Category: Biographies
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.
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 wound...
2. Part 2With 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 manu...
4. Part 4“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 k...
8. Part 8William 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 o...
7. Part 7Notes.--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 rece...
9. Part 9General 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...
11. Part 11Ticonderoga, 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 176...
1. Part 1Footnote 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 a...
10. Part 10Crown 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 Grenad...
6. Part 6The 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.
5. Part 5This 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...
12. Part 12Pg 8: ‘wha had a passage’ replaced by ‘who had a passage’. Pg 14: ‘your memoralist humbly’ replaced by ‘your memorialist humbly’. Pg 16: ‘on Ticonderogt’ replaced by ‘on Ticonde...