Extract from speech by the elder Pitt in vindication of the employment of Highland Regiments of which the Black Watch was the first raised of the eighty-six during the four wars between 1739 and 1815.
“I sought for merit wherever it was to be found; it is my boast that I was the first Minister who looked for it and found it in the mountains of the North. I called it forth and drew into your service a hardy and intrepid race of men, who, when left by your jealousy, became a prey to the artifice of your enemies, and had gone nigh to have overturned the State in the war before the last. These men in the last war were brought to combat on your side, they served with fidelity as they fought with valour, and conquered for you in every part of the world.”
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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