In this place was buried on the 4th of January 1776, along with his two aides de camp McPherson and Cheeseman and certain of his soldiers, Richard Montgomery, the American general who was killed during the attack of the 31st of December 1775. In 1818 his remains were exhumed and removed to the precincts of St. Paul’s Church, New York

The events associated with General Montgomery's Army Marker (Jan 4, 1776) connect this location to the wider conflicts and transformations of the revolutionary era. The surviving description records the principal action, institution, or individual, but its meaning becomes clearer when the surrounding systems of movement, supply, communication, government, labor, and community life are considered. Many people maintained, defended, visited, worked at, or suffered through the site, including participants whose names were never recorded.

The military episode depended on roads, waterways, ferries, mills, taverns, supply depots, and defensible terrain. Armies required food, forage, ammunition, transport, intelligence, medical care, and secure camps. Soldiers and militia relied on drivers, sailors, laborers, guides, servants, enslaved people, craftspeople, and nearby families. Their contributions rarely appear in short inscriptions, yet they determined whether troops could move, eat, receive warnings, and survive. Civilians near the action might also endure confiscation, fire, displacement, captivity, wounds, disease, or death.

The modern marker anchors this history to a specific landscape even where the original building, road, earthwork, field, or shoreline has changed. Standing at the location helps visitors understand distance, terrain, approaches, and neighboring resources in ways that a written summary alone cannot. It also invites comparison between a concise inscription, inherited local tradition, and the fuller documentary record. The place matters not only because a notable person or event is associated with it, but because national outcomes were created from local decisions, labor, conflict, hospitality, and endurance. Preserving the point keeps the relationship between geography, memory, and historical consequence visible. In broader perspective, this episode demonstrates how major historical outcomes emerged from hundreds of local movements, resources, and choices. The surviving point gives those relationships a tangible human scale and a place from which the wider story can be reconstructed. In broader perspective, this episode demonstrates how major historical outcomes emerged from hundreds of local movements, resources, and choices. The surviving point gives those relationships a tangible human scale and a place from which the wider story can be reconstructed. In broader perspective, this episode demonstrates how major historical outcomes emerged from hundreds of local movements, resources, and choices. The surviving point gives those relationships a tangible human scale and a place from which the wider story can be reconstructed.