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dred and seventy-six ; Campbell's Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of General William Hull; Hinnian's Historical Collection of the part sustained by Connecticut, during the War of the Revolution ; Logging's Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution ; Hildreth'B History of the United States of America; Irvillg'B Life of George Washington; Hamilton's History of the Republic of the United Stales of America, as tracedin the Writings of Alexander Hamilton; Dawson's Military Retreat* through Westchester-county, in 1776, (an unpublished manuscript ;) Moore's Diaryof the American Revolution ; Memoir of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge, prepared by himself, at the request of his Children ; Dawson's Battles of the United States, by Sea and Land; Stark's Memoir and Official Correspondence of Gen. JohnStark, with Notices of . . . and of Colonel Robert Rogers ; Greene's The Life of Nathanael Greene, Major-general in the Army of the Revolution, Edit. New-York : 1867 ; Drake's Life and Correspondence of Henry Knox, Major-general m the Revolutionary Army; Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, and de Lancey's Notes on that work ; Bancroft's History of the United States, both the original and the centenary editions ; Bolton's History of WestcheMer-county, both editioDB ; Tarbox's Life of Israel Putnam; Carrington's Battles of the American Revolution; and Ridpath's History of the United Slates.

Those works, bearing on the subject, in the German language, which are in our own library, were put away, and could not he reached without undue labor ; and we were not physically able to go elsewhere, to consult them. For those reasons, they have not been examined.