I think perhaps I owe someone here a huge thank you

[Luke MacGillie]

A couple weeks ago I made mention of a very important record regarding the 42nd Royal Highland Regiments (The Black Watch) service here in North America during the French and Indian War. The record has been highly sought after by scholar's of the regiment for decades, but was not available for viewing. So unavailable that even PHD candidates were not worthy of being allowed to view the record.

A few days after making that posting here, all of a sudden everything changed, and I think perhaps someone here might have, shall we say, had a frank discussion with the regimental museum?

Anyway I'm going to be very busy for awhile analyzing the logistics of standing up a Highland Regiment and deploying it to North America.

Thank you to whoever you are, A whole bunch of students of history owe you a debt of gratitude!

[kiltedtom]

Luke,

As a professional historian with a Ph.D., I have rarely had the privilege of being among the first few to read an important document. Even for my dissertation, the documents I read were mostly forgotten but not recently made available or discovered. So I envy you and wish you great success as you delve further into your subject. Yes, thanks to whomever got the document made available, but thanks to you for making the need public. And I hope you will share with us your discoveries.

Enjoy!

Tom Phelps

[OC Richard]

That is so cool!

And that's a document's sole purpose, isn't it, to document something for people in other times and places?