See Dictionary of American Biography (US) and Dictionary
of Canadian Biography, vols. II and III, for key names.
See also related campaign bibliographies available from this
museum.
Regiments Committed 
British Regulars
27th Foot (Lord Blakeney’s, or The Inniskilling Regiment)
42nd Foot (Lord John Murray’s, or The Highland Regiment)
44th Foot (General Abercromby’s)
46th Foot (Lt. General Thomas Murray’s)
55th Foot (Lord Howe’s)
60th Foot (1st and 4th Battalions, Royal American Regiment)
80th Foot (Gage’s Light Arm’d Infantry)
4th and 17th companies Royal Artillery
His Majesty’s Independent Companies of Rangers (Major
Robert Rogers)
British Provincials
Colonel Jonathan Bagley’s Massachusetts Regiment
Colonel Thomas Doty’s Massachusetts Regiment
Colonel Ebenezer Nichols’ Massachusetts Regiment
Colonel Jedidiah Preble’s Massachusetts Regiment
Colonel Oliver Partridge’s Massachusetts Battalion of Light
Infantry or Rangers
Colonel Timothy Ruggles’ Massachusetts Regiment
Colonel William Williams’ Massachusetts Regiment
Colonel John Bradstreet’s Batteaumen (pronounced
"Broadstreet")
Sir William Johnson’s Mohawk Indians
Colonel Oliver Delancy’s New York Regiment
Colonel John Hart’s New Hampshire Regiment
Colonel Henry Babcock’s Rhode Island Regiment
Colonel John Johnson’s New Jersey Regiment
Colonel Phineas Lyman’s 1st Connecticut Regiment
Colonel Nathaniel Whiting’s 2nd Connecticut Regiment
Colonel Eleazer Fitch’s 3rd Connecticut Regiment
Colonel David Wooster’s 4th Connecticut Regiment
French
La Reine
Guyenne
Royal Roussillon
Béarn
Languedoc
1st Berry (actually 2nd)
2nd Berry (actually 3d)
La Sarre
Troops of La Marine
Canadians
Indians
Bibliographies
Henry P. Beers, "The Papers of the British Commanders in
Chief in North America, 1754-1783," Military Affairs, vol. XIII
(1949), pp. 79-94.
Douglas Brymner, comp., "Calendar of the Haldimand
Collection," Report on Canadian Archives, 1884-1889. [FTA
#2011-2015].
Lawrence Henry Gipson, A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to
the History of the British Empire, 1748-1776, New York, A.A. Knopf, 1970.
Vol. XV in The British Empire before the American Revolution.
J.C. Long, The Plimpton Collection of French and Indian
War Items, Amherst, Massachusetts, Amherst College, 1934.
James G. Lydon, Struggle for Empire: A Bibliography of the
French and Indian War, Garland, 1986. [FTA #1990.13].
Roger Perkins, Regiments: Regiments and Corps of the
British Empire and Commonwealth, 1758-1993: A Critical Bibliography of their
Published Histories, 1758-1993, Newton Abbott, Devon, Roger Perkins, 1994.
806 pp. £92.50.
The Prelude
Bob Bearor, The Battle on Snowshoes, Bowie, Maryland,
Heritage Books, 1997. [FTA].
Richard John Curry, "Rogers’ Battle on
Snowshoes," New England Galaxy, vol. 15 (1974), pp. 26-32.
Secondary Studies and Interpretations
"Gelyna: A Tale of Albany and Ticonderoga Seventy Years
Ago," The Talisman, a Christmas annual, 1830. [FTA #2256]. Reprinted
in The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. VIII no. 5 (Winter
1950) pp. 179-189. Illustrating The Talisman essay is Thomas Cole’s
1826 "Gelyna (View Near Ticonderoga)," in the Fort Ticonderoga
collections.
"The Royal American Regiment of Foot," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. III no. 5 (January 1935), p.
201-205. Covers the raising of the regiment and its service in the 1758 campaign
against Ticonderoga.
John Richard Alden, General Gage in America: Being
Principally a History of His Role in the American Revolution, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana State University Press, 1948. Chapter III, "The Conquest of
Canada," pp. 32-53.
Fred Anderson, A People’s Army: Massachusetts Soldiers
and Society in the Seven Years’ War, Chapel Hill, University of North
Carolina Press, 1984. See esp. Chap. V: "Battle and its Effects," pp.
142-164. [FTA #1989.5]. Anderson lists many Massachusetts soldiers’ journals
in Appendix B.
Tom Apple, "Radeau Below." Adirondack Guide,
October/November 1994, pp. 19-34. [FTA Research Files.] Concerning the Land
Tortoise shipwreck preserve.
Charles H. Bach, "George Augustus Scrope, Third Viscount
Howe." Typewritten manuscript in Fort Ticonderoga collections. [FTA
#P-4085].
Robert O. Bascom, "The Legend of Duncan Campbell," Proceedings,
New York State Historical Association, vol. II (1902), pp. 32-38. [FTA #4802].
M. Dudley Bean, "Storming of Ticonderoga," The
Knickerbocker, vol. XXXVI no. 1 (July 1850), pp. 1-25. [FTA #3300].
Bob Bearor, "Langy: The Best There Ever Was!," Muzzle
Blasts, vol. 56 no. 2 (October 1994), pp. 4-6.
Russell P. Bellico, Sails and Steam in the Mountains: A
Maritime and Military History of Lake George and Lake Champlain, Fleischmanns, New York, Purple Mountain Press, 1992, pp. 58-85. [FTA #1992. ].
Robert F. Berkhofer, "The French and Indians at
Carillon," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. IX
(1956), pp. 134-172.
Harrison K. Bird, Jr., "The Orders of Battle, 8 July
1758, at Fort Ticonderoga," Military Collector and Historian, vol.
VII no. 1 (Spring 1955), pp. 15-17. [FTA]. Not to be relied upon.
Jacques Bodin, L’histoire extraordinaire des Soldats de
la Nouvelle France, Paris, Édition O.C.A. Communication (pour le Mémorial
des Soldats de la Nouvelle France), 1993. [FTA].
A.G. Bradley, The Fight with France for North America,
New York, E.P. Dutton, 1910.
Leslie Buell, "In Defense of the General [Abercromby],"
The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XII
no. 3 (October 1967), pp. 223-232. Deals with failures of engineering and
intelligence.
Alexander Vance Campbell, "Through So Many
Hazards": A History of the First Battalion of the 60th (Royal American)
Regiment of Foot, 1756-1763, MA Thesis submitted to the University of
Maryland, 1995, pp. 38, 131-144. [FTA].
M. John Cardwell, The British Expedition Against Fort
Ticonderoga in 1758, M.A. Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1990.
M. John Cardwell, "Mismanagement: The 1758 Expedition
Against Carillon," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol.
XV no. 4 (1992), pp. 236-291.
l’Abbé H.-R. Casgrain, Guerre du Canada, 1756-1760:
Montcalm et de Lévis, Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1898. [FTA #3212].
l’Abbé H.-R. Casgrain, Makers of Canada: Wolfe and
Montcalm, London and Toronto, 1905. [FTA #3335].
René Chartrand, Ticonderoga 1758, Osprey [no. 76],
2000. [FTA].
Flavius Josephus Cook, [poem], Harper’s New Monthly
Magazine, August 1875. See also Frederick G. Bascom, "Joseph Cook and
Ticonderoga," New York History, vol. XV no. 1 (January 1934), pp.
43-49.
Rev. Joseph Cook, "Ticonderoga and
Montcalm," Harper’s
New Monthly Magazine, vol. LI (May 1875.
Guy Oberon Coolidge, The French Occupation of the
Champlain Valley, 2nd ed., Mamaroneck, New York, Harbor Hill Books, 1989,
pp. 156-158. [FTA #1992. ] Reprint from Proceedings, Vermont Historical
Society, vol. 6 no. 3 (1938) [FTA #689].
James Fenimore Cooper, Satanstoe, or the Littlepage
Manuscripts: A Tale of the Colony (1845), Albany, State University of New
York, 1990. See esp. chapters XX-XXIII, pp. 283-338, for an account of the 1758
battle. Cooper’s account was derived in turn from Anne Grant, Memoirs of an
American Lady, 2 vols., 1809 [FTA] and William Dunlap, History of
the New Netherlands, Province of New York, and State of New York, 2 vols.,
1839 [FTA]. See also James H. Pickering, "James Fenimore Cooper and the
History of New York," (Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1964.)
John R. Cuneo, Robert Rogers of the Rangers, New York,
Oxford University Press, 1959. [FTA #3247]; Fort Ticonderoga paperback reprint
edition, 1988, pp. 70-90. [FTA #1991.18].
William Dunlap, History of the New Netherlands, Province
of New York, and State of New York, 2 vols., New York City, Carter &
Thorp, 1839-1840. [FTA 3017-3018]. See esp. vol. I, pp. 391-393.
Albert C. Elmer, "A Glimpse into the Past at Fort
Carillon," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. IX
(1953), pp. 115-136. Abercromby’s defeat is seen as a total disaster.
Rev. John Entick, General History of the Late War,
London, 1765, 5 vols. [FTA #3213-3217]. See esp. vol. III. 6th edition, one
volume, Dublin, (1774) is well-illustrated.
Hon. J.W. Fortescue, A History of the British Army,
London, Macmillan, 1899, vol. 2, pp. 322-334. [FTA/Olson #34].
Mgr. P.S. Garand, "The Montcalm Cross," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. II no. 2 (July 1930), pp.
54-56.
Lawrence Henry Gipson, The Great War for Empire: The
Victorious Years (vol. VII), New York, Knopf, 1949, esp. pp. 208-246.
[FTA-#2852].
William G. Godfrey, John Bradstreet’s Quest: Pursuit of
Profit and Preferment in Colonial North America, Waterloo, Wilfred Laurier
University Press, 1982.
[Oliver Goldsmith], The Martial Review; or A General
History of the Late Wars; Together with the Definitive Treaty, and Some
Reflections on the Probable Consequences of the Peace, London, J. Newberry,
1763, pp. 59-62. [FTA #3218].
Col. Edward P. Hamilton, Fort Ticonderoga: Key to a
Continent, Boston, Little, Brown, 1964, pp. 72-86. [FTA].
Col. Edward P. Hamilton, The French and Indian War,
New York, Doubleday, 1962, pp. 211-227. [FTA #3244].
J.R. Harper, The Fraser Highlanders, Montreal, The
Society of the Montreal Military and Maritime Museum, 1979. [FTA #666]. (This
regiment did not serve at Ticonderoga in the 1758 campaign until called in as
reinforcements for the forward British positions in the autumn.)
Susan W. Henderson, The French Regular Officer Corps in
Canada, 1755-1760: A Group Portrait, PhD dissertation, University of Maine,
Orono, 1975.
James Austin Holden, "New Historical Light on the Real
Burial of George Augustus, Lord Viscount Howe, 1758," Proceedings,
New York State Historical Association, vol. X (1911), pp. 257-366. [FTA #4809].
Holden’s Appendix VI (pp. 337-365) is a "Bibliography of the Campaign of
1758," heavily focused upon secondary sources, but includes maps and prints
of both the 18th and 19th centuries. All of Holden’s 18th-century sources are
cited herein.
James Austin Holden, "Half Way Brook in History," New
York History, vol. VI, pp. 169-189.
Joseph Hooper, The Burial Place of the Hon. George
Augustus Scrope (Lord Viscount Howe), Albany, 1897. [FTA #P-3079]. Also as
Appendix II in Holden, "New Historical Light . . .," Proceedings,
New York State Historical Association, vol. X (1911), pp. 313-321. [FTA #4809].
Régine Hubert-Robert, Les Lys et le Lion en Amérique,
une guerre franco-anglaise, 1534-1760, Paris, Édition Albatross, 1980.
Charles A. Huguenin, "The Ghost of Ticonderoga," New
York Folklore Quarterly, vol. 15 (1959), pp. 4-24.
David Humphreys, An Essay on the Life of the Honorable
Major General Israel Putnam, Addressed to the state Society of the Cincinnati in
Connecticut, Boston, Samuel Avery, 1818, 276 p. (first edition, 1788). [FTA
#1407 and 1408]. Putnam’s participation in the 1758 Battle and his subsequent
capture and torture is found on pp. 49-65.
