New York State - Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775 | Celia M. Hastings Local History Room

NYS - History - Colonial Period, ca. 1600-1775

See also Classic New York State Histories & Document Collections web page
See also Classic L.I. Histories & Document Collections  web page
See also Governors of New York State
[including New Netherland, New Belgium, & New York Proprietary and Royal Colony] web page
  Long Island - History - Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775  web page

See also Histories and public records under various web pages related to N.Y.S. & L.I. Counties, Cities, and Villages

-- General

New York State History - Colonial Period (New York State Library. Research Library. Digital Collections. Historical Documents. Colonial Period)
New York (State). Museum. Aboriginal Place Names of New York [full text] (Bulletin 108, Archeology 12), [comp.] by William M. Beauchamp. Albany, NY: New York (State). Education Department, 1907 (Internet Archive) -- arranged by county (Suffolk County, pp. 209-227, Queens County with part of Nassau, pp. 177-180); includes name index.

-- Dutch Colony [New Netherland, 1609-1664; and New Belgium, 1673-1674]

See also Forts and Fortifications
History - Kieft's War, 1643-1645
History - Anglo Dutch Wars, 1652-1784
History - Anglo-Dutch War, First, 1652-1654
History - Esopus War, First, 1659-1660
History - Esopus War, Second, 1663
History - New Sweden, Dutch Conquest of, 1664
History - Anglo-Ducth War, Second, 1664-1667
History - Anglo-Dutch War, Third, 1672-1674

--- General

Age of Exploration and Dutch New York (New-York Historical Society. Museum Collections. Special Collections) -- 1 of 3 pages of artifacts
Brief Outline of the History of New Netherland (University of Notre Dame. Libraries. Department of Special Collections) - note also the basic site's links on colonial coinage
Dr Charles Gehring and the New Netherland Project (New York State Museum. YouTube [video] Ryan Fitzpatrick interviews Dr. Charles Gehring)
Dutch New York [video]: Rediscover 400 Years of History / host, Barry Lewis, Historian; Thirteen (WNET)
Brief Outline of Dutch History and the Province of New Netherland, by Louis Jordan (University of Notre Dame)
Dutch Colonies (U.S. Department of the Interior. National Park Service. Kingston)
The Dutch in America, 1609-1664; De Nederlanders in Amerika, 1609-1664 (U.S. Library of Congress. Global Gateway. The Atlantic World; De Atlantische Wereld)
Dutch Revolt (1566), 1579-1648 (World History at KMLA. History of Warfare) - European background to the Dutch desire for settlement of the New World
Dutch West India Company (Wikipedia)
Gemeente Stadsarchief Amsterdam (State Archives, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Holland Society of New York (The Society)
New Amsterdam History (New York) (History of Holland.com)
New Netherland Institute (The Institute) - also the New Netherland Project
New Netherland Museum and the Half Moon (The Museum and Half Moon) - the latter is a replica of Henry Hudson's ship
Spilman, Rick. Half Moon in Perspective (The Old Salt Blog, April 23, 2015) -- includes associated video; with thanks to Bev Tyler
A Tour of New Netherland (New Netherland Institute)
Uncovering America's Forgotten Colony [videoclip] (New Netherland Institute. YouTube)

---- PML Catalog Sampler:

Donck, Adrien van der. Description of New Netherland, ed. by Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna; tr. by Diederick Willem Goedhuys. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
Douglas, Peter A. Dutch Renaissance: The Story of the New Netherland Project. Albany, NY: New Netherland Project, 2009.
Explorers, Fortunes, and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland, ed. by Martha Dickinson Shattuck. Albany, NY: New Netherland Institute; Mount Ida Press, 2009.
Fabend, Firth Haring. New Netherland in a Nutshell: A Concise History of the Dutch Colony in North America. Albany, NY: New Netherland Institute, 2012.
History of New Netherland, Or, New York Under the Dutch, 2 vols., [comp.] by E[dmund]. B[ailey]. O'Callaghan. New York: D. Appleton, 1848.
Neighbors in the New World -- New Netherland and New France (Rensselaerswijck Seminar XXXI) [DVD]. Albany, NY: New Netherland Institute, 2008.
Rink, Oliver A. Holland on the Hudson: An Economic and Social History of Dutch New York. Ithaca, NY; Cooperstown, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1986.
Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America. New York: Doubleday, 2004.
Uncovering America's Forgotten Colony [videorecording]: The New Netherland Project / Mogul One Productions, in cooperation with the New Netherlands Institute

