August 2000
Compiled by Alan Aimone
AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE HUDSON VALLEY
WESTCHESTER, ROCKLAND, ORANGE, PUTNAM, DUTCHESS,
ULSTER, GREEN, RENSELLAER AND ALBANY COUNTIES – NORTH
OF NEW YORK CITY TO ALBANY COUNTY INCLUDING
CONTINENTAL ARMY HUDSON VALLEY SERVICES OF HUDSON
VALLEY NEW YORK UNITS
COLONIAL/AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR ERA WEB SITES
*American Colonial Militia, 1606-1785. Militia treatises of
James B. Whisker, Professor of Political Science at
West Virginia University. Files can be viewed
on the web or downloaded in a variety of formats.
www.constitution.org/jw/jbwhisker.htm
*Archiving Early America
http://earlyamerica.com/
There is a section of advice on how to read 18th century documents.
Battle Road site and useful links to other sites.
www.ziplink.net/~mrkmcc/resources.htm
*Battles and skirmishes – over 2,600 cites with references.
Also transcriptions of primary materials.
http://www.281.com/robertson/battles/battlemenu.htm
Brigade of the American Revolution
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18th Century re-enactment organization
http://www.brigade.org
British, German and
Loyalist officers serving in
America in 1782, arranged by
regiments and including staff
officers:
www.fortunecity.com/lavender/pimlico/20/britmil.txt
Chronology of major events in literature, theater, politics, science, religion, music, and art
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Chron/
*Costumer’s Manifesto”
www.costumes.org
18th Century maps; some images may be copyrighted:
www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
http://www.nps.gov/gero
George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress (1741-1799).
http//lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html
The 147,000 photographic images has been organized into eight series that you can search by
keyword or browse with a hyperlinked series list. Successive pages are linked, allowing you to
read complete documents and journals.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library’s catalog at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia. The library
has some popular finding aids on the web – just choose Library to get to the Library’s offerings:
http://www.history.org
Johnson, Samuel Dictionary of the English language
www.hti.umich.edu/english/hohnson/main.html
This site has a search engine which allows many types of searches.
*Military actions of the American Revolution
http://www.sar.org/history/docsbatt.htm
Military documents including extracts from diaries and journals written during the American Revolution
www.hillsdale.edu/dept/History/Documents/War/index.htm
Military history: American Revolution (1775-1783)
http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/usrev.html
Primary source documents pertaining to early American history – formation of American politics, culture,
and ideas.
www.universitylake.org/primarysources.html
Schwalm Historical Association. Johannes Schwalm Historical Association promotes German culture as
well as German military involvement during the American Revolutionary War.
http://pages.prodigy.net/halschwalm/jshahome.html
*Sites:
Concord Museum
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http://www.concordmuseum.org/
Fort Ticonderoga
http://www.neinfo.net/New_England/New_York/attrations’
Saratoga National Park
http://www.nps.gov/sara/sara.htm
Washington Crossing Historic Park
http://www.spiritof76.com;wchp/
Historic Valley Forge
http://www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/
Yorktown
http://www.williamsburg.com/york/york.html
Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
765.494.4135; e-mail: whschnei@iupui.edu
*War of 1812 Website
http://www.militaryheritage.com/1812.htm
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Names Alphabetically, Rank, Dates of Commissions and Enlistments, Period Enlisted For and
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1st New York
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1775 to March 30, 1776,” Magazine of American History, vol. 1 (February 1877), 98-107.
2nd New York
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3rd New York
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4th NewYork
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5th New York
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Lamb’s Artillery
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Own Manuscript (NY: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1831).
ALBANY COUNTY
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Crontribution to the Individual Records of the Inhiabitants of the Schenectady Dictrict During that
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1975).
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Niles, Grace Greylock. Hoosac Valley: Its Legends and Its History. (NY: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912).
Raymond, William. Biographical Sketches of the Distinguished Men of Columbia County, Including an
Account of the Most Important Offices They Have Filled, in the State and General Governments,
and in the Army and Navy (Albany, NY: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851).
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Roof, F. H. “Old Fort Van Rensselaer,” (October 1879) Magazine of American History, 629-630.
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Ten Broeck, Cornelius and Peter Ten Broeck. “News From Camp: Letters Received by Cornelius Ten
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1878), 168-175.
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Weed, Parsons and Co., 1891).
