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THE Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe
THE Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe
By FREDERICK B. RICHARDS, A. M. Secretary of N. Y. State Historical Association: Glens Falls, N. Y. AN EXCERPT FROM VOLUME X OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW YORK STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION PRINTED FOR FORT TICONDEROGA MUSEUM LIBRARY —Courtesy of the Glens Falls Insurance Co. “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
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The Campbells of Inverawe
The Campbells of Inverawe
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 t
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Family Tree of The Campbells of Inverawe
Family Tree of The Campbells of Inverawe
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 his 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 Davi
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ROLL FROM AN OLD PAPER IN POSSESSION OF THE 7TH DUKE OF ATHOLL. OFFICERS OF THE 42ND HIGHLANDERS, NEW YORK, MAY 22, 1757. Lt. Col. Francis Grant, son of the Laird of Grant, wounded at Ticonderoga. Major Duncan Campbell, of Inverawe, killed at Ticonderoga. Captain Gordon Graham, of Drainie, wounded at Ticonderoga. Captain John Reid, of Straloch, wounded at Martinique. Captain John NcNeil. Captain Allan Campbell, son of Barcaldine. Captain Thomas Graeme, of Duchray, wounded at Ticonderoga. Captain
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ROLL OF CAPT. JOHN REID’S COMPANY, NOV. 1757. 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. Privates The above roll was made out at the muster in October, 1757, and contains the names of those who served in the Company for the previous six months. Unfortunately the names of the non-commissioned officers and men who were wounded at Ticonderoga are not shown....
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ROLL OF CAPT. JAMES MURRAY’S COMPANY, NOV. 1757. This Company was at Fort Edward captained by Capt. James Abercrombie and not in the battle of July 8, 1758. Atholl Records, p. 431, Vol. III. Privates...
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LIST OF PROMOTION 42D REGIMENT OF FOOT. From Paper in Public Record Office, London....
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COMPARISON OF LOSSES OF BLACK WATCH AT TICONDEROGA WITH THOSE OF OTHER WARS. 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 As
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TABLE OF LOSSES OF BLACK WATCH IN SEVEN YEAR WAR. The loss sustained by the regiment during the seven years it was employed in America and the West Indies was as follows: Stewart of Garth, Appendix....
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OFFICIAL TITLES OF BLACK WATCH AT DIFFERENT PERIODS. 1667 to 1739, The Black Watch. 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. 1749 to 1758
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BRITISH REGIMENTS AT TICONDEROGA, 1758. With Notes From Farmer’s Regimental Records. 27th. 1751-1881, The 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot. Also 1758 “Lord Blakeney’s.” 1881 (from) First Battalion “The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.” Nickname—“The Lumps.” 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 169
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PROVINCIAL REGIMENTS AT TICONDEROGA. (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). 1758. 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 follo
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF AS MANY OF THE OFFICERS OF 1758 AS COULD BE TRACED. James Abercrombie. 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 aide de camp 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
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ORIGINAL REGIMENTAL LIST OF THE BLACK WATCH. From A Military History of Perthshire, pages 51, 52, and The Black Watch Chronicle, 1913, pages 6-8. No. 1 Company. Colonel and Captain John, Earl of Crawford. Died 1748. Captain-Lieutenant Duncan Mackfarland. Retired 1744. Ensign Gilbert Stewart of Kincraigie. No. 2 Company. Lieutenant-Colonel and Captain Sir Robert Munro, Bart., of Foulis. Killed at Falkirk 1746. Lieutenant Paul Macferson. Ensign Archibald Macknab, younger son of the Laird of Macnab
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OFFICERS OF THE 42ND ROYAL HIGHLAND REGIMENT AS COPIED FROM THE BRITISH ARMY LIST, PUBLISHED 20TH JUNE, 1759. Col. Lord Jno. Murray, Lt. Gen. Agt., Mr. Drummond, Spring Garden. The following corrections were interlined in ink in the above Army List of 1759, which was found in the British Museum: Capt. John Reid was made Major. Aug. 5, 1759. Capt. John Campbell, removed to the 17th. Capt. David Haldane, removed to a Regiment at Jamaica. Lieut. Alexander McLean, made captain of corps of Highlander
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REFERENCES TO THE BLACK WATCH IN THE 1759 CAMPAIGN TAKEN FROM “COMMISSARY WILSON’S ORDERLY BOOK.” 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. Albany, 23d May, 1759. Three capta
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COLONEL ROGER TOWNSHEND. 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, a
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BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Military History of Perthshire, 1660-1902. Edited by the Marchioness of Tullibardine. Perth R. A. & J. Hay, 1908. Chronicles of the Atholl and Tullibardine Families. Collected and arranged by John, Seventh Duke of Atholl, K. T., in Five Volumes. Ballantyne Press , 1908. 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. Archibal
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The British Army. 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.) The Present Establishment: I. The Cavalry. The First Life Guards, The Second Life Guards, The Royal Horse Guards (The Blues)
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TICONDEROGA 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 quoted is from Spofford’s Gazetter: “Ticonderoga, from Tsindrosie, or Cheonderoga, signifying ‘brawling water,’
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TESTIMONIALS TO THE BLACK WATCH. The Virginia Gazette, July 30, 1767, published an article from which the following extracts have been taken: “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 alacrity and cheerfulness, frequently encamping
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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. I am indebted for this Memorandum to Arthur Doughty Litt.D., Archivist of the Dominion of Canada. Divisions of Manuscripts, February 22, 1911....
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THE BLACK WATCH MEMORIAL AT TICONDEROGA. 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.” The writer, who was secretary of the Ticonderoga H
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