Minute Book of a Board of General Officers of the British Army in New York, 1781; Collections of The New-York Historical Society for the year 1916. New York: Printed for the Society, 1916. First Edition. [8532]
Green publisher's cloth, 9 3/4 inches, gilt titles to spine, 283 pp., tight. Ex lib bookplate at front, rest clean. Text has a faint tidemark in the long margin throughout. Good. Hardcover.
"This volume contains the proceedings of a Board of General Officers of the British Army at New York, appointed by Sir Henry Clinton, August 7, 1781, to consider the expenditure of public money in the different departments established by him when he succeeded to the command of the British Army at New York.
"The volume is of great local interest, and has among other items a return of men, women and children in the British Regiments victualled in New York, in the Civil Department and in Foreign Regiments, with Muster Roll of Assistants, Overseers, Coopers, Laborers, Artificers in various departments and where employed, and covers Brooklyn and this city; also list of vessels, giving names of masters, and a comparative view of the expenses in different parts of the Army from December 17, 1775, to December 5, 1781, under Sir William Howe and Sir Henry Clinton." - Preface.
