[lighthall] lieutenant-general GARRET FISHER 71 



in Martinique. On the 3rd May, 1796, he was appointed its Colonel. 

 On the 23rd August, 1799, he was Colonel Commandant. On the 

 10th August, 1800, Brigadier — ■ — serving on the Expedition to Cadiz 

 under General Sir James Pulteney; on the 1st January, 1801, he 

 became Major-General ; was retired on "English half pay" in 1802. 

 In 1807 he was Colonel Commandant of the 17th, which had been 

 at Albany about 1760 with the 55th, and on the 25th of April, 1808, 

 he was named Lieutenant-General, shortly before his death, which 

 took place in that year at the age of 66. 



He appears to have died at his town house on Manchester 

 Square, London, which was also his address in 1795, and was probably 

 built or acquired by him not long before. It seems to have been a 

 house which Lord Palmerston intended to take soon after Fisher's 

 death, and is described as "a very good one." He owned valuable 

 property in Ireland, and had married there, probably about 1795, the 

 Lady Sarah Trevor, of an old family closely related to the Marquis 

 of Downshire and the Duke of Wellington. On some of his silver, 

 hall-marked 1799, his coat-of-arms shows three alternate coronets and 

 fishes naiant on a vert shield ; quartered with the arms of the Trevors, 

 a lion rampant on ermine and erminois. Lady Sarah was probably 

 a relative of a fellow-ofhcer of Fisher's in the 55th regiment in 1777 — • 

 James Taylor Trevor, both being on the roll as captains in that year. 

 After the General's death a considerable part of his estate consisted 

 of money in the Bank of Dublin (£42,000), doubtless the proceeds 

 of sale of his Irish possessions. His English estate was probated 

 at the further sum of £90,000. His wife predeceased him, and as 

 they had no children, he sent to his nephew — Nanning John Visscher 

 of Greenbush, Albany, who had married Catherine Glen Van Rens- 

 selaer, daughter of the brave and chivalrous General Solomon Van 

 Rensselaer, of the Battle of Queenston Heights — -and offered to make 

 him his heir; but as Nanning preferred his Albany surroundings the 

 General made no will, but died intestate. Nanning was a Major in 

 the American army and son of the General's brother. Colonel John 

 Visscher, who had served during the Revolution and was beside 

 Montgomery when he fell at Quebec. A cousin was the distinguished 

 Brigadier-General Frederick Visscher of the Revolution. 



Tradition states that word of General Garret Fisher's death came 

 to his heirs in America accidentally. On the 19th of June, 1811, all 

 the heirs signed an agreement empowering Major Nanning Visscher 

 to go to England and represent them. He arrived in August and 

 took out Letters of Administration there, and on the 12th of October 

 took out letters in Ireland also. It appears from certain legal papers 



