norman McLeod.</em></p> - -<p>Norman McLeod entered the army as ensign of the 42d January -1756, and was promoted to Lieutenancy in the 69th in June 1761. -At the peace of 1763 he elected to remain in this country and -received 3,000 acres of land and retired on half pay. Sometime -later he was appointed Commissioner at Niagara under Sir William -Johnson. At the breaking out of the War of the Revolution he -offered his services to Governor Martin of North Carolina. Later -he was captured and was a prisoner for about five years.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Wm. M. McBean, Secy. St. Andrew’s Society of the State of New York.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>John MacNeil.</em></p> - -<p>John MacNeil was appointed ensign, Aug. 6, 1742, Lieutenant -Oct. 10, 1745; Captain, Dec. 16, 1752; Major, July 9, 1762. He -died at the siege of Havana in 1762 after 20 years of service in the -Regiment.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Stewart of Garth, Appendix.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>David Milne.</em></p> - -<p>David Mill, or Milne, received a commission as Lieutenant in -this Corps 19th July, 1757; was wounded at Ticonderoga in 1758, -and again at Martinique in 1762; retired from the army at the -peace of 1763.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>N. Y. Colonial Manuscripts, p. 729, Vol. 10.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>James Murray.</em></p> - -<p>James Murray, second son of Lord George Murray, by his -marriage with Amelia Murray, heiress of Strowan and Glencarse, -and grandson of the first Duke of Atholl, was born at Tullibardine<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_74"></a>[74]</span> -on the 19th of March, 1734, and it is interesting to know that Lord -John Murray, who was destined in after years to be his colonel, -was called upon to be his godfather. A commission as Lieutenant -in the Saxon Grenadier Guards was obtained for him in 1749, and -he joined his regiment in 1751. He served against the forces of -Frederick the Great until the Saxon Army capitulated at Pirna on -the Elbe in October, 1756. He was released on parole and returned -to Scotland in 1757 and on the nomination of his uncle, James -Duke of Atholl, was given a captain’s commission in the Black -Watch and was placed in command of one of the three additional -companies then being raised for service in America. He reached -New York in April, 1758, and commanded Captain Reid’s company -in the unsuccessful attack on Ticonderoga—his own company having -been left in garrison at Fort Edward. He was wounded but -was soon able to return to duty and took part in the successful -expedition of 1759 to Lake Champlain. Toward the close of that -year he was given command—by Lord John Murray’s desire—of -the Grenadier Company of the newly-raised 2nd Battalion, and -with this battalion he served in the advance on Montreal in 1760 -and in the capture of Martinique in 1762. He was wounded here -and invalided home and was on sick leave for more than six years. -He rejoined the Black Watch in 1768 and in 1769 was appointed -Captain-lieutenant in the 3rd Foot Guards, obtaining his promotion -as Captain and Lieutenant-colonel the following year. In 1772 he -was elected member of Parliament for Perthshire, a position which -he held for twenty-two years. He was appointed Governor of -Upnor Castle in 1775 and Fort William in 1780, but these were -merely nominal posts and did not interfere with his other duties. -In 1776 he bought Strowan (originally the property of his mother), -from his nephew, the fourth Duke of Atholl.</p> - -<p>On the outbreak of the War of Independence, Col. Murray -offered to raise a regiment of Highlanders for service in America, -but this offer was refused, and in March, 1777, he was sent out to -join the brigade of Guards under General Howe in New Jersey. -He was with Lord Cornwallis at Quibbletown and presumably took -part in the actions at Brandywine and Germantown in 1777. He -spent the following winter in quarters at Philadelphia, and left -America in the summer of 1778 and joined the Atholl Highlanders<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_75"></a>[75]</span> -in Ireland in September of that year, of which regiment he was -given the command. This regiment remained in Ireland during -the war, at the conclusion of which it was disbanded. James -Murray was appointed Lieutenant-colonel-commandant of the 78th -Highlanders in 1783, but as he was already a general officer he -never did any duty with this regiment. After 1783 General -Murray resided a good deal at Strowan; in 1786 he was promoted -full Colonel of the 78th (by that time the 72nd), and in 1793 he was -made Lieutenant-general. In March, 1794, he felt himself obliged -to resign his seat in Parliament owing to ill health and a few days -later—on the 19th of March—he died in London and was buried -in St. Margaret’s, Westminster.</p> - -<p>Of Lord George Murray’s three sons, General James seems to -have been the one who most resembled his father. He had inherited -the Jacobite General’s sympathetic knowledge of Highland character, -something of his pride, and the same affectionate disposition. -And that he had at least a share of his father’s determination, -and presence of mind is shown by two anecdotes which have -been handed down with regard to him. One of these refers to his -earlier days, and is to the effect that, having been attacked by a -highwayman one night that he was driving over a heath near -London, he leant out of the window of the chaise, “groped in the -dark for the ears of his assailant’s horse,” and with the brief but -expressive exclamation. “Thereut’s-” fired a shot which ended the -highwayman’s career. The other relates that during the Gordon -Riots of 1780 Colonel James Murray was seated next Lord George -Gordon in the House of Commons at the very moment at which the -mob threatened to break into the House. Colonel Murray with a -soldier’s instinct drew his sword, pointed it at Lord George, and -notwithstanding that he was his cousin, declared his intention of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_76"></a>[76]</span> -running him through the body if a single one of the rioters should -enter. His promptness saved the situation, but he had committed -a breach of the privileges of the House and was ordered to apologize -on bended knee to the Speaker. Colonel Murray made the required -amende, but on rising from his knee took out his handkerchief and -dusted it, remarking, “Damned Dirty House this; sooner it’s cleaned -out the better.”</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Army Lists: Brown’s Highl. Clans, IV, 159, 300, 304, 306. Wilson’s -Orderly Book, p. 67. Military History of Perthshire, p. 411-413.</p> - -<hr class="r20a" /> - -<p>Stewart of Garth gives the following in regard to General Murray’s -wound, received at the capture of Martinique; (page 126, Vol. 10.)</p> - -<p>“The musket ball entered his left side, under the lower rib, passed up -through the left lobe of the lung, (as ascertained after his death) crossed -his chest, and mounting up to his right shoulder, lodged under the scapula. -His case being considered desperate, the only object of the surgeon was -to make his situation as easy as possible for, the few hours they supposed -he had to live; but, to the great surprise of all, he was on his legs in a -few weeks, and, before he reached England, was quite recovered, or at -least his health and appetite were restored. He was never afterwards, -however, able to lie down; and during the thirty-two years of his subsequent -life, he slept in an upright posture, supported in his bed by pillows.”</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Lord John Murray.</em></p> - -<p>Lord John Murray, born on the 14th of April, 1711, was the -eldest son of John, first Duke of Atholl, by his second wife, the -Hon. Mary Ross, and half-brother to John, Marquess of Tullibardine, -and Lord George Murray. He became an ensign in the 3rd -Foot Guards (now the Scots Guards) in 1727, and a captain in the -same regiment in 1738. Immediately after the mutiny of the -regiment in 1743 he applied for the colonelcy in the 42nd or Black -Watch, but he did not obtain the appointment he so greatly desired -until two years later. In July, 1743, he was appointed first aide-de-camp -to George II and was in attendance on the King in -Germany at the close of the Dettingen campaign, but returned to -England without having taken part in any engagements. In April -1745, when at last gazetted colonel of the Black Watch, he -proceeded to join his regiment in Flanders, but arrived too late -for Fontenoy. He distinguished himself, however, during the -subsequent retreat of the British army to Brussels, by his defence of -a pass which the French attacked by night. For this service he was -publicly thanked by the Duke of Cumberland. In 1745 he returned -home with his regiment but in 1747 he was in the Netherlands -taking part in the attempted relief of Hulst. After the surrender -of the town by the Dutch Governor, Lord John commanded the rear-guard -in the retreat to Welsharden, and shortly afterwards, having -been ordered to take part in the defence of Bergen-op-Zoom, he -was placed in command of the British troops in the lines there. At -the close of operations he received a message of approbation from -the King.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp54" id="i076" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i076.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="right">From “A Military History of Perthshire”</p> -Lord John Murray, Colonel the Black Watch, 1745 to 1787</div> -</div> - -<p>In 1755 he was promoted major-general, and in 1758 lieutenant-general, -but although he offered his services more than once, -he was not employed abroad during the Seven Years’ War. He -took the keenest interest, however, in all the exploits of his regiment<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_77"></a>[77]</span> -and worked hard to raise a second battalion in 1758. Stewart -of Garth tells us that when the men who had been disabled at -Ticonderoga appeared before the Board of Chelsea to claim their -pensions, Lord John went with them and explained their case in -such a manner to the commissioners that they were all successful. -He gave them money, got them a free passage to Perth, and -offered a house and garden to all who chose to settle on his estate. -General Stewart also describes how, when the 42nd at last returned -from America in 1767, Lord John, who had been for weeks at Cork -awaiting its arrival, marched into that town at its head.</p> - -<p>Lord John was a great deal with the regiment while it was -quartered in Ireland, and, according to Stewart of Garth, was -“ever attentive to the interest of the officers and vigilant that -their promotion should not be interrupted by ministerial or other -influence.” He was also “unremitting in his exertions to procure -the appointment of good officers, and of officers who understood -perfectly the peculiar dispositions and character of the men.” For -this reason he strenuously endeavored to exclude all but the members -of Scots—and more especially Highland—families. He was -equally particular that only Gaelic-speaking men and Protestants -should be recruited for the ranks.</p> - -<p>In spite of his military duties Lord John resided a good deal -in the country—and not only at the home of his boyhood—for -early in life he bought Pitnacree in Strathtay, and in later years -he had also a house in Perth. He represented Perthshire in Parliament -from 1734 to 1761. In 1758 he married Miss Dalton of -Bannercross—a Derbyshire heiress, by whom he had one daughter. -In 1770 he became a full general. His last military achievement -was the raising in 1779 and 1780 (at his own expense) of another -second battalion to the 42nd. This battalion so distinguished itself -in India that in 1786 it was placed permanently on the establishment -under the title of the 73rd Regiment. The veteran to whose -patriotism it owed its existence died on the 26th day of May, 1787, -at the age of seventy-six, the senior officer in the Army.</p> - -<p>Lord John made the most of such chances as occurred of -distinguishing himself in the field, but those opportunities were -small for he never served in any war but the Austrian Succession.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_78"></a>[78]</span> -It is therefore as the Colonel of the Black Watch that his name has -survived—as a man who understood the Highland soldiers well -enough to wish to command them at a time when to many that -might have seemed a task of great difficulty—and who, having at -last obtained the post he desired, completely identified himself -with the interests of his men, and for upwards of half a century -was the “friend and supporter of every deserving officer and soldier -in the regiment.”</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Military History of Perthshire, page 382-384.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>John Reid.</em></p> - -<p>John Reid was the eldest son of Alexander Robertson of -Straloch, but the head of the family had always been known as -“Baron Reid” and the General and his younger brother, Alexander -(who was an officer in the 42nd), adopted the more distinctive -surname early in life. He was born at Inverchroskie in Strathardle, -on the 13th of February, 1721, and received his early education -at Perth. Being destined for the law, he was afterwards sent to -Edinburgh University. Nature, however, had intended him for a -soldier, and in June, 1745, having recruited the necessary quota -of men, he obtained a commission as lieutenant in Loudon’s -Highlanders. He was taken prisoner at Prestonpans the following -September, but when released the following spring he rejoined his -regiment and was able to render important service to the Government. -From 1747 to 1748 he served in Flanders with Loudon’s -Highlanders and took part in the defence of Bergen-op-Zoom, but -on the reduction of his regiment at the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle he -was placed on half-pay. In 1751 he bought a captain-lieutenant’s -commission in the Black Watch and in 1752 a commission as -captain in the same regiment. Four years later on the outbreak of -the war with France, he sailed with his regiment to America. He -was not present at the first attack on Ticonderoga as he had been -left behind sick at Albany, and his company was commanded in -that desperate engagement by Captain James Murray. In 1759, -Reid, by that time a major, took part in the second advance to -Lake Champlain, which resulted in the surrender of Forts Ticonderoga -and Crown Point; and on him devolved the command of -the 42nd during the greater part of the campaign of 1760 which<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_79"></a>[79]</span> -ended with the capture of Montreal and the expulsion of the French -from Canada.