--- Biography

Adriaen Block (Wikipedia)
Cornelius van Steenwyk (Wikipedia)
Kiliaen van Rensselaer (merchant) (Wikipedia)
Peter Minuit [1580-1638]: Director of New Netherland (New Netherland Institute)
Peter Stuyvesant (NNDB)
Peter Stuyvesant [1610-1672] (New Netherland Institute)
How Did "Peg-Leg" Peter Stuyvesant Lose His Right Leg? (New York Historical Society & Museum)
Willem Kieft [1597-1647], Director of New Netherland (New Netherland Institute)

---- PML Catalog Sampler:

Kessler, Henry H. Kessler and Eugene Rachlis. Peter Stuyvesant and His New York. New York: Random House, 1959.
Krohn, Deborah L. Peter N. Miller, et al. Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margrieta van Varick. New York; New Haven, CT: Bard Graduate Center; New York Historical Society; Yale University Press, 2009.

--- Documents

Grant of Exclusive Trade to New Netherland by the States-General of the United Netherlands; October 11, 1614 (Yale Law School. Lillian Goldman Law Library. The Avalon Project)
Charter of the Dutch West India Company: 1621 [full text]. (Yale Law School. Lillian Goldman Law Library. The Avalon Project)

---- PML Catalog Sampler:

Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany N.Y., ed. by E. B. O'Callaghan: Part I: Dutch Manuscripts, 1630-1664. Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and Co., Printers, 1865. -- Note: Many of these burned or were partially burned in the NYS Capitol Fire.
Fort Orange Records, 1654-1679, tr. and ed. by Charles H. Gehring and Janny Vanema. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009.

--- Dutch-Indian Relations

See also History - Kieft's War, 1643-1645
History - Esopus Wars

The Dutch and the Indians (Native American Netroots)
The Dutch Arrive on Manhattan Island: An Indian Perspective (History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web)
Hauptman, Laurence M. "John Underhill: A Psychological Portrait of an Indian Fighter, 1597-1672." Hudson Valley Regional Review, 9(2): 101-111.
Levine, David. The Esopus Wars: A History of the Battle Between the Dutch and Local American Indians in the 1660s. (Hudson Valley Magazine, November 2013)
Role of the Dutch in the Iroquois Wars, by Peter Lowensteyn, 2005 (Lowensteyn.com)
A Brief and True Narrative of the Hostile Conduct of the Barbarous Natives Towards the Dutch Nation [full text], tr. by E.B. O'Callaghan. Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1863. (Internet Archive) -- a petition of 1655 twisting realities and setting the stage, from the most militant colonials' perspective, for the Esopus Wars; not everyone in New Netherland sought war; and fewer still were prepared for its fury, or for its consequences

---- PML Catalog Sampler:

Burrows, Edwin G. & Mike Wallace. "Part One: Lenape Country and New Amsterdam to 1664." In Gotham: A Brief History of New York City, to 1898. New York; Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1999. -- Best, most readable, 1-volume history of New York City.
Kraft, Herbert C. The Dutch, the Indians, and the Quest for Copper: Pahaquarry and the Old Mine Road. South Orange, NJ: Seton Hall University Museum, 1996.
Kraft, Herbert C. The Lenape-Delaware Indian Heritage: 10,000 B.C.-A.D. 2000. [S.l.:] Lenape Books, 2001.

--- Flushing Remonstrance (Defense of Quakers; 1st defense of freedom of religion), 1657

Bowne House Historical Society (The Society)
Flushing Remonstrance [full text]. (Bowne House Historical Society)
Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of the Town of Flushing to Governor Stuyvesant, December 27, 1657 [full text]. (Religious Society of Friends [Quakers]. Flushing Meeting)

---- PML Catalog Sampler:

John Bowne, His Story. Flushing, NY: Bowne House Historical Society, 1963.
Trebor, Haynes. Flushing Remonstrance (The Origin of Religious Freedom in America). Flushing, NY: Bowne House Historical Society, 1957.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Flushing Remonstrance Study Act: Report (to Accompany H.R. 3222; including Cost Estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). [Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014.]

