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Paullin, Charles Oscar.

The navy of the American Revolution; its administration, its policy, and its achievements. land, Burrows. 549 p. port.

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Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Apr. 1907) 666-668.

Rosengarten, Joseph George. Frederick the Great and the United States. A paper read before the Pennsylvania-German society, Oct. 25, 1904. Lancaster, Pa., The society. 29 p. port., plate, vig[564 nettes, facsimile. Saint-Gaudens, Homer. Charles James Fox. British advocate for the American colonies, 1774-1802. MET., XXIV (Sept.) 746-749. [565 Schouler, James. Americans of 1776. N. Y., Dodd. xiii, 317 p. [566

"This book is not a new narrative history of the revolution. It is an original study of life and manners, social, industrial and political, for the revolutionary period. The substance of the present volume comprises occasional lectures given by the author before the Johns Hopkins university (1901-1905).”—Pref. Some Irish-French officers in the American Revolution. From "Les Combattants Francais de la Guerre Americaine." AM.IRISH HIST. SOC. JOUR., VI, 51-53. [567 Stark, James H. Causes of the American Revolution. GRANITE STATE MAG., II (Nov.-Dec.) 246-256, 307-311. [568 Chap. II. The Quebec act.

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Bruce, H. Addington. America's unofficial Independence day. The story of the Mecklenburg declaration of May 20, 1775, from recently discovered data. HARPER'S WEEKLY, L (July 7) 946-948. [571 Bruce, H. Addington. New light on the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. No. AM. REV., CLXXXIII (July) 47-61. [572

Burr, William Hanford. The invasion of Connecticut by the British. Tryon's raid was repulsed by courage and heroism that is unexcelled in the defence of menaced liberties-Its important influence on the cause of American independence. CONN. MAG., X (Jan.-Mar.) 139-152.

[573 The capture of the packet schooner Despatch by the privateer Tyrannicide, on July 10, 1776. ESSEX INST. HIST. COLL., XLII (Jan.) 40. [574

Chenault, Sallie Gibson Humphreys. Boonesborough in the Revolution. AM. MO. MAG., XXVIII (Mar.) 193-200. [575 Collins, Varnum Lansing, ed. A brief narrative of the ravages of the British and Hessians at Princeton in 1776-77; a contemporary account of the battles of Trenton and Princeton. Princeton, N. J., Univ. lib. x, 56 p. (Princeton hist. assoc. Extra pub., no. 1.) [576 Coxe, Macgrane. The Sterling furnace and the West Point chain; an historical address delivered at Sterling Lake, on Saturday, June 23, 1906, on the occasion of the unveiling of a tablet at that place by the Daughters of the revolution of the state of New York, in commemoration of the furnace and of the making of the chain. N. Y., Priv. print. [by the De Vinne press]. 54 p. map, facsims. [577 De Voe, Thomas F. The massacre of the Stockbridge Indians. [1778.] MAG. OF

HIST., IV (July) 38-42.

[578 Emmet, Thos. Addis. The battle of Harlem Heights. MAG. OF HIST., IV (Sept.)

125-134.

[579 Graham, William A. The battle of Cowan's Ford-The passage of the Catawba river by Lord Cornwallis, February 1, 1781. N. C. BOOKLET, V (Apr.) 232-246. [580 Graham, W. A. Celebration of the anniversary of May 20, 1775, with an address by Gen. Joseph Graham, giving reminiscences of the day and other Mecklenburg Revolutionary events, at Charlotte, N. C., May 20, 1835. N. C. BOOKLET, V (Jan.) 209-216. [581 "The Grand Constitution: A new Federal Song." COL. SOC. MASS. PUB., VIII, 273275. [582 "The sheet is not dated, but obviously, from the title, it could not have been printed before the autumn of 1787."

Hazleton, John Hampden. The Declaration of Independence, its history. N. Y., Dodd. vii, 629 p. front., facsims. (partly fold.). [583

Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XI (July) 913-914; Dial, XLI (Oct. 1) 202-203. Jeffries, B. Joy. [The experiences of a loyalist physician of Boston [John Jeffries] in 1775.] BUNKER HILL MONU. ASSOC. PROC., 37-46. [584 Koetteritz, John B. Andrew Finck, major in the revolutionary wars. An address delivered before the Herkimer Co. hist. soc., June 6, 1907. Rev. and cor. ed. 1906. Little Falls, N. Y., Stebbins and Burney. 171, (1) p.