</p> - -<p>Reid remained in America with the 42nd until Dec., 1761, -when he accompanied it to the West Indies. He served in the -capture of Martinique and at the storming of Morne Tortenson, -on Jan. 24, 1762, was in command of the 1st Battalion of his -regiment. His battalion suffered heavy loss and he was wounded -in two places, but recovered in time to take part in the expedition -against Havana of that same year. After the surrender of Cuba -he returned to America. In 1764 Reid acted as second-in-command -of Colonel Bouquet’s arduous but successful expedition against the -Indians on the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers. In the following year -we hear of him fitting out an expedition which was to be sent to -the Illinois country under the command of Captain Thomas Stirling -of the 42nd.</p> - -<p>About 1760, Reid married an American lady of Scots descent, -Susanna Alexander, daughter of James Alexander, surveyor-general -of New York and New Jersey. She owned property on Otter -Creek in what is now the State of Vermont, which was added to -and improved by her husband with the result that at the end of -ten years Reid owned “about thirty-five thousand acres of very -valuable land” near Crown Point and had “obtained from the -Governor and Council of New York a warrant of survey for fifteen -thousand more,” which he intended to “erect” into a manor.</p> - -<p>In 1767 the Royal Highland Regiment left America for Ireland -and Reid presumably accompanied it. In 1770 Reid retired on -half-pay, intending no doubt to settle down to the enjoyment and -improvement of his American estates. However, in 1772 his -tenants were expelled by the people of Bennington “on the pretence -of having claim to that country under the Government of New -Hampshire, notwithstanding that the King in Council had, ten -years before, decreed Connecticut River to be the Eastern Boundary -of New York.” In 1775 war broke out with the American colonists, -and though his case finally came before the Commissioners for -American Claims, the only compensation awarded him was a trifling -allowance for mills he had erected and for fees he had paid for -surveys. In May, 1778 his father’s estate, Straloch, passed under<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_80"></a>[80]</span> -the hammer as he was unable to pay the mortgages and his son -could give him no help.</p> - -<p>Notwithstanding that he was a comparatively poor man, in -1779-1780 Reid raised at his own expense a regiment of foot, of -which he was appointed colonel. This was called the 95th and was -disbanded in 1783. In 1781 Reid was promoted major-general, and -in 1793 a lieutenant-general. He was appointed colonel of the 88th -Regiment (Connaught Rangers) in November, 1794, and became a -general in 1798. In 1803, when an invasion was hourly expected, -Reid, in response to an order that all general officers not employed -on the staff should transmit their addresses to the Adjutant-General, -wrote that though in the eighty-second years of his age “and -very deaf and infirm,” he was still ready to use his feeble arm in -defence of his country. He died in the Haymarket on the 6th of -February, 1807, and was buried in St. Margaret’s, Westminster.</p> - -<p>The General would probably have had but little property to -dispose of at his death, had he not in 1796 succeeded to a valuable -estate of some four or five thousand acres in Nova Scotia, which -was left to him by his cousin, Gen. John Small, “as a mark of ... -respect ... and attachment to the preservation of his name and -representation for succeeding ages.” Reid’s daughter had made a -marriage of which he disapproved, she had no children, and his -only brother had died in 1762 during the siege of Havana. It was -probably these circumstances that induced him to realize the -property in Nova Scotia and at the time of his death he was worth -some £52,000. This entire fortune, went after the death of his -daughter, to the University of Edinburgh to found a musical -professorship. He also left directions that a concert should be given -annually on or about his birthday to commence with several pieces -of his own composition, among the first of which is that of the -“Garb of Old Gaul,” a composition written by Sir Charles Erskine, -but set to music by Reid while major of the 42nd, and which has -<ins class="corr" id="tn-80" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'ever sence'"> -ever since</ins> been a regimental march.</p> - -<p>Reid also composed several military marches and was esteemed -the best gentleman player on the German flute in England. It may<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_81"></a>[81]</span> -safely be predicted that as long as the University exists this old -Perthshire soldier of the 18th century will be remembered as one -of its benefactors.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>N. Y. Documentary History IV.</p> - -<p>Military History of Perthshire pp. 387-395.</p> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp54" id="i080" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i080.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="right">From “A Military History of Perthshire”</p> -Officers in the Black Watch 1758-9<br /> - -<p class="noindent">MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN SMALL</p> - -<p class="noindent"><em>(From a Medallion in the possession of<br /> -Mrs. Small of Dirnanean)</em></p> - -<p class="right">GENERAL SIR THOMAS STIRLING<br /> -OF ARDOCH AND STROWAN, -BART.</p> - -<p class="right"><em>(From a Miniature in the possession of<br /> -Captain Graham Stirling of Strowan)</em></p> - -<p class="pad3 noindent">GENERAL JOHN REID</p> - -<p class="pad3 noindent"><em>(From a Portrait in the Music Class-room of<br />Edinburgh University)</em></p> -</div> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>John Small.</em></p> - -<p>John Small was the third son of Patrick Small, who married -Magdalen Robertson, sister of Alexander Robertson, the father of -General John Reid. Reid and Small were thus not only neighbors -and brother-officers, but first cousins, and were evidently on terms -of close friendship. Born in Strathardle, Atholl, Scotland, in -1730, Small, like many of his countrymen of that date, began his -military career with the Scots Brigade in Holland, being appointed -a 2nd lieutenant in the Earl of Drumlanrig’s Regiment when it was -raised for service of the States-General in 1747. How long he -remained abroad is unknown but it is probable that he returned to -England when the regiment was reduced in 1752. He did not, -however, obtain a commission in the British army until four years -later, when he was appointed lieutenant in the 42nd, just prior to -its departure for America. So far as is known, Small took part -in all the campaigns in which his regiment was engaged from 1756 -to 1763. He fought at Ticonderoga in 1758, served with General -Amherst’s successful expedition to Lake Champlain in the following -year, and took part in the operations which completed the conquest -of Canada in 1760. After the surrender of Montreal he was sent -in charge of French prisoners to New York, and we learn from -a brother officer that General Amherst had great confidence in him, -and frequently employed him “on particular services.” Two years -later he served in the capture of Martinique and Havana and -obtained his promotion as captain.</p> - -<p>At the peace of 1763 Small was placed on half-pay, but, -according to General Stewart, he was almost immediately put on -the full-pay list of the North British Fusiliers (21st) and when in -1767 the Black Watch left for Europe, most of the men of that -regiment who had volunteered to stay in America joined the Fusiliers -in order to serve under Small, who was “deservedly popular” -with them. Small, however, cannot have served long with the 21st, -for in the same year in which the Black Watch left America he -was appointed “major of brigade” to the forces in North America.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_82"></a>[82]</span> -It was probably during the interval between the Seven Years’ War -and the war with the Americans that he began to acquire the -property in Nova Scotia, part of which he afterwards bequeathed -to his cousin, John Reid. We have some indication that during -this period he interested himself in local politics and formed the -friendship of at least one American which was of value to him later.</p> - -<p>Small served throughout the War of Independence though but -rare glimpses are obtained of him. He was present as a brigade-major -at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1777, and in the course -of that day his life was saved by the American General Putnam, -who, seeing Small standing alone at a time when all around him -had fallen, struck up the barrels of his men’s muskets to save -his life. Shortly after this, Small raised the 2nd battalion of the -Royal Highland Regiment and was appointed major-commandant. -In 1778 the regiment was numbered the 84th and in 1780 he was -promoted to lieutenant-colonel-commandant of his battalion. He is -said to have joined Sir Henry Clinton at New York in 1779, but it -is more probable that he was stationed for the most part in Nova -Scotia. In March, 1783, Small and his battalion were at Fort -Edward, New York, and in the following autumn the battalion was -disbanded at Windsor, Nova Scotia, where many of the men settled -and formed the present town of Douglas.</p> - -<p>Small, once more on half-pay, returned home and in 1790 was -promoted colonel and three years later was appointed lieutenant -governor of Guernsey. In October, 1794, he became major-general -and on the 17th of March, 1796, he died in Guernsey and was -buried in the church of St. Peter Port.</p> - -<p>General Stewart of Garth wrote of General John Small that -“No chief of former days ever more fairly secured the attachment -of his clan, and no chief, certainly, ever deserved it better. With -an enthusiastic and almost romantic love for his country and countrymen, -it seemed as if the principal object of his life had been to -serve them, and promote prosperity. Equally brave in leading -them in the field, and kind, just, and conciliating in quarters, they -would have indeed been ungrateful if they regarded him otherwise<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_83"></a>[83]</span> -than as they did. There was not an instance of desertion in his -battalion.”</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Stewart II, 143. Military Hist. of Perthshire, pp. 396-399.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>James Stewart of Urrard.</em></p> - -<p>James Stewart of Urrard, obtained a company in the 42nd, -July 18th, 1757. He was wounded at Ticonderoga, 1758. He sold -out after the peace.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Stewart I, 306, 359. N. Y. Col. MSS., p. 729, Vol. 10.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Thomas Stirling.</em></p> - -<p>Thomas Stirling, second son of Sir Henry Stirling, of Ardoch, -was born October 8, 1731. He began his military career in the -Dutch service, being given a commission as ensign in the 1st -Battalion of Col. Marjoribanks’ Regiment on the 30th of September, -1747, and was probably placed on half-pay when the establishment -of the Scots Brigade was reduced in 1752. On the 24th of July, -1757, having been nominated by James, Duke of Atholl, and having -raised the requisite number of men, he was gazetted captain of one -of the three companies added to the 42nd in that year. In -November, 1757, he sailed for America, where he served with his -regiment in the campaigns of the ensuing years, though he was not -present at the first attack on Ticonderoga, owing to the fact that -the new companies had been left behind to garrison Fort Edward. -He took part in the capture of Martinique in 1762 and was wounded -but was able to serve in the capture of Havana later in that year. -He returned with his regiment to America and in August, 1765, -was sent in command of a company to take possession of Fort de -Chartes on the Mississippi. After holding this fort that winter -and spring, he returned with his detachment to the regiment in -June, 1766. The following year the 42nd left America and for -upwards of eight years was quartered in Ireland, after which it was -for a short time in Scotland. In 1770 Stirling was gazetted major -of the regiment, and 1771 lieutenant-Colonel-commandant. Hostilities -broke out with the Americans in 1775, and, Stirling, having -in five months raised the strength of his regiment from 350 men to -1,200, returned with it in the following spring to America, where -he commanded it continuously for three years during the war. He -took part in the engagement at Brooklyn, the attack on Fort<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_84"></a>[84]</span> -Washington, the expedition to Pennsylvania, battle of Monmouth, -and others. During 1778-9 he was stationed at or near New York. -In June, 1779, he accompanied a force under General Mathews -through New Jersey in an attempt to rally the supposed loyalists -of that state. This was unsuccessful and ended in the destruction -of the town of Springfield. General Stirling was so severely -wounded while leading the attack that he could take no further -part in the war. His thigh was broken and fearing to be rendered -incapable of further service he refused to have it amputated. He -recovered and was invalided home but he does not appear after this -to have been ever again fit for active duty. In 1782 he was -promoted major-general and appointed colonel of the 71st Foot, but -his regiment was disbanded the following year. His services were -rewarded with a baronetcy and in 1790, he became colonel of the -41st Regiment. In 1796 he was promoted lieutenant-general, and -in 1799 he succeeded his brother in the baronetcy of Ardock. He -attained the rank of general in 1801 and died unmarried on the -9th of May, 1808.</p> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Kenneth Tolmie.</em></p> - -<p>Kenneth Tolmie was commissioned a lieutenant in the 42nd -Highlanders, 23rd January, 1756, and promoted to the Command -of a Company 27th July, 1760. His name is dropped after the -Peace of 1763.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Wilson’s Orderly Book, p. 166.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>Alexander Turnbull.</em></p> - -<p>Alexander Turnbull of Stracathro, appointed ensign, June 3, -1752; lieutenant, Sept. 27, 1756; captain, Aug. 14, 1762. After 11 -years of service, he went on half-pay in 1763; full pay of the 32nd -Foot. He died in 1804 with rank of major.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Stewart of Garth, Appendix.</p> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_85"></a>[85]</span></p> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_K">K</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">ORIGINAL REGIMENTAL LIST OF THE BLACK WATCH.