--- Genealogy

Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674, 4 vols., [comp. by] David M. Riker. Salem, MA: Higginson Book Co., 1999.

--- History - Kieft's War, 1643-1645

Governor Kieft's Personal War, by Walter Giersbach (Military History Online.com)
The Governor Kieft War (Native American Netroots)
Willem Kieft [1597-1647], Director General of New Netherland (New Netherland Institute)
Willem Kieft (Wikipedia)

--- History - Anglo-Dutch Wars, 1652-1784

Anglo-Dutch Wars (Wikipedia)

--- History - Anglo-Dutch War, First, 1652-1654

First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654) (History of War.org)

--- History -- Peach Tree War, 1655

Hendrick Thomasse van Dyke (Miner Descent)
Indian Uprising on Staten Island (Long Island Genealogy.com)
Peach Tree War (Wikipedia)

--- History -- Esopus Wars, 1659-1660 & 1663

Blackburn, James. New Netherland: The Esopus Wars (New York History Blog, December 17, 2013)
Esopus Tribe (Wikipedia)
Esopus Wars (Wikipedia)
Levine, David. The Esopus Wars: A History of the Battle Between the Dutch and Local American Indians in the 1660's. (Hudson Valley Magazine, November 2013)

---- First Esopus War, 1659-1660

First Esopus War (Miner Descent)
First Esopus War, 1659-July 1660; Excerpts from History of Kingston, by MariusSchoonmaker (1888) (First and Second Esopus Wars, Kingston, New York [blog])
First Esopus War, from Early Sources (First and Second Esopus Wars, Kingston, New York [blog)

---- Second Esopus War, 1663 [Peach War or Peach Tree War]

Journal of the Second Esopus War, by Capt. Martin Kregier, with an Account of the Massacre at Wildwyck (now Kingston), the Names of Those Killed, Wounded, and Taken Prisoners, by the Indians on that Occasion, 1663, tr. from the original Dutch manuscript. (Internet Archive)
Second Esopus War, 1663 [from the] Documentary History of the State of New York (First and Second Esopus Wars, Kingston, New York [blog])

--- History - Anglo-Dutch War, Second, 1664-1667 [British conquest of New Netherland]

Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667) (History of War.org)

--- History - Anglo-Dutch War, Third, 1672-1674 [Dutch Reconquest of New Belgium]

Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674) (History of War.org)

---- PML Catalog Sampler:

Shomette, Donald G. and Robert D. Haslach. Raid on America: The Dutch Naval Campaign of 1672-1674. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1988, repr. 2002. -- The inadvertent raid that briefly returned New Netherland (as New Belgium) to the Dutch only to become a bargaining chip for the Estates General in a lost cause.

--- Jewish Settlers (Religious Freedom)

Adler, Cyrus and L. Huehner. Recife (Pernambuco). (Jewish Encyclopedia)
Congregation Shearith Israel (Wikipedia)
Congregation Shearith Israel: The Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue (The Synagogue)
Hershkowitz, Leo. "By Chance or by Choice: Jews in New Amsterdam 1654." (American Jewish Archives Journal)
Jewish Petition to Dutch West India Company, January 1655 (Preserving American Freedom: The Evolution of American Liberties in Fifty Documents. Liberty in Early America)
Jews in America: New Amsterdam's Jewish Crusader (1655) (Jewish Virtual Library)
They Came from Recife: The First Jews to Settle in America, 1654, by Kenneth Libo & Michael Skakin (Center for Jewish History)
The Story of Asser Levy (New Amsterdam History Center)
Wiznitzer, Arnold. "The Exodus from Brazil and Arrival in New Amsterdam of the Jewish Pilgrim Fathers, 1654." Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, 44(2) December 1944: pp. 80-97. (JSTOR)

---- PML Catalog Sampler:

Kritzler, Edward. Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom -- and Revenge. New York: Doubleday, 2008. -- Helps explain why the refugees from Recife, first stopped at the island of Jamaica, before heading north to New Amsterdam
Reiss, Oscar. The Jews in Colonial America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2004.

