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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.
| 1758. March 29, New York. | Abercrombie to Haldimand (?) Plan of operations settled at Home. Southern Operations. |
| Corps, Blakeney’s, Lord John Murray’s &c. | |
| B.6 p. 35 | |
| 1756. New York. | M.204-2 p. 397 Shirley to Fox |
| 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. | |
| In a letter from Abercrombie to London dated Albany, 3d August, 1756. | |
| 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. | |
| M.205-1 p. | |
| 1756. June 21. New York. | 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. |
| B.205-1 p. 8 |
LORD HOWE STONE
Unearthed at Ticonderoga, Oct. 1889. Now Preserved at Headquarters House
| 1756. Aug. 29, Albany. | Loudon to Fox. |
| 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. | |
| M.205-1 p. 240 | |
| 1756. Sept. 4. Boston. | Shirley to Loudon. |
| 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). | |
| 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. | |
| M.205-2 p. 306 | |
| 1756. Nov. 22, Albany. | Loudon to Fox. |
| The 42nd Regiment, I quarter at Schenectady, from whence they take the posts, on the Mohawk river, &c. | |
| M.207-1 p. 2 |
| 1757. April 25. New York. | Loudon to Pitt. |
| 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. | |
| We have on that river (Mohawk), at Schenectady, and up to the German Flats, the Highland Regiment, upwards of a thousand men. &c. | |
| M.207-1 p. 174 | |
| 1758. Feb’y 14. New York. | Loudon to Pitt. |
| ... ... ... storming 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. | |
| M.208. p. 2 |
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