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Certification by the Comptrollers Office, Albany, State of New York of Expenses Incurred by Solomon Van Rensselaer for the Military Escort that attended the Remains of General Richard Mongomery – $700.00 already paid, $51.71 balance due
Richard Montgomery
January 20, 1819
Receipt of Payment by Richard W. Slack, for the Hire of Horses and a Hearse, Opening the Ground, Preparing the Church, Tolling the Bell, Attendance on the Handel & Haydn Society, furnishing them with candles, Mr. Shear's fee as clerk – $43.00 from The Cincinnati Committee of Arrangement
Richard Montgomery
July 22, 1818
Receipt of Payment by Isaac B. Coutant, for Attending the funeral of General Richard Montgomery as Sexton and tolling the bell of Trinity Church – $8.00
Richard Montgomery
July 18, 1818
Receipt of Payment by George Bowen, for the hire of a carriage at Fort Gansevoort, from 7 o'clock to 12 at 75 cents an hour – $3.75 from General Stevenson
Richard Montgomery
July 15, 1818
Receipt of Payment by Henry Wiswell for expenses of lodging, food and drink – $5.13 from Solomon Van Rensselaer
Richard Montgomery
July 2, 1818
George [sic] Montgomery, Esq. Major General of the Amewrican Armies, Kill'd at Quebec, December 31st, 1775
Anonymous, British, late 18th century
1777
Receipt of Payment by Thomas W. Ford, for 6 yardsof black clock for a pall – $36 from John Meads for St. Peter's Church, Albany
Richard Montgomery
July 10, 1818
General Richard Montgomery
Anonymous, American, 19th century
19th century
Receipt of Payment by Bartholomew Skaats, for money paid out to eleven persons who toled bells during the Procession, at three dollars each, being three hours toling – $35 from the Committee of Arrangements for the Funeral of Montgomery
Richard Montgomery
August 10, 1818
List of Expenses incurred by Richard Varick relating to the Internment of the Remains of the late General Montgomery and submitted to Ebenezer Stevens, Chairman of the Committee appointed by the Cincinnati Society – $1034.64
Richard Montgomery
October 16, 1818
Receipt of Payment by Abraham Bloom, for tolling the bell of the Reforned Dutch Church in Nassu Street – $3.00 from the Society of Cincinnati
Richard Montgomery
1818
Receipt of Payment by Dwight, Townsend & Walker, publishers of the Daily Advertiser, for services, July 6th, 8th and 9th, 1818 – $3.62 from the Committee of Arrangement for the Funeral of General Montgomery
Richard Montgomery
1818
Receipt of Payment by E. Conrad, for paper and printing 300 copies of the Order of Procession with a Mourning border on fine paper, at two cents a piece – $6.00 from Colonel William T. Hunter (a second payment received by John Whint (?), from J. E. Stevens)
Richard Montgomery
July 7 and 24, 1818
General Richard Montgomery
Robert Pollard
1778–80
Receipt of Payment by Smith & Fountain, for six yards black French___, and one dozen Mens English Silk gloves, by order of W. Trumbull – $16.25 from the Committee of Arrangements of the Cincinnati Society
Richard Montgomery
July 1818
Receipt of Payment by George Bowman for one half day mason work for putting in the inscription stone in General Montgomery's Monument – $1.37 1/2 cents from the Committee of the New York State Cincinnati Society
Richard Montgomery
August 22, 1818
Receipt of Payment by Peter Van Blaricom, for the hire of horses to ride from the Arsenal to the Battery on July 8, 1818 – $6.00 from Captain Isaac Ferris
Richard Montgomery
July 8, 1818
Letter from Richard Varick to DeWitt Clinton, Governor of New York, requesting repayment of cash he has advanced for expenditures relating to the Internment of the Remains of the late General Montgomery
Richard Montgomery
October 20, 1818
Death of General Montgomery (at Quebec, December 31, 1775)
Anonymous, American, 18th to 19th century
1781–1825
Receipt of Payment by Bryan Rosseter, Sergeant at Arms, for sundry services rendered on the 5th, 6th, and 7th of July, relating to the transportation of the remains of General Richard Montgomery – $48 from the Committee appointed by the Society of the Cincinnati to make arrangements
Richard Montgomery
July 9, 1818
