(snip) Crowlogic's claim was the the sighting of the BF creature was being built , so this document doesn't cover the period of Crowlogic's claim. He cites a biologist's account (John Perry?) but hasn't cited a source of the quote that I've seen.
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I know that, but I was going with the research materials we had at hand. I read through a history of Fort Ticonderoga last night. My report:
Sasquatches at Fort Ticonderoga?
The first of the two books that I ordered through Interlibrary Loan came in:
Pell, S.H.P., ed.
Fort Ticonderoga: A Short History, Compiled from Contemporary Sources. Rpt. Fort Ticonderoga Museum, 1975.
Chapter 1 covers “The Aborigines” and has no mention of Sasquatch or anything like it.
Chapter 2 is “Champlain” and includes Champlain’s description of the countryside, including the flora and fauna; no mention of a Sasquatch. Then Chapters three, four, five, and six cover the building of the fort and the period up to the Revolutionary War. Here we go:
In 1755 Michel Chartier (later Marquis de Lotbiniere), at the direction of the Marquis de Vandreuil, the Governor-General of New France, explored the vicinity to establish a new fort. The third chapter consists of Chartier’s reports back to Vandreuil. He determined to establish the new fort near Mount Pelee (today Mount Defiance). In October, 1755, in charge of a work force of 2000 French soldiers, Chartier cleared land, felled trees, dug entrenchments, and began to erect the fort. Plans called for a stone edifice, but lacking masons and equipment, Chartier first built using native oak. His account talks of the problems and challenges the soldiers faced, notes how rapidly the basic structure went up, and nowhere mentions either Native Americans or Sasquatches.
Indeed, according to this record the most irritating interruption came from Robert Rogers, leaders of Rogers’ Rangers, who on behalf of the British scouted and spied on the fort and raided the cattle owned by the French.
Chartier complains that when cold weather came, the bulk of the soldiers left the fort and returned to Crown Point; the remaining garrison of soldiers refused to work in the cold, and lacking military rank, Chartier could not compel them to work. He left in February, 1756, wintering in Montreal, but returned later that spring and resumed operations. The fort was strengthened and work began on stone structures (the first of these being two garrisons inside the walls). In 1756, Chartier rechristened the fort; it had been Fort Vandreuil, but because the sound of waterfalls reminded Chartier of the sounds of bells in the distance, he renamed it Fort Carillon. Work went on during the warmer months of 1756 and 1757 with few interruptions; ground was cleared around the fort to accommodate tent space for an army of 3,000 men during this time, should the occasion arise.
Again, no mention of Sasquatches.
In 1758, by which time the fort was almost complete, the British general Abercromby dispatched a large force to take the French fort, under the command of George Augustus, Viscount Howe. The Native American allies of the French harried the British, and the French attacked before they could besiege the fort, killing Lord Howe in the first assault. The British retreated in disorder. The book includes a report on the debacle by Howe’s aide, Captain Monypenny. Both French and British descriptions of the fighting are included. No Sasquatches.
In 1759, however, British General Jeffrey Amherst led another British force, and this time they took the fort, which they renamed Ticonderoga. The French defenders, in a last-ditch effort, set fire to the wooden structures of the fort, but the British salvaged an impressive number of cannon, and in a report on the action, the British Eli Forbush describes the action and tells how the British began to repair the fortifications.
No Sasquatches.
The accounts are pretty circumstantial, but of course the only thing I can really report is that none of them anywhere mention man-like creatures or Native legends about such beings.
ETA: There's this:
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cach...quatch++"john+perry"&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
...but that isn't much to go on.