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Appendix A. Orderly book of Captain A. Finck of the First N. Y. regiment at Valley Forge and on the Hudson, 1778.-Appendix B. Muster roll of Captain Andrew Finck's com pany, of Col. Van Schaick's regiment, 1st New

York line, at Valley Forge, April, 1778.-Appendix c. Genealogical notes relating to the Finck family of Stone Arabia, N. Y. Lamb, Fred W. The battle of Chelsea Creek [27th of May, 1775]. GRANITE STATE MAG., I (Apr.) 183-186. [586 McGovern, John. Ben Franklin and Tom Paine. Quaint and original comment upon two of the great heroes of the Revolutionary period. ΝΑΤ. MAG., XXIII (Jan.) 426-430. [587 Matthews, Albert. Joyce Junior [Chairman of the Committee for tarring and feathering in Boston before and during the Revolutionary war.] COL. SOC. MASS. PUB., VIII, 90-104. [588 The Mecklenburg myth. MAG. OF HIST., III (June) 361-364. [589

"A New Song," written during the Siege of Boston. COL. SOC. MASS. PUB., VIII, 272-273.

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List, with data of persons held in captivity at Fort Niagara, by French or British prior to the cession to America in 1796. List is distinctively of the Revolutionary period. Sinnickson, Lina. Frederika, baroness Riedesel. PA. MAG. HIST., XXX (Oct.) 385-408.

[596 Riedesel, Friederike Charlotte Luise (von Massow) freifrau von, 1746-1808. Sons of the American Revolution, Massachusetts society. Boston in the Revolution. A souvenir of the seventeenth congress. Boston, The society. 48 p. illus. [597 Stanley, A. P. Inverawe and Ticonderoga. MAG. OF HIST., IV (July) 4-16. [598 Thompson, Henry F. A Maryland loyalist. [Robert Alexander.] MD. HIST. MAG., I (Dec.) 316-323. [599 Wait, William. Sullivan's campaign. N. Y. STATE HIST. ASSOC. PROC., VI, 80-86. [600-601

Williams, Sherman. The organization of
Sullivan's expedition. N. Y. STATE HIST.
ASSOC. PROC., VI, 29–36.
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Crimmins, John D. Patriots bearing Irish names who were confined aboard the Jersey prison ship. AM.-IRISH HIST. SOC. JOUR., VI, 21-30. Daughters of the American Revolution. Revolutionary soldiers' graves in Lower Merion township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding townships of Roxborough and Blockley, in Philadelphia County, Haverford and Radnor, in Delaware County; and Upper Merion and White Marsh, in Montgomery County. Prepared under the auspices of Merion chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and pub. by Mrs. John F. Develin, regent. Bala, Pa. 11 p.

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Contains Revolutionary history. Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary war. A compilation from the archives prepared and published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Vol. XIV. Boston, Wright and Potter. 1008 p. [610

Contents of this volume extend from SHA to STH. Mead, Spencer P. The first American soldiers. The organization of the Continental army. CONN. MAG., X (Oct.Dec.) 670-678. [611

Muster roll of Capt. Abial Peese's company at New London in the year 1776. Ам. MO. MAG., XXIX (Aug.) 264-265. [612

Pennsylvania archives. Fifth series. Vols. I-VIII. Edited by Thomas Lynch Montgomery, under the direction of Frank M. Fuller, secretary of the commonwealth. Harrisburg, Pa., Harrisburg pub.

CO.

Contents.

Vol. I. Officers and soldiers in the service of the province of Pennsylvania, 1744-1765; Indian traders, Mediterranean passes, letters of marque and ship's registers, 1743-1775; Muster rolls of the Pennsylvania navy, 1776-1779; Letters of marque, 1778-1782. vi, 660 p. [613

Vol. II. Col. William Thompson's battalion of riflemen, June 25, 1775-July 1, 1776; First Pennsylvania battalion, Col. John Philip De Haas, Oct. 27, 1775-Nov. 13, 1776; Second Pennsylvania battalion, Col. Arthur St. Clair, Jan. 1776-Jan. 1777; Third Pennsylvania battalion, Col. John Shee, Jan. 5, 1776-Jan. 3, Fourth 1777; Col. Pennsylvania battalion, Anthony Wayne, Jan. 3, 1776-Jan. 24, 1777; Fifth Pennsylvania battalion, Col. Robert Magaw, Jan. 3, 1776-Jan. 3, 1777; Sixth Pennsylvania battalion, Col. William Irvine, Jan. 9, 1776-Mar. 20, 1777; Pennsylvania rifle regiment, Col. Samuel Miles, Mar. 6, 1776; The musketry battalion, Col. Samuel J. Atlee, Mar. 6, 1776; The state regiment of foot, Cols. John Bull, Walter Stewart, Mar. 1, 1777-Nov. 12, 1777. The Pennsylvania line from July 1, 1776 to Nov. 3, 1783; Continental line, First Pennsylvania, July 1, 1776-Nov. 3, 1783; Continental line, Second Pennsylvania, Oct., 1776Nov. 3, 1783; Continental line, Third Pennsylvania, Jan. 1, 1777-Nov. 3, 1783; Continental line, Fourth Pennsylvania, Jan. 1, 1777-Nov. 3, [614 1783. 1104 p.

