Rebuilding Ticonderoga and Crown Point in the 1760's
A Fort Ticonderoga Bibliography
Current: Monday, November 27, 2000
These works in the Fort Ticonderoga research collections in
the Thompson-Pell Research Center may be studied by appointment on weekdays. The
library collections do not circulate. The condition of certain volumes may
prohibit photocopying.
Most of the unique manuscripts in the Fort Ticonderoga
collections have been reprinted in The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga
Museum, published since 1927. The Bulletin may be found in state
historical society libraries in the Northeast and in major university libraries.
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Secondary Sources
D. Peter MacLeod, The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven Years’ War,
Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1996, pp. 155-176. Canadian War Museum Publication no.
29.
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 10, Memoirs of the year 1760, pp. 108-111.
Primary Sources 
1760 Peter Kimball, Bradford,
Massachusetts, 4 March 1760-29 October 1760. Diary of march and work at
Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 1760. [For Ticonderoga, see 23 June-27 June.] New
Hampshire Historical Society ms #1925-7. Typescript NHHS #920 / K4992. Copies in
Fort Ticonderoga research files. Accompanied by tavern accounts in Boscawen, N.H., after 1764.
Major John Campbell to Gen. Jeffery Amherst,
Tienderoga, 24
March 1760. Reports a fire that almost completely consumes the Officers’
Barracks (except for Campbell’s apartment). The officers live in the brig and
sloop until huts can be built. Amherst Papers, p. 12. Amherst to Major Campbell,
New York, 6 April 1760. Sends regrets re fire. Amherst Papers, p. 170. John
Darby to Gen. Jeffery Amherst, Tienderoga, 25 May 1760. Transmits a memorial of
the losses suffered by officers in the March fire. Amherst Papers, p. 20. Typed
transcripts in FTA research collections. From Public Record Office, War Office
34/50. [Amherst Papers] / (Correspondence between Commander-in-Chief [Amherst]
and Officers at Ticonderoga).
"Lieut: Brehm’s Report to His Excellency General
Amherst of what is requisite to be Built and repaired in compleating of
Tienderoga," 27 May 1760. Amherst Papers, pp. 21-23. Amherst’s response
is: Amherst to Brehm, Albany, 31 May 1760, Amherst Papers, p. 183. Typed
transcripts of both are in FTA research collections. From Public Record Office,
War Office 34/50. [Amherst Papers] / (Correspondence between Commander-in-Chief
[Amherst] and Officers at Ticonderoga).
Hugh Rose to Gen. Jeffery Amherst, 20 December 1760. Amherst
Papers, p. 30. Carpenter makes equipment for officers’ and men’s barracks.
Laid up 60,000 brick.
1760 Powderhorn: "Amos Powers horn / August 25, 1760
/ Done at the Camps at Ticonderoga." Metropolitan Museum of Art #49.72.20.
1761 Hugh Rose to Gen. Jeffery Amherst, Tienderoga, 19
November 1761. Amherst Papers, p. 84. Summarizes work accomplished during the
previous summer.
1761-1764 Tailer & Blodget account book at Crown
Point, 1761-64. FTA manuscript collection.
1762 Maj. General Jeffery Amherst to Col. Nathan Whiting,
New York, 4 July 1762. FTA ms coll. Encourages continued work at Crown Point;
affirms that Whiting’s authority extends "no farther than the Camp at
Crown Point." "Rum is Expressly prohibited, as I am determined to put
a Total Stop to the Sale of that pernicious Liquor, wherever there are any
Soldiers." Details of sutler management.
1762 Lt. Col. James Smedley, Orderly Book, 16 August-4
November 1762, 1 vol. 80 pp. Library of Congress; Peter Force Papers. Microfilm
of manuscript (Ac. no. 17,137; reel 67). Microfilm of transcript (Ac. no.
19,061; reel 42).
1764 Osborn to Beckwith, 6 February 1764, in Thomas
Gage Papers, vol. 13. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
Concerning charges that Capt. Charles Osborne, 44th Foot, commanding
at Ticonderoga, had separated Mrs. Cahoon from her husband, Private Cahoon, to
conduct an affair. Lt. Col. Beckwith commanded the 44th Foot. See
also: "Series of Manuscript Letters from the Gage Manuscripts," The
Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, vol. IX no. 4 (Winter 1954), pp.
249-254. Beckwith to Osborne, Crown Point, 5 February 1764 (p. 250). Osborne to
Beckwith, Tienderoga, 6 February 1764 (pp.251-253). Beckwith to Osborne, Crown
Point, 9 February 1764 (p. 253). Osborne toBeckwith, Tienderoga, Sunday morn
[February 1764] (p. 254). Beckwith to Gage, Crown Point, 13 February 1764 (pp.
249-250). Beckwith to Gage, 25 February 1764 (p. 254).
1773 "Proceedings of a Garrison Court of Enquiry
Regarding the Destruction of His Majesty’s Fort of Crown Point on Lake
Champlain," 1773. PRO, London, Colonial Office 5. Microfilm copy in the
National Archives of Canada, reel B-2966.
