Long Island - Revolution, 1775-1783

History - Revolution, 1775-1783
                 See also  Hollywood and History in AMC's TURN:  Washington's Spies web page
                 See also  New York State - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 web page
                 See also under  web pages on the history of  L.I. counties, towns, cities, villages, and outer islands  

--  General

• American Revolution (Longwood's Journey)
• Onderdonck, Henry, Jr.  Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County:  With Connecting Narratives, Explanatory Notes and Additions [full-text].  Port Washington, NY:  Kennikat Press.  Ira J. Friedman Division, 1846, repr. 1976.  (Internet Archive) -- Queens Co. then included the 3 towns of what is today's Nassau County.
• Onderdonck, Henry, Jr.  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 [full-text].   New York:  Leavitt and Co., 1849.  (Internet Archive)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Gruber, Ira D.  The Howe Brothers and the American Revolution.  New York:  Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, by Atheneum, 1978.
• Johnston, Henry Phelps.  The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn.  New York:  DaCapo Press, 1971.
• New York (State).  American Revolution Bicentennial Commission.  Long Island in the American Revolution, by Myron H. Luke & Robert W. Venables.  Albany, NY:  The Commission, [1976]. 
• Schecter, Barnet.  Battle for New York:  The City at the Heart of the American Revolution.  New York:  Walker & Co., 2002.

---  L.I. Vertical File Sampler:

• Sobel, Robert.  "Long Island in 1775:  The Nation's 200th Birthday is an Occasion for Looking Back to a Time When the Island was a Place of Abundance for Farmers and Fishermen" (Bicentennial Backgrounder). Newsday, June 29, 1975:  pp. LI 4-5, 11. 

--  Archives

• Perry, Diane.  "1776 Treasures."  Suffolk County Historical Society.  Register, 2(2):  pp. 9-10.

--  Biography
---  PML Vertical File Sampler:

• "Heroes of the American Revolution:  Long Island Fighters for Freedom."  Newsday, August 24, 1960:  p. 1C.
• Metcalf, Reginald, Sr.  "Major Jesse Brush (1752-1800):  Patriot of the American Revolution"  (Huntington Historical Society).  1 sheet. 
• Smith, Hervey Garrett.  "Patriot Pedler."  Long Island Forum, April 1975:  pp. 66-67.
• Yeager, Edna Howell.  "Some Long Island Patriots."  Long Island Forum, July 1976:  pp. 138-141.

--  British Occupation of L.I. (1776-1783) 

• Blue Point:  British Supply Port (Long Island Genealogy.com; from Long Island Forum, 1972)
• The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut [full-text], by Frederic Gregory Mather (1913)  (Internet Archive) 

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Irony of Submission:  The British Occupation of Huntington and Long Island, 1776-1783 / Lois J. Meyer
• Reynolds, John.  Long Island Behind the British Lines During the Revolution.  Setauket, NY:   Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1960.
• Suffolk County, New York Oaths of Loyalty to the British Crown Exacted During the American Revolution, list provided by Don Eckerly, via Ned Smith, SCHL, February 17, 2011.  [s.l.:  n.p., 2011.]

---  PML Vertical File Sampler:

• DeWan, George.  "Spies, Skirmishes and Suffering Marked the Revolutionary Years."  Newsday, June 19, 1983:  p. 16.
• "Hiding was a Knack."  Long Island Advance, June 3, 1976:  p. 13C.
• Strong, Kate W.  "The Dreaded Colonel Birch."  Long Island Forum, April 1950:  p. 69.
• Valentine, Andrus T.  "Resolute in Defeat."  Long Island Forum, September 1969:  pp. 165-169.

--  Committee of Safety

• Yeager, Edna Howell.  "The Committee of Safety."  Long island Forum, July 1975:  pp. 136-138.

--  Forts and Fortifications

• Roberts, Robert B.  "Long Island Forts:  Sag Harbor Fort, Fort Setauket, Oyster Bay Encampment, Fort Franklin, Fort St. George, Fort Slongo, Fort Golgotha, Nassau and Suffolk Counties."  In  New York's Forts in the Revolution.  Rutherford, NJ:  Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980:  pp. 243-255.

