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fired <nul :*evciitJt-sir ; ( 'ainiilieH's Jifrahtlionai-t/ Scri'U'ea tnid Cirit Life of Generiil William Hull; H hitimn'e Historical ColleclioH of the part miftlainetl by Cntwcclient, during llir War of the Iteeohition : I.ossing's I'ictorial Field-book of the Jterohition ; Hildroth's Histonj of the United Staten of America: living's /,//V' "/ Oconje Washington; Hamilton's //is/r<ri/o/ (Ac Hejmblie of the Jhiilcd Statts of America^ as tracedin the Writings of AU'X- andir Jlanidftoi : I)a«siin's Militarg lielnotgthrough Westehester-countif^ in 1770, (an nnpublisliL'd nianu8crii)t ;) 'Mouve^s lHarg of the Ameri4-an Itevohition ; Memoir of Cvlonel Benjamin TaUmadge, prepared by hiniHcIf, at the re(jiiest of his (Children ; Dawson's linttles of the United States, bij Sea and Land; Stark's Memoir and Officifd Corresiiondcnee of Gen. John Stark, with Notices of . . . and of Colonel Uobi rt Itogers ; Cireene's The Life of Nathfinael Greene, Major-gctieral in the Artni/ of the llt rolntion. Edit. New-York : 1807 ; Di-akc's Life and Coi-rcsjwndenee of Henrij Knox, Major-general in the Ileeolutionanj Anny ; .Tones's HistA>rtj of Sew York during the flevohdionarij War, and de Lancet's SoleA on that work ; Bancroft's i/istoci/ <// (Ac United Stales, hoi\\ the original and the centenary editions ; Bolton's History of Westehester-eounty, both editions ; Tarbox's Life of Israel Pulnom ; Carrington's B"(//c,s the American Iterolntinn ; and Ridpath's History of the United Slates.

Those works, bearing on the subject, in the (lei'inan language, which are in our own library, were put away, and couM not be reached without undue labor ; and we were notjihysically able to go elsew here, to con suit them. For those reasons, they have not been t^\an\ined.