Thomas Hutchinson, The History of the Province of
Massachusetts Bay from 1749 to 1774, London, 1828.
George A. Ingalls, "Lord Howe," Proceedings of
the New York State Historical Association, vol. II (1902), pp. 24-31. [FTA
#4802].
Francis Jennings, The Empire of Fortune: Crowns, Colonies
and Tribes in the Seven Years’ War in America, New York, W.W. Norton,
1988, Chapter 16, pp. 353-367. [FTA #1991.20]
Louis C. Jones, Things That Go Bump in the Night,
1959, reprint ed.: Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1983. On Duncan
Campbell, see pp. 125-127.
Douglas Edward Leach, Arms for Empire: A Military History
of the British Colonies in North America, 1609-1763, New York, Macmillan,
1973, pp. 430-432. [FTA].
Burt Garfield Loescher, Genesis: Rogers’ Rangers, The
First Green Berets, San Mateo, California, 1969. Volume 2 covers 6 April
1758-24 December 1783. [FTA #3270].
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution,
New York, Harper Brothers, 1850, vol. I, pp. 115-116, 118-119.
Ian McCulloch, "Buckskin Soldier: The Rise and Fall of
Major Robert Rogers," The Beaver (April-May 1993), pp. 17-26.
Ian McCulloch, "Montcalm’s Greatest Victory: The
Battle of Carillon, 1758," Esprit de Corps: Canadian Military Then &
Now, vol. I no. 8 (January 1992), pp. 22-25.
Ian McCulloch, "‘Believe Us, Sir, This Will Impress
Few People’: Spin-doctoring—18th-century Style," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XVI no. 1 (1998), pp. 92-107.
Ian McCulloch, "‘Like Roaring Lions Breaking from
their Chains’: The Battle of Ticonderoga, 1758," Fighting for Canada:
Seven Battles, 1758-1945, Donald E. Graves, ed., Toronto, Robin Brass
Studio, 2000, pp. 23-87 (narrative), 367-371 (order of battle), 398-404
(endnotes).
D. Peter MacLeod, The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven
Years’ War, Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1996, pp. 115-128. Canadian War Museum
Publication no. 29.
Thomas Mante, The History of the Late War in North-America,
London, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1772, pp. 144-151. See map facing p. 144. [FTA
#3330]. Some sources say that Mante served with Montgomery’s Regiment of Foot.
Vincent Mayernik, Fort Ticonderoga: Military Asset or
Liability?, M.A. thesis submitted to Columbia University, June 1951.
W.W. Murray, "The Black Watch at Ticonderoga," Canadian
Defence Quarterly, vol. 6 (1929), pp. 212-218.
George Ochoa, The Fall of Quebec and the French and Indian
War, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Silver Burdett, 1990, pp. 33-41. [FTA].
Children’s book especially strong in graphics.
Norreys Jephson O’Conor, A Servant of the Crown in
England and North America, New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1938, pp. 92-115
and pp. 231-238. [FTA #3209 and 3261]. The correspondence and accounts of John
Appy, Secretary and Judge Advocate of His Majesty’s forces in North America,
1756-1761.
Herbert L. Osgood, The American Colonies in the Eighteenth
Century, 4 vols., New York, 1924. See esp. vol. IV.
Edward J. Owen, "The Burial of George Augustus, Lord
Viscount Howe, Killed July 6, 1758, at Trout Brook, Ticonderoga, N.Y.," Magazine
of History (Extra Nos.), vol. 1 (1908), pp. 223-269. [FTA #P-1955 and
P-3057].
Gary Paine, "Ord’s Arks: Angles, Artillery, and Ambush
on Lakes George and Champlain," The American Neptune, vol. 58 no. 2
(Spring 1998), pp. 105-122.
Francis Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, Frontenac ed., 3
vols., Boston, 1884. [FTA].
Howard H. Peckham, The Colonial Wars, 1689-1762,
Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1964. [FTA].
John H.G. Pell, "Montcalm at Carillon," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. I no. 3 (January 1928), pp.
4-11.
Robert T. Pell, "Montcalm: Origins and First
Steps," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. VIII no. 4
(Summer 1949), pp. 131-159.
Robert T. Pell, "The Strategy of Montcalm, 1758," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. IX no. 3 (Summer 1953), pp.
175-201.
Stephen H.P. Pell, Fort Ticonderoga: A Short History,
Ticonderoga, Fort Ticonderoga, 1935+, pp. 27-45. [FTA #2543].
Stephen H.P. Pell, "Lord Howe," The Bulletin of
the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. II no. 2 (July 1930), pp. 44-54.
Susan B. Pendleton, "Historic Letters and Data," Daughters
of the American Revolution Magazine, vol. 86 (1952), pp. 1139-1141.
Including a letter concerning the first skirmish at Lake George, 4 July 1758.
Ruth B. Phillips and Dale Idiens, "‘A Casket of Savage
Curiosities’: Eighteenth-century Objects from Northeastern North America in
the Farquharson Collection," Journal of the History of Collections,
vol. 6 no. 1 (1994), pp. 21-33. Alexander Farquharson served with the 42nd
(Highland) Regiment 1757-62, and at Ticonderoga in 1759.
David Ramsay, Military Memoirs of Great Britain; or A
History of the War, 1755-1763, Edinburgh, for the author, 1779. [FTA #3785].
Chap. VI (pp. 75-86): Cumberland surrenders at Kloster-Seven. Chap. VII (pp.
87-96): Invasion at Rochfort; Mordaunt trial. Chap. XI (pp. 135-145): aborted
Louisbourg expedition; disaster at Fort William Henry. Chap. XVI (pp. 192-205):
Success at Louisbourg; disaster at Ticonderoga.
Rev. Andrew V.V. Raymond, "Montcalm," Proceedings
of the New York State Historical Association, vol. II (1902), pp. 39-45.
[FTA #4802].
Frederic Remington, "Joshua Goodenough’s Old
Letter," Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, vol. XCV (November 1897),
pp. 878-889. [FTA #1817]. Reprinted as "A Rogers’ Ranger in the French
and Indian War, illustrated by Frederic Remington." [FTA #P-3043].
Reprinted in Frederic Remington, Crooked Trails and Pony Tracks,
Harper Brothers. Reprinted in Frederic Remington, Stories of Peace and War,
New York, Harper Brothers, 1899; [FTA #3282]. Reprinted in Peggy and Harold
Samuels, The Collected Writings of Frederic Remington, Garden City, N.Y.,
Doubleday & Co., 1979. Reprinted as Goodenough of the Rangers: The
Centennial Edition of "Joshua Goodenough’s Old Letter," Nicholas
Westbrook, ed., Fort Ticonderoga, 1997. Purports to be a letter from Goodenough
"To My Dear Son Joseph, Albany, June 1798." A well-done piece of
Colonial Revival fiction, rather than an authentic period manuscript.
Cuyler Reynolds, Albany Chronicles (Albany, ), opp. p.
254. [FTA #3040]. Illustrates the St. Peter’s Church, Albany, "Church
Book" wherein is recorded receipt of payment for the burial and pall of
Lord Howe on 5 September 1758.
Frederick B. Richards, "The Black Watch at Ticonderoga
and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe," Proceedings, New York State
Historical Association, vol. X (1911), pp. 367-464. [FTA #4809]. The Fort
Ticonderoga paperback reprint is [FTA #P-1808].
Sigmund Samuels, The Seven Years’ War in Canada,
1756-1763, Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1934. [FTA #3228].
Capt. Maurice Sautai, Montcalm au combat de Carillon,
Paris, Librairie Militaire R. Chapelot et C:ie, 1909. Fully documented. Includes
detailed maps of troop dispositions. [FTA #3333]. English translation by John S.
Watts, c. 1923, published by Fort Ticonderoga. Sources not given in this
edition. [FTA #P-1840].
John A. Schutz, "The Disaster of Fort Ticonderoga: The
Shortage of Muskets During the Mobilization of 1758," Huntington Library
Quarterly, vol. 14 (1951), pp. 307-315.
John A. Schutz, Thomas Pownall: British Defender of
American Liberty, Glendale, California, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1951, pp.
57-152.
John W. Shy, James Abercromby and the Campaign of 1758,
an M.A. thesis submitted to the University of Vermont, June 1957. [FTA]
William Smith, The History of the Late Province of New
York, 2 vols., New York, 1830. [FTA #4515-4516]. See esp. vol. II.
Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker, 1771. Scottish
lieutenant, Obadiah Lismahago is wounded at Ticonderoga in 1758, scalped by the
Indians as he lay immobilized on the battlefield, and patched up in a French
hospital in Montréal; escapes. See Andrew Sharp, "Scots, Savages, and
Barbarians: Humphry Clinker and the Scots’ Philosophy," Eighteenth-Century
Life, vol. 18 (November 1994), pp. 65-79.
Tobias Smollett, History of England from the Revolution in
1688 to the Death of George II, Being a Continuation of Hume, 6 vols.,
London, 1818. vol. 5, p. 309.
Richard F. Snow, "The Debacle at Fort Carillon," American
Heritage, vol. XXIII no. 4 (June 1972), pp. 80-89. Not reliable.
A.P. Stanley, "Inverawe and Ticonderoga," Fraser’s
Magazine, London, October 1880, pp. 501-510. (Huntington Library: E199/S8).
Robert Louis Stevenson, "Ticonderoga: A Legend of the
West Highlands," Scribner’s Magazine, December 1887. Reprinted by
Fort Ticonderoga, 1947. [FTA #2291].
W. Thomas, "Stations of Troops in North America,
1757-1760," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research,
vol. XIV (1935), pp. 235-236.
Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of King George II,
vol. III (1758-1760), John Brooke, ed., New Haven, Yale University Press, 1985;
Book 8, Memoirs of the year 1758, pp. 1-7, 14-17, 28-29.
Harry M. Ward, General William Maxwell and the New Jersey
Continentals, Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1997, Chapter 1. [FTA
1997. ].
Winslow C. Watson, The Military and Civil History of the
County of Essex, New York, Albany, Joel Munsell, 1869. [FTA #2602; another
copy is #2604].
Col. Frederick Bernays Wiener, "More about General
Gabriel Christie," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, vol.
LII no. 212 (winter 1972), pp. 209-214. [FTA 1995.53.18].
Nicholas Westbrook, ed., "‘Like Roaring Lions Breaking
from their Chains’: The Highland Regiment at Ticonderoga," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XVI no. 1 (1998), pp. 16-91.
Frank B. Wickes, "Lord Howe," Proceedings,
New York State Historical Association, vol. X (1911), pp. 238-256. [FTA #4809;
another loose copy is FTA #P-3016].
[J. Wright], A Complete History of the Late War, or Annual
Register of Its Rise, Progress and Events, Dublin, 6th ed., 1774. All the
North American material is taken from J. Knox, Historical Journal of the
Campaigns in North America.
Primary Sources: British
"Distribution of Troops to Penetrate into Canada,"
n.p., n.d., Colonial Office, Series 5, Volume 50, Folio 49, Public Record
Office.
"Return of the Present State of His Majesty’s Forces
Under the Immediate Command of his Excellency Major-General Abercrombie
[sic]," Lake George, 29 June 1758. Colonial Office, Series 5, Volume 50,
Folio 174, Public Record Office.
Returns of the British Casualties
"Return of the Officers of the Several Regiments Who
Were Killed or Wounded Near Ticonderoga, July 8, 1758," n.p., n.d., War
Office, Series 34, Volume 76, Folio 160, Public Record Office. Related to the
roster appended to Abercromby’s letter to Pitt, 12 July 1758, published in in Documents
Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, Albany, 1858,
vol. X [FTA #4329], p. 727.
"Return of the officers killed and wounded near
Ticonderoga, July 6. and July 8. 1758," Scots Magazine, vol. 20
(August 1758), pp. 436-438. Reprints substantially the official report.
"Loss of the army before the lines of Ticonderoga, July
8, 1758," in John Knox, Historical Journal, vol. I, p. 152.
