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Family Archives CD #143
Consisting of six authoritative works, this Family Archive CD identifies
approximately 225,000 New Yorkers who fought in the colonial wars, the
Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. First among these books, in point of
time, is the two-volume work originally published by the State Historian's
Office called New York Colonial Muster Rolls, 1664-1775. Incorporating a variety
of records, including pay rolls, size rolls, petitions, minutes of meetings and
official proceedings, journals, correspondence, and various field reports, this
official record of New York's colonial militia lists members of militia
companies which were raised to quell mutinies, insurrections, and uprisings, or
to do battle with the French and Indians and to protect New York's
borders--usually from French and Iroquois incursions or threatened hostilities
from Connecticut. At a minimum, each militiaman is noted in connection with his
date of enlistment, his company, his rank, and his place of residence, with
additional information giving his place of birth, age, occupation, height, and
physical description.
Of equal, if not greater, importance is New York in the Revolution as
Colony and State, by James A. Roberts and Frederick G. Mather. Second only
to Massachusetts in furnishing troops for the Revolutionary War, New York put at
least 43,000 men in the field, all of whom are identified in this work from
original muster rolls and pay rolls in the State Comptroller's Office. Several
other works had identified New York soldiers of the Revolution, but this is the
only one to be based on original papers and documents, and is therefore the
single indisputable authority on its subject. In a supplementary volume, also
included on this CD, an additional 8,000 soldiers are identified from Land
Bounty Papers which were later found in the Comptroller's Office. The purpose of
the supplementary volume was to supply a complete resume of the records in the
Comptroller's Office and to furnish a documentary history of the war as it was
conducted in New York, which was by far the most active theater of operations in
the entire Revolutionary War.
Based on records ranging from diaries to orderly books, from recruitment
lists to war claims, and from biographies to histories, the other books included
on this CD are:
*The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut
*Muster and Pay Rolls of the Revolution [New-York Historical Society]
*Orderly Books of the Three Battalions of Loyalists
*Index of Awards on Claims of the Soldiers of the War of 1812
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| Item Number: | 401C-7143 |
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