--- Maps

Manatus gelegen op de Noot Riuver (ca. 1639) (Library of Congress)
Pascaert van Nieuw Nederlandt Virginia, ende Nieuw-Engelandt verthonendt alles wat vandie landen by Seeoft by land isondect oft Bekent [map] (U.S. Library of Congress. Global Gateway)
Digital Redraft of the Castello Plan of New Amsterdam in New Netherland in 1660 (Peter Ekamper) -- choose buildings & ownership or land use maps (both color coded by type)

--- Money

Money Substitutes in Early New Netherland and New York: The Beaver Pelt (University of Notre Dame. Department of Special Collections)
Money Substitutes in Early New Netherland and New York: Commodity Money (University of Notre Dame. Department of Special Collections)
Money Substitutes in Early New Netherland and New York: Wampum (University of Notre Dame. Department of Special Collections)

--- Patroonships

Patroon System: Het systeem van Patroonschappen (The Atlantic World / Die Atlantische Wereld)

--- Place Names

Dutch Place Names = Plaatsnamen (U.S. Library of Congress. Global Gateway)

--- Slavery

Goodfriend, Joyce D. Black Families in New Netherland (Selected Rensselaerswyjck Seminar Papers)
Slavery in New Netherland = De slavernij in Nieuw-Nederland (U.S. Library of Congress. The Atlantic World)

--- Settlements

New Netherland Settlements (Geni) -- including villages, cities, patroonships, and forts

--- Waal (The Wall)

Wall Street (Columbia University. MAAP: Mapping the African-American Past. Place Detail)

--- Women

Hutchinson, Anne (New World Encyclopedia)
Lady Deborah Moody: A Discourse Delivered Before the New York Historical Society, May 1880, by James W. Gerard [full text]. New York: Douglas Taylor, Printer, 1880 (Google Books)

-- Forts and Fortifications

See also New Netherland [Under -- Settlements which includes a section listing forts]

Fortifications of New Netherland (Wikipedia) -- includes New Sweden
List of French Forts in North America (Wikipedia)
New York (American Forts)
NY State Military Forts, 1615-1760 (New York [State]. Division of Military and Naval Affairs. Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)

-- New Sweden

--- General

American Swedish Historical Museum (The Museum)
Brief History of New Sweden in America (Swedish Colonial Society)
New Sweden (Wikipedia)
New Sweden Centre (The Centre)

---- PML Catalog Sampler:

Aberg, Alf. The People of New Sweden: Our Colony on the Delaware River, 1638-1655, tr. by Roger Tanner. Stockholm, Sweden: Natur och kultur, 1988.

--- Biography

Johann Bjornsson Printz (Wikipedia)

--- Documents

Charter of Privileges which Gustavus Adolphus has Graciously Given by Letters Patent to the Newly Established Swedish South Company; June 14, 1626 (Yale Law School. Lillian Goldman Law Library. Avalon Project)
New Sweden Source Documents (Penn State University. Libraries)
Warrant for William Ussling to Establish a General Company for Trade to Asia, Africa, America, and Magellanica; December 21, 1624 (Yale Law School. Lillian Goldman Law Library. Avalon Project)

--- Finnish settlers

Finns in the New Sweden Colony, by Reino Kero (Genealogical Society of Finland) -- origin of the all-American log cabin

--- Map

Map of New Sweden (1638-1655) from p. 392 of Amandus Johnson's The Swedes on the Delaware 1638-1664 (Philadelphia: Swedish Colonial Society, 1915)

-- English Proprietary & Royal Colony

See also Forts and Fortifications (above)
History - Anglo-Dutch War, Second, 1664-1667
History - Anglo-Dutch War, Third, 1672-1674
History - King William's War, 1689-1697
History - Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713
History - King George's War, 1744-1748
History - French and Indian War, 1754-1763
Manors (below)

--- General

Bailyn, Bernard. The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680, ed. by Bartlett Burleigh and James and J. Franklin Jameson. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1913.
Roosevelt, Theodore. New Amsterdam Becomes New York : The Beginning of English Rule. 1664-1674. in New York: A Sketch of the City's Social, Political and Comercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times. New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1906. (Bartleby.com)
Roosevelt, Theodore. New York Under the Stuarts. 1674-1688. in New York: A Sketch of the City's Social, Political and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times, by Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Scribners, 1906. (Batleby.com)
Smith, William, Jr. History of the Province of New-York, 2 vols., ed. by Michael Kammen.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Belknap Press, 1972.
Politics in New York State, ed. by Dr. James Sullivan (USGenNet.org. History of New York State, Book XII, Chapter 1, Part 1)
Province of New York (Wikipedia)

---- PML Catalog Sampler:

Agrarian Conflicts in New York, 1711-1775 / Irving Mark
Brief Description of New York / Daniel Denton
Colonial New York: A History / Michael Kammen
Courts of Law in Early New York: Selected Essays / ed. by Leo Hirskowitz and Milton M. Kelin; Conference on Legal History, Queens College, Flushing, N.Y., 1974.