DUTCHESS COUNTY
Cook, J. Hervey. “Fishkill in the Revolution,” Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands,
(1894), 27-39.
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Knight, Clifford L. and Charles D. Sherwood. “Dutchess County Historical Society Mid-Summer
Pilgrimage: Continental Camp and Burial Ground; Revolution Redoubts; Samuel Verplanck
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Henry Ludington, 1907).
Lynd, Staughton. “Who Should Rule At Home? Dutchess County, New York, In the American Revolution,”
William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3 (July 1961), 330-359.
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House, 1956).
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Miller, Kenneth C. “Defending the Highlands in the Revolutionary War,” Year Book Dutchess County
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Poucher, John Wilson. “Dutchess County Men of the Revolution Period: General Jacobus Swartwort,”
Yearbook of the Dutchess County Historical Society, vol. 13 (1928), 67-71.
Poucher, J. W. ..Major Andrew Billings,” Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook, vol. 35 (1940),
30-35.
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Poucher, J. W. “…Captain Israel Smith,” Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook, vol. 11 (1929),
42-44 and 47.
Poucher, J. W. “…Major Elias Van Benschoten,” Yearbook of the Dutchess County Historical Society,
vol. 21 (1936), 90-98.
Poucher, J. W. “…James Van Der Burgh,” vol. 15 (1930), 36-38, 40 and 44.
Poucher, J. W. “…Zephaniah Platt,” Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook… vol. 29 (1944), 51-\
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Reynolds, Helen Wilkinson. “Udny Hay,” Dutchess Country Historical Society Yearbook, vol. 4 (1925), 4959.
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Stone, Hiram. “Experiences of a Prisoner in the American Revolution: Recollections of Thomas Stone…
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ORANGE COUNTY
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Boynton, Edward C., comp. and ed. General Orders of George Washington Commander-In-Chief of the
Army of the Revolution Issued at Newburgh On the Hudson, 1782-1783. (Harrison, NY: Harbor
Hill Books, 1973).
Boynton, E. C. History of West Point, and Its Military Importance During the American Revolution: And
the Origin and Progress of the United States Military Academy. (Freeport, NY: Books for
Librarians Press, 1970).
Brandt, Clare. Man In the Mirror: A Life of Benedict Arnold.(NY: Random House, 1994).
Carr, William H. and Richard J. Koke. Twin Forts of the Popolopen: Forts Clinton and Montgomery, New
York, 1775-1777, Historical Bulletin No. 1 (Bear Mountain, NY: Interstate Park Commissioners
of the Palisades and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, July 1937).
Cary, Jane. “Weigand’s Tavern In Newburgh,” Orange County Historical Society Journal, vol. 22 (1993),
6-11.
Clark, Donald F., ed. Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton: Several Contemporary Accounts of the Battle,
Monday, 6 October 1777 (Fort Montgomery, NY: Town of Highlands, 1952).
Clark, Donald F. “Revolution in the Highlands: The Story of the Battle of Fort Montgomery,” Orange
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Clarke, Samuel C., ed. “Capture of Stony Point, July, 1779 by Major William Hull,” Magazine of
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American History, vol. 28 (September 1892), 182-185.
Corning, A. Elwood. “Newburgh in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783,” Newburgh History, vol. 1 (June
1953), 1-20.
Coxe, Macgrane. Sterling Furnace and the West Point Chain (NY: Privately Printed, 1906).
Dempsey, Janet. Washington’s Last Cantonment: “High Time For A Peace.” (Monroe, NY: Library
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Diamant, Lincoln. Bernard Romans: Forgotten Patriot of the American Revolution, Military Engineer &
Cartographer of West Point & the Hudson Valley. (Harrison, NY: Harbor Hill Books, 1985).
Diamant, L. Chaining the Hudson: The Fight for the River in the American Revolution. (NY: Carol
Publishing Group, 1989).
Dommick, John C. Oration Delivered On the Eighty-Third Anniversary of the Battle of Minisink, at
Goshen, July 22, 1862 In Dedication of a Monument. (Middletown, NY: “Press,” 1862).
Figliomeni, Michelle P. “Diamonds in the Rough: Primary Sources for Studying Orange County During
the American Revolution,” Orange County Historical Society, Publication no. 4 (1974-1975), 2330.
Figliomeni, Michelle P. Flickering Flame: Treachery and Loyalty in the Mid-Hudson During the
American Revolution (Washingtonville, NY: Spear Printing, 1976).
