Clinton Scollard, born in Clinton, New York, September 18, 1860.
Richard Montgomery was a native of the North of Ireland. He entered the
British army at the age of twenty, and served with distinction under
Wolfe, and later in the campaign against the Spanish West Indies.
Marrying a daughter of Robert R. Livingston, and settling upon the
Hudson, at Rhinebeck, he espoused the cause of the colonists at the
opening of the war. In the expedition against Canada he was second in
command under Schuyler, with the rank of brigadier-general. The attack
upon Quebec was made early in the morning of the 31st of December, 1775.
Montgomery’s death was regarded as a great public calamity. Congress
passed resolutions of regret and condolence, and Chatham and Burke
eulogized the dead leader on the floor of the British Parliament. At the
time of his death he was thirty-eight years of age.
=Stanza 6.= =Wolfe= (James), the “hero of Louisburg” and the conqueror of
Quebec, fell upon the Plains of Abraham in his thirty-second year. He is
to this day regarded as one of the half dozen most noted generals that
England has produced. Quebec was taken on the 13th of September, 1759.