Vol. III. Continental line, Fifth Pennsylvania, Jan. 1, 1777-Jan. 1, 1783; Continental line, Sixth Pennsylvania, Jan. 1, 1777-Jan. 1, 1783; Continental line, Seventh Pennsylvania, Jan. 1, 1777-Jan. 17, 1781; Continental line, Eighth Pennsylvania, July 20, 1776-Jan. 17, 1781; Continental line, Ninth Pennsylvania, Oct. 25, 1776-Jan. 17, 1781; Continental line, Tenth Pennsylvania, Oct. 25, 1776-Jan. 17, 1781; Continental line, Eleventh Pennsylvania (known as the "Old Eleventh "), 1776-1778; The New Eleventh, Jan. 13, 1779-Jan. 17, 1781; Continental line, Twelfth Pennsylvania, Oct. 1, 1776-July 1, 1778; Continental line, Thirteenth Pennsylvania, Nov. 12, 1777-July 1, 1778; Additional regiment, Col. Thomas Hartley's, Jan. 11, 1777-Jan. 13, 1779; Col. John Patton's, Jan. 11, 1777-Jan. 13, 1779; Pennsylvanians in Col. Hazen's regiment, 1776-1783; Continental line, the German regiment, July 12, 1776-Jan. I, 1781; Pennsylvania regiment of cavalry, Colonel Stephen Moylan, 1777-1783; Armand's first partisan legion, 1777-1783; Pennsylvanians in Pulaski's legion, 1778-1783; The corps of Count Von Ottendorff, 1776-1780; Provost guard, Von Heer's light dragoons, June 1, 1778-Nov. 3, 1783; Pennsylvanians in Commander-in-chief's guard, 1776-1783; Continental line, Pennsylvania artillery, Oct. 21, 1775-Oct. 27, 1776; Continental line, artillery artificers. [615

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Vol. IV. Continental line, The invalid regiment, Col. Lewis Nicola, June 20, 1777-1783; Soldiers who received depreciation pay as per cancelled certificates on file in the Division of Public Records, Pennsylvania State Library; Abstracts of pension applications on the Division of Public Records; List of "Soldiers of the Revolution who received pay for their services," taken from manuscript record, date having neither title, but under "Rangers on the frontiers, 1778-1783 published in Vol. XXIII, Penna. archives, third series; Enlistments under Major James

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Moore; Enlistment papers for the years 1785, 1788. 848 p. [616

Vol. V. Associators and militia, Pennsylvania: Muster rolls and papers relating to the associators and militia of the counties of Bedford, Berks, Bucks, and Chester. 888 p. [617

Vol. VI. Muster rolls relating to the associators and militia of the county of Cumberland. 658 p. [618 Vol. VII. Muster rolls relating to the associators and militia of the county of Lancaster. 1150 p. [619 Vol. VIII. Muster rolls relating to the associators and militia of the counties of Northampton and Northumberland. 697 p. [620 Records of the regiments of the South Carolina line, Continental establishment. S. C. HIST. MAG., VII (Jan.-Apr.) 20-26, 69-74. [621

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Sons of the American Revolution. Vermont society. Exercises attending the dedication of a memorial tower erected in honor of General Ethan Allen upon Indian Rock, in Burlington, Vermont, by the Vermont society of Sons of the American Revolution, August 16, 1905; including remarks by Charles W. Fairbanks, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Governor Bell of Vermont; Governor McLane of New Hampshire; and other citizens; a poem by Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr; and a historical Buraddress by Robert D. Benedict. lington, Free press print. co. 50 p. 7 pl., port. [628-9

1783-1789.

McHenry, James. Papers of Dr. James McHenry on the Federal Convention of 1787. AM. HIST. REV., XI (Apr.) 595624. [630 Treat, Payson Jackson. Origin of the national land system under the Confederation. AM. HIST. ASSOC. REP., 1905, I, 231239. [631 Question of disposal of the land confronting Congress in 1784 after the Virginia cession.

1789-1829.

