1776

  Revolutionary Pension Records

  New-York Historical Society, New York City

  William Alexander, Lord Stirling, Correspondence

  Lachlan Campbell Journal

  William Duer Papers

  Nathan Eells Papers

  Henry Knox Papers (Gilder-Lehrman Collection)

  Alexander McDougall Papers

  Solomon Nash Journal

  Joseph Reed Papers

  Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City

  John Trumbull Papers

  Public Records Office, Kew Gardens, London

  Lord William Howe Papers

  Loyalist Claims Records

  Sir George Osborn Papers

  Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence

  Thomas Foster Papers

  Nathanael Greene Papers

  Captain Stephen Olney Papers

  Society of Cincinnati, Washington, D.C.

  Manuscript, Map, and Graphic Material Collections

  Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

  Books

  Abbott, W. W., ed.The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series. Vol. I. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983.

  Adair, Douglass, and John A. Schutz, eds.Peter Oliver’s “Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion: A Tory View.” San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1961.

  Adams, Charles Francis, ed.The Works of John Adams. Vols. III, IX. Boston: Little, Brown, 1856.

  Adams, Hannah.A Summary History of New-England: From the First Settlement at Plymouth to the Acceptance of the Federal Constitution, Comprehending a General Sketch of the American War. Dedham, Mass.: H. Mann & J. H. Adams, 1799.

  Adams, Randolph G.Sir Henry Clinton Maps: British Headquarters Maps and Sketches. Ann Arbor, Mich.: William L. Clements Library, 1928.

  Alden, John R.General Charles Lee: Traitor or Patriot? Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1951.

  ———.A History of the American Revolution. New York: Knopf, 1969.

  The American Revolution in New York: Its Political, Social, and Economic Significance.(Prepared by the Division of Archives and History) Albany: University of the State of New York, 1926.

  Anderson, Fred.Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766. New York: Knopf, 2000.

  Anderson, Troyer Steele.The Command of the Howe Brothers During the American Revolution. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1936.

  Andrews, John.History of the War with America, France, Spain, and Holland. Vol. II. London: John Fielding, 1785–1786.

  The Annual Register; or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1775.London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1776.

  Arch, Nigel, and Joanna Marschner.Splendour at Court: Dressing for Royal Occasions Since 1700. London and Sydney: Unwin Hyman, 1987.

  Atwood, Rodney.The Hessians: Mercenaries from Hessen-Kassel in the American Revolution. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

  Bailyn, Bernard.Faces of Revolution: Personalities and Themes in the Struggle for American Independence. New York: Knopf, 1990.

  Bakeless, John.Turncoats, Traitors, and Heroes. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1959.

  Balch, Thomas, ed.Papers Relating Chiefly to the Maryland Line During the Revolution. Philadelphia: Printed for the Seventy-Six Society, 1857.

  Bancroft, George.History of the United States. Vol. IX. Boston: Little, Brown, 1866.

  Barck, Oscar Theodore, Jr.New York City During the War for Independence. New York: Columbia University Press, 1931.

  Barnum, H. L.The Spy Unmasked; or, Memoirs of Enoch Crosby. Harrison, N.Y.: Harbor Hill Books, 1975.

  Beatson, Robert.Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain from 1727 to 1783. Vol. VI. Boston: Gregg Press, 1972.

  Becker, John.The Sexagenary; or, Reminiscences of the American Revolution. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1866.

  Berger, Joseph, and Dorothy Berger, eds.Diary of America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957.

  Bill, Alfred Hoyt.The Campaign of Princeton: 1776–1777. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1948.

  Billias, George Athan.General John Glover and His Marblehead Mariners. New York: Henry Holt, 1960.

  ———.George Washington’s Generals. New York: Morrow, 1964.

  Black, Jeremy.Pitt the Elder: The Great Commoner. Gloucestershire, Eng.: Sutton Publishing, 1999.

  Blakeslee, Katherine Walton.Mordecai Gist and His American Progenitors. Baltimore: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1923.

  Bliven, Bruce, Jr.Battle for Manhattan. New York: Holt, 1955.

  ———.Under the Guns: New York, 1775–1776. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

  Blumenthal, Walter Hart.Women Camp Followers of the American Revolution. Philadelphia: George S. MacManus Co., 1952.

  Bobrick, Benson.Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

  Bolton, Charles Knowles, ed.Letters of Hugh Earl Percy from Boston and New York: 1774–1776. Boston: Gregg Press, 1972.

  ———.The Private Soldier Under Washington. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1964.

  Bowman, Allen.The Morale of the American Revolutionary Army. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Public Affairs, 1943.