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1908).
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22d, 1879. (Monticello, NY: John Waller, 1879).
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the Light of Unpublished Documents (NY: James T. White, 1900).
Jonas, Harold J. “Were There Any ‘Prisoners of War’ in Goshen During the American Revolution?”
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Koke, R. J. “Forcing the Hudson River Passage, October 9, 1776,” New-York Historical Society
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(Middletown, NY: T. Emmett Henderson, 1975).
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Peabody, Benjamin. “Orderly Book Kept By Benjamin Peabody of Middleton While At West Point In
1780,” Danvers Historical Society, Danvers, MA: Historical Collections, 1930-1932; vols. 1820, pp. 104-118; 97-112 and 97-114.
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Palmer, Dave Richard. River and the Rock: The History of Fortress West Point, 1775-1783, 1969 rept.
(NY: Association of Graduates with Hippocrene Books, 1991).
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Corbin] (Washington, D.C.: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1926). See also Daughters of
the American Revolution Magazine (vol. 60, no. 6, June 1926).
Pennypacker, Samuel W. “Capture of Stony Point,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,
vol. 26 (1902), 360-369.
Putnam, Israel. General Orders Issued by Major-General Israel Putnam, When in Command of the
Highlands, In the Summer and Fall of 1777, ed. by Worthington C. Ford (Brooklyn, NY:
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Rasnick, Marvin. “Staunch Patriot: Ann Hawkes Hay,” South of the Mountain, vol. 23, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec.
1979), 7-8, 12-3.
Rose, Kenneth. “A Brief Account of the History of the Fortifications at Sidman’s Bridge, Ramapo, New
York, During the American Revolution,” Orange County Historical Society Journal, vol. 18 (1989),
34-42.
Ruttenber, Edward M. History of the County of Orange: With a History of the Town and City of
Newburgh… (Newburgh, NY: E. M. Ruttenber & Son, 1875).
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Newburgh Bay and the Highlands, 1911).
Ruttenber, Edward M. Obstructions to the Navigation of Hudson’s River… (Albany, NY: J. Munsell,
1860).
Sanford, Fredinand V. “General John Hathorn, A Revolutionary Soldier, Patriot and Statesman,”
Newburgh Bay and the Highlands Historical Papers no. 10 (1903), 91-8.
Saul, Leslie T. “Revolutionary War Memorials At West Point, New York,” Daughters of the American
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Sheffield, Mele Gardner. Fort That Never Was: A Discussion of the Revolutionary War
Fortifications Built on Constitution Island, 1775-1783. (West Point, NY: Constitution Island
Association, Inc., 1969).
Showman, Richard K., ed. Papers of General Nathanael Greene, vol. 6. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press for the Rhode Island Historical Society, 1991).
Sklarsky, I. W. Revolution’s Boldest Venture: The Story of ‘Mad Anthony’ Wayne’s Assault on Stony
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Smith, Elizabeth S. “Claudius Smith, Loyalist,” Orange County Historical Society Journal, vol. 17 (1988),
17-24.
Stowe, Gerald C. and Jac Weller. “Revolutionary West Point: ‘The Key to the Continent’,” Military
Affairs, vol. 19 (Summer 1955), 81-98.
Suffern, J. Bogart. “Ramapo Valley During the American Revolution,” Historical Papers, no. 13 (1906),
185-190.
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Thomas, William S. “Revolutionary Camps of the Hudson Highlands,” Proceedings of the New
York State Historical Association, vol. 19, 1921, 141-155.
Thacher, James. Military Journal of the American Revolution, rept. (NY: Arno Press, 1969).
Thomas, William S. “Revolutionary Camps of the Hudson Highlands,” Proceedings of the New York
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Townsend, E. Jane. “New Windsor Cantonment and the Town of New Windsor: Two Communities CoExist in 1782-1783,” Orange Country Historical Society Journal, vol. 25 (1996), 14-31 and 39.
Wade, Nathaniel [West Point orderly book]. Essex Institute, Salem, MA, Historical Collections, ed. by
Herbert T. Wade, vol. 89, July-October 1953, pp. 213-252, 257-275; vol. 90, January-April and
October 1954, pp 84-99, 167-190 and 317-349.
Walker, Paul K. Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the
American Revolution, 1775-1783. (Washington, D.C.: Historical Division, Office of
Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1981).