</p> - -<p class="pfs100"><cite>From A Military History of Perthshire, pages 51, 52, and -The Black Watch Chronicle, 1913, pages 6-8.</cite></p> - - -<p class="p1 pfs100"><em>No. 1 Company.</em></p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p>Colonel and Captain John, Earl of Crawford. Died 1748.</p> - -<p>Captain-Lieutenant Duncan Mackfarland. Retired 1744.</p> - -<p>Ensign Gilbert Stewart of Kincraigie.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="p1 pfs100"><em>No. 2 Company.</em></p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p>Lieutenant-Colonel and Captain Sir Robert Munro, Bart., of Foulis. -Killed at Falkirk 1746.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Paul Macferson.</p> - -<p>Ensign Archibald Macknab, younger son of the Laird of Macnab. -Died Lieut. General, 1790.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="p1 pfs100"><em>No. 3 Company.</em></p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p>Major and Captain George Grant. Removed from the service by -sentence of Court-martial, 1746.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant John MacKenzie of Rencraig (? Kincraig).</p> - -<p>Ensign Collin Campbell.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="p1 pfs100"><em>No. 4 Company.</em></p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p>Captain Collin Campbell, Jr., of Monzie. Retired 1743.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Alexander Macdonald.</p> - -<p>Ensign James Campbell of Glenfalloch. Died of wounds at Fontenoy.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="p1 pfs100"><em>No. 5 Company.</em></p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p>Captain James Colquhoun of Luss. Promoted to be Major. Retired -in 1748.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant George Ramsay.</p> - -<p>Ensign James Campbell of Stronslanie.<a id="FNanchor_44" href="#Footnote_44" class="fnanchor">[44]</a></p> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_86"></a>[86]</span></p> - - -<p class="p1 pfs100"><em>No. 6 Company.</em></p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p>Captain John Campbell of Carrick. Killed at Fontenoy.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant John MacLean of Kingairloch.</p> - -<p>Ensign Dougall Stewart (of Appin?).</p> -</div> - - -<p class="p1 pfs100"><em>No. 7 Company.</em></p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p>Captain Collin Campbell of Balliemore. Retired.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Malcom Frazer, son of Culduthel.<a id="FNanchor_45" href="#Footnote_45" class="fnanchor">[45]</a> Killed at Bergen-op-Zoom, 1747.</p> - -<p>Ensign Dougal Stewart.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="p1 pfs100"><em>No. 8 Company.</em></p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p>Captain George Munro of Culcairn, brother of Foulis. Killed 1746.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Lewis Grant of Auchterblair.</p> - -<p>Ensign John Menzies of Comrie.</p> -</div> - - -<p class="p1 pfs100"><em>No. 9 Company.</em></p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p>Captain Dougal Campbell of Craignish. Retired in 1745.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant John Mackneil.</p> - -<p>Ensign Gordon Graham of Draines.<a id="FNanchor_46" href="#Footnote_46" class="fnanchor">[46]</a></p> -</div> - - -<p class="p1 pfs100"><em>No. 10 Company.</em></p> - -<div class="blockquotx"> - -<p>Captain John Monro of Newmore. Promoted to be Lt. Col. 1743; -retired 1749.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Francis Grant, son of the Laird of Grant.<a id="FNanchor_47" href="#Footnote_47" class="fnanchor">[47]</a> Died Lieut.-General 1782.</p> - -<p>Ensign Edward Carrick.</p> - -<p>Surgeon George Monro.</p> - -<p>Quarter Master John Forbes.</p> - -<p>Chaplain Hon. Gideon Murray.</p> - -<p>Adjutant John Lindsay.<a id="FNanchor_48" href="#Footnote_48" class="fnanchor">[48]</a></p> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_87"></a>[87]</span></p> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_L">L</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">OFFICERS OF THE 42ND ROYAL HIGHLAND REGIMENT -AS COPIED FROM THE BRITISH ARMY LIST, -PUBLISHED 20TH JUNE, 1759.</p> - -<p class="pfs100">Col. Lord Jno. Murray, Lt. Gen.</p> - -<div class="textcol"> -Lt. Col. Francis Grant.<br /> -Major Gordon Graham.<br /> -Capt. John Reid.<br /> -Capt. John McNeil.<br /> -Capt. Allan Campbell.<br /> -Capt. Thomas Graeme.<br /> -Capt. James Abercrombie.<br /> -Capt. John Campbell.<br /> -Capt. James Stewart.<br /> -Capt. James Murray.<br /> -Capt. Thomas Stirling.<br /> -Capt. Francis McLean.<br /> -Capt. Archibald Campbell.<br /> -Capt. Alexander St. Clair.<br /> -Capt. William Murray.<br /> -Capt. John Stuart.<br /> -Capt. Alexander Reid.<br /> -Capt. William Grant.<br /> -Capt. David Haldane.<br /> -Capt. Lieut. Robert Gray.<br /> -Lieut. John Campbell.<br /> -Lieut. Kenneth Tolme.<br /> -Lieut. James Grant.<br /> -Lieut. John Graham.<br /> -Lieut. Alex. Turnbull.<br /> -Lieut. Alex. Campbell.<br /> -Lieut. Alex. McIntosh.<br /> -Lieut. James Gray.<br /> -Lieut. John Small.<br /> -Lieut. Arch. Campbell, Sen.<br /> -Lieut. James Campbell.<br /> -Lieut. Archibald Lamont.<br /> -<br /> -Lieut. David Mills.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_88"></a>[88]</span><br /> -Lieut. Simon Blair.<br /> -Lieut. David Barclay.<br /> -Lieut. Archibald Campbell, Jr.<br /> -Lieut. Alex Mackay.<br /> -Lieut. Robert Menzies.<br /> -Lieut. Patrick Balneavis.<br /> -Lieut. John Campbell, Sen.<br /> -Lieut. Alex. McLean.<br /> -Lieut. George Sinclair.<br /> -Lieut. John Murray.<br /> -</div> - -<div class="textcol"> -Lieut. Gordon Clunes.<br /> -Lieut. James Fraser.<br /> -Lieut. John Robertson.<br /> -Lieut. John Grant.<br /> -Lieut. George Leslie.<br /> -Lieut. Duncan Campbell.<br /> -Lieut. Adam Stuart.<br /> -Lieut. Donald Campbell.<br /> -Lieut. George Grant.<br /> -Lieut. James McIntosh.<br /> -Lieut. Robert Robertson.<br /> -Lieut. John Smith.<br /> -Lieut. Peter Grant.<br /> -Lieut. Alex. Farquharson.<br /> -Lieut. John Campbell, Jr.<br /> -Lieut. George Sinclair.<br /> -Ensign Elbert Herring.<br /> -Ensign William Brown.<br /> -Ensign Thomas Fletcher.<br /> -Ensign Alex. Donaldson.<br /> -Ensign William McIntosh.<br /> -Ensign Patrick Sinclair.<br /> -Ensign Archibald Campbell, Jun.<br /> -Ensign John Gregor.<br /> -Ensign Lewis Grant.<br /> -Ensign Archibald Campbell, Sen.<br /> -Ensign John Graham.<br /> -Ensign Allen Grant.<br /> -Ensign John Leith.<br /> -Ensign Charles Menzies.<br /> -Ensign Archibald McNab.<br /> -Ensign John Chas. St. Clair.<br /> -<br /> -Ensign John Gordon.<br /> -Ensign Neil McLean.<br /> -Ensign Thomas Cunison.<br /> -Sergt. Phineas McPherson.<br /> -Chaplain James Stewart.<br /> -Adj. James Grant.<br /> -Aldj. Alex McLean.<br /> -Quarter Master John Graham.<br /> -Quarter Master Adam Stewart.<br /> -Surgeon David Hepburn.<br /> -Surgeon Robt. Drummond.<br /> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">Agt., Mr. Drummond, Spring Garden.</p> - -<div class="p2 blockquotzz"> - -<p>The following corrections were interlined in ink in the above Army -List of 1759, which was found in the British Museum:</p> - -<p>Capt. John Reid was made Major. Aug. 5, 1759.</p> - -<p>Capt. John Campbell, removed to the 17th.</p> - -<p>Capt. David Haldane, removed to a Regiment at Jamaica.</p> - -<p>Lieut. Alexander McLean, made captain of corps of Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Lieut. George Sinclair, dead.</p> - -<p>Lieut. George Sinclair, removed to Crawford’s Regiment.</p> - -<p>Ensign Thomas Fletcher, made lieutenant June 1, 1759.</p> - -<p>Ensign William McIntosh, removed to Keith’s Corps.</p> - -<p>Sergt. Phineas McPherson, made ensign June 1, 1759.</p> - -<p>Lauchlan Johnson, made chaplain 20th August, 1759, in place of James -Stewart.</p> - -<p>Alexander Donaldson, made adjutant 20th March, 1759, in place of -Alexander McLean.</p> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_M">M</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100"><ins class="corr" id="tn-88" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'italics removed from this part of the heading'"> -REFERENCES TO THE BLACK WATCH IN THE 1759</ins> -CAMPAIGN TAKEN FROM “COMMISSARY -WILSON’S ORDERLY BOOK.”</p> - -<p>Albany, 22 May, 1759. Two companies of the Royal Highland -Regiment are also to receive batteaux and load them with provision -and baggage. A sergeant and 12 men of the Rhode Island Regiment -are to relieve a party of the Royal Highland Regiment at the Half-Way -House on the way to Schenectady; they are to march tomorrow -morning and carry six days’ provision with them.</p> - -<p>Albany, 23d May, 1759. Three captains of the Royal Highlanders -summoned among others to a general Court Martial, of -which Col. Francis Grant was President, to set tomorrow at the -Town House in Albany at 3 o’clock to try all prisoners that may -be brought before them.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_89"></a>[89]</span></p> - -<p>Albany, 26th May, 1759. An officer and 25 men of the Royal -Highland Regiment with a week’s provision to be sent this afternoon -to Widow McGinnes House to protect settlement; one -Company of the Royal Highland Regiment to march tomorrow -morning at 5 o’clock; they will take their tents and camp equipage -with them, for which a wagon will be allowed on sending to Col. -Bradstreet for it; the officer commanding that company to call -upon the General this night. The General Court Martial of which -Col. Grant is President to meet again tomorrow at 8 o’clock.</p> - -<p>Albany, 31st May, 1759. The Royal Highland Regiment to -march tomorrow morning at 5 o’clock to Halfmoon, where they -will take the artillery under their charge and escort the same to -Fort Edward.</p> - -<p>Fort Edward, 6th June, 1759. Lieut. Col. Robinson will mark -out the Camp tomorrow morning at 5 o’clock that the Regiments -may take up their ground as they arrive; the Regiments to encamp -<span class="nowrap">* * *</span> Royal Highlanders on the right. A Serj. and 16 men of ye -Royal Highlanders to take the General’s Guard.</p> - -<p>Fort Edward, 7th June, 1759. The Regiments are not to -change their encampment until the ground be quite dry.</p> - -<p>Fort Edward, 8th June, 1759. The Regiments to change their -encampment this day at 12 o’clock.</p> - -<p>Fort Edward, 9th June, 1759. Field Officer for the Picquit -tomorrow, Major Graham. The Light infantry of the Highland -Regiment is to practice firing ball tomorrow morning at 6 o’clock, -near the Royal Block House on the other side of the river.</p> - -<p>The Royal Highland Regiment to furnish 2 captains, 6 subs., -and 200 men <span class="nowrap">* * *</span>; this detachment to take batteaux tomorrow -morning at day break. The Royal Highland Regiment to take 20 -batteaux, and 60 of the 200 men with arms to serve as a covering -party. The whole to take provisions for tomorrow with them; they -are to proceed to Col. Haviland’s Camp, opposite to Fort Miller, -where the commanding officer will apply to Col. Haviland who will -order the batteaux to be immediately loaded, that the whole party -may return to Fort Edward without loss of time.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_90"></a>[90]</span></p> - -<p>Fort Edward, 10th June, 1759. Field Officer for the Picquit -this night Major (Gordon) Graham, for tomorrow Major (Allen) -Campbell, Colonel of the day, Col. (Francis) Grant. Two captains -of the Royal Highlanders to sit with others in General Court -Martial tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock, to try such prisoners as -are on the Provost Guard. The Royal Highlanders and Montgomery’s -Regiments to send as many men this afternoon at 4 -o’clock as are necessary to clean the ground where the Light Infantry -is to encamp. They will receive axes on applying to the -store-keeper in the Fort, which they will return when they have -finished that work.</p> - -<p>Fort Edward, 11th June, 1759. Colo. of the day, Col. Grant, -Field Officer of the Picquits, Major Campbell.</p> - -<p>Fort Edward, 12th June, 1759. Block Houses to be relieved -tomorrow by the Line <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> the one joining the east side of the -Bridge by 1 Sub., 2 Serjts., 2 corpls. and 24 men of the Royal -Highlanders; the one in the front of the Right of the Royal, one -Serjt., one Corpl. and 10 men of the Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Fort Edward, 13th June, 1759. The Royal Highland Regiment -to strick their tents tomorrow at Revallie Beating. The Royal -Highlanders posted in their Block Houses as per ordered of yesterday, -to be relieved immediately.</p> - -<p>Fort Edward, 17th June. The First Battalion Massachusetts -to strike their tents at Revallie Beating and march half an hour -after to the Halfway Brook where the commanding officer will put -himself under the command of Col. Grant.</p> - -<p>Fort Edward, 19th June, 1759. The Royal Highlanders will -furnish one Sub. and 30 men towards the working party required -tomorrow to repair the roads.</p> - -<p>Fort Edward, 20th June. Capt. Campbell of the Royal Highland -Grenediers is appointed Major to the Battalion of Grenediers -for the Campaign.</p> - -<p>Lake George, 22d June, 1759. The Royal Highlanders to -receive one day’s fresh beef tomorrow.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_91"></a>[91]</span></p> - -<p>Lake George 24th June. Field Officer for tomorrow, Major -Graham.</p> - -<p>Lake George, 26th June, 1759. The Royal Highlanders to -receive 7 days’ provisions tomorrow.</p> - -<p>Lake George, 27th June. Generals Guard tomorrow, Royal -Highlanders. 2 Companies of Grenediers with 2 Companies of -Light Infantry ordered this morning with as many Rangers and -Indians as Maj. Rogers can furnish, the whole commanded by -Maj. Campbell, to march tomorrow two hours before daybreak by -the same route Col. Haviland took; which post Capt. Johnson will -show, and to remain there whilst the boats are fishing. They are -to take one day’s provisions and to go as light as possible as they -are not only a covering party to the boats, but to attack any body -of the enemy they may find.</p> - -<p>Lake George, 5th July, 1759. A General Court Martial to -set tomorrow morning at the President’s Tent at 8 o’clock for the -trial of a man suspected of robbery <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> Major Graham and two -captains of the Royal Highlanders to attend.</p> - -<p>Lake George 8th July, 1759. The Royal Highlanders will take -the Gen’s Guard tomorrow half an hour after 4.</p> - -<p>Lake George, 11th July, 1759. Capt. John Campbell of the -Royal Highlanders is appointed Major in the late Forbes, and is -to be obeyed as such. Royal Highlanders to receive 35 batteaux. -Oars and whatever else belongs to the batteaux will be delivered -at the same time. Each batteaux will carry 12 barrels of flour or -9 of pork when ordered to load, and it is supposed will have about -20 men or a few more in each battoe.