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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 Black Watch at Ticonderoga July 8, 1758By Frederick B. Richards, A. M., Glens Falls, N. Y.
A residence of ten years in Ticonderoga inspired me with anappreciation of the history of that most historic spot in America,and when as secretary of the Ticonderoga Historical Society Iwas instrumental in securing the erection of the Black WatchMemorial in that village, I became particularly interested in therecord of that famous Highland Regiment which this building commemorates.
It has for several years been my wish to write so complete anaccount of the Black Watch at Ticonderoga that one would needlook in no other place for any detail in the history of that regimentfrom the time it left Scotland in 1756 until after the captureof Ticonderoga by Amherst in 1759. As a meeting of the New YorkState Historical Association on Lake Champlain seemed an appropriatetime to present such a paper and the printed histories ofthat period give only meagre accounts on this subject, Mrs. Richardsand I made this an excuse for a trip to the British Isles anda large part of August and September, 1910, was spent on a BlackWatch pilgrimage. We had a very enjoyable trip and gained manyinteresting facts but I am sorry to say that the story is still farfrom complete.
The reason for the lack of more detailed information about theRegiment in the Ticonderoga period is found in the following whichis copied from the preface of Stewart of Garth’s first edition:
“The origin of these Sketches and Military Details was simplythis: When the Forty-s