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Photographer: Bill Coughlin
Taken: November 5, 2008
Caption: Richard Montgomery Marker
Additional Description: The State of New York caused the remains of Maj. Gen. Richard Montgomery to be conveyed from Quebec and deposited beneath this monument the 8th day of July 1818.

General Richard Montgomery
In 1787, St. Paul’s Chapel erected a monument to honor General Richard Montgomery, the first officer to die in the American Revolution. The Continental Congress commissioned this monument in 1776, the first American memorial. Montgomery’s body was interred at St. Paul’s in 1818, 43 years after his death.
Submitted: November 23, 2008, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p44501
File Size: 0.993 Megabytes

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