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AMERICAN REVOLUTIOIN IN THE HUDSON VALLEY September 24, 2009 Compiled by Alan Aimone MILITARY AFFAIRS Military Actions Military – Legal, laws Military Organizations and Personnel Military Supplies MINOIRITES CIVILIAN AFFAIRS LEADERS MILITARY AFFAIRS Military Actions Abbatt, William. Battle of Pell’s Point (or Pelham), October 18, 1776… NY: William Abbatt, 1901. Abbatt, William. Attack on Youngs’ House (or Four Corners) February 3, 1780; An Episode of the Neutral Ground. Tarrytown, NY: W. Abbatt, 1926. Bolton, Reginald Pelham. “Defense of Croton River in the Revolution,” New York Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 8 (July 1924): 35-39. Bolton, R. P. “Defenses of the Hudson River,” Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, vol. 12 (Oct. 1931): 360-365. Devendorf, John C. Battles of New York: Battles and Raids in the Province and State of New York, 1609-1814. Amsterdam, NY: John C. Devendorf, 1974. Dunn, Walter S., Jr., “The Frontier on the eve of the Revolution,” Niagara Frontier (Winter 1973): 96-111. Fish, Hamilton. New York State The Battleground of the Revolutionary War. NY: Vantage Press, 1976. Folts, James D., Jr. “The Sullivan Campaign: A Bibliography,” University of Rochester Library Bulletin (Winter 1979): 61-71. Kwasney, Mark Vincent. Partisan War in the Middle States: The Militia and the American War Effort Around the British Stronghold of New York City, 1775- 1783. Columbus: Ohio State University, Ph.D dissertation, 1989. Koke, Richard J. “Struggle for the Hudson: The British Naval Expedition under Captain Hyde Parker and Capt. James Wallace, July 2 – August 18, 1776,” New-York Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 40 (Apr. 1956): 114-175. Larkin, F. Daniel and Judith A. Rhein. “Fortresses of the Hudson Valley,” Hudson Valley Regional Review, vol. 6, no. 2 (Mar. 1989): 32-54. Leiby, Adrian C. 1962. Revolutionary Army in the Hackensack Valley. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. MacWethy, Lou D. 1930. The Battle of Klock’s Field: Description of engagement by actual officers and men,” St. Johnsville, NY: Enterprise and News. Olsen, Kevin K. “State Navies and the Defense of the Hudson River, 1776,” North Jersey Highlander, vol. 30, issue no. 84 (1994), 35-53. Starbuck, David R. 1999. The Great Warpath: British Military Sites from Albany to Crown Point. Darthmouth, NH: University Press of New England. Tiedemann, Joseph S. and Eugene R. Fingerhut, eds. The Other New York: The American Revolution beyond New York City, 1763-1787. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. Military – Legal and Laws The Balloting book, and other documents relating to military bounty lands, in the State of New-York, 1825 reprint. Ovid, NY: 1983. (M.1a, reel 1, roll 83, 1790, vol. 4) Beauchamp, W. M., comp. Revolutionary Soldiers Resident or Dying in Onondaga County, N.Y., with Supplementary List of Possible Veterans, Based on a Pension List of Franklin H. Chase, Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse, NY: Mcdonnell Co., 1913. Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Revolutionary war bounty land grants awarded by state governments. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996. Hastings, Hugh and Henry Harmon Noble, eds. Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783-1821, 4 vols. Albany, NY: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1901-1902. Index of Revolutionary War pension applications in the National Archives, bicentennial edition, rev. Special Publication No. 40. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1976. Resolutions, laws and ordinances relating to the pay, half pay, commutation of half pay, bounty lands, and other promises made by Congress to the soldiers of the revolution… Washington, D.C.: 1838. Reprinted, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998. Rees, John U., “’Knowledge necessary to a soldier…’ The Continental Officer’s Military reading List, 1775-1778,” Journal of the Company of Military Historians, vol. 59, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 65-71. Saffell, W. T. R. Records of the Revolutionary War, 3rd ed., 1894 reprint. