The Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
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.

By Frederick B. Richards, A. M., Glens Falls, N. Y.
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.
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.
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: