Current As Of 10 December 1996

Historical Resources Branch

US ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY

The Continental Army

BIBLIOGRAPHY

New York


I. Manuscripts.

New-York Historical Society. (New York City).

Clinton, James. Papers.

McDougall, Alexander. Papers.

Willett, Marinus. Papers and Orderly Book.

Orderly Book Collection.

New York Public Library. (New York City).

Gansevoort, Peter. Military Papers.

Schuyler, Philip. Papers.

Van Cortlandt, Philip. Papers.

Orderly Book Collection.

New York State Historical Association. (Cooperstown).

Gilbert, Benjamin. Journal.

II. Published Sources.

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Alexander, Arthur J. "Exemptions from Militia Service in New York State During the Revolutionary War." New York History, 27 (April 1946), pp. 204-212.

Anonymous. "List of Nominations for Officers in the N.Y. Regiments, 1775." Historical magazine, 7 (June 1863), pp. 194-195.

Archambault, Alan H., and Philip D. Weaver. "Enlisted Men, 4th Battalion, New York Provincial Forces, 1775." Military Collector and Historian, 42 (Fall 1990), p. 111.

Baird, Charles Washington. Chronicle of a Border Town: History of Rye, Westchester County, New York, 1660-1870, Including Harrison and the White Plains till 1788. New York: A. D. F. Randolph, 1871.

Bald, F. Clever. "Colonel John Francis Hamtramck." Indiana Magazine of History, 44 (December 1948), pp. 335-354.

Beauchamp, William Martin, compiler. Revolutionary Soldiers, Resident or Dying in Onondaga County, New York ... . Syracuse: Onondaga Historical Association, 1913.

Beekman, Tjerck. "Journal of Lieutenant Tjerck Beekman, 1779, of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians." Edited by James R. Gibson, Jr. Magazine of American History, 20 (August 1888), pp. 128-136.

Belleisles, Michael A. "Life, Liberty, and Land: Ethan Allen and the Frontier Experience in Revolutionary New England." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 1986.

Bielinski, Stefan, editor. A guide to the Revolutionary War Manuscripts in the New York State Library. Albany: New York American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1976.

Bleeker, Leonard. The Order Book of Capt. Leonard Bleeker, Major of Brigade in the Early Part of the Expedition under Gen. James Clinton, Against the Indian Settlements of Western New York, in the Campaign of 1779. New York: Joseph Sabin, 1865.

Bliven, Bruce. Under the Guns: New York 1775-1776. New York: Harper, 1972.

Bonner, Frederick L. "Marinus Willett." New York History, 17 (July 1936), pp. 273-280.

Calkins, Matthew. A True Story of the Extraordinary Feats, Adventures, and Sufferings of Matthew Calkins. Edited by Josiah Priest. Lansingburgh, N.Y.: Harkness, 1840.

Chase, Frank, compiler. Onondaga's Soldiers of the Revolution. Syracuse: Onondaga Historical Association, 1895.

Champagne, Roger J. "The Sons of Liberty and the Aristocracy in New York Politics, 1765-1790." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1960.

Clearwater, Alphonso T., editor. The History of Ulster County, New York. Kingston: Van Deusen, 1907.

Clinton, George. Public Papers of George Clinton, First Governor of New York. Edited by Hugh Hastings. 10 vols. Albany: State printers, 1899-1914.

Conover, Charles Tallmadge, editor. "Original Orderly Books Written on the Battlefields of the American Revolution." Journal of American History, 4 (July, October 1910), pp. 341-351, 491-494; 5 (January 1911), pp. 105-112.

Copeland, Peter F., and Eric I. Manders. "New York City Independent Militia, 1775-1776." Military Collector and Historian, 36 (Fall 1984), p. 121.

Dawson, Henry B. Westchester-County, New York, During the American Revolution. Morrisania: Privately printed, 1886.

Delafield, Maturin L. "Colonel Henry Beekman Livingston." Magazine of American History, 21 (April 1889), pp. 256-258.

Eager, Samuel W. An Outline History of Orange County ... . Newburgh: S. T. Callahan, 1846/1847.

