Members of the New York and Vermont Champlain Tercentenary Commission, Colonel William Cary Sanger, Governor of our Society, Frederick B. Richards, Dr. Reynolds Webb Wilcox, George G. Reynolds, Stephen H. P. Pell, and other members of the Society, and about one hundred invited guests marched from the wharf to the English Fort built under Amherst, where the tablet was handsomely decorated with American flags guarded by a soldier of the 2d Regiment.
Hon. Howland Pell, your chairman, called the meeting to order, and stated that the committee had finished its task, and asked Miss Evelyn Witherbee to unveil the tablet. As this was done the band played the National air, the troops came to attention, and the audience of several thousand applauded. Its inscription showed that the tablet was erected by the Society of Colonial Wars in commemoration of the erection of the Fortress by Amherst and capture of Fort St. Frédéric.
Unveiling Tablet at Fort Amherst, July 5, 1912
The chairman then introduced Col. William Cary Sanger, who in a few well chosen words presented the tablet to the State of New York. Governor Dix then made a brief address, accepting the Tablet and placed it in the custody of the New York Historical Association in charge of the Reservation. Mr. James A. Holden, Treasurer, and Mr. Frederick B. Richards, Secretary, of the Association, accepted the charge and made short addresses. Judge Pyrke, of Port Henry, chairman of the local committee, promised to see that the tablet would be well cared for. The tablet bears the following inscription:
| 1759 | 1912. |
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK A. D. 1912 TO COMMEMORATE THE CAPTURE OF FORT ST. FRÉDÉRIC AND THE ERECTION OF THIS FORTRESS A. D. 1759 BY THE BRITISH AND PROVINCIAL ARMY COMMANDED BY GENERAL SIR JEFFREY AMHERST | |
| BRITISH REGIMENTS | PROVINCIAL REGIMENTS |
| 1st or the Royal Regiment of Foot | Col. Lyman’s—Connecticut |
| 17th Regiment of Foot “Forbé’s” | Col. Whiting’s—Connecticut |
| 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot | Col. Worcester’s—Connecticut |
| 42d Royal Highlanders—Black Watch | Col. Fitch’s—Connecticut |
| 55th Regiment of Foot, “Prideaux’s” | Col. Willard’s—Massachusetts |
| 77th Regiment Montgomery’s Highlanders | Col. Ruggle’s—Massachusetts |
| 80th (Light Armed)—Regiment of Foot “Gage’s” | Col. Lovell’s—New Hampshire |
| Royal Artillery | Col. Schuyler’s—New Jersey |
| Detachment of Sailors | Col. Babcock’s—Rhode Island Rangers and Indians. |
The tablet is of the finest bronze, 30 by 24 inches in size, and represents a soldier of the Black Watch, and a provincial soldier holding a scroll of inscription. General Sir Jeffrey Amherst’s head is in the upper center, and the insignia of the Society in the lower, the background shows the English forts, and a list of the English and American regiments in the campaign is given.
Howland Pell,
Chairman.