</p> - -<p>Lake George, 12th July. A General Court Martial of the -Regulars to be held tomorrow morning at 6 o’clock. Col. Grant -President, Major John Campbell to attend.</p> - -<p>Lake George, 13th July. Colonel of the Day tomorrow, Col. -Grant. Field Officer tomorrow night, Major Graham. Generals -Guard tomorrow, Royal Highlanders. The General Court Martial -of which Col. Grant was President, is dissolved. Royal Highlanders<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_92"></a>[92]</span> -to receive a proportion of flour for <ins class="corr" id="tn-92" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'five days wihch'"> -five days which</ins> they are -to get baked tomorrow and keep.</p> - -<p>Lake George, 19th July, 1759. The Royal Highlanders one of -the Regiments appointed to sit in general Court Martial tomorrow -at 6 o’clock. The Regiments to load their batteaux tomorrow -morning beginning at 5 o’clock in the following manner, Montgomery’s -Pork, Royal Highlanders, Flour, <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> two regiments to load -at a time, one flour and one pork, and to be allowed an hour for -loading, and when loaded to return to their stations.</p> - -<p>Lake George, 20th July, 1759. For the day this day, Regulars, -Col. Grant. On landing the Col. Grant to take the command of -the late Forbes’ Brigade.</p> - -<p>Camp near Ticonderoga, 22d July. For the Picquit tomorrow -night, Major Graham.</p> - -<p>Camp before Ticonderoga, 23d July, 1759. Collo. of the day -tomorrow, Collo. Grant. Field Officer of the Picquits this night, -Major Graham.</p> - -<p>Camp at Ticonderoga, 24th July, 1759. Serjt. Murray of the -Royal Highland Regiment is appointed to oversee people making -Fasciens, and to keep an account of the number made.</p> - -<p>Camp at Ticonderoga, 25th July, 1759. The following carpenters -<span class="nowrap">* * *</span> James Frazer, George McDougall, James Frazer, John -McColme, John Robinson, James Cumming, and James McDonald -of the Royal Highlanders to be at the sawmills tomorrow at 5 -o’clock and if Capt. Loreing should not be there they will receive -their directions from Brigadier Ruggles.</p> - -<p>The Royal Highland Regiment to draw tomorrow early two -days bisquit and two days pork, bisquit in lieu of flour, which -completes them to the 28th inclusive.</p> - -<p>Ticonderoga, 26th July, 1759. Adjutant for the day tomorrow -Royal Highlands.</p> - -<p>Ticonderoga, 28th July, 1759. A General Court Martial of the -line to be held at the President’s tent at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_93"></a>[93]</span> -Col. Grant, President, two Majors and ten Captains, two of -whom were from the Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Ticonderoga, 29th July, 1759. The ovens to be given for the -use of troops in the following manner:— <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> No. 2 to the -Inniskilling and Royal Highlanders. No bakers but such as those -Corps imploy to make in any of those ovens. The Royal Highland -Regiments to strick their tents and march immediately to the Landing -Place, and they will send their tents and baggage in batteaux.</p> - -<p>Ticonderoga, 1st August, 1759. As a number of shoes are come -up, intended for the use of the Army, and will be delivered to them -at the prime cost in England, which three shillings and six pence -per pair. The Regiments may receive in the following manner -and proportion, or as many of that proportion as they like to take -by applying to Mr. Tucker, agent to Mr. Kilby at the Landing -Place. Royal Highlanders 366.</p> - -<p>Capt. Reid is appointed Major to the Royal Highland Regiment.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 5th August, 1759. Collo. of the day tomorrow -Regulars Collo. Grant; Field officer for the Picquits tomorrow night -Maj. Reid.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 6th August, 1759. Adjutant of the day tomorrow -Royal Highlanders. As twenty-four barrels of Spruce beer is come -to the fort the corps may send for it immediately in the following -proportions <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> Royal Highlanders, three barrels.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 7th August, 1759. Corporal Sinclair of the -Highlanders and Parceloo of the Inniskilling Regiment with 16 -leabours used to digging to attend Lieut. Gray Tomorrow at 5 -o’clock; the evening gun is the signal for the working party to -leave of work.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 8th August, 1759. The Regulars to receive 4 -days provisions tomorrow of pork, beginning at Revallie Beating -by Forbes followed by Royal Highlanders, etc. It is concluded -that they have their bread from Ticonderoga as was ordered.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_94"></a>[94]</span></p> - -<p>Crown Point, 10th August, 1759. Ens. Gregor of the Royal -Highlanders <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> are appointed overseers of the works that are -carrying on at the fort. They will attend Lieut. Col. Eyre tomorrow -morning at 5 o’clock and follow such directions as they shall -receive from him.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 11th August, 1759. Collo. of the day tomorrow, -Collo. Grant. For the building of the fort the following quarriers -<span class="nowrap">* * *</span> five of the Royal Highlanders <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> to attend Lieut. Col. -Eyre tomorrow morning at the hour of work, and are to continue -daily to work as quarriers.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 12th August, 1759. Adjutant of the Day -tomorrow, Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 14th August, 1759. Field officer for the work -tomorrow, Major Reid.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 15th August, 1759. The following Surgeons -Mates are to join the Regiments and serve as Mates in room of -Officers serving as such; Mr. Goldthwat an additional Mate in the -Royal Highlanders to be put on the establishment of Forbe’s, Mr. -Carter to the Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 16th August, 1759. The following sawiers are -to attend Lieut. Col. Eyre tomorrow at 5 o’clock: <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> Royal -Highlanders, Robert Kennedy, John McFarling and Robert Bain. -The following masons are likewise to attend Lieut. Col. Eyre tomorrow -morning at 5 o’clock: <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> Royal Highlanders, Dougal -McKeafter and John Stewart. The above artificers are to work -daily and to follow such directions as they shall receive from Lieut. -Col. Eyre.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 17th August, 1759. Collo. of the day tomorrow, -Collo. Grant. The following masons to attend Lieut. Col. Eyre -tomorrow morning at five o’clock; <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> Royal Highlanders Angus -McDonald and William Milligan.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 18th August, 1759. Adjutant of the day tomorrow, -Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 24th Aug., 1759. Adjutant of the day, tomorrow, -Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_95"></a>[95]</span></p> - -<p>Crown Point, 27th August, 1759. The following soldiers to -attend Lieut. Eyre tomorrow morning at 5 o’clock and to take their -directions from him; Royal Highlanders, John Fraser, John McElvore, -James Bruce, Allex’r Sutherland.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 28th Aug. Field Officer of the work tomorrow, -Major Reid.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 30 August, 1759. Adjutant of the day, Royal -Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 1st Sept. Collo. of the day, tomorrow, Collo. -Grant.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 3d September, 1759. John McNeal, Grenadier -in Royal Highland Regiment, <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> to attend Lieut. Col. Eyre this -day at 12 o’clock and to follow such directions as he shall give.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 4th Sept., 1759. Collo. of the day, tomorrow, -Collo. Grant. Field Officer for the work, Major Reid. The men -of the Royal Highland Regiment who have been employed in -making baskets will be paid for the same by the Quartermaster’s -applying to Mr. Gray this afternoon after the work is over. The -Regiments to receive tomorrow morning two pounds of fresh meat -and one pound of rice for the number of men set opposite the -names of each corps, and the Regiments are to apply said fresh -beef and rice entirely for the use of the sick. Royal Highlanders -22.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 5th Sept., 1759. Field Officer for the works -tomorrow, Major Reid. Adjutant of the day, tomorrow, Royal -Highlanders. Allex’r Forbes of the Royal Highlanders, mason, to -accompany Lieut. Col. Eyre tomorrow and follow such directions -as he shall give.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 6th Sept. Serjt. Clark of the Royal Highlanders -to be one of the four sergeants to attend the works daily and to -receive directions from Lieut. Col. Eyre.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 7th Sept. For the day, tomorrow, Collo. Grant.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 11th Sept. Adjutant of the day tomorrow, Royal -Highlanders. A general court martial of the Regulars to sit tomorrow<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_96"></a>[96]</span> -at the President’s Tent at 8 o’clock; Collo. Foster, President, -Major John Campbell, Major Reid, <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> one captain of the Royal -Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 12th Sept. A detachment of 100 Grenadiers, 30 -of the Light Infantry of Regiments, non-commissioned officers in -proportion to be commanded by a captain of the Grenadiers and 2 -Subalterns of each Corps to parade tomorrow at Revallie beating -on the left of the front of the light infantry and to take 30 batteaux -to Ticonderoga where he is to apply to the Commissary and -load 15 with 30 barrels of flour in each batteaux, the other 15 with -16 barrels of pork each. The Royal Highland Regiment to furnish -the batteaux and the captain commanding the party will see them -this night that they may be ready to set off at Revallie beating and -to return as soon as they are loaded.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 15th Sept., 1759. For the day tomorrow, Collo. -Grant. Field Officer for the Picquits this night, Regulars Major -Reid. Field Officer for the works tomorrow, Major John Campbell.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 16th Sept., 1759. Field Officer for the works tomorrow, -Major Reid.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 17th Sept. Adjutant of the day tomorrow, Royal -Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 18th Sept., 1759. For the day tomorrow, Collo. -Grant.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 21st Sept., 1759. For the day tomorrow, Collo. -Grant. For the Picquits this night, Major Reid. Field Officer for -the works tomorrow, Major John Campbell.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 23d Sept., 1759. Adjutant of the day tomorrow, -Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 25th Sept. Lieut. Tolmey of the Royal Highlanders -is appointed Overseer for the work on the fort and to -receive his directions from <ins class="corr" id="tn-96" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Leiut. Col.'"> -Lieut. Col.</ins> Eyre.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 26th Sept., 1759. Field officer for the Picquits -this night, Major John Campbell; tomorrow night, Major Reid.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp56" id="i096" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i096.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption">AT TICONDEROGA<br /> -<p>LORD HOWE MONUMENT, (TROUT BROOK.) TICONDEROGA, N. Y.</p> -<p>Boulder in Academy Park to the Heroes of the Four Nations—Indian, -French, British and American who fought at Ticonderoga.</p> -<p>Monument marking the spot at the mouth of Trout Brook, where -Lord Howe was supposed to have fallen.</p> -(Both Boulder and Monument were erected by the late<br />Rev. Joseph Cook)</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_97"></a>[97]</span></p> - -<p>Crown Point, 27th Sept., 1759. For the day tomorrow, Collo. -Grant. Field Officer for the Picquits this night, Major Reid.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 29th Sept. Adjutant for the day tomorrow, -Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 30th Sept., 1759. Collo. for the day tomorrow, -Collo. Grant.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 2d Oct., 1759. Field Officer for the Picquits this -night, Major John Campbell; tomorrow night, Major Reid.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 3d October. For the day tomorrow, Collo. -Grant. Field Officer for the Picquits this night, Major Reid. Field -Officer for the works tomorrow, John Campbell. A General Court -martial of the Regulars to sit at the President’s tent tomorrow at -9 o’clock <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> two captains of the Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 5th Oct., 1759. Adjutant of the day tomorrow, -Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 6th Oct., 1759. For the day tomorrow, Collo. -Grant. The regular regiments to give in their cartridges that are -damaged this day to the artillery and to receive as much powder, -paper, ball and twine as will compleat their ammunition. The -Royal Highlanders 475.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 7th October. The Regiments to prepare their -batteaux to the following numbers and to have their sails fixed -according to patern Col. Haviland approved of; <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> Royal -Highlanders 24, <span class="nowrap">* * *</span></p> - -<p>Crown Point, 8th October. Royal Highlanders are to take -two batteaux more than what were ordered yesterday.