Egly, Theodore W., Jr. History of the First New York Regiment 1775-1783. Hampton, N.H.: Peter E. Randall, 1981.

Fernow, Berthold, editor. New York in the Revolution. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1887. [Only one volume of two projected actually published.]

Finck, Andrew. Papers. Little Falls, N.Y.: Privately printed, 1906.

Fish, Nicholas. "Selections from the Correspondence of Major Nicholas Fish, of the Army of the Revolution." Edited by Hamilton Fish. Historical Magazine, 2d Ser., 5 (March 1869), pp. 203-204.

French, Alvah P., editor. History of Westchester County New York. 4 vols. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1925.

Gano, John. "A Chaplain of the Revolution: Memoirs of the Rev. John Gano." Historical Magazine, 5 (November 1861), pp. 330-335.

Gardner, Asa Bird. "The New York Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution." Magazine of American History, 7 (December 1887), pp. 401-419.

Gott, Joseph W. "Orange County in the Revolution." Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, 12 (October 1931), pp. 366-374.

Greenwood, John. The revolutionary services of John Greenwood of Boston and New York, 1775-1783. Edited by Isaac J. Greenwood. New York: DeVinne Press, 1922.

Haley, Jacquetta Mae. "Voluntary Organizations in Pre-Revolutionary New York City, 1750-1776." Ph.D. Dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1976.

Hall, William. "Colonel Rudolphus Ritzema." Magazine of American History, 2 (March 1878), pp. 162-167.

Hanson, Willis Tracy, Jr. A History of Schenectady during the Revolution, to which is appended a Contribution to the Individual Records of the Inhabitants of the Schenectady District During that Period. [Brattleboro, Vt.: E. I. Hildreth & Co.], 1916.

Hardenbergh, John L. "Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh." In Frederick Cook, editor, Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779 with Records of Centennial Celebrations (Albany: Knapp, Peck & Thomson, 1887), pp. 115-136. [Originally published in Cayuga County Historical Society Collections, 1 (1879).]

Hasbrouck, Frank, editor. The History of Dutchess County New York. Poughkeepsie: Matthieu, 1909.

Haslam, Patricia, compiler. "Some Additions and Corrections: Soldiers of the Revolutionary War Buried in Vermont." Vermont History, 52 (Fall 1984), pp. 225-242.

Headley, Russell, editor. The History of Orange County New York. Middletown: Van Deusen and Elms, 1908.

Hovenburgh, Rudolphus van. "Journal of Lieut. Rudolphus van Hovenburgh." In Frederick Cook, editor, Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779 with Records of Centennial Celebrations (Albany: Knapp, Peck & Thomson, 1887), pp. 275-284.

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Hufeland, Otto. Westchester County during the American Revolution 1775-1783. White Plains: Westchester County Historical Society, 1926.

Johnson, Ray; Alan Aimone; and Barbara Aimone. "2nd Battalion of New York Provincial Forces, 1775." Military Collector and Historian, 29 (Spring 1977), p. 37.

Kenney, Alice P. Stubborn for Liberty, The Dutch in New York. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1975.

-----. "The Albany Dutch: Loyalists and Patriots." New York History, 42 (October 1861), pp. 331-350.

Kierner, Cynthia A. "Landlord and Tenant in Revolutionary New York: The Case of Livingston Manor." New York History, 70 (April 1989), pp. 133-152.

Kim, Sung Bok. "Impact of Class Relations and Warfare in the American Revolution: The New York Experience." Journal of American History, 69 (September 1982), pp. 326-346.

Klingle, Philip. "Soldiers of Kings." Journal of Long Island History, 12 (Spring 1976), pp. 23-35.

Lauber, Almon W., editor. Orderly Books of The Fourth New York Regiment, 1778-1780; The Second New York Regiment, 1780-1783 by Samuel Tallmadge and Others with Diaries of Samuel Tallmadge, 1780-1782 and John Barr, 1779-1782. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1932.

Leggett, Abraham. The Narrative of Major Abraham Leggett, of the Army of the Revolution, Now first Printed from the Original Manuscript. Edited by Charles I. Bushnell. New York: Privately printed, 1865.

