(The writer will have to admit that this list is more or less
incomplete, even the N. Y. State Library at Albany had only
scattered items. It would seem as if this would be a good subject
for an article for some future meeting of the Association and any
information will be gratefully received).
1758.
The New York Colonial Manuscripts, edited by Callaghan, page 732,
in the list of regiments having officers wounded at the battle of
July 8, 1758, gives the following regiments: Col. DeLancey’s, New
York; Col. Babcock’s, Rhode Island; Col. Fitche’s, Connecticut;
Col. Worcester’s, Connecticut; Col. Bagley’s, Massachusetts; Col.
Partridge’s, Massachusetts; Col. Preble’s, Massachusetts; Col.
Johnston’s, New Jersey. Parkman mentions Col. Bradstreet with his
regiment of boatmen, armed and drilled as soldiers and it is also
certain that Roger’s Rangers were with the expedition.
The year book of the Maine Chapter of the Society of Colonial
Wars for 1900 gives much information in regard to Col. Preble’s
regiment, Maine being in 1758 a part of Massachusetts. Mention is
made in this article of regiments officered by “Col. Doty, Col.
Joseph Williams, Col. Nickols, Col. Whitings.”
Also in the New York Colonial Manuscripts, Vol. 10, P. 827 it
mentions a force of about 3,000 men nearly all of whom were
provincials, under Col. Bradstreet, in the expedition against Fort
Frontinac after the battle of July 8, 1758, and of the number of
soldiers engaged, the list is given as “New Yorkers 1112, Col.
Williams’ regiment 413, Col. Douty’s 248, Rhode Island 318, and
Jersey 418.”
It is not clear whether these regiments were at the battle of
Ticonderoga and were not mentioned in list page 732 of the New York
Colonial Manuscripts because none of the officers were wounded, or
whether they were the same regiments but with different officers, a
change having been made after the battle.
1759
The provincial regiments mentioned in Commissary Wilson’s Orderly
Book as being in the Ticonderoga expedition of 1759 are as
follows: Col. Lyman’s, Connecticut; Col. Whiting’s, Connecticut;
Col. Worcester’s, Connecticut; Col. Fitch’s, Connecticut; Col.
Willard’s, Massachusetts; Col. Ruggle’s, Massachusetts; Col.
Lovell’s, New Hampshire; Col. Schuyler’s, New Jersey; Col.
Babcock’s, Rhode Island.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF AS MANY OF THE OFFICERS OF 1758 AS COULD
BE TRACED.
_James Abercrombie._
James Abercrombie was promoted to a captaincy in the 42nd or 1st
Battalion of the Royal Highlanders on the 16th of February, 1756.
On the 5th of May, 1759, he was appointed aide de camp to Maj. Gen.
Amherst, with whom he made the campaigns of that and the following
year. On the 25th of July, 1760, he was appointed Major of the 78th
or Fraser’s Highlanders and in September following was employed
by Gen. Amherst in communicating to the Marquis de Vaudreuil
the conditions preparatory to the surrender of Montreal and in
obtaining the signature of that governor to them. (Knox’s Journal).
The 78th having been disbanded in 1763, Major Abercrombie retired
on half pay. On the 27th of March, 1770, he again entered active
service as Lt. Colonel of the 22nd Regiment then serving in America
under the command of Lt. Col. Gage and was killed in the memorable
Battle of Bunker Hill on the 17th of June, 1775.
New York Colonial Manuscripts by Broadhead, Weed, Parsons
Co., Albany, 1856, page 160.
_Hugh Arnot._
Hugh Arnot was taken from the half pay list and appointed a
Lieutenant in the 42nd Highlanders, 9th April, 1756, at the
augmentation of that Regiment on its coming to America, and was
promoted to a Company on the 27th December, 1757. He served in the
unfortunate affair of Ticonderoga in 1758, and in 1759 accompanied
Amherst as above. On the 16th August, 1760, he exchanged into the
46th Foot, in which Regiment he continued to serve until 1769, when
his name was dropped from the Army List.
Wilson’s Orderly Book, p. 143.
_Patrick Balneaves._
Patrick Balneaves, of Edradour, entered the 42nd, as Ensign, 28th
January, 1756, and was promoted to be Lieutenant 1st April, 1758;
he was wounded at Ticonderoga, 1758; and again at Martinico in
1762; became Captain-Lieutenant 23rd August, 1763, and left the
army in 1770.
Stewart. Army Lists. N. Y. Colonial Manuscripts, p. 729, Vol.
10.
[Illustration: AT TICONDEROGA