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 9th October. For the day tomorrow, Collo. -Grant. Field Officer for Picquits this night, Major Reid. The -undermentioned Corps are to send a batteaux each at Retreat beating -to Ticonderoga to receive tomorrow morning the following -number of loaves weighing six pounds and a half each; they are to -pay to the person Gen. Lyman appoints to receive the money the -following sums being one penny sterling for baking seven pounds of -flour: Royal Highlanders 460 loaves, 1; 7; 8 Sterling. <span class="nowrap">* * *</span></p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_98"></a>[98]</span></p> - -<p>The Royal Highlanders are to leave Subaltern Officer each, -exclusive of officers employed as overseers at the King’s Works, -with three Sergeants, three Corp’ls each with the men that are left -behind; when the Regiments march, the officers and men of each -corps will encamp on the Center of the encampment of the Corps -<span class="nowrap">* * *</span> and a sentry to be kept in the encampment that nothing -may be spoiled or taken away during the absence of the Regiment. -The Regiments are to give the following numbers for the Brig and -Sloop and will send seamen if they have them: For the Brig, <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> -Royal Highlanders 14 men.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 11th Oct., 1759. Adjutant of the day tomorrow, -Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Lake Shamplaine, 15th Oct., 1759. For the day tomorrow, -Collo. Grant.</p> - -<p>Ligonier Bay, 14th Oct., 1759. Field Officer for the Picquit -this night, Major John Campbell; tomorrow night, Major Reid.</p> - -<p>Lake Shamplaine, 15th Oct., 1759. For the day tomorrow, -Collo. Grant. Field Officer for the Picquits this night, Major Reid.</p> - -<p>Camp at Schuylers Island, 18th Oct., 1759. For the day tomorrow, -Collo. Grant.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 22nd Oct., 1759. Adjutant of the day tomorrow, -Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 25th October. 22 men of the Royal Highlanders -are to be sent to the Hospital at Fort Edward. <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> The surgeon -of the Royal Highlanders is to attend them to Fort Edward, a -Corporal and 6 men of the Royal Highlanders with one batteaux -<span class="nowrap">* * *</span> are to convey the sick to the Sawmills, where the officer will -leave the batteau with Lieut. Col. Miller and march the sick to the -Landing Place.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 27th Oct., 1759. For the day tomorrow, Collo. -Grant. Field Officer for the Picquits this night, Major Reid.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 28th Oct., 1759. Adjutant for the day tomorrow, -Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_99"></a>[99]</span></p> - -<p>Crown Point, 30th October. Officer for the day, tomorrow, -Collo. Grant. A General Court martial to be held at the President’s -Tent tomorrow at 9 o’clock to try all such prisoners as shall be -brought before them; Col. Grant, President, <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> One Captain of -the Royal Highlanders.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 31st Oct., 1759. Field Officer for the Picquits -this night, Major Reid. The General Court martial of which Collo. -Grant was President is dissolved; the Prisoners of the Royal Highland -Regiment is acquitted.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 1st Nov., 1759. For the day tomorrow, Collo. -Grant.</p> - -<p>Crown Point, 3d Nov., 1759. For the Picquits tomorrow night, -Major John Campbell; for the works tomorrow, Major John Campbell; -Adjutant of the day tomorrow, Royal Highlanders.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_N">N</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">COLONEL ROGER TOWNSHEND.</p> - -<p>Roger Townshend, fifth son of Charles Viscount Townshend, -and younger brother of Gen’l George Townshend (afterwards 4th -Viscount and 1st Marquis) to whom Quebec surrendered when -Wolfe was killed, was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel 1st Feb., -1758, and served as Adjutant-General in the Expedition against -Louisbourg, and Deputy Adjutant-General in this Campaign with -Rank of Colonel. He was killed in the Trenches before Ticonderoga -by a cannon ball on the 25th July, 1759, and his remains -were transmitted to Albany for interment. His spirit and military -knowledge justly entitled him to the esteem of every soldier; and -accordingly the loss of him was universally lamented.</p> - -<div class="blockquotzz"> - -<p>Knox I, 360, 289, 401, 403.</p> - -<p>Wilson’s Orderly Book, page 77.</p> -</div> - -<p class="p1 pfs100"><cite>Supplement to the New York Mercury, Tuesday, July 31, 1759.</cite></p> - -<p>Extract from a letter dated Albany, July 29, 1759.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_100"></a>[100]</span></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The same evening (July 27), an Express arrived from Ticonderoga, -with an account of Colonel Townshend being killed, in -reconnoitering the Fort, by a cannon ball.</p> - -<hr class="r30a" /> - -<p>Yesterday about 12 o’clock, Colonel Townshend’s corpse arrived -here, and was decently interred.”</p> -</div> - -<p>In the “Church Book” St. Peter’s, Albany, appears the following -entry:</p> - -<table class="autotable" width="90%" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt">1759 July 30</td> -<td class="tdlt">To cash received for braking ground in the<br />church to lay the body of Coll. Townson</td> -<td class="tdrb">£5/0/0</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdlt">To cash ret for Paull</td> -<td class="tdrb">9</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="r20" /> - -<p><em>The following is a copy of the inscription on the monument to -Col. Townshend in Westminster Abbey</em></p> - -<div class="center"> -“This Monument was erected<br /> -By a disconsolate Parent<br /> -The Lady Viscountess Townshend<br /> -To the Memory of her Fifth Son<br /> -The Hon’ble Lieut. Colonel Roger Townshend<br /> -who was killed by a Cannon Ball<br /> -on the 25th of July, 1759, in the 28th year of his age<br /> -as he was reconnoitering ye French lines at Ticonderoga<br /> -In North America<br /> -From the Parent the Brother and the Friend<br /> -His sociable and amiable manners<br /> -His enterprizing Bravery<br /> -And the Integrity of His Heart<br /> -May claim the tribute of affliction<br /> -Yet Stranger weep not<br /> -For tho’ premature His Death<br /> -His life was glorious<br /> -Enrolling Him with the names<br /> -of those Immortal Statesmen and Commanders<br /> -Whose wisdom and Intrepidity<br /> -In the course of this Comprehensive and Successful War<br /> -Have Extended the Commerce<br /> -And upheld the Majesty of these Kingdoms<br /> -Beyond the idea of any former age.”<br /> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter illowp54" id="i100" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i100.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption">Monument to Lieut. Colonel Roger Townshend in Westminster Abbey -(The Bayonet on Monument found on battlefield of Ticonderoga and -placed on memorial by Dean Stanley)</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_101"></a>[101]</span></p> - -<p><em>The following is an extract from a letter from the head verger -of Westminster Abbey</em></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“I should like to draw your attention to the broken bayonet -in the upper part of the Townshend monument. It is a relic of the -struggle between the French and English in North America and it -comes from Ticonderoga and may have been used in that particular -‘march to Ticonderoga, where Col. Townshend was killed.’ It was -given to Dean Stanley when in America and he fixed it on the -monument as he did the wreath of leaves on the monument of -Major Andre.</p> - -<p>Lord Eversley, who when H. M. first Commissioner of Works -was the Rt. Hon. J. G. Shaw Lefevre—is much struck by the -Townshend inscription, especially the latter part, which, he has told -me, is worthy of Edmund Burke and which I know he would like -to attribute to that great orator and statesman.”</p> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_O">O</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">BIBLIOGRAPHY.</p> - -<p>A Military History of Perthshire, 1660-1902. Edited by the -Marchioness of Tullibardine. Perth R. A. & J. Hay, 1908.</p> - -<p>Chronicles of the Atholl and Tullibardine Families. Collected -and arranged by John, Seventh Duke of Atholl, K. T., in Five -Volumes. <ins class="corr" id="tn-101" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'Ballantyle Press'"> -Ballantyne Press</ins>, 1908.</p> - -<p>Sketches of the Character, Manners and Present State of the -Highlanders of Scotland, with details of the Military Service of -the Highland Regiments, by Colonel David Stewart (of Garth), -Edinburgh. Archibald, Constable & Co., 1822.</p> - -<p>The Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Regiments, by -John S. Keltie, F. S. A. S. Edinburgh, A. Fullerton & Co.</p> - -<p>The Regimental Records of the British Army, by John S. -Farmer, London, Grant Richards, 1901.</p> - -<p>An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders -in America, etc., by J. P. MacLean, Ph. D. Cleveland, The Helmar-Taylor -Co., Glasgow, John MacKay, 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_102"></a>[102]</span></p> - -<p>Historical Record of the 42nd or Royal Highland Regiment of -Foot, 1729-1844. Illustrated. London, Parker, 1845.</p> - -<p>Historical Record of the 73rd Regiment, 1780-1851. Illustrated. -London. Parker, 1851.</p> - -<p>Chronology and Book of Days of the 42nd Royal Highlanders, -The Black Watch, 1729-1905. Berwick-on-Tweed, Martin’s Printing -Works, 1906.</p> - -<p>History of Black Watch. Johnston, 1893.</p> - -<p>The Black Watch. The Record of an Historic Regiment, by -Archibald Forbes, LL. D. Cassell & Co., 1910.</p> - -<p>Black Watch Episode of the Year 1731, by H. D. MacWilliam. -Johnston, 1908.</p> - -<p>Short History of the Black Watch, 1725-1907. Blackwood, -1908.</p> - -<p>The Official Records of the Mutiny in the Highland Regiment -(The Black Watch), A London Incident of the Year 1743, by -H. D. MacWilliam. Johnston, 1910.</p> - -<p>Legends of the Black Watch, by James Grant, Routledge, 1904.</p> - -<p>Knox’s Journal.</p> - -<p>Brown’s Highland Clans.</p> - -<p>Beaston’s Naval and Military Memoirs.</p> - -<p>A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. Chambers. -Glasgow, 1832-35.</p> - -<p>Pennsylvania Colonial Records.</p> - -<p>Correspondence of William Pitt when Secretary of State, with -Colonial Governors, etc., by Gertrude Selwyn Kimball. <ins class="corr" id="tn-102" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'MacMillian, 1906'"> -MacMillan, 1906</ins>.</p> - -<p>Commissary Wilson’s Orderly Book. Expedition of the British -and Provincial Army under Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Amherst, against -Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 1759. Albany, J. Munsell. London, -Trubner Co., 1857.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_103"></a>[103]</span></p> - -<p>New York Colonial Manuscript, by Broadhead, Weed, Parsons -& Co., Albany, 1856.</p> - -<p>History of Canada. Translated from L’Histoire du Canada -by F. N. Garneau, by Andrew Bell. Richard Worthington & Son, -Montreal, 1866.</p> - -<p>Illustrated Histories of the Scottish Regiments by Lieut. Colonel -Percy Groves. Illustrated by Harry Payne. Edinburgh, 1893.</p> - -<p>The Regimental Records of the 1st and 2nd Battalions The -Black Watch.</p> - -<p>The Regimental Records of the Perthshire Militia, now the -3rd Battalion, The Black Watch.</p> - -<p>Cannon’s Official History of the 42nd, 1729-1844.</p> - -<p>Cannon’s Official History of the 73rd, 1779-1850.</p> - -<p>The Annual Register.</p> - -<p>Records and Badges of the British Army. Chichester.</p> - -<p>Standards and Colors of the Army. Milne.</p> - -<p>War Medals of the British Army. Carter and Long.</p> - -<p>The Black Watch. Andrew Picken.</p> - -<p>Reminiscences of a Campaign. John Malcolm, 42nd.</p> - -<p>Retrospect of a Military Life. Q. M. S. Anton, 42nd.</p> - -<p>Fontenoy, The Campaign of. Skrine.</p> - -<p>Mangalore, The Siege of. By an Officer Present.</p> - -<p>Recollections of a Military Life. Sergeant Morris, 73rd.</p> - -<p>Military Reminiscences (Polygar Campaigns). Colonel Welsh.</p> - -<p>Five Years in Kaffirland (Second War). Mrs. Ward.</p> - -<p>Campaigning in Kaffirland.</p> - -<p>The 5th Regiment Royal Scots of Canada. Captain Chambers.</p> - -<p>History of the British Army. J. W. Fortescue.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_104"></a>[104]</span></p> - -<p>Memoirs of Sergeant Donald Macleod. Late 42nd.</p> - -<p>Reminiscences of a Veteran. Alexander Robb, Late 42nd.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_P">P</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100"><em>The British Army.</em></p> - -<p>Milne in “Standards and Colors of the Army,” says that the -British Army as a permanent force dates from 26 January 1660-61. -Charles II established three troops of Life Guards—one of Horse -(subsequently Royal Horse Guards Blue), the King’s Royal Regiment -of Guards (now Grenadier Guards), and the Duke of Albemarle’s -Regiment of Foot (now Coldstream Guards.)</p> - - -<p>The Present Establishment:</p> - -<p class="noindent">I. The Cavalry.</p> - -<p>The First Life Guards, The Second Life Guards, The Royal -Horse Guards (The Blues), The First (The King’s) Dragoon -Guards, The Second Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), The Third -(The Prince of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards. The Fourth (Royal -Irish) Dragoon Guards, The Fifth (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) -Dragoon Guards, The Sixth Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers), The -Seventh (The Princess Royal’s) Dragoon Guards, The First -(Royal) Dragoons, The Second Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), The -Third (The King’s Own) Hussars, The Fourth (The Queen’s -Own) Hussars, The Fifth (Royal Irish) Lancers, The Sixth (Inniskilling) -Dragoons, The Seventh (The Queen’s Own) Hussars, The -Eighth (The King’s Royal Irish) Hussars, The Ninth (The -Queen’s Royal) Lancers, The Tenth (The Prince of Wales’ Own -Royal) Hussars, The Eleventh (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars, The -Twelfth (The Prince of Wales’s Royal) Lancers, The Thirteenth -Hussars, The Fourteenth (The King’s) Hussars, The Fifteenth (The -King’s) Hussars, The Sixteenth (The Queen’s) Lancers, The Seventeenth -(The Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Lancers, The Eighteenth -Hussars, The Nineteenth (Princess of Wales’s Own) Hussars, The -Twentieth Hussars, The Twenty-first (Empress of India’s) Lancers.</p> - - -<p class="noindent">II. The Royal Artillery.</p> - -<p>The Royal Regiment of Artillery.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_105"></a>[105]</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i104" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i104.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption">The Memorial Tablet to the Black Watch of 1758 and its Major, Duncan Campbell of Inverawe, erected on the Battle -Ground of July 8, 1758<br /> - -<p>(Frederick B. Richards at side of Monument reading inscription on the QUAICH presented to him by the Campbells -of Inverawe).