--- Documents

---- PML Catalog Sampler:

Administrative Papers of Governors Richard Nichols and Francis Lovelace, 1664-1673, ed. by Peter R. Christoph. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Published under the Direction of the Holland Society of New York, 1980.
The Andros Papers, 1674-1676: Files of the Provincial Secretary of New York During the Administration of Governor Sir Edmund Andros, 1674-1680, vol. 1, ed. by Peter R. Christoph and Florence A. Christoph, with translations from the Dutch by Charles T. Gehring. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1989.
The Dongan Papers, 1683-1688, Part I: Admiralty Court and Other Records of the Administration of New York Governor Thomas Dongan, ed. by Peter R. Christoph. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993.
Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England. April 7, 1688 (Yale Law School. Lillian Goldman Law Library. Avalon Project)
New York Colonial Muster Rolls, 1664-1775: Report of the State Historian of the State of New York, 2 vols. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1896-1897, repr. 2000.

--- Forts and Fortifications

Category: Colonial Forts in New York (State) (Wikipedia)

--- History -- Pequot War, 1637-1638

1637: The Pequot War (Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut)
Battlefields of the Pequot War (Battlefields of the Pequot War)
Lion Gardiner Helps to Fortify Early Old Saybrook (Connecticut History.org)
Mystic Massacre (Wikipedia)
Narrative of the Pequot War, by Lion Gardiner (1660) (Ancestry.com)
Pequot War (Connecticut History.org)
Treaty of Hartford (Copy) [1638] (Yale University Libraries. Digital Archives) -- Treaty that ended the war
The Hartford Treaty 1638: Signifying the Close of the Pequot War [transcription of the text of the treaty, followed by questions for students] (Battlefields of the Pequot War)
Rose, Christina. Native History: 1638 Treaty of Hartford Meant to Quell Fear of Devil (Indian Country Today, September 21, 2013)

--- History - [Glorious Revolution, Leisler's Rebellion, &] King William's War, 1689-1697

Jacob Leisler (Wikipedia)
Jacob Leisler Papers Project (Jacob Leisler Institute)
Leisler's Rebellion (Wikipedia)
Papers Relating to Count de Frontenac's Expedition Against the Onondagoes, 1696 (Internet Archives)
Raid on Oyster River (Wikipedia)
The Usurpation of Leisler. 1689-1691. In New York: A Sketch of the City's Social, Political and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times, by Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Scribners, 1906 (Bartleby.com)

--- History - New York-New Jersey Line War, 1701-1765

New York-New Jersey Line War (Wikipedia)

--- History - Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713

Queen Anne's War (Wikipedia)

--- Greylock's or Dummer's War: 1723-1727

Dummer's War (Wikipedia)

--- History - King George's War, 1744-1748

King George's War (Wikipedia)
New York and Admiral Sir Peter Warren at the Capture of Louisbourg, 1745; An Address at the Inauguration of the Monument at Louisbourg on the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of Its Capture, by the Society of Colonial Wars, 1895, by Edward Floyd DeLancey; reprinted from the Report of the Society's Proceedings on this Occasion) (Internet Archive)

--- History - French and Indian War, 1754-1763

---- General

Journal of Gen. Rufus Putnam, Kept in Northern New York During Four Campaigns of the Old French and Indian War, 1757-1760, the Whole Copiously Illustrated with Notes and Preceded by a Biographical Sketch of Gen. Putnam, by E.C. Dawes. Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1886
Marquis de Montcalm...Carillon [Ticonderoga] et les Plaines d'Abraham [Quebec]
Muster Rolls of New York Provincial Troops. 1755-1764 (Collections of the New-York Historical Society, for the Year 1891)

---- Albany Plan of Union, 1754 [Benjamin Franklin's proposed confederation of the Colonies]

