New York State - Revolution, 1775-1783

NYS - History - Revolution, 1775-1783

        See also  L.I. - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 web page
        See also under  various L.I. Towns and Villages

-- General

• American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 (New York State Library.  Research Library.  Digital Collections.  Historical Documents.  American Revolution)
• Grundset, Eric.  New York in the American Revolution:  A Source Guide for Genealogists and Historians.  Washington, DC:  National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, [2012].

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• University of the State of New York.  Division of Archives and History.  The American Revolution in New York:  Its Political, Social and Economic Significance,  ed. by Alexander C. Flick.  Albany, NY:  The University, 1926.
• Ketchum, Richard M.  Divided Loyalties:  How the American Revolution Came to New York.  Nee York:  Henry Holt & Co., 2002.

--  Badge of Military Merit  [1st Purple Heart]

            See  L.I. -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 web page

 --  Bennington, Battle of, 1777

• Battle of Bennington, 1777 (British Battles.com)
• Battle of Bennington  (Wikipedia)
• Bennington Battlefield, New York (Revolutionary Day.com)
• Bennington Battlefield State Historic Park  (New York [State].  Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation)

 --  Central and Western New York

             See also  Newtown, Battle of, 1779

• Drums Along the Mohawk:  The American Revolution on the New York Frontier (Gregory F. Ketcham) - excellent site and links, rewards exploration
• St. Leger, Barrimore Matthew (Barry) (Dictionary of Canadian Biography)

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• Eckert, Allan W.  The Wilderness War:  A Narrative.  Ashland, KY:  Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2003.
• Graymont, Barbara.  The Iroquois in the American Revolution.  Syracuse, NY:  Syracuse University Press, 1972.
• O'Reilly, Henry.  Notices of Sullivan's Campaign; or, The Revolutionary Warfare in Western New York:  Embodied in the Addresses and Documents Conected with the Funeral Honors Rendered to Those Who Fell with the Gallant Boyd, in the Gennessee Valley, including the Remarks of Governor Seward at Mount Hope.  Port Washington:  Kennekat Press, [1970].

 --  Chemung, Battle of, 1779

• The Battle of Chemung, August 13, 1779  (Historical Echoes of Chemung, NY)

 --  Cherry Valley Massacre, 1778

• The Battle of Cherry Valley (Massacre), November 10, 1778, at Cherry Valley, New York (The American Revolutionary War)
• Diary of Captain Benjamin Warren at Massacre of Chery Valley, [ed.] by David E. Alexander  (New River Notes)
• History of the Mohawk Valley:  Gateway to the West, 1614-1925:  Chapter 66:  November 10 1778 -- Cherry Valley Massacre  (Schenectady Digital History Archive)

 --  Documents

• Guide to Records Relating to the Revolutionary War in the New York State Archives  (New York State Archives.  Research: Topics:  Military)
• New York (State).  Secretary of State.  Calendar of Historical Manuscripts, Relating to the War of the Revolution, in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y., v. 1.  Albany NY:  Weed, Parsons and Co., Printers, 1868.  (Internet Archives)
• New York (State).  Secretary of State.  Calendar of Historical Manuscripts, Relating to the War of the Revolution, in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y., v. 2.  Albany, NY:  Weed, Parsons and Co., Printers, 1868.  (Internet Archive)
• New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, v. 1. These Records were Discovered, Arranged and Classified by James A. Roberts, Comptroller, in 1897  (1897)  (Internet Archive)
• New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, v. 2, A Compilation of Documents and Records from the Office of the State Comptroller (1904)   (Internet Archive)

-- Fort Anne, Battle of, 1777

• Battle of Fort Anne, July 8, 1777, at Fort Ann New York (The American Revolutionary War) 

-- Forts Clinton (Bear Mountain) and Montgomery, Assaults on, [October 6,] 1777

• Fort Montgomery State Historic Site (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation)
• Forts Clinton and Montgomery, October 6, 1777 (John Hamill.  Revolutionary War Virtual Battlefield Tours)

-- Fort Stanwix, Campaign, 1776-1777

• St. Leger, Barrimore Matthew (Barry)  (Dictionary of Canadian Biography) 
• U.S.  Department of the Interior.  National Park Service.  Office of Park Historic Preservation.  Fort Stanwix:  History, Historic Furnishing, and Historic Structure Reports.  Washington, DC:  The Service, 2008.
• Orderly Book of Sir John Johnson During His Campaign Against Fort Stanwix. from Nov. 4th, 1776, to July 30th, 1777, Annotated by William L. Stone.  New York:  A.S. Barnes and Co., 1881  (Internet Archive)

-- Fort Stanwix [Ft. Schuyler], Siege and Battle of, [August 3- 22,] 1777

• 1777 Siege of Fort Schuyler (U.S. Interior Department.  National Park Service.  Fort Stanwix National Monument)
• Historical Considerations on the Siege and Defence of Fort Stanwix in 1776 [i.e., 1777], Read before the New-York Historical Society, June 19, 1845, by Henry R. Schoolcraft.  New York:  The Society, 1846  (Internet Archive)

-- Fort Ticonderoga, Assault and Capture of, 1775

• Capture of Fort Ticonderoga (Wikipedia)

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• Crego, Carl R.  Fort Ticonderoga.  Chicago:  Arcadia, 2004.
• Randall, Willard Sterne.  Ethan Allen:  His Life and Times.  New York:  W.W. Norton & Co., 2011.