</p></div> -</div> - - -<p class="noindent">III. The Royal Engineers.</p> - -<p>The Corps of Royal Engineers.</p> - - -<p class="noindent">IV. The Foot Guards.</p> - -<p>The Grenadier Guards, The Coldstream Guards, The Scots -Guards, The Irish Guards.</p> - - -<p class="noindent">V. Territorial Regiments (Regiments of Foot).</p> - -<p>The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment), formerly The 1st.</p> - -<p>The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment), formerly The 2nd.</p> - -<p>The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), formerly The 3rd.</p> - -<p>The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment), formerly The 4th.</p> - -<p>The Northumberland Fusiliers, formerly The 5th.</p> - -<p>The Royal Warwickshire Regiment, formerly The 6th.</p> - -<p>The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), formerly The 7th.</p> - -<p>The King’s (Liverpool Regiment), formerly The 8th.</p> - -<p>The Norfolk Regiment, formerly The 9th.</p> - -<p>The Lincolnshire Regiment, formerly The 10th.</p> - -<p>The Devonshire Regiment, formerly The 11th.</p> - -<p>The Suffolk Regiment, formerly The 12th.</p> - -<p>The Prince Albert’s (Somersetshire Light Infantry), formerly The -13th.</p> - -<p>The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment), formerly -The 14th.</p> - -<p>The East Yorkshire Regiment, formerly The 15th.</p> - -<p>The Bedfordshire Regiment, formerly The 16th.</p> - -<p>The Leicestershire Regiment, formerly The 17th.</p> - -<p>The Royal Irish Regiment, formerly The 18th.</p> - -<p>The Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment), formerly The -19th.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_106"></a>[106]</span></p> - -<p>The Lancashire Fusiliers, formerly The 20th (East Devonshire).</p> - -<p>The Royal Scots Fusiliers, formerly The 21st.</p> - -<p>The Cheshire Regiment, formerly The 22nd.</p> - -<p>The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, formerly The 23rd.</p> - -<p>The South Wales Borderers, formerly The 24th. (2nd Warwickshire).</p> - -<p>The King’s Own Scottish Borderers, formerly The 25th.</p> - -<p>The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). 1st Batt., formerly The 26th. -2nd Batt., formerly The 90th. (Perthshire Volunteers—Light -Infantry).</p> - -<p>The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 1st Batt., formerly The 27th. -2nd Batt., formerly The 108th (Madras Infantry).</p> - -<p>The Gloucestershire Regiment, 1st. Batt., formerly The 28th (North -Gloucestershire). 2nd Batt., formerly The 61st (South Gloucestershire).</p> - -<p>The Worcestershire Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The 29th. 2nd Batt., -Formerly The 36th (Herefordshire).</p> - -<p>The East Lancashire Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The 30th (Cambridgeshire). -2nd Batt., formerly The 59th (2nd Nottinghamshire).</p> - -<p>The East Surrey Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The 31st (Huntingdonshire). -2nd Batt., formerly The 70th (Surrey).</p> - -<p>Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, 1st Batt., formerly The 32nd. -2nd Batt., formerly The 46th (South Devonshire).</p> - -<p>The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) 1st Batt., formerly -The 33rd. 2nd Batt., formerly The 76th.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_107"></a>[107]</span></p> - -<p>The Border Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The 34th (Cumberland). -2nd Batt., formerly The 55th (Westmoreland).</p> - -<p>The Royal Sussex Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The 35th. -2nd Batt., formerly The 10th (Bengal Infantry).</p> - -<p>The Hampshire Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The 37th. -2nd Batt., formerly The 67th (South Hampshire).</p> - -<p>The South Staffordshire Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The 38th -(1st Staffordshire). 2nd Batt., formerly The 80th (Staffordshire Volunteers).</p> - -<p>The Dorsetshire Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The 39th. 2nd Batt., -formerly The 54th (West Norfolk).</p> - -<p>The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment), 1st -Batt., formerly The 40th (2nd Somersetshire); 2nd Batt., formerly The 82nd.</p> - -<p>The Welsh Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The 41st; 2nd Batt., formerly The 69th (South Lincolnshire).</p> - -<p>The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) 1st Batt., formerly The -42nd; 2nd Batt., formerly The 73rd (Perthshire).</p> - -<p>The Oxfordshire Light Infantry, 1st Batt., formerly The 43rd -(Monmouthshire Light Infantry); 2nd Batt., formerly The 52nd.</p> - -<p>The Essex Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The 44th; 2nd Batt., The 56th (West Essex).</p> - -<p>The Sherwood Foresters (Derbyshire Regiment), 1st Batt., formerly -the 45th (Nottinghamshire); 2nd Batt., The 95th (Derbyshire).</p> - -<p>The Royal North Lancashire Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The -47th (Lancashire); 2nd Batt., formerly The 81st (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers).</p> - -<p>The Northamptonshire Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The 48th; -2nd Batt., formerly The 58th (Rutlandshire).</p> - -<p>Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment), 1st<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_108"></a>[108]</span> -Batt., formerly The 49th <ins class="corr" id="tn-108" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: '(Hertfordshire); 2 Batt.'"> -(Hertfordshire); 2nd Batt.</ins>, formerly The 66th (Berkshire).</p> - -<p>The Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly -The 50th; 2nd Batt., formerly The 97th (The Earl of Ulster’s).</p> - -<p>The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 1st Batt., formerly The -51st (2nd Yorkshire West Riding); 2nd Batt., The 105th (Madras Light Infantry).</p> - -<p>The King’s (Shropshire Light Infantry) 1st Batt., formerly The -53rd; 2nd Batt., formerly The 85th (Bucks Volunteers).</p> - -<p>The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment), 1st Batt., -formerly The 57th (West Middlesex); 2nd Batt., formerly The 77th (East Middlesex).</p> - -<p>The King’s Royal Rifle Corps, formerly The 60th.</p> - -<p>The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment), 1st Batt., formerly -The 62nd; 2nd Batt., formerly The 99th.</p> - -<p>The Manchester Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly the 63rd (West Suffolk); -2nd Batt., formerly The 96th.</p> - -<p>The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment), 1st Batt., -formerly The 64th (2nd Staffordshire); 2nd Batt., formerly The 98th.</p> - -<p>The York and Lancaster Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly The 65th -(2nd Yorkshire, North Riding); 2nd Batt., formerly The 84th (York and Lancaster).</p> - -<p>The Durham Light Infantry, 1st Batt., formerly The 68th; -2nd Batt., formerly 106th (Bombay Light Infantry).</p> - -<p>The Highland Light Infantry, 1st Batt., formerly The 71st; -2nd Batt., formerly The 74th.</p> - -<p>The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s -Own Regiment of Foot), 1st Batt., formerly The 72nd; 2nd Batt., The 78th.</p> - -<p>The Gordon Highlanders, 1st Batt., formerly The 75th (Stirlingshire); -2nd Batt., formerly The 92nd.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_109"></a>[109]</span></p> - -<p>The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, 1st Batt., formerly The -79th.</p> - -<p>The Royal Irish Rifles, 1st Batt., formerly The 83rd (County Dublin); -2nd Batt., formerly The 86th (Royal County Down).</p> - -<p>Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers) 1st Batt., formerly The -87th; 2nd Batt., formerly The 89th.</p> - -<p>The Connaught Rangers, 1st Batt., formerly The 88th; 2nd Batt., -formerly The 94th.</p> - -<p>The Princess Louise’s (Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders), 1st Batt., -formerly The 91st; 2nd Batt., formerly The 93rd.</p> - -<p>The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), 1st -Batt., formerly The 100th (Prince of Wales’s Royal Canadian); -2nd Batt., formerly The 109th (Bombay Infantry).</p> - -<p>The Royal Munster Fusiliers, 1st Batt., formerly The 101st (Royal -Bengal Fusiliers); 2nd Batt., formerly The 104th (Bengal Fusiliers).</p> - -<p>The Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 1st Batt., formerly The 102nd (Royal -Madras Fusiliers); 2nd Batt., The 103rd (Royal Bombay Fusiliers).</p> - -<p>The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own).</p> - -<p>The West India Regiment, 1st Batt., formerly Malcolm’s Black -Rangers; 2nd Batt., formerly The St. Vincent’s Black Rangers.</p> - -<p>The Royal Marines, Royal Marine Artillery, Royal Marine Light -Infantry.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_Q">Q</h3> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100"><em>TICONDEROGA</em></p> - -<p>Ticonderoga, familiar as the name of the historic fortress at -Lake George, was written by Sir William Johnson, in 1756, Tionderogue -and Ticonderoro, and in grant of lands in 1760, “near the -fort at Ticonderoga.” Gov. Colden wrote Ticontarogen, and an -Iroquoian sachem is credited with Decariaderoga. Interpretations -are almost as numerous as orthographies. The most generally<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_110"></a>[110]</span> -quoted is from Spofford’s Gazetter: “Ticonderoga, from Tsindrosie, -or Cheonderoga, signifying ‘brawling water,’ and the French -name, Carillon, signifying ‘a chime of bells,’ were both suggested -by the rapids upon the outlet of Lake George.” The French name -may have been so suggested, but neither Tsindrosie or Cheonderoga -means “brawling water.” The latter is probably an orthography -of Teonderoga. Ticonderoga as now written, is from Te or Ti, -“dual,” two; Kaniatare, “lake,” and -ogen, “intervallum, divisionem” -(Bruyas), the combination meaning, literally “Between two -lakes.” Horatio Hale wrote me of one of the forms “Dekariaderage, -in <ins class="corr" id="tn-110" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'modern orothography'"> -modern orthography</ins>, Tekaniataroken, from which Ticonderoga, -means, simple ‘Between two lakes.’ It is derived from Tioken, -‘between,’ and Kaniatara, ‘lake.’ Its composition illustrates a peculiar -idiom of the Iroquoian language. Tioken when combined with -a noun, is split in two, so to speak, and the noun inserted. Thus in -combining Tioken with Oneonte, ‘mountain,’ we have Ti-ononte-oken, -‘Between two mountains,’ which was the name of one of the -Mohawk castles—sometimes written Theonondioga. In like manner, -Kaniatare, ‘lake,’ thus compounded, yields Te-kaniatare-oken, -‘Between two lakes.’ In the Huron dialect Kiniatare is contracted -to Yontare or Ontare, from which, with io or iyo, ‘great,’ we get -Ontario (pronounced Ontareeyo), ‘Great lake,’ which combined with -Tioken, becomes Tionteroken, which would seem to be the original -of Colden’s Ticonderoga.”</p> - -<p>(“Indian Geographical Names,” by E. M. Ruttenber, page 71 -Vol. VI, New York State Historical Association).</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_R">R</h3> -</div> - - -<p class="pfs100">TESTIMONIALS TO THE BLACK WATCH.</p> - -<p>The Virginia Gazette, July 30, 1767, published an article from -which the following extracts have been taken:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“Last Sunday evening, the Royal Highland Regiment embarked -from Philadelphia for Ireland, which regiment, since its arrival -in America, had been distinguished for having undergone most -amazing fatigues, made long and frequent marches through an -unhospitable country, bearing excessive heat and severe cold with<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_111"></a>[111]</span> -alacrity and cheerfulness, frequently encamping in deep snow, such -as those who inhabit the interior parts of this province do not see, -and which only those who inhabit the most northern parts of -Europe can have any idea of, continually exposed in camp and on -their marches to the alarms of a savage enemy, who, in all their -attempts, were forced to fly. <span class="nowrap">* * *</span> And, in a particular manner, -the free-men of this and the neighboring provinces have most -sincerely to thank them for that resolution and bravery with which -they, under Colonel Boquet, and a small number of Royal Americans, -defeated the enemy, and ensured to us peace and security -from a savage foe; and, along with our blessings for these benefits, -they have our thanks for that decorum in behavior which they -maintained during their stay in this city, giving an example that -the most amiable behavior in civil life is no way inconsistent with -the character of the good soldier; and for their loyalty, fidelity, and -orderly behavior, they have every wish of the people for health, -honor, and a pleasant voyage.”</p> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Extract from speech by the elder Pitt in vindication of the -employment of Highland Regiments of which the Black Watch -was the first raised of the eighty-six during the four wars between -1739 and 1815.</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“I sought for merit wherever it was to be found; it is my -boast that I was the first Minister who looked for it and found it -in the mountains of the North. I called it forth and drew into -your service a hardy and intrepid race of men, who, when left by -your jealousy, became a prey to the artifice of your enemies, and -had gone nigh to have overturned the State in the war before the -last. These men in the last war were brought to combat on your -side, they served with fidelity as they fought with valour, and -conquered for you in every part of the world.”</p> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_112"></a>[112]</span></p> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_S">S</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">COPY OF ALL REFERENCES TO THE BLACK WATCH OF -THE TICONDEROGA PERIOD TO BE FOUND IN THE -ARCHIVES OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA -AT OTTAWA.</p> - -<p><em>I am indebted for this Memorandum to Arthur Doughty Litt.D., -Archivist of the Dominion of Canada.</em></p> - - -<table class="autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdltx" rowspan="3">1758.<br />March 29, New York.</td> -<td class="tdlt">Abercrombie to Haldimand (?) Plan of operations settled at Home. Southern Operations.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt">Corps, Blakeney’s, Lord John Murray’s &c.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdr">B.6 p. 35</td> -</tr> -<tr><td> </td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdltx">1756.<br />New York.</td> -<td class="tdlt">M.204-2 p. 397 Shirley to Fox</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdlt">Just arrived from Albany Major Abercrombie and General Webb arrived one on the 25th of June and the other the next morning - with great part of Otway’s Regiment and with all the Highland Regiments, &c.