Identifier: magazineofamericv11stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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ing out his com-mission, April 6, 1772, because a favorite had superseded him in the pur-chase of a commission of major, to which Montgomerys services entitledhim. Of his occupation during this period of military inactivity we havefew details. But we know that he was an earnest lover of liberty, andwas intimate in England with the brilliant Burke, the fascinating Fox,and the bold Barre, his fellow British soldier wounded at Quebec, all ofwhom, in Parliament, were the ardent advocates of America in her severestruggle against the oppression of the mother country. Doubtless theinfluence of this distinguished trio gave form and pressure to a mindalready in sympathy with the colonists, with whom he had stood shoulderto shoulder in five eventful campaigns. Montgomery, no longer in the British service, returned to Americaearly in 1773; purchased a farm of sixty-seven acres at Kings Bridge,near New York, upon which Fort Independence was subsequently built; 278 MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY
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EDMUND BURKE. (After engraving, by Wagstaff, of painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.) soon after married Janet, the eldest child of Judge Robert R. Livingston*and then moved to Rhinebeck, on the Hudson, where he followed his * Montgomery, while still a captain in the British army, had met Janet Livingston at Clermont,her fathers country place on the Hudson, he having stopped there on his way to a distant post.When Montgomery returned to America, he renewed his acquaintance with the lady and marriedher in July, 1773. MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY 279 new vocation of agriculture with that zeal and intelligence which charac-terized all his actions. Here, though a foreigner, he quickly gained theconfidence of his neighbors, and so proved himself equal to the exigenciesof the times that, in April, 1775, he was elected a delegate from DutchessCounty to the first Provincial Convention held in New York, of which hewas a useful, modest and taciturn member, not having acquired the mod-ern mania

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