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by the Honorable Wm. Merritt to transcribe MSS.. 

 on our late wars, I induced him to help me to clear 

 up this point, and to write to the War Office, in London, 

 to ascertain what regiment, and how many Mont- 

 gomerys, had served in the campaign of 1759, at Quebec. 

 On the 22nd September, 1866, Lieutenant- General 

 Peel, Secretary at War, instructed his secretary, Ed. 

 Lugard, to furnish Mr. Coventry with full particulars 

 in reply to his inquiry. This courteous letter was sent 

 me by old Mr. Coventry. It established conclusively 

 that Alexander was the name of the Captain Mont- 

 gomery of the 43rd ; and the Montgomery of the 17th 

 a lieutenant in 1759 — was named Ei chard. We all 

 know that the name of the luckless leader of the storm- 

 ing party, at Pres-de-ville, Quebec, on the 31st Decem- 

 ber, 1775, was Kichard Montgomery. My memoir, with 

 the documents on which it rests, appeared first in the 

 Saturday Reader, published in Montreal in 1866, a 

 French version was put forth in the Album du Tou- 

 riste, p. 3-6, printed at Quebec in 1872, and is referred 

 to in detail in the Eeport of the Centenary Anniversary 

 of the repulse of Montgomery and Arnold before 

 Quebec in 1775. See Transactions of the Literary and* 

 Historical Society, of Quebec, for 1876. 



Spencer Grange, Quebec, 1890. 



