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• Mohawk River Valley (N.Y.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783
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• The Historic Mohawk (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1910), by Mary Riggs Diefendorf (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Mohawk Valley, Gateway to the West, 1614-1925: Covering the Six Counties of Schenectady, Schoharie, Montgomery, Fulton, Herkimer, and Oneida (4 volumes; Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1925), ed. by Nelson Greene
  • Volumes 1-3 (third volume in alphabetized order under "Biographies"): illustrated HTML with commentary at schenectadyhistory.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Mohawk Valley, Its Legends and Its History, by William Max Reid (illustrated HTML at threerivershms.com)

• Clarissa Putman of Tribes Hill: A Romantic History of Sir William Johnson, His Family and Mohawk Valley Neighbors Through the Flaming Years 1767-1780 (Johnstown, NY: Baronet Litho Co., c1950), by John J. Vrooman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annals of Tryon County: or, The Border Warfare of New York, During the Revolution, by William W. Campbell (HTML at threerivershms.com)

• History of the Mohawk Valley, Gateway to the West, 1614-1925: Covering the Six Counties of Schenectady, Schoharie, Montgomery, Fulton, Herkimer, and Oneida (4 volumes; Chicago: S. J. Clarke, 1925), ed. by Nelson Greene
  • Volumes 1-3 (third volume in alphabetized order under "Biographies"): illustrated HTML with commentary at schenectadyhistory.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Book of Names, Especially Relating to The Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley, ed. by Lou D. MacWethy (HTML at threerivershms.com)

• Forts and Firesides of the Mohawk Country, New York: The Stories and Pictures of Landmarks of the Pre-Revolutionary War Period Throughout the Mohawk Valley and the Surrounding Country Side, Including Some Historic and Genealogical Mention During the Post-War Period (Philadelphia: E. E. Brownell, 1943), by John J. Vrooman, ed. by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A History of Herkimer County, Including the Upper Mohawk Valley, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1856), by Nathaniel Soley Benton (HTML at threerivershms.com)
• History of Schoharie County, and Border Wars of New York, by J. R. Simms (illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com)

• History of the Old Fort Herkimer Church: German Flatts Reformed Church, 1723, by William Nelson Potter Dailey (HTML at threerivershms.com)

• The Book of Names, Especially Relating to The Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley, ed. by Lou D. MacWethy (HTML at threerivershms.com)

• Forts and Firesides of the Mohawk Country, New York: The Stories and Pictures of Landmarks of the Pre-Revolutionary War Period Throughout the Mohawk Valley and the Surrounding Country Side, Including Some Historic and Genealogical Mention During the Post-War Period (Philadelphia: E. E. Brownell, 1943), by John J. Vrooman, ed. by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Legacy of Historical Gleanings (2 volumes; Albany: J. Munsell, 1875), by Catharina V. R. Bonney
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• An Authentic and Comprehensive History of Buffalo, With Some Account of Its Early Inhabitants, Both Savage and Civilized: Comprising Historic Notices of The Six Nations or Iroquois Indians, Including a Sketch of The Life of Sir William Johnson, and of Other Prominent White Men, Long Resident Among The Senecas, Arranged In Chronologial Order (2 volumes; Buffalo: Rockwell, Baker and Hill, printers, 1864-1865), by William Ketchum (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Delaware County, and Border Wars of New York, by Jay Gould (HTML at dcnyhistory.org)

• Perry's Saints: or, The Fighting Parson's Regiment in the War of the Rebellion (Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, c1886), by James M. Nichols (illustrated HTML at generalatomic.com)