 -- Fort Ticonderoga, British Recapture of, [July 6,] 1777

• British Recapture of Fort Ticonderoga 1777 (HistoryCentral.com)

 -- Fort Washington, Battle of, 1776

• Battle of Fort Washington (BritishBattles.com) 

--  Forts on Long Island

            See also  L.I. -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 web page

-- German Flatts, Massacre of, 1778

• Sufferers at German Flatts [Nov. 1778]  (SBCglobal.net)

 --  Harlem Heights, Battle of, 1776

• Battle of Harlem Heights, by Thomas Addis Emmet  (Columbia University Libraries.  Digital Collections)

 --  Hubbardton, Battle of, 1777

              See also  Vermont

• Battle of Hubbardton  (Wikipedia)
• Hubbardton Battlefield  (State of Vermont.  Historic Sites)

 -- Kingston, NY, as State Capital

• Constitution of New York, April 20, 1777 (National Humanities Institute)
• Senate House State Historic Site [Kingston, NY] (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation)

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• Fried, Marc B.  The Early History of Kingston & Ulster County, N.Y.  Marbletown, NY:  Ulster County Historical Society, 1975.  

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

            See also  L.I. -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 web page

                            New York City

• Battle of Long Island (Wikipedia)

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• Bobrick, Benson.  Angel in the Whirlwind:  The Triumph of the American Revolution.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 1997.
• Fraser, Georgia.  The Stone House at Gowanus, Scene of the Battle of Long Island.  Stirling's Headquarters, Cornwallis's 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.  New York:  Sarpedon, 1995.
• Johnston, Henry Phelps.  The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn.  New York:  DaCapo Press, 1971.
• Manders, Eric I.  The Battle of Long Island.  Monmouth Beach, [NJ]:  Philip Freneau Press, 1978.
• Schecter, Barnet.  The Battle for New York:  The City at the Heart of the American Revolution.  New York:  Walker & Co., 2002.
• Scheibler, Howard A.  175th Anniversary of the "Battle of Long Island," presented by the Broolyn Eagle.  Brooklyn, NY:  Brooklyn Eagle, 1951.
• Whittemore, Henry.  The Heroes of the American Revolution and Their Descendants:  Battle of Long Island.  [New York]:  Heroes of the Revolution Pub. Co., 1897-[1899].

-- New Windsor Cantonment, 1782-1783

• New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation)

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• Dempsey, Janet.  Washington's Last Cantonment:  "High Time for a Peace."  Monroe, NY:  Library Research Associates, 1987.

-- New York City

            See also  Long Island, Battle of, 1776

• Burrows, Edwin G.  Forgotten Patriots:  The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War.  New York:  Basic Books / Perseus Books Group, 2008.
• New York Freedom Trail (Eric Kramer and Carol Sletten)
• The Other New York:  The American Revolution in New York City, 1763-1787, ed. by Joseph S. Tiedemann and Eugene R. Fingerhut.  Albany, NY:  State University of New York Press, 2005.
• Stevens, John Austin.  The British Occupation of New York City, 1781-1783:  From the Historical Introduction of the Centennial Celebration of the Evacuation of New York by the British, 1885.  Saugerties, NY:  Hope Farm Press, 1885, repr. 1993.
• Tentative Rebels:  New York City During the First Year of the Revolution by Jim Davis (Archiving Early America)

-- U.S. Declaration of Independence,  New York Signers, 1776

• Scudiere, Paul J.  New York's Signers of the Declaration of Independence (ERIC) [full text] 

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• Lowenthal, Larry.  William Floyd:  Long Island Patriot.  Cold Spring Harbor, NY:  Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 2013.
• Maxwell, William Quentin.  A Portrait of William Floyd, Long Islander.  [Setauket, NY:]  Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1956.
• Scudiere, Paul J.  New York's Signers of the Declaration of Independence.  Albany, NY:  New York (State).  Bicentennial Commission, 1975.

-- New York State, 1st Constitution, 1777

• Constitution of New York:  April 20, 1777 (Yale Law School.  Lillian Goldman Law Library.  The Avalon Project)
• New York Constitution of 1777  (The Free Dictionary, by Farlex.  Legal Dictionary)

-- Newburgh, NY 

• Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation)

-- Newburgh Conspiracy & Washington's Newburgh Address, 1783

• George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy, 1783  (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History) 
• Marshall, George R., Jr.  The Rise and Fall of the Newburgh Conspiracy:  How General Washington and His Spectacles Saved the Republic (Varsity Tutors, LLC)
• Newburgh Address:  George Washington to Officers of the Army, March 15, 1783  (George Washington's Mount Vernon)
• Newburgh Conspiracy  (George Washington's Mount Vernon)

 -- Newtown, Battle of, 1779

• Battle of Newtown, August 29. 1779 (American Battlefield Trust)
• The Battle of Newtown, August 29, 1779: An Aggressive Attack Carried Out With Audacity (National Museum Of The United States Army)

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• Mintz, Max M.  Seeds of Empire:  The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois.  New York:  New York University, 1999.
• New York (State).  Secretary's Office.  Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779, with Records of Centennial Celebrations, prepared pursuant to Chapter 361, Laws of the State of New York, 0f 1885, by Frederick Cook, Secretary of State.  Freeport, NY:  Books for Libraries Press, [1972].