Livingston, Edwin Brockholst. The Livingstons of Livingston Manor. New York: Privately printed, 1910.

Livingston, Henry, Jr. "Journal of Major Henry Livingston of the Third New York Continental Line, August to December, 1775." Edited by Gaillard Hunt. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 22 (1898), pp. 9-33.

Lobdell, L. S., editor. "The Four New York Regiments." Magazine of American History, 26 (August 1891), pp. 147-150.

McLellan, Hugh. "Captain Job Wright's Company of Willett's Levies at Ballston in 1782." Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, 1 (October 1919), pp. 13-21.

Manders, Eric I. "Those New York Coats of 1775: A Dissenting View." Military Collector and Historian, 33 (Summer 1981), pp. 69-71.

Mason, Bernard. The Road to Independence: The Revolutionary Movement in New York, 1773-1777. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1966.

Mills, Borden H. "Albany County's Part in the Battle of Saratoga." Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, 15 (1916), pp. 204-224.

Munsell, Joel. Collections of the History of Albany from its Discovery to the Present Time. 4 vols. Albany: J. Munsell, 1865-1871.

Nelson, Peter, editor. "Minutes of Rombout Precinct [Committee] of Observation July 13-September 9, 1775." Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, 12 (July 1931), pp. 295-310.

New York. Journal of the Legislative Council of the Colony of New York, 1691-1775. 2 vols. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1861.

----. Journals of the Provincial Congress, Provincial Convention, Committee of Safety, and Council of Safety, 1775-1777. 2 vols. Albany: Thurlow Weed, 1842.

----. Calendar of Historical Manuscripts, Relating to the War of the Revolution, i the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, New York. 2 vols. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1863-1868.

New York. Division of Archives and History. The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign in 1779. Chronology and Selected Documents. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1929.

Nukerck, Charles. "Journal of Lieut. Charles Nukerck." In Frederick Cook, editor, Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779 with Records of Centennial Celebrations (Albany: Knapp, Peck & Thomson, 1887), pp. 213-222.

O'Callaghan, E[dmund] B., compiler. Calendar of New York Colonial Commissions, 1680-1770. New York: New-York Historical Society, 1929.

-----, and Berthold Fernow, editors. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of The State of New York. 15 vols. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1853-1887.

Onderdonk, Henry. Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County ... . New York: Leavitt, Trow and Co., 1846.

----. Revolutionary Incidents of Suffolk and Kings Counties; with an Account of the Battle of Long Island, and the British Prisons and Prison-Ships at New York. New York: Leavitt & Co., 1849.

----. Queens County in Olden Times: Being a Supplement to the Several Histories Thereof. Jamaica, N.Y.: Charles Willing, 1865.

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Poucher, J. Wilson. "Colonel Lewis Du Bois." Proceedings of the Ulster County Historical Society for 1935-1936, pp. 15-33.

----. "Dutchess County Men of the Revolutionary Period--Colonel Frederick Weissenfels." Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society, 27 (1942), pp. 74-84.

----. "Dutchess County Men of the Revolutionary Period--James Livingston and Some of His Descendants." Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society, 28 (1943), pp. 67-76.

----. "Dutchess County Men of the Revolutionary Period--Zephaniah Platt." Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society, 29 (1944), pp. 51-55.

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-----. "Extract of a letter from Colonel Rudolphus Ritzema to Captain Richard Varick." Historical Magazine, Supplement 4 (1866), pp. 110-111.

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Shannon, Anna Madeleine. "General Alexander McDougall: Citizen Soldier, 1732-1786." Ph.D. Dissertation, Fordham University, 1957.

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Van Cortlandt, Philip. Philip Van Cortlandt's Revolutionary War Correspondence and Memoirs. Edited by Jacob Judd. Tarrytown: Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1976.

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Warner, George H., compiler. Military Records of Schoharie County Veterans of Four Wars. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1891.

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Weaver, Philip D., and John A. Isaksen. "More on the Coats of 1775: The Coats of Musick." Military Collector and Historian, 37 (Spring 1985), pp. 2-7.

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Willett, William M. A Narrative of the Military Actions of Colonel Marinus Willett, Taken Chiefly from his own Manuscript. New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1831.

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