| 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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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.”
Major D. L. Wilson Farquharson, D. S. O., at “Allargue”
Representation of the Black Watch at Unveiling of Memorial Tablet, Ticonderoga, July 4, 1906