Three manuscript returns of British officers killed and
wounded at Ticonderoga, 8 July 1758, are in the Papers of General John Forbes,
McGregor Library, University of Virginia. See "Calendar . . ." (1988),
p. 41.
"Names of British Officers Killed and Wounded near
Ticonderoga, July 8, 1758," from London Magazine, vol. XXVII, p.
427, in Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York,
vol. X [FTA #4329], pp. 728-732.
"A List of Officers and Soldiers killed and wounded at
the Attack of Ticonderogo, 8th July 1758." [FTA #M-1914]. Published in The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. II no. 2 (July 1930), pp.
76-78. Names only Regular officers killed and wounded; summarizes all Provincial
casualties.
"Return of the Kild: Missing and Wounded of His Majestes
Forces: and Provincals: in the action at Ticonderogo," (8 July 1758).
Original ms in the collection of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association,
Deerfield, Massachusetts; photocopy in Fort Ticonderoga research files. Lists
casualties by rank, type, and regiment. "the Total of Kild Missing and
Wounded of His Majestys Troops: 1608 [correcting arithmetic errors, 1609]:
Province 334 in all 1942 [1943]."
"Return of the Killed Wounded and missing of his Majesty’s
Troops at the Action Near Ticonderago," (8 July 1758). Original ms in the
collection of the Society of the Cincinnati, Washington, D.C.; photocopy in Fort
Ticonderoga research files. Lists casualties by rank, type, and regiment.
Benjamin Sanborn, junr., 9 January 1760.
"An Account of the Actions at Ticonderago, together with
an Exact List of the Kill’d, Missing & Wounded, both Regulars &
Provincials, [Published by Order.]" Boston Gazette, 24 July 1758, p.
1. Reprinted Boston News-letter, 27 July 1758, p. 1.
"Returns of the Killed, Missing, and Wounded, of His
Majesty’s Forces and Provincials in the Action at Ticonderoga," in Boston
Weekly Advertiser, 24 July 1758, p. 3. [bibliographical source unknown; no
such newspaper in 18th-c. Boston]
"List of the Killed Wounded and Missing at Ticonderoga
the 6th and 8th July 1758," in James Gregory and Thomas Dunnings, eds., Horatio
Gates Papers, 1726-1828, New York, Microfilming Corporation of America,
1979, reel 18, p. 699. Box 1, #44 in New-York Historical Society manuscript
collection of Gates Papers.
"List of the killed, wounded, and missing in the troops
commanded by Major General Abercrombie at the action at Ticonderoga, the 6th and
8th July, 1758." Gift of J. Pintard Servoss to New-York Historical Society,
September 1847. Proceedings, New-York Historical Society, vol. VIII
(November 1847), p. 134. [FTA #2016].
"The Number of the Killed Wounded and Missing of His
Majestyes Forces at the Lake on the Frontiers on the 6th: and 8th: of July in
the Year 1758." Monday, 10 July 1758. Captain David Waterbury, Personal
Roster and Diary for the Lake George Campaign, p. 10. Col. David Wooster’s
(Fourth) Connecticut regiment. Typed transcript of the first 97 pages, 1895.
[FTA Research Files #B-27]. [May be at Yale.]
A Bill of the Albany Hospital for the care of the men of the
Rhode Island Regiment, many of them wounded in the unsuccessful assault on Fort
Ticonderoga in July 1758, Providence, Society of Colonial Wars in the State
of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, no. 40 (1950). The original printed
form is in the collection of the Rhode Island Historical Society, [photocopy in
FTA research files].
News Reports / Magazine and Newspaper Poetry
"A Chronological Memoir of Occurrences for August
1758," Miscellaneous Correspondence, London, vol. II (1758), pp.
866-867. [FTA] Extract of a Letter from Major General Abercromby to the Rt. Hon.
Mr. Secretary Pitt, from Camp at Lake George, 12 July 1758. Followed by a notice
that the Highland Regiment has been raised to Royal status; to augment its
numbers to 2000 men by adding a second battalion of 700 men; and naming the
newly appointed officers.
"Monthly Report," The American Magazine,
Philadelphia, vol. I no. x (July 1758), pp. 511-512. (John Carter Brown Library
#H1a/1758); another: Huntington Library, AE 7829 // 26957 (rare). Transcript in
Fort Ticonderoga research files. Concludes with a long catechism on why the
campaign failed.
Written by a Lady, "Methinks I see Britannia’s Genius
here," Boston News-Letter, no. 2989 (14 December 1758), p. 3 col. 1.
[LeMay #1528]. "Lines . . . Upon General Amherst’s leading his Troops
from Boston, after the Conquest of Louisbourg, to join our Army that had been
repulsed at Tionderoga." Frequently reprinted.
"Rise! Britons, Rise! Defend your righteous Cause,"
On the Present Expedition by a young Genius. Boston Gazette, no. 173 (24
July 1758), p. 4, col. 2. [LeMay #1459]. Reprinted in New Hampshire Gazette,
no. 95 (28 July 1758), p. 2, col. 2. [LeMay #1460].
"Extract of a Letter from New-York to his Friend in this
Town [Portsmouth, N.H.], dated May 31st," Boston News-Letter, 22
June 1758, p. 3. Reprinted in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 6 July 1758, p.
2. Re the qualities of Lord Howe.
"Extract of a letter from Albany dated June 1,
1758," Boston News-Letter, 15 June 1758, p. 2, cols. 2-3.
"Extract of a letter dated Flat-Bush, June 12,
1758," Boston News-Letter, 29 June 1758, p. 2. Letter is continued
in the issue of 6 July 1758, p. 3 Reprinted in part in the Pennsylvania
Gazette, 6 July 1758, p. 2.
"Encampment near Fort Edward, on the other side of the
River, June 22, 1758," Boston Gazette, 3 July 1758, p. 3 col. 1;
reprinted Boston News-Letter, 6 July 1758, p. 2, col. 1.
"Extract of a letter from Fort-Edward, June 22," Boston
News-Letter, 6 July 1758, p. 3, col. 3. Re: clothing, morale,
and camp preparedness.
"Advices from Albany, Lake George, from June 22 to June
26," Boston News-Letter, 13 July 1758, p. 1.
"Advices from Albany, Lake George, from June 26 to July
7," Boston News-Letter, 13 July 1758, p. 2, col. 1. Reprinted Boston
Gazette, 17 July 1758, p. 1. Re the gasconade of Wolf’s flag
of truce to return Col. Schuyler.
"Boston, July 13," Boston News-Letter, 13
July 1758, p. 2, col. 1. Reprinted in the Boston Gazette, 17 July 1758,
p. 1, col. 3. Re the express reports which arrived "last
evening" from Albany concerning the landing on the 6th and Howe’s death.
"Extract of a letter from Albany to a Gentleman in this
Town, dated July 10, 1758," Boston News-Letter, 13 July 1758, p. 2.
Reprinted Boston Gazette, 17 July 1758, p. 1, col. 3.
"An Account of the Actions at Ticonderago, together with
an Exact List of the Kill’d, Missing & Wounded, both Regulars &
Provincials, [Published by Order.]" Boston Gazette, 24 July 1758, p.
1. Reprinted Boston News-letter, 27 July 1758, p. 1.
"Extract of a letter from an officer at the Camp at Lake
George, dated July 11," London Chronicle, vol. IV (22 August 1758),
p. 183, col. 1. [FTA].
"Extract of a Letter from Saratoga, to a Gentleman in
this Town, dated July 12, 1758," Pennsylvania Gazette, 3 August
1758, p. 2.
"From the Newport [R.I.] Mercury, Newport, August
7," Boston News-Letter, 10 August 1758, p. 2, col. 1. The
extraordinary story of brave William Smith, a private in Capt. John Whiting’s
Coy, the Rhode Island regiment.
Boston News-Letter, 24 August 1758, p. 3, col. 3. Re
celebrating the "good News of the Reduction and Surrender of
Louisbourg."
Boston News-Letter, 31 August 1758 supplement, p. 2, col.
1. Re action at Halfway brook, attempt to exchange prisoners.
Americanus, "On Col. Bradstreet’s Success," New-London
Summary, no. 8 (29 September 1758), p. 4, col. 2. [LeMay #1482]. Reprinted
in Boston News-Letter (12 October 1758); New Hampshire Gazette (20
October 1758); New American Magazine (October 1758).
"A Letter from Lake George, 10 July 1758" Pennsylvania
Gazette, 3 August 1758, p. 1.
"Extract of a Letter from Lake George, July 21,
1758," Pennsylvania Gazette, 27 July 1758, p. 2.
"Extract of a letter from a lieutenant in Howe’s
regiment dated at Lake George, July 10," Scots Magazine, vol. 20
(August 1758) p. 439. A paean to the service of the Highland regiment.
"Extract of a letter from Maj. Gen. Abercrombie to Mr.
Sec. Pitt, dated at the Camp at Lake George, 12 July 1758" The Scots
Magazine, vol. 20 (August 1758), pp. 436-438. With maps. Reprints
substantially the official report.
"From other newspapers / Extract of a letter from an
officer at Lake George dated July 11" Scots Magazine, vol. 20
(August 1758), pp. 438-439. (This latter appeared in the New York Mercury,
24 July 1758, p. 2 col. 3.)
"Deaths," The Scots Magazine, vol. 20
(August 1758), p. 442. Obituary for Lord Howe.
"Historical Chronicle [under date of Monday 12
July]," The Gentleman’s Magazine, vol. XXXII, (July 1762), p. 340.
[FTA]. "A monument to the memory of the late gallant Lord Howe was
opened in Westminster Abbey," donated by the province of
Massachusetts Bay.
"A French account of the action at Ticonderoga," The
Scots Magazine, vol. 20 (September 1758), p. 491.
[Lt. William Grant], "A Particular Account of the Action
at Ticonderoga," The Scots Magazine, vol. 20 (December 1758), pp.
698-699. "Written by an officer of Lord John Murray’s regiment, who never
had seen the low country till anno 1740." "How can we recruit
and when shall we have so fine a regiment again?"
[report on the care of 45 wounded highlanders at Chelsea], The
Scots Magazine, vol. (April 1759), p. 213.
"Letter from a Gentleman at Lake George, dated 11 July
1758," New York Mercury, 24 July 1758. RE the "red
handkerchief" episode.
"Letter from an Officer," Gentleman’s Magazine,
London, vol. 28 (September 1758), p. 444-446. [FTA #P-5096]. Officer is Captain
Peter Duboise from DeLancy’s New York regiment of provincials, entrusted with
guarding prisoners captured on the 6th. The Magazine version is a
slightly expanded version of the P. DuBoise ms in Bancroft Library, New York,
and published in The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. VII
no. 1 (January 1945), pp. 15-18.
"On the Death of Lord Howe" [title];
"Britannia mourns her youthful hero slain," Gentlemen’s Magazine,
vol. XXVIII (October 1758), p. 530. Dated "Nottingham, Oct. 23." Howe
is MP for Nottingham. (LeMay #1510). Reprinted in Scots Magazine, vol. 20
(October 1758), p. 530.
A Lady in America, "Verses on the Defeat at Ticonderoga
or Carilong," London Magazine, (February 1759). (LeMay #1475 and
#1560.) Reprinted in The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. IV
no. 2 (July 1936), pp. 42-43.
[Annis Boudinot Stockton], "Dear to each Muse, and to
thy country dear," New York Mercury, no. 282 (9 January 1758), p.1
col. 1. [LeMay #1404]. On the temporary return of Col. Peter Schuyler on parole.
Reprinted in New American Magazine, vol. I no. 1 (January 1758). [LeMay
#1412]. On the poet, see Carla Mulford, ed., Only for the Eye of a Friend:
The Poems of Annis Boudinot Stockton, Charlottesville, University Press of
Virginia, 1995. Reviewed in William & Mary Quarterly, vol. LIII no. 4
(October 1996), pp. 819-823.