Wallace, Margaret V. S. “John Robinson of Newburgh: Member of the Committee of Safety and
Observation,” Orange County Historical Society, Publication no. 4 (1974-1975), 21-22.
Zarutskie, Andrew J. “General Washington’s Masonic Activities in Orange County,” Orange County
Historical Society Journal, Publication no. 12 (1982-1983), 9-13.
ULSTER COUNTY
Benedict, Thomas E. Dedication of the memorial to John Graham and Comrades… (Grahamsville, NY:
Graham Memorial Committee, 1920) [2nd Ulster Militia].
Brink, Benjamin Myer. Early History of Saugerties, 1660-1825 (Kingston, NY: R. W. Anderson & Son,
1902).
Clearwater, Alphonse Trumpour, ed. History of Ulster County, NY (Kingston, NY: W. J. Van Deusen,
1907)
“Colonel Jacobus Severyn Bruyn,” Olde Ulster, vol. 6 (Sept. 1913), 275-278.
Fried, Marc B. Early History of Kingston & Ulster County, NY (Marbletown, NY: Ulster County
Historical Society, 1975)
De Witt, Sutherland, ed. “Journal of Henry Pawling,” Olde Ulster, vols. 1 and 2 (1905-1906), 335-8; 361-5;
18-25 [3rd Ulster Militia]
Lefevre, Ralph. History of New Paltz, New York and Its Old Families (from 1678 to 1820)… (Albany, NY:
Fort Orange Press, 1903).
McEntee, Girard Lindsley. “Contribution of Ulster County to the Cause of the American Revolution,”
Proceedings of the Ulster County Historical Society (1939-1940), 8-27.
Nash, Willis G. “Burning of Kingston,” Proceedings of the Ulster County Historical Society for 1933-1934,
51-60.
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Nelson, Peter, ed. “Minutes of Rombout Precint [Committee of ObservationJuly 13 – September 9, 1775]
Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, vol. 12 (July 1931), 295-310.
Pratt, George W. An Account of the British Expedition Above the Highlands of the Hudson River, and of
the Events Connected with the Burning of Kingston in 1777 (Albany, NY: Munsell & Rowland,
1861).
Schoonmaker, Marius. History of Kingston, NY: From Its Early Settlement to the Year 1820 (NY: Burr
Printing House, 1888).
Smith, Michael. Account in John Dann edited Revolution Remembered… (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1980), 11-114 [LTC Johanis Hardenbergh,’s 4th Ulster County Militia]
WESTCHESTER COUNTY
Baird, Charles Washington. Chronicle of a Boarder Town: History of Rye, Westchester County, New York,
1660-1870 Including Harrison and the White Plains Till 1788 (NY: Anson D. F. Randolph and
Co., 1871)
Campbell, Charles A. “Peekskill Village in the Revolutionary War,” Magazine of American History, vol. 8 (
May 1882), 331-335.
Dawson, Henry B. Westchester-County, New York During the American Revolution. (NY: Morrisania,
NY: Privately Printed, 1886).
French, Alvah P., ed. History of Westchester County New York, 4 vols. (NY: Lewis Historical Publishing
Co., 1925).
Haacker, Frederick C. “Westchester Guides,” Westchester Historian, vol. 30 (April 1954), 60-4.
Hadaway, William S. “’Grand Army’ of 1778 in Westchester County,” Westchester County Historical
Society Bulletin, vol. 9 (July 1933), 49-59.
Hadaway, William S., ed. Mc Donald Papers, Part 1. (White Plains, NY: Westchester County Historical
Society, 1926.
Hadaway, W. S. “Young’ Four Corners,” Westchester County Historical Society Bulletin, vol. 10 (October
1934), 71-82.
Hamilton, Mary Schuyler. “Elmsford and the Neutral Ground,” Westchester County Historical Society
Bulletin, vol. 10 (July and October 1934), 51-56 and 83-90.
Hufeland, Otto. Westchester County During the American Revolution, 1775-1783, 1926 rept. (Harrison,
NY: Harbor Hill Books, 1974).
Kim, Sung Bok. “Limits of Politicization in the American Revolution: The Experience of Westchester
County, New York,” Journal of American History, vol. 80 (1993), 868-889.
Lamb, Martha J. “White Plains in the Revolution,” Magazine of American History, vol. 28 (October 1892),
241-271.
Le Viness, J. Leonard, “Fort Hill,” Westchester Historian (Spring 1969), 38-39.
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