An Impartial History of the Present War in American...Vols. I-III
Reverend James Murray
1778–80
Receipt of Payment by Alexander Miny, for printing 1400 Arrangements of Music by the Handel & Haydn Society, for the Funeral Obsequies of General Montgomery – $25 from the Cincinnati Committee of Arrangement
Richard Montgomery
July 9, 1818
Account of Cash Spent by Colonel Peter Gansevoort in July 1818, when on duty with the remains of Major General Richard Montgomery – $66.12
Richard Montgomery
July 1818
Receipt of Payment by Richard Anderson, Sexton, for tolling the bell in St. George's Church, during the Funeral Procession of the late Major General Richard Montgomery – $3.00 from the Cincinnati Society
Richard Montgomery
July 8, 1818
Receipt of Payment by Colonel Richard Platt for Tweedy & Benedict, 18 Hester Street, New York, for a military hat trimmed with silk, and appropriate to all similar occasions in the Cincinnati Society – $14.25
Richard Montgomery
July 7, 1818
Death of General Montgomery (at Quebec, December 31, 1775)
Johan Frederik Clemens
ca. 1798
Receipt of Payment by Colonel Aaron Levy, for the hiring of hands...standards, field pieces, instruments of music, etc., for the Funeral of General Richard Montgomery – $19.00 from The Committee of Arrangements
Richard Montgomery
July 16, 1818
Receipt of Payment by Vandervoort & Flandin, for black lustre silk, etc. – $45.47 paid by Ebenezer Stevens, Chairman Commander of Arrangements for the Funeral of General Montgomery, Cincinnati Society
Richard Montgomery
July 16, 1818
Receipt of Payment by Colonel Richard Varick, for Expenses Relating to the Internment of the Remains of the late General Montgomery – $1034.64 from Archibald McIntyre, Comptroller of the State of New York
Richard Montgomery
November 14, 1818
Accounting of the Expenses Incurred by DeWitt Clinton, Governor of New York, June 8 to November 14, 1818, Relating to the Return of the Remains of General Richard Mongomery from Quebec to New York, under Military Escort, and Reburial in St. Paul's Churchyard – Approved by the State Comptrollers Office, Albany – Expenses $2,744.00; Balance due to the governor $1,744.00
Richard Montgomery
January 20, 1819
Receipt of Payment by S. P. Taylor and William Chadovoyne, for erecting two platforms in the gallery of St. Paul's Church for the accomodation of the Handel & Haydn Society and removing the same – $25.50 from the Committee of Arrangement for the funeral of General Montgomery
Richard Montgomery
July 9, 1818
Receipt of Payment by the Steam Boat Richmond, for transporting officers, soldiers and musicians attached to the remains of General Montgomery, to New York on July 6, and returning from New York to Albany, July 8, 1818 – $180 issued by DeWitt Clinton, Governor of the State of New York
Richard Montgomery
November 7, 1818
Receipt of Payment by Richard Platt, for David Longworth, for printing 150 large cards containing the Signals of the Day – $5.00 from the Committee of Arrangement for the internment of General Montgomery
Richard Montgomery
July 7, 1818
Impartial History of the War in America, Between Great Britain and the United States
John Norman
1783
Receipt of Payment by Richard Platt, for George Conningham, for the latter's three days constant attendance in the hall and elsewhere on the field officer of the day – $6.00
Richard Montgomery
July 11, 1818
Funeral of Montgomery
Anonymous, American, 19th century
1818 or after
Monument to General Richard Montgomery
Augustin de Saint-Aubin
1779
Letter from to Jennet [Janet], widow of Major General Richard Montgomery, from the State of New York. Notifying her that, an Act of the Legislature passed April 17, 1784, entitles her to seven years of her late husband's half pay, or £2700.16
Janet Livingston Montgomery
June 5, 1785
Receipt of Payment by George Mills, for expenses for 23 men – $23 from the Committee of Arrangements for Funeral Honors to General Montgomery
Richard Montgomery
July 22, 1818
Receipt of Payment by Mr. Mandeville, for Tolling the North Church Bell on July 8th, 1818, during the Funeral Procession of General Richard Montgomery – $3.00 received from Mr. E. Stevens
Richard Montgomery
July 20, 1818