Albany Plan of Union, 1754 (Yale University Law School. Lillian Goldman Law Library. The Avalon Project)
U.S. Department of State. Office of the Historian. Albany Plan of Union, 1754 (The Historian. Milestones, 1750-1775)

---- Indian Diplomacy and Participation

An Account of the Conferences and Treaties Made Between Major-General Sir William Johnson, Bart. and the Chief Sachems and Warriours of the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senekas, Tuskaroras, Aughquageys, Skaniadaradighronos, Chugnuts, Mahickanders, Shawanese, Kanuskagos, Todarighronos, and Oghquagoes, Indian Nations in North America, at Their Meetings on Different Occasions at Fort Johnson in the County of Albany, in the Colony of New York, i the Years 1755 and 1756, with a Letter from the Rev. Mr. Hawley to Sir William Johnson, Written at the Desire of the Delaware Indians. And a Preface Giving a Short Account of the Six Nations, some Anecdotes of the Life of Sir William, and Notes Illustrating the Whole; also an AppendixContaining an Account of Conferences Between Several Quakers in Philadelphia, and some of the Heads of the Six Nations, in April 1756. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1756
New York (State). Education Department. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v.1, [comp. and ed.by] James Sullivan, et al. Albany, NY: The University, 1921 (Internet Archive)
New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 2, [comp. and ed. by] James Sullivan. Albany, NY: The University, 1921 (Internet Archive)
New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 3, [comp. and ed. by] James Sullivan. Albany, NY: The University, 1921 (Internet Archive)
New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 4, [comp. and ed. by] James Sullivan. Albany, NY: The University, 1921 (Internet Archive) New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 5, [comp. and ed. by] James Sullivan. Albany, NY: The University, 1921 (Internet Archive)
New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 6, [comp. and ed. by] James Sullivan. Albany, NY: The University, 1921 (Internet Archive) New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 7, [comp. and ed. by] Alexander C. Flick, et al. Albany, NY: The University, 1933 (Internet Archive)
New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 8, [comp. and ed. by] Alexander C. Flick, et al. Albany, NY: The University, 1933 (Internet Archive)
New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 9, [comp. and ed. by] Alexander C. Flick, et al. Albany, NY: The University, 1939 (Internet Archive)
New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 10, [comp. and ed. by] Alexander C. Flick, et al. Albany, NY: The University, 1939 (Internet Archive)
New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 11, [comp. and ed. by] Alexander C. Flick, et al. Albany, NY: The University, 1939 (Internet Archive)
New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 12, [comp. and ed. by] Alexander C. Flick, et al. Albany, NY: The University, 1939 (Internet Archive)
New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 13, [comp. and ed. by] Milton W. Hamilton, et al. Albany, NY: The University, 1939 (Internet Archive)
New York (State). Education Dept. University of the State of New York. Division of Archives and History. Papers of Sir William Johnson, v. 14, General Index, [comp. and ed. by] Milton W. Hamilton, et al. Albany, NY: The University, 1939 (Internet Archive)
Old Fort Johnson, Historic Landmark, 1749-1774 (Montgomery County Historical Society)
Sir William Johnson, Indian Superintedent: Colonial Development & Expansionism, by Paul Redmond Drew (Archiving Early America)

---- Irregular Warfare

Batteaux and 'Battoe Men": An American Colonial Response to the Problem of Logistics in Mountain Warfare, by Joseph F. Meany, Jr., Ph.D., Sr. Historian, NYS Museum (NYS Military Museum and Veterans Research Center)
Scalping During the French & Indian War, by George A. Bray, III (Archiving Early America)

--- Lake George, Battle of, 1755

Battle of Lake George (Wikipedia)
Dieskau, Jean-Armand (Johan Hermann?), Baron de Dieskau (Dictionary of Canadian Biography)

--- German Flatts, Raid on, 1757

Attack on German Flatts (1757) (Wikipedia)
French Attack on the German Flatts (NY Genweb.net)

--- Ft. William Henry, Siege of, 1757

Marquis de Montcalm...Lac du St. Sacrement [in English, with French subtitle headings]
Fort William Henry...The Siege and Massacre (Mohican Press.com)

--- Snowshoes, Battle on, 1758

Frigid Fury: The Battle on Snowshoes, March 1758, by Joseph F. Meany, Jr. (NYS Military Museum and Veterans' Research Center)

