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Books about the Colonial History of New York

  1. Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Year's War and the Fate of Empire in British North America 1754-1766, 2000
  2. William H. Barker, Early Families of Herkimer County New York: Descendants of the Burnestfield Palatines, 1999
  3. David A. Bellinger, Mohawk Valley Bellingers and Related Families, 2003
  4. Richard Berleth, Bloody Mohawk, The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier, 2010
  5. Richard Holmes, Rebels & Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War, 2003
  6. Joyce Berry, Time of Terror, The Story of Colonel Jacob Klock's Regiment and the people they protected, 2005
  7. R. Arthur Bowler, War Along the Niagara
  8. John Brick, The King's Rangers, 1954
  9. Rene Chartrand, Colonial American Troops 1610 - 1774, 2002
  10. C. B. Colby, Revolutionary War Weapons: Pole Arms, Hand Guns, Shoulder Arms and Artillery, 1963
  11. Thomas J, Condon, New York Beginnnings: The Commercial Origins of New Netherland, 1968
  12. James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans, 1968
  13. William P. Cumming and High Rankin, The Fate of a Nation, 1975
  14. Brian Leigh Dunnigan, Seige - 1759: The Campaign Against Niagara, 1996
  15. Allan Eckert, Wilderness Empire, 1969
  16. Walter D. Edmonds, Drums Along the Mohawk, 1937
  17. Allan D. Foote, Liberty March: The Battle of Oriskany, 1998
  18. Allan D. Foote, and Geoffrey Storm, Gateway to Freedom, The American Revolution on the Northern Frontier, 2005
  19. Jeremiah Greenman, Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution, 1775 - 1783, 1978
  20. Lee Hanson and Dick Ping Hsu, Casemates and Cannonballs, 1975
  21. Gil Herkimer, Roads to Oriskany, 1996 Table of Contents
  22. Raymond C. Houghton, A Revolutionary War Road Trip on NY Route 5, 2005
  23. M. Paul Kessler, Kuyahoora: Discovery West Canada Valley, 1999
  24. Richard M. Ketchum, Divided Loyalties: How the American Revolution came to New York, 2002
  25. Walter Allen Knittle, Early Eighteeth Century Palatine Emigration, 1937
  26. Larry Lowenthal, Marinus Willett: Defender of the Northern Frontier, 2000
  27. John F. Luzader, Fort Stanwix, Construction and Military History, 2001
  28. Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin, 2001
  29. John McDonnell, Spanish John, Being a Narrative of the Early Life of Colonel John McDonnell of Scotus, 1993 Table of Contents
  30. John Milsop, Continental Infantryman of the American Revolution, 2004
  31. James C. Neagles and Lila L. Neagles, Locating your Revolutionary War Ancestor, 1983
  32. Fintan O'Toole, White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America, 2005
  33. Maryly B. Penrose, Compendium of Early Mohawk Valley Families, 1990
  34. W. M. Reid, The Mohawk Valley, 1979
  35. Stuart Reid and Marko Zlatich, Soldiers of the Revolutionary War, 2002
  36. Page Smith, A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution, 1976
  37. Alan E. Sterling, Guardian of the Carry: Fort Stanwix 1758 - 1774, 2004
  38. Alan Taylor, The Divided Nation, 2006
  39. Janny Venna, Beverwijck: A Dutch Village on the American Frontier, 1652-1664, 2003
  40. John J. Vrooman, Forts and Firesides of the Mohawk Country, 1951
  41. Paul K. Walker, Engineers of Independence: A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in the American Revolution, 1775 - 1783, 1981
  42. Anthony F.C. Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca, 1972
  43. Gavin K. Watt, The Burning of the Valleys, 1997
  44. Gavin K. Watt, Rebellion in the Mohawk Valley, 2002
  45. Gavin K. Watt, The Flockey, 13 August 1777, The Defeat of the Tory uprising in the Schoharie Valley, 2002
  46. C. Leith Wilbur, The Revolutionary Soldier 1775 - 1783, 1969
  47. Glen F. Williams, Year of the Hangman, 2005 Table of Contents
  48. Robert K. Wright, The Continental Army, 1983

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