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Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Maryland, bears his name, itself located in the county named after him, Montgomery County. Montgomery Place , a mansion in Barrytown, New York , was constructed in 1803 and named in his honor by his widow. [ 124 ]
Wootton proposed naming the new county after the well-known Major General Richard Montgomery, who had served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. [3] [2]: 41 Eight months earlier, Montgomery had died in Quebec City while attempting an ultimately unsuccessful invasion of the Province of Quebec. [3]
The Maryland state legislature named Montgomery County after Richard Montgomery; the county was created from lands that had at one point or another been part of Frederick County. [14]
named after two popular Americans of the time—George Washington and Richard Montgomery. Origin of Names Richard Montgomery was born on December 2, 1738 in Raphoe, Ireland. At 18 he was commissioned as an officer in the British army and fought in the French and Indian Wars, before emigrating to America in 1772. He was commissioned a
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May 17, 2020 · However, Montgomery County was not established until the state declared independence in 1776. The man it was named after, Major General Richard Montgomery, was an American officer in the Revolutionary war who had died the previous December in the Battle of Quebec.
Montgomery never set foot in the Maryland county that bears his name. Many family names appear on the map of the County, the legacy of early settlers. They include: Layton, Clarke, Poole, Hyatt, Neel, Browning, Clagett, King, Dawson, White, Dickerson, Spencer, Burton, Darne, Brooke and Gaither.
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Feb 22, 2019 · From December 8th to December 31st, General Montgomery faught in the Battle of Quebec and died at the last day of the battle. Montgomery County, Maryland was founded during the Revolutionary War, in 1776, and the county was named after General Richard Montgomery.