Sources and Documents. Cleaveland, Nehemiah. Letter from Dr. Nehemiah Cleaveland to Col. Timothy Pickering. [1815.] TOPSFIELD HIST. SOC. COLL., XI, 77-78. [632 Copland, Charles. Extracts from the diary of Charles Copland. [1792-1836.] Communicated by Anna Melissa Graves. WM. AND MARY QUAR., XIV (Apr.) 217-230; XV (July) 57-64.

[633 Henry, Patrick. Letter of Patrick Henry to William Grayson. 1789. VA. MAG, HIST. XIV (Oct.) 202-204. [634 Jackson, Andrew. Letter of Andrew Jackson, 1822. COLLECTOR, XIX (Mar.) 5153. [635 Jefferson, Thomas. Jefferson's Germantown letters together with other papers relating to his stay in Germantown during the month of November, 1793, by Charles Francis Jenkins. Phila., Campbell. xxiv, [27]-194, (8) p. port., pls., facsims.

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Jeffrey, Francis. Letter to James Monroe in 1813. N. Y. PUB. LIB. BUL., X (Feb.) 95-97. [637 Lafayette, Marquis de. Two letters of Lafayette. [1811, 1824.] MD. HIST. MAG., I (Sept.) 271–273. [638 Log of the Chasseur. Journal of private armed brig Chasseur, Tho. Boyle, Com. from New York on a cruise. [1814-1815.] MD. HIST. MAG., I (June-Sept.) 168-180, 218-240.

[639 Madison, James. The writings of James Madison; comprising his public papers and private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed; ed. by Gaillard Hunt. v. VI, 1790-1802. N. Y., Putnam. xvii, 464 p. [640

Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Apr. 1907) 697-698.

Roane, Spencer. Letters of Spencer Roane, 1788-1822. N. Y. PUB. LIB. BUL., X (Mar.) 167-180.

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[Roane, Spencer.] Virginia opposition to Chief Justice Marshall. BRANCH HIST. PAP., II (June) 78-183. [642

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Letters of "Algernon Sidney (Spencer Roane) taking issue with Marshall's constitu tional decisions, reprinted from Richmond Enquirer. 1821.

Stokes, M. The Missouri compromise. Letter of M. Stokes, 1820. COLLECTOR, XIX (Apr.) 62. [643 Washington's household account book, 17931797. PA. MAG. HIST., XXX (Jan.-Oct.) 30-56, 159-186, 309-331, 459-478. [644 War of 1812.

A brilliant sea fight. ARMY AND NAVY LIFE, IX (Sept.) 241-247. [645

The attack by the British on the brig General Armstrong, 1814.

Brodrick, George C. The history of England from Addington's administration to the close of William IV's reign. (18011837.) By George C. Brodrick, completed and revised by J. K. Fotheringham. London, N. Y. and Bombay, Longmans. xix, 486 p. [646

Contains sections on the War of 1812. Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Oct.) 139-141; Nation, LXXXIII (Nov. 1) 372-373; Pol. sci. quar., XXII (Sept. 1907) 522-523.

Bulkley, John M. The River Raisin monuments at Monroe, Michigan. O. ARCHAEOL AND HIST. SOC. PUB., XV (Apr.) 141-154. [647

Gives an account of the battle and massacre at the River Raisin, Jan. 22-23, 1813. The Chesapeake and Shannon list of casualties. MAG. OF HIST., III (June) 374377.

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Contains a list of the killed and wounded, which appeared in the U. S. Gazette, of Philadelphia, June 30, 1813.

Faulkner, J. W. The defence of Fort
Stephenson on the Sandusky [1813]. Aм.-
IRISH HIST. SOC. JOUR., VI, 66-71. [649
Glance at the War. 1812-16. OLD ELIOT,
VII (Apr.) 91-92.
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The Eliot Committee of Safety.
Gregory, Chas. Noble. The case of the brig
General Armstrong. [Sept., 1814.]
GREEN BAG, XVIII (June) 331-338. [651
Hadel, Albert Kimberley. The battle of
Bladensburg. MD. HIST. MAG., I (June-
Sept.) 155-167, 197-210.

[652 Lucas, Charles Prestwood. The Canadian War of 1812. Oxford, Clarendon press. (4), 269 p. maps. [653

Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Jan. 1907) 429430; Nation, LXXXIII (Oct. 11) 306-307. Lucas, Robert. The Robert Lucas journal of the War of 1812 during the campaign under General William Hull, ed. by John C. Parish. Iowa City, Ia., State hist. soc. of Ia. ix, 103 p. map, facsims. [654

Rev. in: Am. pol. sci, rev., II, no. 1 (Nov. 1907) 87-88.

