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" : DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE Colonial History OF THE New York State of 1/ EDITED BY BERTHOLD FERNOW. VOLUME XV. STATE ARCHIVES, VOL. L o ^ ^i ^'^ jkS 'V"^^^Slsio\ ALBANY. N. Y. WEED, PARSONS AND COMPANY, PRINTERS. 887. I ^^ - ? $ i ^ -^ - vi ^- a -^ i /^S^ ^ 04 *^s^o * ft ^ s I. 5i/<^ "^ I. ^ M i'^l 1 :^ ^ «§ ^> ^"!Q^4^"i-S6l V * ^ l'^ .V c'^1 ^1 § .•^ l1^l--p (NEW YORK STATE ARCHIVES.) NEW YORK THE REVOLUTION' IN PREPARED UNDER DIRECTIOK OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS. BERTHOLD FERNOW. ^^ By ^ VOLUME I. ALBANY. N. Y.: WEED. PARSONS AND COMPANY. PRINTERS. 1887. : CONTENTS. PAOK. I. Proceedings of the Provincial Congress 1 II. The New York Line on the Third Continental Establishment, 1776 168 III The Navy 254 IV. OfScers of the Levies, Militia, Minute Men, Rangers and Associated Exempts, arranged by counties 255 V. Alphabetical List of the State Troops 808 VI. Appendix, containing Listof Officers of the New York Line on the First Continental Establishment, 1775 » 527 The Navy 529 The Green Mountain Boys and Vermont Militia 684 Additional Officers of Nev? York 637 Service of the Levies and Militia 538 Casualties. Prisoners, Wounded and Killed .' 542 Pensioners of the State, alphabetically arranged 661 VIL Index 666 PREFACE. New-Englandere will occasionally aasert, that New York did very little to aasist her siater colonies in the straggle for independence more than one hundred years ago. To correct this opinion, the Editor has endeavored to resuscitate from the tomb of general oblivion the names of the men who proved their attachment to the caose of liberty by serving in a military capacity as officers and soldiers of the Kegiments of the New York Line on Continental Establishment, of the Battalions of Levies, organized by the State of New York for purposes of — self-protection, of the Regiments of Militiii, Minute Men and Rangers and of the Navy. Although the volume herewith laid before the public contains abont 40,000 names, the Editor fears that many a family will be disappointed upon not finding an ancestor, whom family tradition has «levated upon the pinnacle of revolutionary fame. The reason for not bringing such names is that the records of the war of Independence, both in the archives of New York and at Washington, are defective; for it has been the Editor's endeavor during five years, to examine every possible clue and enumerate the names there found. New York had been called upon to furnish four Regiments* for the Continental army. She furnished, according to the Military Register, which has been mentioned on page 165, and — from which most of the names of men serving in the New York Lino, have been taken 5,011 officers and soldiers for active field service out of a population of about 150,000 inhabitants-f In the matter of financial aid, New York, although then not as rich as she is now, did not lag behind her sister colonies, as the following "General abstract of the snms of money, including indents and paper money of every kind, reduced to specie value, which have been received by,orpaidto, the several States,by Congress, from the commencement of the Revolution •Tliis number wm upon applicationof New York toOoDtinental CoogresB raloed tofive. fDocamentary History I. The census of the Stateof New York /or 1795Bhows, that there were then 64,454 menentitled tovoteliving within its boundaries. .... : : VIU Preface. to the present period; made in pursuance of the order of the House of Representatives of the 23d of April, 1790," will sliow STATES. Paid to State. RSCETVED FROM STATX. Dollars. 90.8ths Dollnrs. 90.8th8. NewHampsbiro. 440,974 29.5 466,554 60.4 MassachuBettH. 1,245,737 25.0 3.107,020 33.4 . Rbodu Island 1,028.511 33.6 310,395 21.0 Connecticut 1,010.273 15.5 1,607,259 31.2 New York 82S,803 6.0 1,545,8S9 45.0 NewJersey 366,729 63.1 512,916 23.4 PenusfIvania, 2,087,270 13.0 2,629,410 41.3 Delaware . . 63,817 5.0 308,878 68.0 Maryland 609,617 0.5 945,537 39.0 Virginia 482,881 58.3 1,,963,811 7.1 North Carolina. 788,031 12.6 219,835 79.0 Soutli Carolina. 1,014,808 25.2 499,325.22.1 Georgia 679,413 49.3 122,744 52.2 Tr£A8UBY Depabtment, Reguter'i Office. This abstract is supplemented by a " Statement of the enms, in the old Continental Emission, paid by the following States into the Treasury of theUnited States, on account of their several quotas of the requisitions of Congress, of the 18th of March, 1780," which tells us that New Hampshire paid $5,200,000, the total amount ofher quota. Massachusetts, $29,000,000, her full quota. Ehode Island, $2,593,353 of her quota of $2,600,000. Connecticut, $9,151,484 of her quota of $22,100,000. New York, $7,905, 355 of her quota of $9,750,000. NewJersey, $6,826,675 of her quota of $11,700,000. Pennsylvania, $28,454,674 of her quota of $29,900,000. Delaware, $2,210,000, her full quota. Maryland, $9,149,585 of her quota of $20,940,000. Virginia, $13,040,376 of her quota of $32,500,000. North Carolina, $5,066,861 of her quota of $13,000,000. Albany, February, 1887. H. R. PIERSON, ClianceUoT ofthe Board ofRcjerxts.