[634] Dawson, i. p. 116, who points out some errors in Leake's Life of Lamb (p. 374), or 4 American Archives, iii. p. 1343. Cf. Lossing's Schuyler, i. 444; Sargent's Major André, p. 79; Alex. Scammel's letter in Hist. Mag., xviii. 136; accounts in Gen. John Lacy's papers in the N. Y. State Library; Samuel Mott's letters in the Trumbull Papers (iv. p. 174); and others of Timothy Bedel in N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 637, 670. There are in the Archives at Ottawa a Mémoire of Amable Berthelot, of Quebec, on the war of 1775; a journal at Three Rivers, May 18, 1775, etc.; and a journal of the siege of St. John, 1775 (Brymner's Report on the Canadian Archives, 1881, p. 46). These are printed in Verreau's Invasion du Canada (Montreal, 1873). Carroll (Journal to Canada, 1876, p. 89), describing the works at St. John, says they were not injured by Montgomery's siege of them. There is a view of the works in Lossing's Field-Book, i. 172.
[635] Dawson, i. p. 115, etc.
[636] Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev., i. 477. Montgomery's letter to the inhabitants is given in fac-simile in 4 Force's Archives, iii. 1596, and his demand for its surrender, Ibid., v. 312. The articles of capitulation were printed in broadside. Sabin, xii. p. 314. Copies of Montgomery's letters are in the Sparks MSS. (lii. vol. ii.). Lareau, Littérature Canadienne, p. 240, says that L'Abbé Perrault intended a book, Le Siège de Montreal en 1775. See various documents in Verreau's Invasion du Canada.
[637] Dennie's Portfolio, xx. 75. A paper by Louise L. Hunt in Harper's Monthly, vol. lxx. (Feb., 1885), in which the story of the preservation of Montgomery's sword is told. Cf. Living Age, no. 1,017, p. 428; Biog. Notes concerning Richard Montgomery, by L. L. Hunt (1876); A Sketch of Montgomery (1876), by General Geo. W. Cullum, and an article by him in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., April, 1884, with interesting illustrations, including (p. 277) a view of Montgomery Place, on the Hudson, which was building at the time of his death, and was afterwards the home of his widow. There are other views of this well-known estate in Lamb's Homes of America, Harper's Mag., lxx. 354, etc. General Cullum's paper has also a fac-simile of a letter sent by Montgomery to Colonel Bedel, Oct. 2, 1775. For the ancestry of Montgomery, see N. Y. Geneal. and Biog. Record, July, 1871, p. 123. The memory of Montgomery suffered for a long time in Canada from the belief that he was the officer of that name who was charged with atrocities during the siege of Quebec in 1759 (Quebec Lit. and Hist. Soc. Trans., 1870-71, p. 63).
On his death and burial, see, beside the usual accounts, a paper among the Belknap papers in Mass. Hist. Soc. library (Proc., x. 323), called "A true account of Gen. Montgomery's death and burial at Quebec" (cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., i. p. 111), Life of Geo. Read, p. 140; Hilliard d'Auberteuil's Essais, with a stately picture of his funeral; Niles's Register, xiv. 371; Sparks's Washington, iii. 264, on the identification and burial of his remains; a picture of the house to which his body was carried in Grant's Picturesque Canada (Toronto, 1882, vol. i. p. 28); the final removal of his remains to New York, when his widow, forty-three years after his death, watched the barge which bore them as it slowly floated down the Hudson in front of Montgomery Place (Dennie's Portfolio, xxi. 134; Harper's Mag., lxx. 357; Quebec Lit. and Hist. Soc. Trans., 1870-71, p. 63; Dr. W. J. Anderson's paper was reprinted in Hist. Mag., xiii. 97); and a paper on the hundredth anniversary of his death in the New Dominion Monthly (Montreal), xvii. 397.
The tributes of Congress to Montgomery are recorded in the Journals of Congress, i. 247. Public services took place before that body Feb. 19, 1776, when an address was delivered which was published as An Oration in Memory of General Montgomery, and of the Officers and Soldiers who fell with him, December 31, 1775, before Quebec; drawn up (and delivered February 19th, 1776). At the Desire of the Honorable Continental Congress. By William Smith, D. D., Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia (Phila., 1776) It was reprinted in Norwich, Conn., and in London twice in the same year.
Franklin was commissioned to procure in France a monument to Montgomery's memory. One was finally erected in Trinity Church in New York (Mag. of Amer. Hist., April, 1884, p. 297; Harper's Mag., Nov., 1876, p. 876; Penna. Mag. of Hist., iii. 473).
Of some interest are a contemporary tragedy by H. H. Brackenridge, The Death of Montgomery (Norwich and Providence), with an engraving of the death scene by Norman (Sabin, ii. no. 7,185; Sparks' Catal., no. 337); and Thomas Paine's A Dialogue between the ghost of general Montgomery just arrived from the Elysian fields; and an American delegate, in a wood near Philadelphia. [Anon.] [Phila.], 1776. N. Y.; privately reprinted, 100 copies, 1865.
[638] Printed in the Maine Hist. Soc. Coll. (i. 343), at Portland, in 1831; Sabin, xii. 50,221. Cf. N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1881, p. 117, for an account of the Montresors, father and son, and G. D. Scull's Mem. and letters of Capt. W. G. Evelyn (1879), enlarged as The Evelyns in America (1881). Cf. also N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., Jan., 1882, p. 104.
[639] Catal. of King's Maps, Brit. Mus., i. 608. Cf. also the Map of New Hampshire, by Col. Joseph Blanchard and Rev. Samuel Langdon, engraved in Jefferys, dated Oct. 21, 1761.