Nassovicus [Benjamin Youngs Prime], "Amherst, while
crouds attend you on your way," New York Mercury, no. 331 (18
December 1758), p. 1 col. 3. [LeMay #1529]. Lines to be presented to Amherst on
his way across Long Island to relieve Abercromby. Frequently reprinted. A
satirical reply is "Dogma Poeticum" by Philo Metros in Boston
Gazette, no. 198 (15 January 1759), p. 3 col. 1. [LeMay #1545].
[Benjamin Youngs Prime], The Unfortunate Hero, New
York, 1758. Author lived on Long Island. Two poems: an ode on the death of Howe
and another on the fall of Louisbourg. Both are reprinted, pp. 26-39, in The
Patriot Muse, or Poems on Some of the principal Events of the late War; By an
American Gentleman, London, 1764. Unique surviving complete copy is at
Huntington Library. See Annual Report of the John Carter Brown Library,
vol. 35, pp. 48-49.
"On the Death of his Son, Col. Bever, who was killed in
the Engagement at Ticonderoga," New-York Mercury, no. 341 (26
February 1759), p. 1 col. 1. (LeMay #1558).
By a Young Gentleman, "What! Can an infant muse attempt
to sing," Weyman’s New York Gazette, no. 25 (6 August 1759), p. 1,
cols. 1-2. [LeMay #1618]. Including lines on the fall of brave Howe. "And
with him the whole Army’s courage fled / Their soul, their Life, and their
conducting Head."
Journals and Correspondence
A Journal or Proceedings of the Army under the Command of
Maj.-Gen. Abercromby from June ye 17th until July ye
9th Campaign 1758. Marquess of Bute
Collection (0631), Mount Stuart Trust Archives, Scotland.
Correspondence between Abercromby and Vaudreuil in late
summer 1758 concerning exchange of prisoners; "Correspondence des
Généraux Anglais," in Lettres et Pièces Militaires in Manuscrits
de Lévis, Casgrain, ed., pp. 233-272. [FTA #3314].
Abercromby Papers. Henry E. Huntington Library and Art
Gallery, San Marino, California. The auction catalog for the March 1917 sale of
these Papers by Major R.W. Duff, Fetteresso Castle, by Sotheby is [FTA #P-4094],
pp. 83ff.
James Abercromby to Lord Barrington [Secretary at War], New
York, 25 April 1758. Plimpton Collection [#183A and #183B] at Amherst College.
"Abercromby . . . an older officer raised in the dilatory school. This
lengthy letter is . . . typical of his habit of writing long-winded letters . .
. while the campaign remained neglected."
Major-General James Abercromby to William Pitt, Camp at Lake
George, July 12, 1758. Draft versions of Abercromby’s report to
Pitt are found in War Office series 34, volume 73, folios 172-174 (in Appy’s
hand), and another on folios 175-177 (probably Abercromby’s own hand); Public
Record Office. The retained copy of the manuscript ("in
mutilated condition") is in collections of the Huntington Library (AB 436).
Also published as "Montcalm’s Victory: General James Abercromby to
William Pitt," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. V
no. 5-6 (July 1940), pp. 140-142. Same letter appears in Gertrude S. Kimball,
ed., Correspondence of William Pitt, vol. I, pp. 299-300 (heavily
edited). The recipient’s copy of the letter is in America and
the West Indies, vol. 87, pp. 297-302, Publc Record Office. Published in London
Gazette Extraordinary, 22 August 1758. Reprinted in Documents Relative to
the Colonial History of the State of New York, Albany, 1858, vol. X [FTA
#4329], pp. 725-727. "Official Dispatch of General Abercromby,"
published as Appendix I in James Austin Holden, "New Historical Light on
the Real Burial of George Augustus, Lord Viscount Howe, 1758," Proceedings,
New York State Historical Association, vol. X (1911), pp. 309-313. [FTA #4809].
Written from "Camp at Lake George, July 12th 1758" but misprinted in
the above as "July 2." Contemporaneously published versions of this
dispatch delicately omitted the passage about the disposition of Howe’s body
in Albany.
Major-General James Abercromby to William Pitt, Camp at Lake
George, July 12, 1758; War Office series 34, volume 73, folio 178. Concerns the
dispatch of Cunningham, aide-de-camp to carry the report of action at
Ticonderoga, and return on leave to recruit his health.
Major-General James Abercromby to Major-General Jeffery
Amherst, Camp at Lake George, 18 July 1758. Amherst Family Papers, MG 18, L-4,
32/1. National Archives of Canada. Abercromby’s retained copy is AB 450 in the
Abercromby Papers, The Huntington Library. The received copy is in Amherst
Papers, Kent County Archives, U1350/032/1; 9 pp. and 2 maps.
Major-General James Abercromby to Lord Barrington, Camp at
Lake George, July 12, 1758; War Office series 34, volume 73, folio 179. Concerns
death of Lord Howe.
Major-General James Abercromby to Col. Peter Schuyler, 12
August 1758 [FTA ms #2000.0034.001]. Returns Schuyler to his parole.
Major-General James Abercromby to William Pitt, Camp at Lake
George, 19 August 1758; Colonial Office series 5, vol. 50, ff. 260-260v. Printed
in Pitt Corresp., vol. I, pp. 316-327.
Major-General James Abercromby to Mr. James Abercromby, Camp
at Lake George, 19 August 1758; Marquess of Bute Collection (0631), Mount Stuart
Trust Archives, Scotland. With an accompanying letter from James Abercromby
transmitting the General’s letter to Lord Loudoun.
James Abercromby to Abraham Mortier, 1758. Re
settlement of accounts for John Bradstreet for construction of batteaux. [FTA
#M-1993.72]. Abercromby’s retained copy is AB 915 in the Abercromby Papers,
The Huntington Library.
James Abercromby to Abraham Mortier, 31 October 1758.
settlement of accounts for Preble’s Massachusetts regiment. [FTA #M-1913].
Abercromby’s retained copy is AB 964(3) in the Abercromby Papers, the
Huntington Library.
Nathaniel Ames, Astronomical Diary & Almanac for 1758.
[FTA #P-3083].
Statement of the account of provincial soldiers, Charlemont,
Massachusetts, March 1758, sworn before Elijah Williams. Plimpton Collection
[#42] at Amherst College.
Garret Albertson, A Short Account of the Life, Travels,
and Adventures of Garrett Albertson, Sr., 1845. [FTA #P-4013]. Reprinted in The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. IV no. 2 (July 1936), pp.
43-47. Albertson (1735-1813) mis-remembered the year he sailed up the Hudson and
arrived in Albany; it should read "1758." Served with the New Jersey
"Blues."
Josiah H. Temple and George Sheldon, "Diary of Ensign
Thomas Alexander," A History of the Town of Northfield, Albany,
1875, pp. 303-305.
Captain Hugh Arnot to your lordship, Stillwater, 1 August
1758 and enclosing "A Journal or Proceedings of the Army under the Command
of Maj.-Gen. Abercromby," 19 August 1758. Marquess of Bute Collection
(0631), Mount Stuart Trust Archives, Scotland. Captain Arnot served in the 80th
regiment of foot. Published in Nicholas Westbrook, ed., "‘Like Roaring
Lions Breaking from their Chains’: The Highland Regiment at Ticonderoga,"
The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XVI no. 1 (1998), pp.
22-43.
Col. Henry Babcock, letter, Lake George, 10th July 1758, pp.
12-13, in Howard M. Chapin, ed., Rhode Island in the Colonial Wars: A List of
Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors in the Olde French and Indian War, 1755-1762,
Providence, Rhode Island Historical Society, 1918. Reprinted as Chapin, Rhode
Island in the Colonial Wars, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994.
[FTA #1994.51].
Col. Jonathan Bagley, orderly book, Camp at Lake George, 20
August-11 September 1758, ms. in American Antiquarian Society. Acquisition
announced and entries for three days quoted in Proceedings, AAS, vol. I
(April 1881). Ms is 34 pp. in 1 vol.
Captain Salah Barnard, manuscript Journal, 1758 campaign.
Fort Ticonderoga collections. [FTA #M-1991.58]. Barnard was from Deerfield,
Massachusetts, serving in his first campaign as captain. He served in Col.
William Williams’ regiment.
Lieutenant Thomas Barnsley to Henry Bouquet, Albany, 7
September 1758. Ms is in Bouquet Collection, British Museum Add. Mss. 21643,
folio 262.
Thomas Weston, ed., "Diary of Abner Barrows," History
of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts, Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1906,
pp. 90-100. [Copy in FTA research files.] In collection of Society of Mayflower
Decendants. Barrows was 25 in 1758, having already served in 1756 and 1757.
Captain Benjamin Pratt’s company of Col. Thomas Doty’s Massachusetts
regiment.
William Benton to "Dear and louing wife [Sarah]"
from Lake George, 13 July 1758 and 15 July 1758. Served in Captain Samuel
Chapman’s (Twelfth) Company of Col. Phineas Lyman’s (First) Connecticut
regiment. Connecticut State Library.
Diary of David Briggs, 1758. At Lake George with Richard Cobb’s
Co., Col. Timothy Ruggles’ Regiment. Massachusetts State Archives, Boston.
Matthews, American Diaries in Manuscript #324.
[Colonel Joseph Blanchard], "Rogers’ Scout at Lake
George: A Journal of the New Hampshire Scout of Three Men Sent from Lake George
to Reconnoitre Fort Frederic or Crown Point Fort, the New Works and Army
There," Granite State Magazine, vol. III (1907), pp. 13-15.
Simeon DeWitt Bloodgood, The Sexagenary; or Reminiscences
of the American Revolution, Albany, Joel Munsell, 1866. [FTA #3629: Benson
J. Lossing’s copy]. Author is sometimes shown as John P. Becker. Waggoner for
Bradstreet to Ticonderoga, pp. 10-19.
Henry Bouquet, The Papers of Henry Bouquet, S.K.
Stevens, D.H. Kent, A.L. Leonard, eds., Harrisburg, PHMC, 1951, vol. II.
Notification to Massachusetts militiamen to muster, 1758.
Issued to Richard Boylston and signed by Richard Devens, Sergeant. Plimpton
Collection #62 at Amherst College.
Letter: Rev. John Brainerd, Chaplain, New Jersey Regiment, to
P.V.B. Livingston, from Lake George, 11 July 1758. Typescript in FTA research
files. [FTA #P-5001]. Published as "The Death of Lord Howe," New
York History, vol. XXXIV (1936), pp. 206-207. [FTA #4833].
"Col. John Bradstreet Manuscripts," Manuscript
Records of the French and Indian War in the Library of the [American
Antiquarian] Society, Transactions and Collections of the American
Antiquarian Society, vol. XI (1909), pp. 60-63. [FTA #3344]. Reprinted by
Heritage Books, 1992. [FTA #1992. ]. Eight letters concern operations and
accounts of the Bateaux service.
John Bremner, Journal for April 1756-December 1764;
Manuscript in Collection of New-York Historical Society. Served with 55th
Regiment (Howe’s) of Foot, 10th Company (Monypenny’s). Includes (p. 31)
"An Alphibiticall Role of Capt. Many-penies Companies mens names, Albonie,
May 3, 1758,"; (pp. 36-41) extract of a letter from Saratoga dated 12 July
1758 (also published in Pennsylvania Gazette, 3 August 1758); (p. 42)
List of Killed and Wounded; (p. 47) map of the French Lines. [Photocopy of rough
transcript from N-YHS ms is in FTA Research Collections.]
Letter: Capt. Peter DuBoise, [from Camp at Lake George],
1758. Published as "Attack and Repulse at Ticonderoga, July 1758," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. VII no. 1 (January 1945), pp.
15-18. Ms in Bancroft Collection, New York Public Library. Significant passages
are echoed in Gentleman’s Magazine, London, vol. 28 (September 1758),
p. 445. On DuBoise, see "New York Muster Rolls," Collections,
New-York Historical Society, p. 521.
Asa Burr, Journal 1758; ms in the collection of the
American Antiquarian Society (French and Indian War Collection). Burr served in
Captain Parker’s Company, Col. Joseph Williams’ Massachusetts Regiment.
Served in the Mohawk Valley (German Flats).