--- Campaign of 1759, Amherst's

Commissary Wilson's Orderly Book: Expedition of the British and Provincial Army Under Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Amherst, Against Ticonderoga and Crown Point, 1759 (repr. 1857) (Internet Archive)
1759 - British Expedition Against Carillon (Wikipedia) - [later Ft. Ticonderoga]

--- Plains of Abraham [Quebec], Battle of, 1759

Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Wikipedia)
Soldier's Account of the Campaign on Quebec, 1759, ed. by Robert Henderson (Seven Years War Website)

--- Campaign of 1760

Campaign of 1760 (Parks Canada = Parcs Canada. Fort Lennox National Historic Site of Canada. Natural Wonders and Historic Treasures)

--- St. Foy, Battle of, 1760

Battle of Sainte-Foy (Wikipedia)

--- Montreal, Siege of, 1760

Capitulation of Montreal, 1760 (The Canadian Encyclopedia)

--- PML Catalog Sampler:

Annotated and Illustrated Journals of Major Robert Rogers / ed. by Timothy J. Todish
Defying Empire: Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York / Thomas M. Truxes
A Few Acres of Snow: The Saga of the French and Indian War / Robert Leckie
Fort Ticonderoga / Carl R. Crego
Losing a Continent: France's North American Policy, 1753-1763 / Frank W. Brecher
Massacre at Fort William Henry / David R. Starbuck
Montclam and Wolfe: The French and Indian War / Francis Parkman

--- Anti-Rent War, 1766

Crown vs. William Prendergast (Historical Society of the New York Courts)

--- Social Relations

The Colonial Family: Kinship and Power, by Peter R. Christoph, New York State Library (New Netherlands Institute)

--- Witch Hunting

Elizabeth Garlick: Goody Garlick! Oh! She Torments Me!, by Hugh King and Loretta Orion (excerpted from the East Hampton Star)

--- Zenger, John Peter (Freedom of Speech)

Considering Zenger: Partisan Politics and the Legal Profession in Provincial New York, by Eben Molgen (The Author, 1998)
John Peter Zenger Trial, 1735 (University of Missouri, Kansas City. School of Law. Famous Trials)
Trial Record: From Zenger's A Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger (1736) (University of Misouri, Kansas City)

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Brief Narrative of the Case and Trial of John Peter Zenger, Printer of the New York Weekly Journal / James Alexander; ed by Stanley Nider Katz

-- Manors

Patroons and Lords of the Manor (The Dutch and English on the Hudson)
The van Cortlandt Manor; Anonymous Address, Read by the Late Mrs. James Marsland Lawton, President-General of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, at the Sixth Annual Meeting of the New York Branch Held, in the City of New York, January 26, 1918. Baltimore: The Order, 1920 (Internet Archive)
The Gardiner Manor; Address Delivered at the Third Annual Meeting of the New York Branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, Held in the City of New York, April 24, 1915, by Sarah Gardiner Tyler (Internet Archive)
The Livingston Manor; Address Prepared for the New York Branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, by John Henry Livingston (Internet Archive)
The Mayhew Manor of Tisbury; Address Prepared for the New York Branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, by Ida M. Wightman, under the supervision of Colonel Charles Edward Banks. Baltimore: The Order, 1921 (Internet Archive)
The Manor of Philipsborough; Address Written for he New York Branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, by Edward Hagaman Hall (Internet Archive)
The Pell Manor; Address Prepared for the New York Branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, by Captain Howland Pell. Baltimore: The Order, 1917 (Internet Archive)
The Melyn Patroonship of Staten Island; Address Delivered at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the New York Branch of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, Held in the City of New York, April 29th, 1921, by William Churchill Houston, of Germantown, Philadelphia, 1923 (Internet Archive)
The Tangier Smith Manor of St. George; Address Delivered at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, by Rev. Howard Duffield. Baltimore: The Order, 1921 (Internet Archive)

-- New France [in what is today New York State]

           See also King William's War, 1689-1697
  Queen Anne's War, 1792-1713
  King George's War, 1744-1748
  French and Indian War, 1754-1763

--- General

The Story of New France (National Geographic)
New France (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
New France (Many Voices, One Nation - Unsettling The Continent, 1492-1776. National Museum of American History)
New France (Wikipedia)

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