  Bowne, William L.Ye Cohorn Caravan: The Knox Expedition in the Winter of 1775–76. Schuylerville, N.Y.: NaPaul Publishers, 1975.

  Bridenbaugh, Carl.Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743–1776. New York: Knopf, 1955.

  Brooke, John.King George III. London: Constable, 1972.

  Brookhiser, Richard.Founding Father. New York: Free Press, 1996.

  Brooks, Noah.Henry Knox: A Soldier of the Revolution: 1750–1806. New York and London: Putnam, 1900.

  Brooks, Victor:The Boston Campaign: April 1775–March 1776. Conshohocken, Pa.: Combined Publishing, 1999.

  Buckley, Gail.American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm. New York: Random House, 2001.

  Buel, Joy Day, and Richard Buel, Jr.The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America. New York: Norton, 1984.

  Burgoyne, Bruce E., ed.Enemy Views: The American Revolutionary War as Recorded by the Hessian Participants. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1996.

  ———.The Hesse-Cassel Mirbach Regiment in the American Revolution. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1998.

  Burke, Edmund.The Correspondence. Vol. III.July 1774–June 1778. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1961.

  Burnaby, Rev. Andrew.Travels Through the Middle Settlements in North America in the Years 1759 and 1760. 3rd ed. London: For T. Payne, 1798.

  Burrows, Edwin G., and Mike Wallace.A History of New York City to 1898. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  Butterfield, L. H., ed.Adams Family Correspondence. Vols. I–II. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963.

  ———.Letters of Benjamin Rush. Vols. I–II. Princeton, N.J.: American Philosophical Society, 1951.

  Callahan, North.Henry Knox: General Washington’s General. South Brunswick, Maine: A. S. Barnes & Co., 1958.

  Chase, Philander; W. W. Abbott; and Dorothy Twohig, eds.The Papers of George Washington. Vols. I–VIII. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985–1998.

  Chidsey, Donald Barr.The Tide Turns: An Informal History of the Campaign of 1776 in the American Revolution. New York: Crown Publishers, 1966.

  Churchill, Sir Winston.The Great Republic: A History of America. New York: Modern Library, 2001.

  Clark, William Bell, ed.Naval Documents of the American Revolution. Vols. III–VII. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Navy, 1968–1976.

  Cobbett, William.The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. Vol. XVIII. London: T. C. Hansard, 1813.

  Coffin, Charles, ed.The Lives and Services of Maj. Gen. John Thomas, Col. Thomas Knowlton, Col. Alexander Scammell, Maj. Gen. Henry Dearborn. New York:
Egbert, Hovey & King, 1845.

  Colley, Linda.Britons Forging the Nation, 1707–1837. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992.

  Collins, Varnum Lansing, ed.A Brief Narrative of the Ravages of the British and Hessians at Princeton, 1776–1777. Princeton, N.J.: University Library, 1999.

  Commager, Henry Steele, and Richard B. Morris, eds.The Spirit of ’Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants. Vols. I–II. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958.

  Conway, Moncure Daniel.Writings of Thomas Paine. Vol. I. New York: Putnam, 1894.

  Cook, Don.The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies, 1760–1785. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.

  Copley, John Singleton.Letters and Papers of John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham, 1739–1776. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1914.

  Corner, George W., ed.The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush: His Travels Through Life, Together with His ‘Commonplace Book’ for 1789–1813. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1970.

  Coupland, R.The American Revolution and the British Empire. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965.

  Crary, Catherine S.The Price of Loyalty: Tory Writings from the Revolutionary Era. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.

  Cumming, W. P., and Hugh Rankin.The Fate of a Nation: The American Revolution Through Contemporary Eyes. London: Phaidon Press, 1975.

  Cunliffe, Marcus.George Washington: Man and Monument. New York: New American Library, 1958.

  Custis, George Washington Parke.Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1860.

  Cutter, William.The Life of Israel Putnam, Major General in the Army of the American Revolution. Boston: Sanborn, Carter, Bazin & Co., 1846.

  Dalzell, Robert F., Jr., and Lee Baldwin Dalzell.George Washington’s Mount Vernon. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

  Dann, John C., ed.The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the War for Independence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

  Davies, K. G., ed.Documents of the American Revolution, 1770–1783. Colonial Office Series. Vols. XI, XIV. Dublin: Irish University Press, 1976.

  Dawson, Henry B., ed.New York City During the American Revolution: Being a Collection of Original Papers from the Manuscripts of the Mercantile Library Association of New York City. New York: Privately printed for the Association, 1861.

  Deary, William Paul. “Toward Disaster at Fort Washington, November 1776.” Dissertation, George Washington University, 1996.

