. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. Clinton, paused before MontgomeryPlace, * near Barrytown, where the widow of the hero resided, and who thusdescribes the mournful pageant: At length they came by with all that re-mained of a beloved husband, who left me in the bloom of manhood, a perfectbeing. Alas ! how did he return ? However gratifying to my heart, yet to myfeelings every pang I felt was renewed. The pomp with which it was con-ducted added to my woe ; when the steamboat passed with slow and solemn * When Montgomery left his Kingsbridge farm, he commenced erecting a
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. Clinton, paused before MontgomeryPlace, * near Barrytown, where the widow of the hero resided, and who thusdescribes the mournful pageant: At length they came by with all that re-mained of a beloved husband, who left me in the bloom of manhood, a perfectbeing. Alas ! how did he return ? However gratifying to my heart, yet to myfeelings every pang I felt was renewed. The pomp with which it was con-ducted added to my woe ; when the steamboat passed with slow and solemn * When Montgomery left his Kingsbridge farm, he commenced erecting a house upon a place(now called Grasmere) near Rhinebeck, which belonged to his wife, but the building was not com-pleted till after the Generals death. His widow resided here till the spring of 1776, when sheremoved to Montgomery Place, named in honor of the General and modeled after the house in Ire-land belonging to Viscount Raneleigh, who married Montgomerys only sister. Their son, Jones, superintended the construction of Montgomery MONTGOMERY S TOMB. St. Pauls. New York. 298 MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD MONTGOMERY ^ <&Wa^*£- sZtujtrle? fzrz^f /%&/%&ausL A<- ^u7* fr^Ct^L ^«&~ A^_ A-Af^e^ iTh^ jfrZZnr- CcS^y -», rfZts* rP AN ORIGINAL TO COLONEL BEDEL, ST. JOHNS. {From the collection of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet.) movement, stopping be-fore my house, the troopsunder arms, the DeadMarch from the muffleddrums, the mournful mu-sic, the splendid coffin,canopied with crape andcrowned by plumes, youmay conceive my cannot describe it. Suchvoluntary honors werenever before paid to anindividual by a republic,and to Governor Clin-tons munificence muchis owing. Of Washingtons thir-teen generals, elected bythe Continental Congress,some were mere sabreurs,many incompetent, andseveral effete from sick-ness or age: two only—Schuyler and Greene —could be compared toMontgomery, and neitherof these was his superiorin character, attainmentsor mil
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