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdlt">In a letter from Abercrombie to London dated Albany, 3d August, 1756.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdlt">Col. Schuyler’s New Jersey Regiment and four North Carolina Companies are barely sufficient to Garrison Oswego and keep - the communication open to Schenectady and there remains the 48th Regiment together with Otway’s and the Highlanders to - Garrison Fort William Henry, &c., &c.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdr">M.205-1 p.</td> -</tr> -<tr><td> </td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdltx">1756.<br />June 21. New York.</td> -<td class="tdlt">James Abercrombie to ——. On the 15th of April sailed from Plymouth and arrived here on the 16th June with - General Otway’s and Lord John Murray’s Regiments, &c.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdr">B.205-1 p. 8</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<div class="figcenter illowp53" id="i112" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i112.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption">LORD HOWE STONE<br /> -Unearthed at Ticonderoga, Oct. 1889. Now Preserved at Headquarters -House</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_113"></a>[113]</span></p> - -<table class="autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdltx" rowspan="3">1756.<br />Aug. 29, Albany.</td> -<td class="tdlt">Loudon to Fox.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt">Though I was informed that the whole Transports with the Highland Recruits were arrived, I heard - this morning that there were still five missing, and that those that are come were very short of Provisions, - they were victualled only for two months, &c., &c.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdr">M.205-1 p. 240</td> -</tr> -<tr><td> </td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdltx" rowspan="3">1756.<br />Sept. 4. Boston. </td> -<td class="tdlt">Shirley to Loudon.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt">Upon this I beg leave to observe to your Lordship, that it appearing from Col. Webb’s letter to me dated from - New York the 9th June, that Otway’s and the Highland Regiments might be daily expected there (Oswego).</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdlt">What confirms me in the matter is, that your Lordship told me, when I had the honour to wait on you, when the - day you set from New York, being the 26th July that the Garrison at Oswego was so weak, that the 44th Regiment - was to be sent to strengthen it and at the same time your Lordship mentioned, that you thought 900 men, by - which I suppose your Lordship meant Otway’s and the Highland Regiments were but a few to cover the country.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdr">M.205-2 p. 306</td> -</tr> -<tr><td> </td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdltx" rowspan="3">1756.<br />Nov. 22, Albany.</td> -<td class="tdlt">Loudon to Fox.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt">The 42nd Regiment, I quarter at Schenectady, - from whence they take the posts, on the Mohawk river, &c.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdr">M.207-1 p. 2</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_114"></a>[114]</span></p> - -<table class="p1 autotable" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="tdltx" rowspan="3">1757.<br />April 25. New York.</td> -<td class="tdlt">Loudon to Pitt.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt">As the Garrison (Fort Henry) had been troubled with the scurvy I had ordered Lieutenant General Otway’s Regiment to relieve them, and Colonel Monro met the - account of the attack being made on the Fort on his march; he immediately left his baggage, and made all possible dispatch to Fort Edward, where he received - the account of their being retired. Colonel Gage and Burton followed him directly with the remains of the 44th and 46th Regiments and the Highlanders were - set in motion from Schenectady. They all marched without Tents, and lay in the woods, &c.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdlt">We have on that river (Mohawk), at Schenectady, and up to the German Flats, the Highland Regiment, upwards of a thousand men. &c.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdr">M.207-1 p. 174</td> -</tr> -<tr><td> </td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdltx" rowspan="3">1758.<br />Feb’y 14. New York.</td> -<td class="tdlt">Loudon to Pitt.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bb"> </td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"><span class="pad40pc">... ... ... storming</span> of Fort Herkemer and I threw in part of the 42nd Regiment of Highlanders into Schenectady, that there might be no want of numbers for this service.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdlt"></td> -<td class="tdr">M.208. p. 2</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p class="noindent">Divisions of Manuscripts,<br /> - February 22, 1911.</p> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<h3 class="p3 fs135 bold" id="App_T">T</h3> -</div> - -<p class="pfs100">THE BLACK WATCH MEMORIAL AT TICONDEROGA.</p> - -<p>The genesis of this memorial was an address made by the late -Joseph Cook at the services held in front of the boulder erected to -the heroes of Ticonderoga, Academy Park, Ticonderoga, N. Y. -July 31, 1899, in which he made this remark: “There ought to be -a memorial to the Black Watch composed largely of Scotch Highlanders -who, with the Colonials charged Montcalm’s entrenchments -for eight consecutive hours.”</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp55" id="i114" style="max-width: 31.25em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i114.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption">Major D. L. Wilson Farquharson, D. S. O., at “Allargue”<br /> -Representation of the Black Watch at Unveiling of Memorial Tablet, -Ticonderoga, July 4, 1906</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_115"></a>[115]</span></p> - -<p>The writer, who was secretary of the Ticonderoga Historical -Society at that time, had the honor of being the medium through -which this chance remark became an enduring memorial of brick -and stone. He was unsuccessful, however, until Mr. David -Williams, the publisher of “The Iron Age,” a summer resident of -Ticonderoga at Rogers Rock, came to his assistance. Mr. Andrew -Carnegie was the generous donor of the funds to build this memorial. -The grants were in two amounts, the first gift for a public -library with the usual provisions, and the second gift, with no -limitations, with which to build an historical addition to the library, -<ins class="corr" id="tn-115" title="Transcriber’s Note—Original text: 'thus makng it'"> -thus making it</ins> both a public library and historical building.</p> - -<p>The laying of the corner stone, Oct. 4. 1905, was made the -occasion for one of the greatest celebrations Ticonderoga has ever -seen. The pipe band of the 5th Royal Scots of Canada, Highlanders, -now the 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada, from Montreal, -and the Regimental band and a Battalion of the 5th Infantry, -U. S. A., from Plattsburgh, were the principal features of the -parade. It was particularly appropriate that the Royal Scots -should be present, as they are allied to the Black Watch and wear -the same uniform. It was also an education to the thousands of -spectators, few, if any of whom had ever seen Highlanders in full -regimentals marching to the music of bagpipes. After the exercises -of the day, the Royal Scots visited the ruins of old Fort -Ticonderoga, about two miles from the village and the picture of a -body of Highlanders with their scarlet coats and tartan kilts -marching up the green slopes of the old ramparts, with the setting -sun behind them, was one never to be forgotten and which probably -had not occurred since the Revolution.</p> - -<p>The officers of the present Black Watch Regiment, then stationed -at Fort George Scotland, being advised of the Memorial sent -the following letter to the secretary of the Ticonderoga Historical -Society:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“Dear Sir: Your letter 9th Sept., 1905, on the subject of a -Black Watch Memorial, has been perused by the Commanding -Officer and the Officers of the 1st battalion of The Black Watch, -formerly called the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment, and it was also -submitted and discussed at the Annual Gathering of Black Watch<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_116"></a>[116]</span> -Officers—past and present—recently held in Edinburgh. I am -authorized to inform you that all Ranks of the Regiment are proud -to know that the Ticonderoga Historical Society had decided to -appropriate an alcove in the Ticonderoga Free Public Library as a -memorial to the 42nd Regiment, to commemorate their services in -the engagement before Fort Ticonderoga on July 8, 1758. The -suggestion contained in your letter, to the effect that Officers of -the Regiment might be disposed to erect a tablet on a wall of the -Alcove to the memory of the officers and men of the 42nd who were -killed or wounded in the action has met with the unanimous -approval of those to whose notice it has been brought, and I am to -inform you that such a Tablet will gladly be provided and that the -work of executing the Tablet will be entrusted to a London firm -as soon as a suitable design has been decided upon. In order to -assist us in choosing a suitable form of tablet I shall be much -obliged if you can favor me with a rough plan of the alcove, the -dimensions of the actual wall on which the Tablet will rest, and an -idea of the general style of the building.</p> - -<p>I shall be glad to hear from you as soon as you can conveniently -supply the information for which I have asked.</p> - -<p class="right padr6">I am, Sir, yours truly,</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="padr2">D. L. Wilson Farquharson.</span><br /> -Major The Black Watch.”</p> -</div> - -<p>The exercises for the unveiling of the memorial tablet July 4, -1906, was made the occasion for another grand celebration at which -the full bag pipe band of the 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada -and a company of 50 men from the same regiment, making a total -of 75 Highlanders, were a feature of the parade. Major D. L. -Wilson Farquharson of the Black Watch, came over from Scotland -to unveil the tablet in behalf of the Regiment. It was accepted by -Frank B. Wickes of Ticonderoga for the Ticonderoga Historical -Society. The address of the day was delivered by Senator Edgar -T. Brackett of Saratoga Springs.</p> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i116" style="max-width: 40.625em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i116.jpg" alt="" /> - <div class="caption"><p class="right">—Photo by L. Def. Cone, Ticonderoga</p> -THE BLACK WATCH MEMORIAL AT TICONDEROGA<br /> -Two views of the 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada who attended ceremonies of laying corner stone and of unveiling -Memorial Tablet</div> -</div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_117"></a>[117]</span></p> - - -<p class="p1 pfs100"><em>List of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Partial List of -Men Composing Ticonderoga Detachment, 5th Royal -Highlanders of Canada, July 4th, 1906.</em></p> - -<div class="textcol"> -Capt. A. F. Gault.<br /> -Capt. V. C. Buchanan.<br /> -Capt. C. M. Monsarrat.<br /> -Capt. J. Muir, Quartermaster.<br /> -Sergt. Major D. A. Bethune.<br /> -Q. M. Sergt. B. Howard.<br /> -Col. Sergt. J. H. A. Mackay.<br /> -Staff Sergt. T. A. Gardiner.<br /> -Staff Sergt. J. Phillips.<br /> -Sergt. C. Denman.<br /> -Sergt. P. Forde.<br /> -Sergt. T. Mitchell.<br /> -Bugle Sergt. P. Broadhurst.<br /> -Drum Sergt. F. W. Flood.<br /> -Drum Major, G. Foley.<br /> -Pipe Major, D. Manson.<br /> -Sergt. J. MacLean.<br /> -Corp. P. W. MacFarlane.<br /> -Corp. H. Massey.<br /> -Corp. N. Manson.<br /> -Corp. P. Sutton.<br /> -<br /> -<span class="pad3"><em>Privates.</em></span><br /> -<br /> -J. Bayley.<br /> -F. H. Benson.<br /> -<span class="pad2">Walsh.</span><br /> -A. E. Smith.<br /> -S. Tapster.<br /> -<span class="pad2">Scobie.</span><br /> -P. Roache.<br /> -J. Cockburn.<br /> -A. Bishop.<br /> -</div> - -<div class="textcol"> -J. A. McLean.<br /> -<span class="pad2">Jeffries.</span><br /> -W. Marsh.<br /> -J. Ferguson.<br /> -J. Corbett.<br /> -J. Palmer.<br /> -C. Myers.<br /> -C. Black.<br /> -J. Stuart.<br /> -J. Roney.<br /> -<span class="pad2">Dean.</span><br /> -A. Reid.<br /> -A. Williams.<br /> -A. Betts.<br /> -D. Reid.<br /> -L. Pickering.<br /> -<br /> -<span class="pad3"><em>Pipers.</em></span><br /> -<br /> -R. Morrison.<br /> -M. McLeod.<br /> -J. Ferrier.<br /> -D. McArthur.<br /> -D. Brash.<br /> -J. Husband.<br /> -B. Milligan.<br /> -<br /> -<span class="pad3"><em>Drummers.</em></span><br /> -<br /> -J. Ryan.<br /> -Gore.<br /> -Kemp.<br /> -Jones.<br /> -</div> - - -<div class="chapter"></div> -<div class="footnotes"><h2>FOOTNOTES:</h2> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[1]</a> A Military History of Perthshire, Page 28.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">[2]</a> The most complete account of the independent companies may be -found in “A Military History of Perthshire.”</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3" class="label">[3]</a> See <a href="#App_A">Appendix</a> for list of officers.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_4" href="#FNanchor_4" class="label">[4]</a> See <a href="#App_G">Appendix</a> for the regimental names of the Black Watch at different -periods.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_5" href="#FNanchor_5" class="label">[5]</a> Stewart of Garth, Page 246, Vol. I.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_6" href="#FNanchor_6" class="label">[6]</a> Capt. I. H Mackay Scobie claims that this tartan was probably -evolved from a Campbell Sett and was a Government pattern for Government -service, worn by the independent companies of the Black Watch before -embodied in 1739 and also by other Scottish regiments “The Government -or Black Watch Tartan” Army Historical Research, Vol. I, Page 154.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_7" href="#FNanchor_7" class="label">[7]</a> Stewart of Garth, Page 247, Vol. I.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_8" href="#FNanchor_8" class="label">[8]</a> 3 additional Companies Black Watch and 3 for Montgomery’s and 3 -for Fraser’s, stationed at Halifax.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_9" href="#FNanchor_9" class="label">[9]</a> The only reference to the Black Watch that I could find in the unpublished -Colonial Manuscripts in the N. Y. State Library was the report -of the receipt at New York, 8th July, 1757, from the ship Free Mason, of -22 Bales, 10 Casks and 1 Box for Lord John Murray’s Regiment. Colonial -Mss., 1757, Vol. 84, Page 126.