Lt. Col. Lewis Butler, ed., "Ticonderoga, 1758," Journal
of the Society for Army Historical Research, vol. I no. 1 (September 1921),
pp. 10-14. [FTA #4226]. Unsigned letter (translated here from "bad
French"), 14 July 1758; thought to be from an officer in the 1st Battalion
Royal Americans to his colonel, Henri Bouquet. (A likely candidate for author is
Major John Tullikens, commanding six companies of the 1st battalion, Royal
Americans, at Ticonderoga. Original MS in Pennsylvania State Library. French
version published in Pennsylvania Archives; First Series, vol. III, pp.
472-475, including casualties among the 55th Regiment and the Royal Americans
(omitted in the later English translations); copy in Fort Ticonderoga research
files. A somewhat different translation appeared in Documents Relative to the
Colonial History of the State of New York, Albany, 1858, vol. X [FTA #4329],
pp. 734-736.
Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe to John Campbell of
Cloichombie, Inveraray, Albany, 14 March 1758, quoted in full in Richards, The
Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe (1911), the
Fort Ticonderoga paperback reprint [FTA #P-1808], pp. 38-40.
John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun, Loudoun Papers (North
America). Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino,
California.
A centinel, "The Anonymous Journal . . . ," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XII no. 4 (September 1968),
pp. 291-297. Written at Lake George, 25 July 1758-5 November 1758. Author was a
member of Col. William Williams’ Massachusetts regiment. In 1968 the ms was in
the collection of Crosby Milliman, Eaton Center, New Hampshire. In 1995 the ms
is in the collection of the Adirondack Museum.
Henry Champion, "The Journal of Colonel Henry
Champion," in Francis Bacon Trowbridge, The Champion Genealogy, New
Haven, Connecticut, F.B. Trowbridge, 1891, pp. 417-439. [FTA # 1580]. Ms is part
of "Accounts and Journal of Captain Henry Champion of Colchester, Campaign
of 1758," in the Connecticut State Library. Commanded the Twelfth Company
of Colonel Nathan Whiting’s (Second) Connecticut regiment. Champion’s
company paymaster bond for the 1758 campaign, 9 January 1759, is in the Plimpton
Collection, Amherst College, Box 2.
Henry Champion to Loving Wife, Lake George, 4 July 1758. In
Francis Bacon Trowbridge, The Champion Genealogy, New Haven, Connecticut,
F.B. Trowbridge, 1891, pp. 437-439.
Chatham Manuscripts, Bundles 96 and 98. Canadian Archives
Transcripts.
"Journal of the Rev. John Cleaveland, 14 June 1758-25
October 1758." Ms in FTA collections [FTA #M-6036] since 1959; donation by
Armand Erpf. Published in The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum,
vol. X no. 3 (1959), pp. 192-233. Nehemiah Cleaveland, "The Journal of the
Rev. John Cleaveland," Essex Institute, Historical Collections, vol.
XII, April 1874 (diary for 14 June-1 July 1758), pp. 85-103 and July 1874 (diary
for 2 July-30 July 1758), pp. 179-196. [FTA #P-5003 and -5004]. The diary was
cited by Francis Parkman in Montcalm and Wolfe, 1884. See Jedrey, p. 221.
Cleaveland was chaplain to Col. Jonathan Bagley’s Massachusetts Regiment in
1758 (Ticonderoga campaign) and 1759 (Louisbourg campaign).
Rev. John Cleaveland’s letters and diary were published in
Howard H. Peckham, ed., Narratives of Colonial America, 1704-1765,
Chicago, Lakeside Press, 1971, pp. 132-154. [FTA/Olson #30; another copy is
#57]. Cleaveland’s letters to "My dear & loving wife" are 10
June 1758, 17 June 1758, 26 June 1758 ("my third time of writing since
coming into these parts"), and 11 July 1758. For more on Cleaveland, see
Christopher M. Jedrey, The World of John Cleaveland: Family and Community in
Eighteenth-century New England, New York, 1979. Most of the John Cleaveland
Papers are in the Essex Institute.
Samuel Cobb, "The Journal of Captain Samuel Cobb, May
21, 1758-October 29, 1758," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum,
vol. XIV no. 1 (Summer 1981), pp. 12-31. Manuscript in the collections of the
New York State Historical Association. Published as an anonymous journal, Isaac
B. Choate, ed., "The Journal of a Provincial Officer In the Campaign in
Northern New York in 1758," The Historical Magazine, vol. X (August
1871), pp. 113-122. Reprinted in Yearbook for 1905, Portland, Maine,
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maine, 1905, pp. 90-113. [FTA #3240].
Cobb’s complete service record is found on pp. 124-125. Cobb was a shipwright
and commanded the first company of Colonel Preble’s Massachusetts regiment.
[Alexander Colden], "Eyewitness Accounts of the British
Repulse at Ticonderoga," Charles Edmund Lart, ed., Canadian Historical
Review, vol. 2 (1921), pp. 360-363. Letters of 17 July to Major Francis
Halket, Brigade Major at Carlisle, Brigadier General Forbes’ aide. Text of
first letter closely parallels text of article in The American Magazine,
July 1758. Originals are in the British Library (Add. Mss. 21,643, folio 191 and
folio 195). Encloses a copy of a letter to Dr. Peter Middleton, New York City,
from Lake George, 10 July 1758. Middleton was born in North Britain and served
as surgeon-general with the provincial troops on the Crown Point expedition (d.
1781).
Cadwallader Colden to Peter Collinson, Flushen, 23 August
1758, "Cadwallader Colden Papers," Collections of the New-York
Historical Society, pp. 249-255.
Christopher Comstock, "Diary of Christopher Comstock,
1758-59," Connecticut Historical Society. Clerk in Captain Henry Champion’s
(Twelfth) Co., Whiting’s (Second) Connecticut regiment; sergeant in Ichabod
Phelps’ Co. Matthews, American Diaries in Manuscript #328.
Military Affairs in North America, 1748-1765: Selected
Documents from the Cumberland Papers in Windsor Castle, Stanley Pargellis,
ed., 1931; reprinted Hamden, Connecticut, Archon Books, 1969. [FTA].
Elijah Estabrooks, "The Journal of Elijah
Estabrooks." Typescript in the Fort Ticonderoga library. [FTA #3284].
Estabrooks served in Col. Preble’s Massachusetts regiment.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Eyre to Lieutenant-General Robert
Napier, 10 July 1758, from Camp at Lake George, in Military Affairs in North
America, Pargellis, ed., pp. 418-422. Reports on Eyre’s absence from the
engineering staff and role as commander of the 44th Foot, and the confusion of
orders on the field on 8 July.
A Petition of Ruth Farmer, 13 August 1760. Manuscript in Fort
Ticonderoga collections, [FTA #M-1921]. Published in The Bulletin of the Fort
Ticonderoga Museum, vol. II no. 2 (July 1930), p. 79. Husband William Farmer
served in Col. Bagley’s Massachusetts Regiment. Petitioner lost her husband
and his musket in 1758 campaign at "Tiaconderoga."
Samuel Abbott Green, "Papers Relating to the Companies
of Captain Thomas Farrington and Captain Samuel Tarbell both raised in Groton,
Massachusetts During the French and Indian War, 1758,"Proceedings of the
Massachusetts Historical Society, 2nd ser., vol. VI (1891), pp. 426-432.
Samuel Fisher, "Diary of Operations Around Lake George,
[23 June-12 July] 1758." Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Fisher
served in Capt. Ebenezer Cox’s coy, Col. Ruggles’ Massachusetts regiment
Samuel Fitch to Henry Lloyd, Boston, 24 July 1758, in Collections
of the New-York Historical Society, 1928, pp. 552-553. Papers of the
Lloyd Family of Lloyd’s Neck, New York, vol. II, 1752-1826.
Alfred Procter James, ed., Writings of General John Forbes
Relating to His Service in North America, Allegheny County Committee,
Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America, Menasha, Wisconsin,
Collegiate Press, 1938, pp. 20-23, 30-33, 36-37, 124-127, 164-167, 188-191. Most
are letters from Loudoun and Abercromby Papers at the Huntington Library.
A Calendar of the Headquarters Papers of Brigadier-General
John Forbes Relating to the Expedition Against Fort Duquesne in 1758 in the
Tracy W. McGregor Library, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Library,
1988. [FTA]. Calendar of a collection of ≈530 manuscripts in Forbes’
Papers (1729-5 February 1759) auctioned at Sotheby’s in 1974. The existence of
this collection was not known when James compiled Writings in 1938.
Asa Foster, "Diary of Captain Asa Foster of Andover,
Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register,
vol. 54 (April 1900), pp. 183-188. Col. Nichols’ Massachusetts regiment.
Stationed at the Lake George base camp during the battle. Voye gives name as
Capt. Asa Forster in Col. Ebenezer Nichols’ Massachusetts regiment.
Christopher French, Journals, vol. I: 21 October
1756-11 July 1758, July 1758-9 November 1760, 22 December 1760-14 November 1761;
vol. II: 14 November 1761-19 August 1763; vol. III: 15 September 1776-1778.
Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress.
"Journal of Col. Archelaus Fuller of Middleton,
Massachusetts, in the Expedition against Ticonderoga in 1758," Essex
Institute, Historical Collections, XLVI (July 1910), pp. 209-220. [FTA
#P-5006]. Covers period of 25 May-11 November 1758. Reprinted in The Bulletin
of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XIII no. 1 (December 1970), pp. 5-17.
Ms in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Fuller was
lieutenant in 1758 in Captain Andrew Fuller’s Company of Colonel Bagley’s
Massachusetts regiment. Fuller became lieutenant colonel in Wigglesworth’s
regiment (and died) in the 1776 campaign to save Ticonderoga.
"French and Indian War Diary of Benjamin Glasier of
Ipswich, 1758-1760," Essex Institute, Historical Collections, vol.
86 (January 1950), pp. 65-92. [FTA #P-5201] Ship carpenter’s diary covers 28
February-20 November 1758. Troops play "bat and ball." Captain Gerrish’s
Company. Ms at Essex Institute.
J. Goodrich, Diary, 1758, Lake George; unpublished
(Loescher, Genesis, biblio, 1969).
"Letter from North America [from Lieutenant William
Grant], Fort Edward, 17 August 1758," Scots Magazine, vol. 20
(Appendix 1758), pp. 698-699. Reprinted in Maclachlan, Highlands, vol. II
(1875), pp. 339-340. Quoted briefly in Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, vol.
II, p. 316.
Anne McVicar Grant, Memoirs of an American Lady, 2
vols., New York, 1808; reprinted Albany, Joel Munsell, 1876 [FTA #1365 (W.L.
Stone’s copy) and FTA #1491]; reprinted New York, 1901; reprinted New York,
1972, pp. 20-33 with biographical appendix by James G. Wilson. Mrs. Grant lived
with the Schuylers in Albany during her father’s service in the British army.
Long recollection of the death of Howe, and the impact on Albany.
Letter: J. Gray to Abram E. Wendle, 27 June 1758. 1972 gift
of Harrison Bird, Jr. [FTA #65.75 and #M- ].
Shubael Griswold, "Journal During Service in the French
and Indian Wars," manuscript in the Connecticut State Library. Ensign in
Capt. Josiah Lee’s (Tenth) Company of Col. Phineas Lyman’s (First)
Connecticut regiment.
Aaron Guild, "A Copy of the Diary of Ensign Aaron
Guild," The Dedication of a Monument . . . Walpole, n.p., Walpole
Historical Society, 1901, pp. 16-19. [FTA #P-3069]. Guild’s company was
assigned to guard the portage at Half-Way Brook.
Douglas Brymner, comp., "Calendar of the Haldimand
Collection," Report on Canadian Archives, 1884-1889. [FTA
#2011-2015]. Nothing relevant in 1889 volume.
Obadiah Harris, "A rigmental jarnil . . . Timothy
Ruggels Rigment . . . 1758. A very difficult to read journal of Col.
Timothy Ruggles’ Regiment in the expedition against Ticonderoga, 22 May-23
October 1758. Huntington Library, #HM 591. Matthews, American Diaries in
Manuscript #333.
A[ugustine]. Hayden, Diary, 1758-59, Records of the
Connecticut Line of the Hayden Family, H. Hayden, 1888. Served in Captain
Gideon Wolcott’s (Ninth) Company of Col. Phineas Lyman’s (First) Connecticut
Regiment.