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969; reprint, Clearfield Co., Inc., 1991. U.S Selective Service System. Backgrounds of selective service. Military obligation: The American tradition, a compilation of the enactments of compulsion from the earliest settlements of the original thirteen colonies in 1607 through the Articles of Confederation 1789. Special Monograph no. 1, vol. 2, part 9, New York enactments. Washington, D.C.: 1947. Wermuth, Thomas S. and James M. Johnson, “The American Revolution in the Hudson Valley – An Overview,” The Hudson River Valley Review: A Journal of Regional Studies, vol. 20, no. 1 (Summer 2003): 5-13 White, Virgil D. Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, 4 vols. Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing Co., 1990-1992. White, Virgil D. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications Files. Washington, D.C.: National Archives. Worden, Jean D. Worden’s Index to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1870-1998. NY: New York Genealogical and biographical Society, 2002. Index to 129 vols. And also in compact dick (CD). Wright, Albert Hazen. The Sullivan Expedition of 1779: The Losses. New York Historical Studies: Studies in History, No. 33. [1966]. Military Organization & Personnel Alexander, Arthur J. “Exemption from Militia Service in New York State During the Revolutionary War,” New York History, vol. 27 (Apr. 1946), 204-212. Applegate, Howard Lewis. Constitutions Like Iron: The Life of the American Revolutionary War Soldier in the Middle Department, 1775-1783. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University, Ph.D. thesis, 1966. Boudinot, Elias. “American Prisoners of War in New York: A Report ed. by D. L. Sterling, William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 13 (July 1956): 376-393. Claghorn, Charles E. Naval Officers of the American Revolution: A Concise Biographical Dictionary. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1988. Clint, Florence. New York Area Key: A Guide to the Genealogical Records of the State of New York, Including Maps, Histories, Charts, and Other Helpful Materials. Elizabeth, CO: Keyline Publishers, 1979. Commager, Henry Steele and Richard B. Morris, eds. The Spirit of ‘seventy-six: The Story of the American Revolution as told by participants. NY: Bonanza Books, 1983. Connecticut Adjutant General. Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the I. War of the Revolution. II. War of 1812. III. Mexican War. Harford, CT: 1889. DAR Patriot Index: Centennial Edition, 3 vols. Washington, D.C.: 1990; later edition, Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2003. Der Deutsche Pionier: Erinnerungen aus dem Pionier-Leben der Deutschen in Amerika, monthly, ed. by H. A. Rattermann, 18 vols. Cincinnati: Deutscher Pionier Verein von, 1869-1887. Eno, Joel N. “Irish Revolutionary Soldiers in New York State and Elsewhere,” Americana (Oct. 1926): 631-638. Fernow, Berthold, ed. New York in the Revolution. Albany: Weed, Parson and Co., 1887. Vol. 15 of Documents, Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York. “Few discharges to New York soldiers who served in the War of the Revolution,” New- York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin (July 1932): 52-58. Fitzpatrick, John C. “Bands of the Continental Army,” Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, (Apr. 1923): 187-197. French, Esther Griswold. Revolutionary War Veterans Buried in Columbia County, New York, 2 vols. Hudson, NY: Hendrick Hudson Chapter NSDAR, 1973- 1978. Hastings, Hugh and Henry Harmon Noble, eds. Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York, 1783-1821, 4 vols. Albany, NY: 1901- 1902. Honeywell, Roy J. “Chapel and the Rum,” Quartermaster Review (Sept.-Oct. 1953): 33, 118-9. Jameson, Hugh. Organization of the Militia of the Middle States During the War for Independence, 1775-1781. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Ph.D. thesis, 1936. Johnson, Victor Leroy. Administration of the American Commissariat During the Revolutionary War. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. thesis, 1941. Lesser, Charles H., Ed. Sinews of Independence: Monthly Strength Reports of the Continental Army. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Lockey, Donald Vincent. Cavalry in the Continental Army During the War… Durham, NC: Duke University, Ph.D. thesis, 1971. Mather, Frederic Gregory. The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut, 1913 reprint. Albany, NY: 1990. Meyers, Carol M. Early Military Records of New York. Saugus, CO: RAM Publishers, 1967. 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