--  Long Island [Brooklyn], Battle of, 1776

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Bobrick, Benson. Angel in the Whirlwind:  The Triumph of the American Revolution.  New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1977.
• Fraser, Georgia.  Stone House at Gowanus, Scene of the Battle of Long Island.  Stirling's Headquarters, Cornwallis' Redoubt, Occupied by Washington.  Colonial Residence of Dutch Architecture.  Built by Nicholas Vechte, 1699.  New York:  Witter and Kinter, 1909. 
• Gallagher, John J.  The Battle of Brooklyn, 1776.  New York:  Sarpedon, 1995. 
• Johnston, Henry Phelps.  The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn.  New York:  DeCapo Press, 1878, repr. 1971.
• Lewis, Charles H.  Cut Off:  Colonel Jedediah Huntington's 17th Continental (Conn.) Regiment at the Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776.  Westminster, MD:  Heritage Books, 2009.
• Manders, Eric I.  Battle of Long Island.  Monmouth Beach, NJ:  Philip Freneau Press, 1978. -- excellent, well-illustrated starting point
• Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of.  Letters of Hugh Earl Percy from Boston and New York, 1774-1776, ed. by Charles Knowles Bolton (American Revolutionary Series:  British Accounts of the American Revolution).  Boston:  Gregg Press, 1972.
• Sabine, William Henry Waldo.  Murder, 1776, and Washington's Policy of Silence.  New York:  T. Gaus' Sons [ca. 1973].
• Schecter, Barnet.  The Battle for New York:  The City at the Heart of the American Revolution.  New York:  Walker and Co., 2002.
• Schieber, Howard A.  175th Anniversary of the "Battle of Long Island."  Brooklyn, NY:  Brooklyn Eagle, 1951.
• Whittemor, Henry D.  The Heroes of the American Revolution and Their Descendants:  Battle of Long Island.  [New York]:  Heroes of the Revolution Pub. Co., 1897-1899.
• The Battle of Brooklyn:  A Farce in Two Acts, as It was Performed on Long Island on Tuesday the 27th Day of August, 1776, by Representatives of the Tyrants of America Assembled at Philadelphia [full text].  New York:  Printed for J. Rivington, 1776.  (Internet Archive)
• Ward, Samuel, Jr.  The Battle of Long Island:  A Lecture, Delivered Before the New-York Historical Society, February 7, 1839 [full text].  New York:  Printed by William Osborn, 1839.  (Internet Archive)
• Smith, Eugenie Marie Raye.  The Battle of Brooklyn.  [Richmond Hill, NY:  The Author], 1913.  (Internet Archive) 

--  Loyalists [Tories]

• Associated Loyalists:  Report of Activities, June 17th, 1781 (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)  
• The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies
• Kings American Regiment:  Fanning to His Father (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)
• Montelione, Matthew M.  "Richard Floyd IV:  Long Island Loyalist."  (Long Island History Journal, 24[2] )
• The Loyalist, by Martha Flint (Ancestry.com.  RootsWeb.  Early Long Island)
• Tiedemann, Joseph S.  "Thomas Jones:  Embittered Long Island Loyalist" (Long Island History Journal, 21(1), Fall 2009)

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• Holbrook, Dwight.  The Wickham Claim:  Being an Inquiry to the Attainder of Parker Wickham.  New York:  Suffolk County Historical Society, 1986.

---  L.I. Vertical File Sampler:

• McTernan, Bill.  "The Fighters:  Wearing Uniforms so Colorful that They Seem Today to Look More Like Costumes, These Loyalists Came to Long Island -- Some to Fight, Some to Rest" (Bicentennial Backgrounder).  Newsday, June 29, 1975:  pp. LI 8-9.  

--  Military units

• Alger, Vearl G.  "A Return of Captn David Pierson's Minute Company in Suffolk County, 1776."  Suffolk County Historical Society.  Register, 2(4):  pp. 47-48.
• Havens, Andrew Delafield.  "A Muster Roll of Capt. Paul Reeve;s Company, Draughtd, 1776."  Suffolk County Historical Society.  Register, 2(3):  pp. 28-29.
• Loper, Lillian T.  "A Return of a Company of Minute Men Raised in Smithtown, April 1776."  Suffolk County Historical Society.  Register, 3(2):  pp. 30-31.
• Overton, Albert G.  "Return of Capt. John Wickes from Huntington for Serveing in Coll. Josiah Smith's Regiment from July the 29th to August 31st 1776."  Suffolk County Historical Society.  Register, 4(1):  p. 5.
• Overton, Albert G.  "Revolutionary Muster Rolls of Long Island:  Huntington & Smithtown."  Suffolk County Historical Society.  Register, 3(3):  pp. 52-54.
• Perry, Diane F.  "A Return of the Extraordinary Musterings of the Company of Minutemen of Bridgehampton, 1776."  Suffolk County Historical Society.  Register, 3(4):  pp. 70-71.
• Williams, Eleanor Latham.  "A Muster Role [sic] of Capt. Aephaniah Rogers Company, Southampton, 1776."  Suffolk County Historical Society.  Register, 3(1):  pp. 16-17.

--  Prisoners and Prisons

• American Prisoners of the Revolution, by Danske Dandridge (Google Books)
• Chapter XI:  British Prison Ships - The Illicit Trade on Long Island Sound - Whaleboat Warfare (Google Books.  Domestic History of the American Revolution, by Elizabeth Fries Ellet)

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Armbruster, Eugene L.  The Wallabout Prison Ships, 1776-1783.  New York:  [The Author], 1920
• Burrows, Edwin G.  Forgotten Patriots:  The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War.  New York:  Basic Books / Perseus Books Group, 2008.  -- Focuses on Manhattan, Adjacent L.I., and on L.I. waters, where, the author maintains, the true price of liberty was exacted during British occupation, at a far higher cost in life, to Americans, than in all the campaigns and battles of the Revolution, combined.  Best book on the subject.
• Dandridge, Danske.  American Prisoners of the Revolution.  Baltimore:  Genealogical Publishing Co., 1967.
• Dring, Thomas.  Recollections of the Jersey Prison Ship, from the Manuscript of Capt. Thomas Dring, [ed.] by Albert Greene.  New York:  Corinth Books, [1961].