Dr. Thomas Haynes, Sr., "Memorandum of Collonial French
War A.D. 1758," The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol.
XII no. 1 (March 1966) pp. 72-78; vol. XII no. 2 (September 1966) pp. 150-160;
vol. XII no. 3 (October 1967) pp. 193-203. Ms in Fort Ticonderoga collections
[FTA #M- ].
James Henderson, "Journal of James Henderson [28 May
1758-7 November 1758]." Typescript in Fort Ticonderoga collections, [FTA
#P-5002; missing 2/94], based on copy in the New England Historical and
Genealogical Society. Matthews, American Diaries in Manuscript #334.
James Henderson, "James Henderson’s Journal," The First Half
Century of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
1893-1943, Publication no. 11 (Boston, Society of Colonial Wars, 1944).
Captain William Hervey, Journals of the Hon. William
Hervey in North America and Europe, from 1755 to 1814, with Order Books at
Montreal, 1760-1763, with Memoir and Notes, Bury St. Edmunds, Paul &
Mathew, 1906, pp. 47-52. Hervey served with Abercromby’s regiment, the 44th
Foot. Hervey’s Journal III (16 April-1 August 1758) covers this campaign. [HL:
DA506 / H5A2] also R199992. For a brief bio of Hervey, see DRCHSNY, X, p.
989.
Captain David Holmes, "Diary, 4 June-25 October
1758" vol. 1 of 2 volumes in the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Available on MHS microfilm P-363, reel 13. Holmes was captain of the Sixth
Company in Col. Eleazer Fitch’s (Third) Regiment of Connecticut provincials
from 5 April-16 November 1758. Rolls of Connecticut Men, vol. II, pp.
62-63.
Joseph Holt, "Journals of Joseph Holt, of Wilton, New
Hampshire," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol.
10 (October 1856), pp. 307-310. Served in Col. Ebenezer Nichols’ Massachusetts
regiment, Captain Ebenezer Jones’ company.
Rev. Samuel Hopkins to Rev. Dr. Bellamy, Sheffield, 20 July
1758; "Letter," Proceedings, New Jersey Historical Society,
vol. VII (1853-1855), pp. 126-128. [HL: F131 / N65] Largely the account of Col.
Oliver Partridge, who commanded a Massachusetts Battalion of Light Infantry or
Rangers.
Lord George Augustus Howe to Major-General James Abercromby,
Camp at the Upper Falls, 28 May 1758. Abercromby Papers #293, Huntington
Library.
Captain Oliver Hunt, Diary. Ms in collections of the New York
State Historical Association.
Carr Huse [1740-1833], Diary, April-July 1758. Ms in New-York
Historical Society collections. Diary/B.V. Sec./Huse. From Newburyport, Huse
served in Bagley’s Massachusetts regiment.
Israel Hutchinson to Gov. Thomas Pownall, 1 March 1759.
Petitions for relief from losses at Ticonderoga in 1758. A.D.S. 1 p. American
Antiquarian Society ms. Hutchinson was a lieutenant in Captain Andrew Fuller’s
company, Col. Bagley’s Massachusetts regiment.
An account owing to Joseph Jackson by "the honorable
committee of war," 1758. Probably Massachusetts. Plimpton Collection [#52]
at Amherst College.
Benjamin Jewett, "The Diary of Benjamin Jewett,
1758," National Magazine: A Monthly Journal of American History,
vol. 17 (1892-1893), pp. 60-64. [FTA research files]. Served in First Company,
Col. Eleazer Fitch’s (Third) Connecticut regiment.
William Johnson, The Papers of Sir William Johnson,
James Sullivan, A.C. Flick, and M.W. Hamilton, eds., Albany, State University of
New York, 11 vols., 1921-1953. See esp. vols. II and IX.
"William Johnson to James Abercromby, 18 June
1758," The Papers of Sir William Johnson, James Sullivan, et al.,
eds., Albany, State University of New York, vol. II, 1922, pp. 843-845.
Letter from Archibald Kennedy to Governor DeLancy, New York,
17 July 1758. [FTA #M-2041].
Captain John Knox, An Historical Journal of the Campaigns
in North America, for the Years 1757, 1758, 1759, and 1760, 2 volumes,
London, 1799. [FTA #3220-3221]. Vol. I, pp. 145, 148-152. Reprinted by the
Champlain Society, Arthur G. Doughty, ed., Toronto, 1914, vol. I, pp. 188-195.
Under date of 20 August 1758, Knox quotes letter from a wounded friend dated
Albany, 29 July 1758, from "a friend in the Commander in Chief’s
army."
Samuel Abbott Green, "Papers Relating to Captain Thomas
Lawrence’s Company Raised in Groton, Massachusetts During the French and
Indian War, 1758," Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society,
2nd ser., vol. VI (1891), pp. 21-33. [FTA #P-1866]. Original mss in
Massachusetts Historical Society. Papers relate to massacre at Halfway Brook, 20
July 1758. Inventory of the possessions of ten men killed.
Charles Lee to sister, Miss Sidney Lee, in England, from
Albany, 16 September 1758, cover letter [FTA #M-6008] transmitting
"Narrative" re debacle at Carillon [FTA #M-6009]. Mss in
Fort Ticonderoga collections; 1969 purchase. Letter and narrative published as
part of "The [Charles] Lee Papers," vol. I, in Collections,
New-York Historical Society, 1871, pp. 6-15. [FTA #4531]. Lee served in the 44th
Regiment in this campaign. An engraved portrait of Lee is in the Fort
Ticonderoga collection.
Henry Lloyd II to Henry Lloyd, Boston, 6 March 1758, in Collections
of the New-York Historical Society, 1928, pp. 547-549. Papers of the
Lloyd Family of Lloyd’s Neck, New York, vol. II, 1752-1826.
John Lloyd to Henry Lloyd, Stamford, 4 March 1758 and 27 July
1758, in Collections of the New-York Historical Society, 1928, pp.
545-546 and 553-555. Papers of the Lloyd Family of Lloyd’s Neck, New York,
vol. II, 1752-1826. "They Talk no more of Secret Expeditions . . ."
Lemuel Lyon, "Military Journal for 1758," in Benson
J. Lossing, ed., The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775,
Poughkeepsie, New York, Abraham Tomlinson, 1855, pp. 11-45. [FTA #3286]. Lyon
served as a private in Captain David Holmes’ (Sixth) Company, Col. Eleazer
Fitch’s (Third) Regiment of Connecticut provincials from 5 April-16 November
1758. Whereabouts of the Lyon manuscript has been unknown since 1926. See also
Clarence W. Bowen, The History of Woodstock, Connecticut, Norwood,
Massachusetts, The Plimpton Press, 1926, pp. 117-119. Bowen says (p. 122) that
Captain Holmes’ 2-volume diary is in the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Lyon faithfully washes his clothes every two weeks.
Solomon Mack, A Narrative of the Life of Solomon Mack,
Windsor, Vermont, S. Mack, n.d., pp. 7-9. [photocopy in FTA #3296]. Active in
English campaigns against Crown Point from 1755 on. With Col. Nathan Whiting’s
second Connecticut regiment, third company, commanded by Major Joseph Spencer of
East Haddam at Ticonderoga in 1758. Reports Howe’s bowels taken out and
buried; embalmed body carried to England.
Massachusetts lottery ticket, May 1758. Plimpton Collection
[#147] at Amherst College.
Major Thompson Maxwell, Narrative of the Military Life,
1757-1820. [FTA #P-1859]. Reprinted from The New England Historic and
Genealogical Register (October 1891), pp. 271-278. Massachusetts Ranger in
Captain Lovell’s Company (Partridge’s Light Infantry?). The memoir of a
senile man, æ 79.
James Montrésor, "Journals of Colonel James
Montrésor," Collections of the New-York Historical Society for 1881,
vol. XIV (1882), pp. 39-65. [FTA #4541]. Montrésor was a Royal Engineer, and
Engineer-in-Chief in America. Not on the expedition northward in 1758, but
centrally involved in the planning for it.
Captain Alexander Monypenny, Orderly Books, 23 March
1758-September 1759. Monypenny served in the 55th Regiment of Foot. Mss. in Fort
Ticonderoga collections [25 March-5 May 1758, FTA #M-2156; 6 May-20 June 1759,
#M-2164; 20 June-14 July 1759, #M-2162; 15 July-3 August 1759, #M-2170; 4
August-5 September 1759, #M-2161]. Published in The Bulletin of the Fort
Ticonderoga Museum, 23 March 1758-29 June 1758 in vol. XII no. 5 (December
1969), pp. 328-357; 30 June 1758-7 August 1758 in vol. XII no. 6 (October 1970)
-- note that entries were not made for 6 July 1758 or for 8-9 July 1758,
pp. 434-461; 8 August 1758-26 October 1758 in vol. XIII no. 1 (December 1970),
pp. 89-116; 29 October 1758-6 May 1759 in vol. XIII no. 2 (June 1971), pp.
151-184. [All the above are from FTA #M-2156]. For acquisition of the Monypenny
Orderly Books, see Fort Ticonderoga Scrapbook, vol. III, p. 48 [April-May
1920].
Capt. Alexander Monypenny to Mr. Calcraft, Camp at Lake
George, 11 July 1758. Concerning the death of Howe. Published in James Austin
Holden, "New Historical Light on the Real Burial of George Augustus, Lord
Viscount Howe, 1758," Proceedings, New York State Historical
Association, vol. X (1911), pp. 272-273. Reprinted in "Lord Howe," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. II no. 2 (July 1930), pp.
51-52. In 1930 this letter was in the muniments of the Marquis of Sligo,
Westport House, Ireland; it is now in a private American collection.
Elkanah Morgan to Captain John Morgan (father), Camp at Lake
George, 19 August 1758. The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol.
I no. 5 (January 1929), p. 31. Manuscript in the Fort Ticonderoga collections
[FTA #M-1916]. Served in Whiting’s Regiment, Connecticut troops; see Abel
Spicer’s diary. Morgan died 29 September 1758.
Samuel Morris, "Journal," mss in William L.
Clements Library. (Cuneo, p. 259).
R.M. [ascribed by N-YHS to Richard Montgomery] to Colonel
Jacob Glen from Camp at Lake George, 24 August 1758. New-York Historical
Society: From the Beekman Collection; in 1997 catalogued in Misc. Mss.: Glen,
Jacob. Copy in FTA Research Files. Montgomery served in the 17th Foot; at
Louisbourg with Wolfe in 1758.
Edmund Munroe, "Orderly Book of Rogers’ Rangers,"
New England Historic and Genealogical Register, vol. 16 (July 1862), pp.
217-220. Remnants of an orderly book kept at Lake George and Fort Edward 7
August-9 November 1758. Munroe was an Ensign in the Rangers.
Captain James Murray to brother Murray of Strowan, Albany, 19
July 1758, in Frederick B. Richards, "The Black Watch at Ticonderoga and
Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe," Proceedings, New York State
Historical Association, vol. X (1911), pp. 386-388. [FTA #4809]. Murray served
in the 42nd, and was wounded on 8 July.
New Jersey Archives, First Series, vol. XVII (1892) (FTA
#2965). The Journal of the Governor and Council from 1756-1768. The first half
of the volume concerns the challenge of protecting the northern and western
frontiers against the French and their allies. Through the spring of 1758 we
read of the bickering about reimbursing Col. Peter Schuyler £6,000 for expenses
during the previous campaign (including the failed defense of Fort William Henry
and the captivity of Col. Parker’s contingent) and debate about the
advisability of raising another 1000 men for Abercromby’s 1758 army.
New Jersey Archives, First Series, vol. IX (1885) (FTA
#2966). General administrative correspondence for the period. A detailed roster
of the officers for the 1000-man contingent under Col. Johnston, raised for the
1758 campaign, pp. 184-187.
New Jersey Archives, First Series, vol. XX (1898) (FTA
#2967) contains newspaper extracts for the same period. This volume contains
some 50+ references to the New Jersey Regiment during the Seven Years’ War.