  Decker, Malcolm.Brink of Revolution: New York in Crisis, 1765–1776. New York: Argosy Antiquarian, 1964.

  Defoe, Daniel.A Tour Thro’ Great Britain, 1742. Vol. II. New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1975.

  Diamant, Lincoln.Chaining the Hudson: The Fight for the River in the American Revolution. Carol Publishing Group, 1994.

  ———.Revolutionary Women in the War for American Independence. A one-volume revised edition of Elizabeth Ellet’s 1848 Landmark Series. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.

  Drake, Francis S.Life and Correspondence of Henry Knox. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1873.

  Drake, Samuel Adams.General Israel Putnam: The Commander at Bunker Hill. Boston: Nichols & Hall, 1875.

  ———.Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1873.

  Draper, Theodore.A Struggle for Power: The American Revolution. New York: Times Books, 1996.

  Drinkwater, John.Charles James Fox. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1928.

  Duer, William Alexander.The Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, with Selections from His Correspondence. Published for the New Jersey Historical Society. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1847.

  Duncan, Louis C.Medical Men in the American Revolution. Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland & Co., 1998.

  Dwyer, William M.The Day Is Ours: November 1776–January 1777, An Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton. New York: Viking Press, 1983.

  Eliot, Ellsworth, Jr.The Patriotism of Joseph Reed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Library, 1943.

  Ellet, Elizabeth F.The Women of the American Revolution. Vol. III. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1900.

  English, Frederick.General Hugh Mercer: Forgotten Hero of the American Revolution. Lawrenceville, N.J.: Princeton Academic Press, 1975.

  Fenn, Elizabeth A.Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775–82. New York: Hill & Wang, 2001.

  Ferris, Robert G., and Richard E. Morris.The Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Flagstaff, Ariz.: Interpretive Publications, 1982.

  Field, Thomas W.Battle of Long Island. Brooklyn: Long Island Historical Society, 1869.

  Fields, Joseph E.Worthy Partner: The Papers of Martha Washington. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994.

  Fischer, David Hackett.Paul Revere’s Ride. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

  ———.Washington’s Crossing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

  Fisher, Sydney George.The True History of the American Revolution. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1902.

  Fiske, John.The American Revolution. Vols. I–II. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891.

  Fitzpatrick, John C., ed.George Washington Accounts of Expenses. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1917.

  ———.George Washington Himself. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1933.

  ———.The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745–1799. Vols. I–VIII. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931–1933.

  Fleming, Thomas.Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1960.

  ———.1776: Year of Illusions. New York: Norton, 1975.

  Flexner, James Thomas.George Washington: The Forge of Experience, 1732–1775. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.

  ———.George Washington in the American Revolution, 1775–1783. Vol. II. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967.

  ———.The Young Hamilton: A Biography. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1978.

  Flood, Charles Bracelen.Rise, and Fight Again: Perilous Times Along the Road to Independence. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1976.

  Foner, Philip S., ed.The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine. 2 vols. New York: Citadel Press, 1945.

  Forbes, Esther.Paul Revere and the World He Lived In. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942.

  Force, Peter.American Archives: Consisting of a Collection of Authentick Records, State Papers, Debates, and Letters and Other Notices of Public Affairs. 4th series. 9 vols. Washington, D.C.: M. St. Clair and Peter Force, 1837–1853.

  Ford, Paul Leicester.Washington and the Theatre. New York: Dunlap Society, 1899.

  Fortescue, Sir John, ed.The Correspondence of King George the Third from 1760 to December 1783. Vol. III. London: Macmillan, 1927–1928.

  ———.The War of Independence: The British Army in North America, 1775–1783. London: Greenhill Books, 2001.

  Fowler, William, Jr.The Baron of Beacon Hill: A Biography of John Hancock. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

  ———.Rebels Under Sail: The American Navy During the Revolution. New York: Scribner, 1976.

  Freeman, Douglas Southall.George Washington. Vols. I–II.Young Washington. New York: Scribner, 1948–1949.

  ———.George Washington. Vol. III.Planter and Patriot. New York: Scribner, 1951.

  ———.George Washington. Vol. IV.Leader of the Revolution. New York: Scribner, 1951.

  French, Allen.The First Year of the American Revolution. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934.

  ———.The Siege of Boston. New York: Macmillan, 1911.

  Frey, Sylvia R.The British Soldier in America: A Social History of Military Life in the Revolutionary Period. Austin: University of Texas, 1981.

  Frothingham, Thomas G.History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970.

  ———.Washington: Commander in Chief. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930.

  Fruchtman, Jack, Jr.Thomas
Paine, Apostle of Freedom. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994.

  Gallagher, John J.The Battle of Brooklyn, 1776. New York: Sarpedon, 1995.