Roberts, James A. New York in the Revolution as Colony and State (2 volume set); These Records were Discovered, Arranged and Classified by James A. Roberts, Comptroller, in 1897. Albany, N. Y.: Weed-Parsons Printing Company, Printers, 1897, 1904. First Editions. [10756]
Volume one is in blue cloth, decorated in gilt & black, 12 x 10 inches, binding rubbed with some soil, fraying at the spine ends and corner tips. xviii, generally 261 clean pp., hinge behind title page a little loose, we notice a faint stain on a few leaves near the front of the book. Many b/w facsimile plates of manuscripts; folding map of the Schoharie and Mohawk Valleys, showing Col. Sir John Johnson's raid of October, 1780. Volume two is in olive cloth, same size with 336 clean pp. The binding was loose and we tightened it up with archival paste. Good. Hardcover.
"I have called this book a condensed history of the war." - Preface to the Supplement.
The discovery of these long-forgotten Revolutionary War records prompted the study of and printing of them as presented here. The Regiments, Corps, Levies, Militia by County, Privateers, Miscellaneous Independent Regiments, Rangers, &c. - every single man who enlisted in the New York Revolutionary War service is herein written and assigned his proper place. In preparing for the second edition of 1898, the comptroller states, "several hundred original documents have been added to the records relating to pensions, muster-rolls and demands for pay; and many of these documents represented new names. New material has been added relating to several regiments that did not appear in the first edition; and new departments have been created referring to courts-martial, aid furnished to families of soldiers, American prisoners of war, and bounty pay and subsistence...The nine organizations of the Line appearing in the first edition have been increased to fifteen...&c."