Joseph Nichols, "Joseph Nichols’ Military Journal,
1758-1759," Henry E. Huntington Library, #HM 89. Clerk in Capt. John Taplin’s
Company, Col. Bagley’s Massachusetts regiment in campaign against Ticonderoga.
Matthews, American Diaries in Manuscript #338.
Rev. Samuel Niles, "A Summary Historical Narrative of
the Wars in New England," Collections of the Massachusetts Historical
Society, Fourth Series, vol. 5 (1861), pp. 440-441.
Aaron Noble, Journal, 30 May-7 November 1758. Served in Capt.
Jonathan’s coy on the march to Northampton. Item #164 in the 1999 Siebert
Sale, Sotheby’s. Sold to the Huntington Library. Nothing on the death of Lord
Howe. "July 8 day the fight was and after it was over we marched back to ye
breastwork and Lay a little while and then set out and came back to Fort
William Henry."
"Journal of John Noyes of Newbury in the Expedition
Against Ticonderoga, [4 April-8 November] 1758," Essex Institute, Historical
Collections, XLV (January 1909), pp. 73-86. Colonel Bagley’s Massachusetts
regiment; Captain Joseph Newell’s company. Strong on food and drink. Lots of
"points of rum." Copy in [FTA #P-5005].
William Parkman, extracts of "Journal" in Proceedings,
Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. XVII (First Series, 1879-1880), pp.
243-244. [Copy in FTA Research Files.] Diary of William Parkman of Concord on
the march to Ticonderoga and back, 22 May 1758-21 April 1759. Massachusetts
Historical Society ms cat. #101.157.
Jesse Parsons, "A Journal of an Expedition Design’d
Against the French Possessions in Canada Kept By Jesse Parsons Philom."
[Manuscript in a private American collection; copy in FTA Research Files.]
Campaigns for 1758 and 1759. Parsons served as company clerk in Col. David
Wooster’s Connecticut regiment.
Lt. Col. Nathan Payson, Orderly Books, 1758 and 1760;
Connecticut Historical Society, Hoadley Collection, Box 9. Commanded Second
Company in Col. Phineas Lyman’s (First) Connecticut regiment.
David Perry, The Life of Captain David Perry . . .,
Windsor, Vermont, Republican & Yeoman Printing Office, 1822, 55pp. [FTA].
Reprinted in The Magazine of History, vol. XXXV no. 1 (1928), pp. 7-37.
[FTA #P-2027] Reprinted as "Recollections of an Old Soldier," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. XIV no. 1 (summer 1981), pp.
3-11. Perry enlisted in Captain Job Winslow’s company of Col. Preble’s
Massachusetts regiment.
Gertrude S. Kimball, ed., Correspondence of William Pitt
When Secretary of State with Colonial Governors and Military and Naval
Commissioners in America, 2 vols., New York, Macmillan, 1906.
Peter Pond, "Experiences in Early Wars in America,"
The Journal of American History, vol. I (1907). Reprinted in Five Fur
Traders of the Northwest, Charles M. Gates, ed., St. Paul, Minnesota
Historical Society Press, 1965, pp. 18-24. Served in Col. Nathan Whiting’s
Connecticut regiment. "the Most Ridicklas Campane Eaver Hard of."
"History, Roster and Record of Col. Jedidiah Preble’s
Regiment: Campaign of 1758 Together With Capt. Samuel Cobb’s Journal," Yearbook
for 1905, Portland, Maine, Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maine,
1905, pp. 114-180. [FTA #3240].
[Benjamin Youngs Prime (1733-1791)], The Unfortunate Hero:
A Pindaric Ode Occasion’d by the Lamented Fate of Viscount George Augustus
Howe; Together with an Ode on the Reduction of Louisbourg . . ., New York,
Parker and Weyman, 1758. [The unique copy is apparently at the Huntington
Library.] Both reprinted in the author’s anonymously published The
Patriotic Muse, London, 1764.
Rufus Putnam, Journal of General Rufus Putnam, 1757-1760,
E.C. Dawes, ed., Albany, Joel Munsell’s Sons, 1886. [FTA #3297]. Served in
Capt. Joseph Whitcomb’s company; Col. Timothy Ruggles’ regiment of
Massachusetts troops.
Rufus Putnam, The Memoirs of Rufus Putnam and Certain
Official Papers and Correspondence, published by the National Society of
Colonial Dames of America in the State of Ohio, Rowena Buell, comp. and ed.,
Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1903. [FTA #1415].
Caleb Rea, "The Journal of Dr. Caleb Rea, Written During
the Expedition Against Ticonderoga in 1758," Essex Institute Historical
Collections, vol. XVIII, Fabius Maximus Rea, ed., Salem, Massachusetts,
1881, pp. 81-120. [FTA #3298]. Dr. Rea was surgeon in Col. Jonathan Bagley’s
Massachusetts regiment; cf. Rev. Cleaveland’s journal.
"Amos Richardson’s Journal, 1758" The Bulletin
of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, XII no. 4 (September 1968), pp. 267-291.
Woburn, Massachusetts. 23 May-18 October 1758. Manuscript in Fort Ticonderoga
collections [FTA #M-6035]; 1967 gift [FTA #12.75]. Richardson served in Col.
Ebenezer Nichols’ Massachusetts Regiment.
Major James Robertson to the Earl of Morton, 19 December
1758, in Military Affairs in North America, 1748-1765: Selected Documents
from the Cumberland Papers in Windsor Castle, Stanley Pargellis, ed., 1931;
reprinted Hamden, Connecticut, Archon Books, 1969, pp. 429-432. [FTA]. Robertson
of the Royal American Regiment discusses the comparative virtues of the Loudoun
and Pitt plans for the 1758 campaign.
Robert Rogers, The Journals of Major Robert Rogers,
London, 1765. Dublin, 1769. [FTA].
Robert Rogers, The Journals of Major Robert Rogers,
Franklin B. Hough, ed., Albany, Joel Munsell’s Sons, 1883. [FTA] Note that
Hough’s edition has scrambled pp. 117-119.
Robert Rogers, [extracts from] "Journals of Major Robert
Rogers," The London Chronicle, vol. XIX no. 1422, 28-30 January
1766, p. 101. [FTA #P-1913b]. Battle of Carillon passage.
Luther Roby, ed., Reminiscences of the French War with
Robert Rogers’ Journal and a Memoir of General Stark, Concord, New
Hampshire, 1831 [FTA #1430]; reprint edition, Freedom, N.H., Freedom Historical
Society, 1988, pp. 45-73 (Rogers) and pp. 201-202 (Stark). [FTA #1990.50]
Dr. James Searing, "The Battle of Ticonderoga,"
New-York Historical Society Proceedings, vol. V (October 1847), pp.
112-117. [Photocopy in FTA research files]. Searing was 19 at the time of the
battle.
James Kimball, ed., "A Journal of the Rev. Daniel Shute,
D.D., Chaplain in the Expedition to Canada," Essex Institute Historical
Collections, vol. XII (April 1874), pp. 132-151. Pastor of Second Church,
Hingham, Massachusetts. Chaplain in Col. Joseph Williams’ regiment of
Massachusetts provincials. Stranded in Schenectady during the Ticonderoga
action, but accompanied Bradstreet’s attack on Frontenac. Copy in [FTA
#P-5003].
Joseph Smith, "Journal of Joseph Smith of Groton," Proceedings,
Connecticut Society of Colonial Wars, vol. I (1903), pp. 305-310. Smith served
in Captain John Denison’s (Twelfth) Company in Col. Eleazer Fitch’s (Third)
Connecticut regiment. Manuscript sold at auction, November 1996, Skinner,
Bolton, Massachusetts. [Photocopies of manuscript, typescript, and published
version in FTA research files.]
Leonard Spaulding, "Journal of Leonard Spaulding," Vermont
Historical Gazetteer, Abby M. Hemenway, ed., vol. V part 2 (Dummerston), pp.
24-33. [HL: F57 / A1V42] Served in Captain Ephraim Wesson’s Company, Colonel
Ebenezer Nichols regiment of Massachusetts troops. Spaulding was a resident of
Westford, Connecticut, at this time. A photocopy of Spaulding’s diary for 26
July 1758-2 November 1758 is in Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress.
Abel Spicer, "Diary of Abel Spicer from June 5th until
September 29th, 1758," in History of the Descendents of Peter Spicer, A
Landholder in New London, Connecticut, Susan Spicer Meech, ed., 1911, pp.
388-408. Copy in FTA Research Files. Reprinted in Russell P. Bellico, Chronicles
of Lake George: Journeys in Peace and War, Fleischmanns, N.Y., Purple
Mountain Press, 1995, pp. 91-119. Spicer served in Captain John Stanton’s
Company, Col. Nathan Whiting’s Regiment, Connecticut troops.
Letter from General John Stanwix to Lt. Governor James
DeLancey (NY), 9 July 1758. [FTA #M-2043]. Published with a cover letter from
Governor DeLancey to Governor Denny, 12 July 1758, in Minutes of the
Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, 1757-1762, vol. III, Harrisburg, Theo.
Fenn & Co., 1852. Concerning the death of Howe and the raising of the
provincial militia. DeLancey adds an embargo on New York harbor. The Papers
of Henry Bouquet, vol. II, pp. 174 and 196 report these two letters as
"originals not found."
Caleb Stark, Memoir and Official Correspondence of Gen.
John Stark, with notices of several other offices of the Revolution. Also a
Biography of Captain Phineas Stevens, and of Col. Robert Rogers, with an account
of his services in America during the Seven Years War, Concord, N.H., Edson
C. Eastman, 1877.
Simon Stevens, "A Journal of Lieutenant Simon Stevens,
from the Time of his being Taken, near FORT WILLIAM HENRY, June the 25th, 1758.
With an Account of his Escape from QUEBEC, and his Arrival at LOUISBOURG, On
June the 6th 1759." Handwritten transcription (c. 1910) of book published
by Edes and Gill, Boston, 1760. (FTA #P-1936).
Paul O. Blanchette, ed., "Captain William Sweat’s
Personal Diary of the Expedition Against Ticonderoga, May 2-November 7,
1758," Essex Institute, Historical Collections, vol. XCIII (January
1957), pp. 36-57. Typescript is [FTA #P-4099]. Manuscript is in Essex Institute.
Matthews, American Diaries in Manuscript #341. Sweat was a private, not a
captain, in 1758. Sweat and his men worked as bateaux-builders at Lake George.
Samuel Thompson, Diary of Lieutenant Samuel Thompson of
Woburn, Massachusetts While in the French War, 1758, William R. Cutter, ed.,
Boston, Press of David Clapp & Son, 1896. [FTA #3299]. An unannotated
version appeared in Samuel Sewall, History of Woburn, Boston, Wiggin
& Lunt, 1868, Appendix IX, pp. 547-549. [FTA #2562]. Served in Captain
Ebenezer Jones company, Col. Nichols’ Massachuetts regiment.
Seth Tinkham, diary of 1758 campaign. D. Hamilton Hurd,
comp., History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, J.W.
Lewis & Co., 1884, pp. 995-998. Tinkham served as a sergeant in Captain
Benjamin Pratt’s company, Col. Thomas Doty’s Massachusetts regiment.
Commission of Captain Andries Truax in Schenectady battalion
of Sir William Johnson’s Albany regiment, 5 January 1758. [FTA #M-2042].
Signed by Lt. Governor James DeLancy.
Major Tulleken to Bouquet, Albany, 2 August 1758. Bouquet
Collection, British Museum Add. Mss. 21,643, folio 210. Account of casualties
and promotions at Ticonderoga. Stanwix has gone to German Flats to build fort.
Abercromby at Lake George. Another letter 1 October 1758, folio 293.
Diary of Daniel Upton, 1 July-17 September 1758. New York
Public Library. Matthews, American Diaries in Manuscript #342. Gives
number of British killed, wounded, missing at Ticonderoga. Brief irregular
entries.
Captain Goose Van Schaick, Orderly Book, Lt. Colonel Oliver
Delancey’s New York Regiment. #M-1997.027. [FTA].