--  Oath of Allegiance (1778) [to King George III & the British Parliament]

• Minty, Christopher.  "'A List of Persons on Long Island':  Biography, Voluntarism, and Suffolk County's 1778 Oath of Allegiance."  (Long Island Historical Journal, 24[2] 2015)

--  Purple Heart, First

• Badge of Military Merit (Conntecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution) - 1st Purple Heart

-- Patriots (Rebels)

• Long Island Patriots and Their Stories (LongIslandGenealogy.com)

--  Raids, Naval & Amphibious [upon and based from L.I.]

• Associated Loyalists:  Attack on Lloyd's Neck (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)
• Associated Loyalists:  Magazine at Lloyd's Neck (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)
• Smith, Alvin R.L.  History and Guide to the Maj. Benjamin Tallmadge Trail:  The Capture of Ft. St. George at Mastic, N.Y. and the Burning of the Forage at Coram, N.Y., November 23, 1780.  [Patchogue, NY]:  Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town).  Bicentennial Commission, [1976]. 
• Meigs' Raid (Wikipedia) - American raid on Sag Harbor 
• Loyal Refugee Volunteers:  Rebel Attack on Fort Slongo (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)
• Loyal Refugee Volunteers:  Prisoners, Ordnance, & Military Stores Taken at Fort Slongo (The Online Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies)

---  L.I. Vertical File Sampler:

• Overton, Albert G.  "Privateers from Suffolk County."  Suffolk County Historical Society.  Register, 4(1):  pp. 1-4, 11-13.

---  PML Catalog Sampler:

• Allyn, Charles.  The Battle of Groton Heights:  A Collection of Narratives, Official Reports, Records, Etc. of the Storming of Fort Griswold, the Massacre of Its Garrison, and the Burning of New London by British Troops Under the Command of Brig.-Gen. Benedict Arnold, on the Sixth of September, 1781, rev. and enl., with additional notes.  New London, CT:  The Author, 1870, rev. 1882.
• Burning of the Hay at Coram and Capture of Fort St. George at Mastic/ Thomas R. Bayles
• Overton, Albert G. Plunderers from Across the Sound:  Documented Narratives of Revolutionary War Incidents Not Previously Known to Historians, Involving Inhabitants of Long Island, Connecticut and Nantucket in the Illicit Trade and Raids Across the Sound.  Florissant, MO:  Micro-Records Publishing Co., 1980.
• Radune, Richard.  Sound Rising:  Long Island Sound at the Forefront of America's Struggle for Independence.  Bradford, CT:  Research in Time Publications, 2011. 

--  Secret Service  [Espionage]

• Hollywood and History in AMC's TURN:  Washington's Spies  (Patchogue-Medford Library.  Celia M. Hastings Local History Room)
• Memoir of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, Prepared by Himself at the Request of His Children (1858, repr. 1904) [Full-text]
• Virtual SPIES! Tour (Three Village Historical Society)
• Series I:  Correspondence, 1776-1856 (Litchfield Historical Society.  Benjamin Tallmadge Collection, 1776-1864)
• Minuse, William B.  "Captain Caleb Brewster."  Suffolk County Historical Society.  Register, 3(2):  pp. 35-37.
• Smith, Ruth Tangier.  "Nancy (Smith) Strong's Tory Brothers."  Suffolk County Historical Society.  Register, 2(2):  pp. 11-13.

---  PML Catalog Sampler: 

• Fawcett, Bernardine.  Missing Links to the Culper Spy Ring?  Conshohoken, PA:  Infinity Publishing.com, 2005.
• Ford, Corey.  A Peculiar Service.  Boston:  Little, Brown & Co., 1965.
• Groh, Lynn.  The Culper Spy Ring.  Philadelphia:  Westminster Press, [ca. 1969].
• Penneypacker, Morton.  General Washington's Spies on Long Island and in New York, [v. 1].  Brooklyn, NY:  Long Island Historical Society, 1939.
• Penneypacker, Morton.  General Washington's Spies on Long Island and in New York, v. 2 [Supplement].  East Hampton, NY:  East Hampton Free Library.  Penneypacker Long Island Collection, 1948. 
• Phelps, M. William.  Nathan Hale:  The Life and Death of America's First Spy.  New York:  Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, 2008.
• Revolutionary Spies [videorecording]:  The Culper Ring / Long Island Video Project
• Penneypacker, Morton.  The Two Spies, Nathan Hale and Robert Townsend.  Boston; New York:  Houghton Mifflin Co., 1930.
• Roe, Robinson. The Culper Spy Ring:  A Thesis Presented to the Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, April 13, 1949.   [Princeton, NJ:  The Author, for the Department, 1949.]
• Rose, Alexander. Washington's Spies:  The Story of America's First Spy Ring.  New York:  Bantam Books, 2006.

--  Shipwrecks

• H.M.S. Culloden (1776)  (Wikipedia)