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_10" href="#FNanchor_10" class="label">[10]</a> Col. John Glen, born July 2, 1735, died Sept. 23, 1828, was quartermaster -during the French and Indian and also the Revolutionary wars and was -a man of great prominence in this locality. His brother, Col. Henry Glen, -born July 13, 1739, died January 6, 1814, was deputy quartermaster under -his brother and was member of Congress from Albany District from 1794 -to 1802. Schenectady at that time was in Albany District. It was Col. -John Glen who gave the name to Glens Falls, changing it from Wing’s -Falls, it is said as the result of a wine supper.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_11" href="#FNanchor_11" class="label">[11]</a> After this article had gone to press I received through the kindness -of Arthur Doughty Litt, D. Archivist of the Dominion of Canada, a copy -of the references to the Black Watch in the archives at Ottawa and one -reference proves that the 42nd was stationed at Schenectady the winter of -1756-7, as follows: Nov. 22, 1756, Loudon to Fox, the 42nd Regiment I -quartered at Schenectady from whence they take the posts, on the Mohawk -River, etc. See <a href="#App_S">Appendix</a>.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_12" href="#FNanchor_12" class="label">[12]</a> Atholl Records, page 428, Vol. III.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_13" href="#FNanchor_13" class="label">[13]</a> Atholl Records, p 433, Vol. III.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_14" href="#FNanchor_14" class="label">[14]</a> Public Record Office W. O. 1.-1.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_15" href="#FNanchor_15" class="label">[15]</a> Public record office W:O:1.-1.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_16" href="#FNanchor_16" class="label">[16]</a> His last letter had been written from New York, April 28th. If this -were an earlier date it might indicate the winter quarters, but at this time -the army was assembling at Albany for the seasons campaign. It will be -noted as illustration that the Highlanders quartered at Stamford left there -March 30.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_17" href="#FNanchor_17" class="label">[17]</a> For further information in regard to Halfway Brook, which is just -north of the city of Glens Falls, see the “Halfway Brook in History”, by -James A. Holden in Vol. VI. of N. Y. State Hist. Assn. proceedings.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_18" href="#FNanchor_18" class="label">[18]</a> Atholl Records page, 444 Vo. III.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_19" href="#FNanchor_19" class="label">[19]</a> Abercromby’s full report to Pitt, under date of July 12, 1758, will be -found in Mr. Holden’s article on Lord Howe.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_20" href="#FNanchor_20" class="label">[20]</a> This General James Abercrombie must not be confused with Sir Ralph -Abercrombie who led the Black Watch to victory in Egypt in 1801.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_21" href="#FNanchor_21" class="label">[21]</a> Translation by Bell, Page 539, Vol. I.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_22" href="#FNanchor_22" class="label">[22]</a> Lossing’s Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution. Page 119, Vol. 1.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_23" href="#FNanchor_23" class="label">[23]</a> Some of the names in the two preceding letters from -Capt. Campbell are interesting because they illustrate the Scottish custom -of using name of estate rather than the family or given name. This was -often necessary to distinguish between several of same name.</p> - -<p>Captain Stratchur is Captain John Campbell of Stratchur, there are -also John Campbells of Duneavis, and of Glendaruel. Archie Sherreff is -Lieut. Archibald Campbell, son of the Sheriff of Argyle. Duchra is Capt. -Thomas Graeme of Duchray. George and “the Major” are sons of John -Campbell of Barcaldine—George Campbell was appointed Ensign in the -42d in 1756, promoted Lieut, in Gage’s Regiment 1757, and killed at Havana -1762. “The Major” was Alexander Campbell, Major in the 77th (Montgomery -Highlanders). Unkle Corries is John Campbell of Corries and his son -Colin was evidently at the massacre at Fort William Henry in August -1757. Fort du Quesne was the French fort at what is now Pittsburgh.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_24" href="#FNanchor_24" class="label">[24]</a> Atholl Records. Page 438, Vol. 3.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_25" href="#FNanchor_25" class="label">[25]</a> This name is given in various places as MILL, MILLS, MILLER and -MILNE. The Duke of Atholl is authority for the statement that MILNE is -correct.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_26" href="#FNanchor_26" class="label">[26]</a> Atholl Records, p. 444, Vol. III.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_27" href="#FNanchor_27" class="label">[27]</a> Atholl Records, p. 443, Vol. III.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_28" href="#FNanchor_28" class="label">[28]</a> Montcalm and Wolfe, p. 435, Vol. II.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_29" href="#FNanchor_29" class="label">[29]</a> Public Record Office, C.O. 5. 50.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_30" href="#FNanchor_30" class="label">[30]</a> Translation by Bell, page 539, Vol. I.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_31" href="#FNanchor_31" class="label">[31]</a> N. Y. Col. manuscript O’Callaghan’s, p. 827, Vol. 10.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_32" href="#FNanchor_32" class="label">[32]</a> Public Record Office C.O. 5. 50.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_33" href="#FNanchor_33" class="label">[33]</a> See <a href="#App_M">Appendix</a> for extracts from Commissary Wilsons Orderly Book -for record of daily service of Black Watch in Ticonderoga and Crown Point -campaign.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_34" href="#FNanchor_34" class="label">[34]</a> Atholl Record, p. 452, Vol. III.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_35" href="#FNanchor_35" class="label">[35]</a> The oath of the Campbells of Inverawe was by Ben Cruachan.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_36" href="#FNanchor_36" class="label">[36]</a> Bibliography of the Legend of Duncan Campbell of Inverawe.</p> - -<p>A. P. Stanley, “Inverawe and Ticonderoga,” Fraser’s Magazine, Oct. -1880.</p> - -<p>Robert Louis Stevenson, poem on “Ticonderoga,” Scribner’s Magazine, -December, 1887.</p> - -<p>Francis Parkman, Appendix G. “Montcalm and Wolfe,” and “Historical -Handbook of the Northern Tour,” Boston, 1885.</p> - -<p>Robert O. Bascom, New York State Historical Proceedings, Vol. II., -“Fort Edward Book,” pages 80-88.</p> - -<p>C. F. Gordon Cumming in the Atlantic Monthly, September, 1884.</p> - -<p>W. Max Reid, “Lake George and Lake Champlain.”</p> - -<p>Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, “Tales of the Highlands.”</p> - -<p>Winsor’s Critical and Narrative History of the United States.</p> - -<p>Lord Archibald Campbell, “Records of Argyle,” William Blackwood & -Sons, 1885.</p> - -<p>“The Magazine of History,” July, 1906.</p> - -<p>“Book of Dreams and Ghosts,” Longman’s, 1897</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_37" href="#FNanchor_37" class="label">[37]</a> More probably Fort Carrillon.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_38" href="#FNanchor_38" class="label">[38]</a> Inver means “the mouth of,” therefore the mouth of the River Awe.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_39" href="#FNanchor_39" class="label">[39]</a> Major Sir Duncan Campbell of Bacaldine says should be “of Glendaruel” -and that younger of Glenlyon went to the Marines in 1755.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_40" href="#FNanchor_40" class="label">[40]</a> Lieut. Sir James Cockburn transferred to 48th Foot. Ensign Patrick -Balneavis made Lieut., commission dated 1st April, 1758, and Mr. Elbert -Hering succeeded to the Ensigncy, commission dated April 3d, 1758. -(See <a href="#letter_1">extract from letter</a> Jas. Abercrombie to Lord Viscount Barrington. -Albany, May 27, 1758.)</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_41" href="#FNanchor_41" class="label">[41]</a> See <a href="#Footnote_40">Foot Note at bottom of preceding page</a>.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_42" href="#FNanchor_42" class="label">[42]</a> Miss Ethel Lomas, copyist at Public Record Office, London, is authority -for the statement that this should be Peter (not Patrick) Stewart.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_43" href="#FNanchor_43" class="label">[43]</a> This name is given as David Mills in the Army List, but the Duke -of Atholl is authority for the statement that Milne is correct.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_44" href="#FNanchor_44" class="label">[44]</a> Stewart of Garth calls him Dougal Campbell, but he appears as -James in his commission.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_45" href="#FNanchor_45" class="label">[45]</a> It is not stated to which companies Lieutenant Malcolm Fraser and -Francis Grant belonged. No other lieutenants are mentioned for Balliemore -and Newmore; they have therefore been assigned respectively to them.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_46" href="#FNanchor_46" class="label">[46]</a> i. e. Drynie. A younger son of the Laird.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_47" href="#FNanchor_47" class="label">[47]</a> See note to Lieutenant Malcolm Fraser.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a id="Footnote_48" href="#FNanchor_48" class="label">[48]</a> Garth gives the adjutant as being Gilbert Stewart (presumably the -ensign to the Colonel’s Company.) He probably acted in this capacity until -John Lindsay was gazetted to the regiment.</p> - -</div> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"> -<p class="p10 pfs60">PRESS OF THE GLENS FALLS PUBLISHING COMPANY</p> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" /> -<div class="chapter"></div> - -<div class="transnote"> -<a name="TN" id="TN"></a> -<p><strong>TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE</strong></p> - -<p>Missing anchor for Footnote [23] was inserted after ‘Allan Campbell.’ -on <a href="#Page_22">page 22</a>. Missing anchor for Footnote [29] was inserted after -‘soon thereafter.’ on <a href="#Page_26">page 26</a>.</p> - -<p>Nine paragraph breaks were introduced to better indicate a quotation -block, for example after ‘Lossing writes,’ on <a href="#Page_20">page 20</a>.</p> - -<p>The original blank cells in the table in <a href="#App_F">Appendix F</a> have been given a dash (-) -in this etext for clarity.</p> - -<p>In <a href="#App_P">Appendix P</a> information about the ‘2nd Batt.’ of a regiment was -sometimes on a separate line. For consistency all regimental info is -in one paragraph in this etext.</p> - -<p>The original text used three asterisks <span class="nowrap">(* * *)</span> to indicate missing -or skipped words, but sometimes used two or four or five. For consistency -the etext always uses three. On <a href="#Page_80">page 80</a> an ellipsis is used (twice) instead -of asterisks in both the original and the etext.</p> - -<p>Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been -corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within -the text and consultation of external sources.</p> - -<p>Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, -and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.</p> - -<p> -<a href="#tn-8">Pg 8</a>: ‘wha had a passage’ replaced by ‘who had a passage’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-14">Pg 14</a>: ‘your memoralist humbly’ replaced by ‘your memorialist humbly’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-16">Pg 16</a>: ‘on Ticonderogt’ replaced by ‘on Ticonderoga’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-28">Pg 28</a>: ‘aid de camp’ replaced by ‘aide de camp’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-29">Pg 29</a>: ‘the Old Bluffs’ replaced by ‘the Old Buffs’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-32">Pg 32</a>: ‘orders from Vandreuil’ replaced by ‘orders from Vaudreuil’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-35">Pg 35</a>: ‘of the Westtern’ replaced by ‘of the Western’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-35a">Pg 35</a>: ‘no knowlodge’ replaced by ‘no knowledge’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-39">Pg 39</a>: ‘* * *’ indicates missing words or letters; it was blank -space in the original book (due to an edge of the original -source letter being torn off).<br /> -<a href="#tn-57">Pg 57</a>: ‘1893-95 Flanders’ replaced by ‘1793-95 Flanders’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-58">Pg 58</a>: ‘The Spinx’ replaced by ‘The Sphinx’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-62">Pg 62</a>: ‘Parkmen mentions’ replaced by ‘Parkman mentions’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-63">Pg 63</a>: ‘aid de camp’ replaced by ‘aide de camp’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-66">Pg 66</a>: ‘Island of Mall’ replaced by ‘Island of Mull’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-66a">Pg 66</a>: ‘Jannary 1784’ replaced by ‘January 1784’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-67">Pg 67</a>: ‘the dismal goal’ replaced by ‘the dismal gaol’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-80">Pg 80</a>: ‘ever sence’ replaced by ‘ever since’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-88">Pg 88</a>: italics removed from part of Appendix M heading.<br /> -<a href="#tn-92">Pg 92</a>: ‘five days wihch’ replaced by ‘five days which’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-96">Pg 96</a>: ‘from Leiut. Col.’ replaced by ‘from Lieut. Col.’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-101">Pg 101</a>: ‘Ballantyle Press’ replaced by ‘Ballantyne Press’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-102">Pg 102</a>: ‘MacMillian, 1906’ replaced by ‘MacMillan, 1906’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-108">Pg 108</a>: ‘(Hertfordshire); 2 Batt.’ replaced by -‘(Hertfordshire); 2nd Batt.’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-110">Pg 110</a>: ‘modern orothography’ replaced by ‘modern orthography’.<br /> -<a href="#tn-115">Pg 115</a>: ‘thus makng it’ replaced by ‘thus making it’.<br /> -</p> -</div> - - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BLACK WATCH AT TICONDEROGA ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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