>From a book online, the early years of NY City (Illustrated) this article: http://www.earlyrepublic.net/octo/octo-4.htm It was in July of this year that the remains of General Richard Montgomery, killed in the assault on Quebec in December, 1775, were transferred from Canada to St. Paul's chapel. Congress, in 1776, had voted the cenotaph to his memory that is set in the east front of St. Paul's. Governor Clinton notified Mrs. Montgomery of the time when the steamboat, the Richmond, bearing the general's body, would pass her country seat on the Hudson, and at that hour the constant widow, still mourning the loss of "her soldier" after a lapse of more than forty years, appeared upon the portico of her mansion. The Richmord approached and stopped; the military band on board played a Dead March; a salute was fired, and the boat bearing the precious burden passed on. http://www.earlyrepublic.net/octo/octo-5.htm