Note 637 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

Dennie's Portfolio, xx. 75. A paper by Louise L. Hunt in Harper's Monthly, vol. lxx. (Feb., 1885), in which the story of the preservation of Montgomery's sword is told. Cf. Living Age, no. 1,017, p. 428; Biog. Notes concerning Richard Montgomery, by L. L. Hunt (1876); A Sketch of Montgomery (1876), by General Geo. W. Cullum, and an article by him in the Mag. of Amer. Hist., April, 1884, with interesting illustrations, including (p. 277) a view of Montgomery Place, on the Hudson, which was building at the time of his death, and was afterwards the home of his widow. There are other views of this well-known estate in Lamb's Homes of America, Harper's Mag., lxx. 354, etc. General Cullum's paper has also a fac-simile of a letter sent by Montgomery to Colonel Bedel, Oct. 2, 1775. For the ancestry of Montgomery, see N. Y. Geneal. and Biog. Record, July, 1871, p. 123. The memory of Montgomery suffered for a long time in Canada from the belief that he was the officer of that name who was charged with atrocities during the siege of Quebec in 1759 (Quebec Lit. and Hist. Soc. Trans., 1870-71, p. 63).