 --  Oriskany, Battle of, 1777

• Battle at Oriska (Oriskany), comp. by Park Ranger William Sawyer  (U.S.  Department of the Interior.  National Park Service.  Fort Stanwix National Monument) 
• Battle of Oriskany:  "Blood Shed a Stream Running Down"  (U.S.  Department of the Interior.  National Park Service.  Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans)

 -- Pelham [or Pell's Point], Battle of, 1776

• Battle of Pell's Point (Wikipedia)
• Pell's Point (Pelham) (American Battlefield Trust)

 -- Saratoga, Battles of, 1777

• Saratoga - Freeman's Farm/Bemis Heights (American Battlefield Trust)
• The Battle of Saratoga (Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce)
• Battle of Saratoga (George Washington's Mount Vernon)

 --  Saratoga, Campaign, 1777

• Battles of Saratoga  (Wikipedia)
• Burgoyne's Campaign:  June-October 1777 (U.S.  Interior Department.  National Park Service.  Fort Stanwix National Monument)
• Orderly Book of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne:  From His Entry into the State of New York Until His Surrender at Saratoga, 16th Oct., 1777:  From the Original Manuscript Deposited at Washington's Head Quarters, Newburgh, N.Y., ed. by E.B. O'Callaghan (1860)  (Internet Archive)
• Memoir of the Centennial Celebration of Burgoyne's Surrender, Held at Schuylerville, N.Y., Under the Auspices of the Saratoga Monument Association, on the 17th of October 1877, prepared by William L. Stone.  Albany, NY:  Joel Munsell, 1878  (Internet Archive)

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• Ketchum, Richard M.  Saratoga:  Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1997.
• Bennett, Clarence E.  Advance and Retreat to Saratoga in the American Revolution.  Boston:  Gregg Press, 1927, repr. 1972.
• Hadden, James Murray.  Hadden's Journal and Orderly Books:  A Journal Kept in Canada and Upon Burgoyne's Campaign in 1776 and 1777, ed. by Horatio Rogers.  Boston:  Gregg Press, 1972.
• Martin, James Kirby.  Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary Hero:  An American Warrior Reconsidered.  New York:  New York University Press, 1997.
• Riedesel, Freiderike Charlotte Luise, Freifrau von.  Letters and Journals.  New York:  New York Times, 1777, repr., 1867, repr.  1968.

 -- Scalping

• Massacre of Jane McCrea, July 1777 (New York State Independence Trail)

 -- Secret Service

            See also  L.I. -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 web page

• Terms of Betrayal, May 10, 1779 -- John Andre to Joseph Stansbury (Henry Clinton Papers, from the Collections of the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)
• The Culper Gang, June 27, 1779 -- George Washington to Benjamin Tallmadge (Henry Clinton Papers, from the Collections of the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)
• Burning of the Hay at Coram (Longwood's Journey)

-- Sons of Liberty

• Association of the Sons of Liberty in New York; December 15, 1773 (Yale Law School.  Lillian Goldman Law Library.  The Avalon Project)

 -- Stony Point, Battle of, [July 15,] 1779

• Americans Capture Stony Point, July 15, 1779 (History Central.com)
• Stony Point Battlefield Historic Site (New York State.  Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation)

-- Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, 1779  [against the Iroquois, aligned with Great Britain]

• Route of the Sullivan Expedition Against the Iroquois Nations, 1779  [map]  (Tioga Point Museum)
• Sullivan-Clinton Campaign, Then and Now (Bob Spiegelman)

 -- Travel Guides

• The Knox Trail (Hudson River Valley Institute)
• New York State Independence Trail (The Trail) 
• A Revolutionary Day:  Discover America's Historic Routes on Day-Long Revolutionary war Road Trips (Cyber Haus Learning Page)

 -- Valcour Island, Battle of, 1776

• Battle of Valcour Island (October 11, 1776) (Wikipedia)

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• Nelson, James L.  Benedict Arnold's Navy:  The Ragtag Fleet that Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain, but Won the American Revolution.  Camden, ME:  International Marine / McGraw Hill, 2006.

--  Valley Forge, PA 

• Skenandoah (1706?-1816)  (Wikipedia) -- Oneida

 --  Vermont  

           See also  Hubbardton, Battle of, 1777

• The 14th Colony -- Vermont's Curious Role in the American Revolution  (Military History Now)

 -- White Plains, Battle of, 1776

• Battle of White Plains (American Battlefield Trust)
• Battle of White Plains (George Washington's Mount Vernon)