A military circular of 1812. INDIANA QUAR, MAG. HIST., II (Dec.) 185-186. [655 Issued by Gov. Harrison a few months after the Battle of Tippecanoe.

Papers relating to the burning of Buffalo and to the Niagara frontier prior to and during the War of 1812. BUFFALO HIST. SOC. PUB., IX, 311-406. [656

Authors: Parnell St. John Sidway, Martha St. John Skinner, William Hodge, Mrs. Benjamin Bidwell, Daniel Brayman, Hezekiah A. Salisbury, James Aigin, Jared Willson, Eber D. Howe.

Tomlinson, Everett Titsworth. The War of 1812. N. Y., Silver. 200 p. illus. (Stories of colony and nation.)

Miscellaneous.

[657

Babcock, Kendric Charles. The rise of American nationality, 1811-1819. N. Y. and London, Harper. xvi, 339 p. port., maps. (The American nation: a history, ed. by A. B. Hart. v. 13.) [658

Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Oct.) 158-162; Nation, LXXXIII (July 12) 40. Bassett, John Spencer. The federalist system, 1789-1801. N. Y. and London, Harper. xviii, 327 p. port., maps. (The American nation: a history, ed. by A. B. Hart. V. II.) [659 Critical essay on authorities ": p. [297]Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Oct.) 155-158; Nation, LXXXIII (July 5) 18. Caldwell, John R. Capture of a French pirate. [The General Massena in Chesapeake Bay, 1807.] MD. HIST. MAG., I (Dec.) 355-357.

311.

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Letter written by John R. Caldwell, Baltimore, 31st Augt. 1807.

Channing, Edward. The Jeffersonian system, 1801-1811. N. Y. and London, Harper. xii, 299 p. port., maps. (The American nation: a history, ed. by A. B. Hart. V. 12.) [661 Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Oct.) 158-162; Nation, LXXXIII (July 5) 18-19. Fuller, Hubert Bruce. The purchase of Florida; its history and diplomacy. Cleveland, Burrows. 399 p. fold. maps. [662

Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Jan. 1907) 404406; Nation LXXXIII (Dec. 20) 536-537; Pol. sci. quar., XXII, no. 1 (Mar. 1907) 140

141.

Harvey, Charles M. The Pike exploration centennial. [1806-1906.] REV. OF REV., XXXIV (Sept.) 333-337. [663 Lyman, Horace S. The Lewis and Clark expedition. AM. HIST. MAG., I (JulySept.) 329-366, 439–456.

[664 McLean, Mrs. C. F. The Louisiana purchase. AM. HIST. MAG., I (Nov.) 480499. [665

Stewart, M. B. A forgotten war. ARMY AND NAVY LIFE, IX (Nov.) 450-454. [666 The Gachupin war, 1812-13, [Texas border war].

Turner, Frederick Jackson. The colonization of the West, 1820-1830. AM. HIST. REV., XI (Jan.) 303-327.

[667 Turner, Frederick Jackson. Rise of the new West, 1819-1829. N. Y. and London, Harper. xviii, 366 p. port., maps. (The American nation: a history. ed. by A. B. Hart. v. 14.) [668

Rev. in: Am. hist. rev., XII (Oct.) 162-164; Nation, LXXXII (June 21) 517-518. Turner, Frederick Jackson. The South, 1820-1830. AM. HIST. REV., XI (Apr.) 559-573. [669 Warfield, Ethelbert D. The authorship of the Kentucky resolutions of 1798. Ам. HIST. MAG., I (May) 239–258. [670 Regarding John Breckinridge's claim.

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Barry, William T. Letters of William T. Barry. [1831-1834.] WM. AND MARY QUAR., XIV (Apr.) 230-241. Billings, George. Five thousand miles for a farm. Diary of a journey from the state of Massachusetts to the southwest as far as the territory of Arkansas. [1832-1833.] NEW ENG. MAG., n. S. XXXIV (Mar.) 106-110.

[674 Blair, M., and Frank P. Negro colonization. [Letters of M. and Frank P. Blair, from the Doolittle correspondence, 1859.] So. ASSOC. PUB., X (Sept.) 283-288.

HIST.

[675 Canfield, Chauncey L., ed. The diary of a forty-niner. N. Y., San Francisco, M. Shepard co. (2), 231 p. map. Diary of Alfred T. Jackson?

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Rev. in: Nation, LXXXIV (Mar. 28, 1907) 293.

Chadwick, French Ensor. Causes of the
Civil war, 1859-1861. N. Y. and London,
Harper. xiv, 372 p. port., maps.
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