Diary of Artemas Ward, 1758. Ms at Massachusetts Historical
Society, among 16 boxes of Ward Papers. MHS published a guide to the microfilm
edition of the Papers of Artemas Ward, 1967.
Captain David Waterbury, Personal Roster and Diary for the
Lake George Campaign, 3 July-30 October 1758. Commanded the Fourth Company of
Col. David Wooster’s (Fourth) Connecticut regiment. Typed transcript of the
first 97 pages, 1895. [FTA Research Files #B-27]. [May be at Yale.]
Muster Roll, Captain Edmund Wells’ (Fifth) Company, Colonel
Nathan Whiting’s (Second) Connecticut Regiment, 14 June 1758. Ms in Fort
Ticonderoga collections. [FTA #M-1917].
Nathan Whiting, Orderly Book, 1758, Litchfield (Connecticut)
Historical Society.
"Letters of Col. Nathan Whiting, Written from Camp
during the French and Indian War," Papers of the New Haven Colony
Historical Society, vol. VI, New Haven, 1900, pp. 133-150.
Major General R.H. Whitworth, "Some Unpublished Wolfe
Letters," Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, vol.
LIII no. 214 (summer 1975) pp. 65-86. Letters from Wolfe to Cumberland,
1755-1758, including 28 July 1758, reporting news from Ticonderoga and
Louisbourg, pp. 83-86.
William Marinus Willett, A Narrative of the Military
Actions of Colonel Marinus Willet, Taken Chiefly From His Own Manuscript . . . ,
New York, G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1831, pp. 10-13. [FTA #3900]. See
also Larry Lowenthal, Marinus Willet: Defender of the Northern Frontier, Fleischmann’s,
Purple Mountain Press, 2000, pp. 9-14. [FTA]. Willet served as a lieutenant in
Delancy’s New York regiment.
Certificate of Benjamin Williams listing the number of men in
Col. Thomas Doty’s Massachusetts regiment at the inn of William Scott, Palmer,
Massachusetts, 5 August 1758. Plimpton Collection [#35] at Amherst College.
Letters of Melancthon Taylor Woolsey, 1758, Champlain,
N.Y., Moorsfield Press, 1927. [FTA #P-3002]. Woolsey was Colonel of the 2nd
battalion, New York provincials, from Long Island. Woolsey’s estate inventory
is found in Collections of the New-York Historical Society, 1928, pp.
557-560. Papers of the Lloyd Family of Lloyd’s Neck, New York, vol. II,
1752-1826.
Primary Sources: French
"La Bataille de Carillon Chantée," Le Bulletin
des Recherches Historiques, vol. XXXI (1925), pp. 390-391. Also refers to an
earlier article in BRH, juin 1923, p. 183, dealing with historic songs
collected in Montréal in 1886.
French regimental assignments to winter quarters are
discussed in Faesch, 4 December 1757, Loudoun Papers (LO 4945); Huntington
Library.
"Un plan des retrenchements sur les hauteurs en avant du
fort de Carillon (Ticonderoga) attaqués par 25,000 Anglais, sous Abercromby, le
8 juillet 1758, et défendus par 3600 Français commandés par Montcalm,"
map #5 described in Lucien Brault, "Les documents de Lévis aux Archives
Canadiennes," Revue d’Histoire de l’Amérique Française, vol.
IV no. 4, pp. 550-559. Brief description of the contents of nine volumes (of
eleven) of manuscripts "recently" acquired by the Public Archives of
Canada. Volume One contains nine large manuscript maps not published by
Casgrain.
"An Account of the Victory Gained by the King’s Troops
at Carillon, July 8, 1758" Report on the Public Archives for 1929,
Ottawa, 1930, pp. 102-106. [FTA]. See related account in Documents Relative
to the Colonial History of the State of New York, Albany, 1858, vol. X [FTA
#4329], pp. 737-741. "The Battle of Carillon: Account of the Victory Won by
the Royal Troops at Carillon on the 8th Day of July, 1758," translated and
published in The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. II no. 2
(July 1930), pp. 69-76. Original mss in Fort Ticonderoga collections [FTA
#M-2151, M-2151A, etc.]. Acquisition noted in The Bulletin of the Fort
Ticonderoga Museum, vol. X no. 2 (1958), pp. 166 and 168. Published in
French as "Relation de la Victoire Remportée sur les Troupes de Roi, le 8
juillet 1758, aux Ordres de Mr le Marquis de Montcalm," Rapport
d’Archives de Québec . . . 1932-1933, Québec, 1933, pp. 357-362. Two
additional unsigned accounts are published as "Relation de la victoire
remportée . . ." and "Autre Relation" in Relations et
Journaux [FTA #3321], vol. 11 of Collection des manuscrits du maréchal
de Lévis, Casgrain, ed., Québec, 1895, pp. 149-164 and 165-174.
Relation de l’affaire du 8 juillet 1758 (4 pp.);
[endorsed] "a French Relation of the Affair of the 8th July 1758
at Tienderoga, found in the woods at Gaspé." Enclosed in Brigr
Wolfe’s of 30th Sept. 1758. In Abercromby Papers (AB 423),
Huntington Library.
Copie de la Lettre de Mr de Montcalm, Paris,
1758. Pristine copy described in Annual Report of the John Carter Brown
Library, vol. 26, pp. 5, 8-10.
Journal de l’affaire du Canada passée le 8 Juillet 1758
entre les Troupes du Roi, commandées par M. le Marquis de Montcalm, &
celles d’Angleterre, qui, au nombre de vingt mille hommes, ont été mises en
fuite par trois milles deux cens cinquante Français, Rouen, Borel, 23
septembre 1758. [FTA]. Translation published as "Journal of the Affair that
took place in Canada on the 8th of July 1758 . . .," in Documents
Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, Albany, 1858,
vol. X [FTA #4329], pp. 741-744. DRCHSNY is in error in recording this
item as December 1758.
"Champredond, capitaine au régiment de la Sarre," Le
Bulletin des Recherches Historiques, vol. XXI, p. 49.
[Jean-Baptiste d’Aleyrac], Aventures militaires au XVIIIe
siècle d’après les mémoires de Jean-Baptiste d’Aleyrac, Paris,
Charles Coste, édit, 1935. See also Claude de Bonnault, "Les aventures de
M. d’Aleyrac," Le Bulletin des Recherches Historiques, vol. XLIV
(1938), pp. 52-58. Armand Yon, "La ‘dolce vita’ en Nouvelle-France …
la vielle de la guerre (1740-1758)," Cahiers des Dix, vol. 37
(1972), pp. 168-170. D’Aleyrac served in régiment Languedoc at Carillon,
1756-1758.
L.A. Bougainville, "Journal," Rapport de l’archiviste
de la province de Québec, 1923-24; "La mission de M. de Bougainville
en France en 1758-1759," pp. 1-70; "Le journal de M. de
Bougainville," pp. 202-393. [FTA]. Translated and edited by Edward P.
Hamilton, Adventure in the Wilderness: the American Journals of Louis Antoine
de Bougainville, Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1964; pb ed. 1990.
[FTA #1990.56].
Bougainville to Mme. la Marquise de Montcalm, 25 July 1758, Report
on the Public Archives for 1929, Ottawa, 1930, p. 84. Cover letter for the
"Report," pp. 102-106.
M. Daine to Marshal de Belle Isle, Québec, 31 July 1758, in Documents
Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, Albany, 1858,
vol. X [FTA #4329], pp. 813-817.
Abbé Charles Nicolas Gabriel, Le Maréchal de camp
Desandrouins, 1729-1792, Verdun, Imprimerie Renvé-Lallemant, 1887.
"Recueil et Journal des choses principales qui me sont arrivées, et de
celles qui m’ont le plus frappées, depuis mon départ de France." Based
on the two surviving manuscript journals of Desandrouins for 1758 and 1759 (p.
119); their current whereabouts is unknown.
"Mémoire de Canada," Rapport des Archives du
Québec, 1924-1925, pp. 94-198. Written between 1758-1770. [FTA #2113].
Original manuscript was then in the collection of the Imperial Library at St.
Petersburg, Russia. Ian K. Steele suggests that this was written by Jean-Nicolas
Desandrouins; Betrayals, p. 235 fn 53.
"Dispositions de Carrillon [sic]," Rapport de l’Archiviste
de la Province de Québec pour 1932-1933, Québec, 1930, pp. 353-357.
André Doreil, "Lettres de Doreil," Rapport de l’Archiviste
de la Province de Québec pour 1944-1945, Québec, 1945, pp. 120-124,
136-153. Doreil was war commissary based in Québec, and a confidante of
Montcalm.
M. Doreil to Marshal de Belle Isle, Québec, 30 April 1758,
in Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York,
Albany, 1858, vol. X [FTA #4329], p. 702. French regulars troop strength by
regiment as of that date; total = 3781. Published in RAPQ 1944-45, pp.
123 ff.
M. Doreil to M. de Moras, 28 July 1758, in Documents
Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, Albany, 1858,
vol. X [FTA #4329], pp. 744-752.
M. Doreil to Marshal de Belle Isle, Québec, 28 July 1758, in
Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York,
Albany, 1858, vol. X [FTA #4329], pp. 752-756. Published in RAPQ 1944-45pp.
136-140.
[Aegidius Fauteux], "Officiers de Montcalm," Revue
d’Histoire de l’Amérique Française, vol. III no. 3 (December 1949),
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incident (reported by Pouchot), pp. 371-373. "Quelques officiers de
Montcalm," Revue d’Histoire de l’Amérique Française, vol. IV
no. 4, pp. 521-529. "Quelques officiers de Montcalm," Revue d’Histoire
de l’Amérique Française, vol. V no. 3 (d‚c. 1951), pp. 404-415.
D’Hughes to Marshall de Belle Isle, Carillon, 1 June 1758,
in Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York,
Albany, 1858, vol. X [FTA #4329], pp. 706-710. Including "Remarks on the
Situation of Fort Carillon and its Approaches." Gipson says he is a Captain
of engineers, but gives no source.
[Pierre] Lebert [Pepin] La Force … sa père et sa mère, de
Carillon, 28 juillet 1758, Le Bulletin des Recherches Historiques, vol.
XXXI, p. 300. Letter is addressed to M. Baptiste Desjardins at Camoarouska.
Lebert-Laforce was born at La Prairie, 12 March 1725, and married a daughter of
J.-B. Roy dit Desjardins on 23 November 1751.
Chevalier de Lévis au roi de Polonge, 12 juillet 1758 …
Carillon, National Archives of Canada, Manuscripts Division, MG 18 K8, vol. 11,
p. 243.
Michel Chartier, Marquis de Lotbinière, "Situation de
la Nouvelle France au mois de mai 1758, et extrait de cequi s’y est pass‚ de
plus interressant dans la ditte année." Ms copy in Fort Ticonderoga Museum
collection. Gift of George C. Aycrigg. The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga
Museum, vol. XII no. 3 (October 1967), p. 236. Published in translation as
"Condition of New France in the month of May 1758," DRCHSNY,
vol. X, pp. 890-897, with the cover letter from Lotbinière to Marshall de
Belle-Isle, Québec, 11 November 1758
Adjutant Malartic, "Journal of the Military Operations
before Ticonderoga," Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the
State of New York, Albany, 1858, vol. X [FTA #4329]. 30 June 1758-10 July
1758, pp. 721-725; 20 October 1757-20 October 1758, pp. 835-850.
le Comte de Maurès de Malartic, Journal des Campagnes au
Canada de 1755 … 1760, Paul Gaffarel, ed., Dijon, Libraire Plon, 1890.
[Lydon #825. FTA; purchased 1966]. Malartic came to Canada as brigade major in
the Béarn regiment, 1755; captured with Dieskau at Lake George, 1755, and
exchanged; served at Carillon in 1758. This version suggests a variety of
alternative translations to those offered in DRCHNYS.
Montcalm, "Journal des Campagnes de Montcalm," Manuscrits
de Lévis, vol. 2, part 3: Journal 7bre 1757 au mois de juin 1758 (68 pp.)
et continuation du journal 1er juin 1758 au 1er 7bre (64 pp.). Collection des
manuscrits du Maréchal de Lévis, l’Abbé H.-R. Casgrain, ed., Journal du
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