• The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, Which Are Dependent on the Province of New-York in America, and Are the Barrier Between the English and French in That Part of the World (London: Printed for T. Osborne, 1747), by Cadwallader Colden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• A History of New York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (published under "Diedrich Knickerbocker" persona; New York: Inskeep and Bradford, 1809), by Washington Irving
  • volume 1: HTML at Virginia
  • volume 2: HTML at Virginia
• History of New York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (Works of Washington Irving, new edition, v1; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1860), by Washington Irving (page images at MOA)
• Knickerbocker's History of New York, by Washington Irving (Gutenberg text)
• The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, Which Are Dependent on the Province of New-York in America, and Are the Barrier Between the English and French in That Part of the World (2 volumes; New York: New Amsterdam Book Co., 1902), by Cadwallader Colden, contrib. by Robert Waite
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
• The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, Which Are Dependent on the Province of New-York in America, and Are the Barrier Between the English and French in That Part of the World (2 volumes; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1904), by Cadwallader Colden
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume I: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II: multiple formats at HathiTrust
• The Sons of Liberty in New York: A Paper Read Before the New York Historical Society, May 3d, 1859 (Poughkeepsie, NY: Platt and Schram, 1859), by Henry B. Dawson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks, 1656-1680 (Buffalo: P. Paul, 1891), by Ellen Hardin Walworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life and Times of Sir William Johnson, Bart., by William L. Stone
  • volume I: HTML at threerivershms.com
  • volume II: HTML at threerivershms.com
• Legal Education in Colonial New York (New York: New York University Law Quarterly Review, 1939), by Paul M. Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Banner by the Wayside (New York: Random House, c1947), by Samuel Hopkins Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• New-York Historical Society Quarterly (with some annual reports; 1917-1980) (full serial archives)
• Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, by New York State Historical Association (partial serial archives)
• The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association (partial serial archives)

• Annals of Tryon County: or, The Border Warfare of New York, During the Revolution, by William W. Campbell (HTML at threerivershms.com)
• History of New York During the Revolutionary War, and of the Leading Events in the Other Colonies at That Period (2 volumes; New York: Printed for the New York Historical Society, 1879), by Thomas Jones, ed. by Edward F. De Lancey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Battle of Klock's Field, October 19, 1780, With a Description of the Raid of the Schoharie and Mohawk Valleys by the Tories and Indians under Sir. John Johnson, by Lou D. MacWethy (illustrated HTML at threerivershms.com)
• Adventures of a Lady in the War of Independence in America, by Susan Griffith Colpoys Johnson (HTML with commentary at threerivershms.com)
• History of Delaware County, and Border Wars of New York, by Jay Gould (HTML at dcnyhistory.org)
• History of Schoharie County, and Border Wars of New York, by J. R. Simms (illustrated HTML at rootsweb.com)
• The Parsonage Between Two Manors: Annals of Clover-Reach (Hudson, NY: Bryan Printing Co., 1909), by Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey (5 volumes, later ones subtitled "Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants"; 1903-1932), by John E. Stillwell
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org

• A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who Was Taken by the Indians, In the Year 1755, When Only About Twelve Years of Age, and Has Continued to Reside Amongst Them to the Present Time, by James E. Seaver (Gutenberg text)

• Journals of the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New York (reprint edition of the first 34 conventions, 1785-1819; New York: H. M. Onderdonk, 1844), by Episcopal Church Diocese of New York
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• History of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (New York: Eaton and Mains, 1904), by A. F. Chaffee (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Book of Names, Especially Relating to The Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley, ed. by Lou D. MacWethy (HTML at threerivershms.com)
• Index: The Balloting Book and Other Documents Relating to Military Bounty Lands in the State of New-York, Albany, 1825 (Syracuse: Onondaga Historical Association, 1954), by M. Frances Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut: Being the Ancestry and Kindred of Herbert Furman Seversmith (5 volumes; 1939-1958), by Herbert Furman Seversmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Hawkins Genealogy, 1635-1939: Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charleston, Massachusetts (c1939), by Ralph Clymer Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey (5 volumes, later ones subtitled "Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants"; 1903-1932), by John E. Stillwell
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Balloting Book, and Other Documents Relating to Military Bounty Lands in the State of New-York (Albany: Packard and VanBenthuysen, 1825) (PDF files at tcpl.org)

• Binghamton, Its Settlement, Growth and Development, and the Factors in its History, 1800-1900 (Boston: Century Memorial Pub. Co., 1900), by William S. Lawyer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Sketches From Local History (Bridgehampton, NY, 1935), by William Donaldson Halsey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An Authentic and Comprehensive History of Buffalo, With Some Account of Its Early Inhabitants, Both Savage and Civilized: Comprising Historic Notices of The Six Nations or Iroquois Indians, Including a Sketch of The Life of Sir William Johnson, and of Other Prominent White Men, Long Resident Among The Senecas, Arranged In Chronologial Order (2 volumes; Buffalo: Rockwell, Baker and Hill, printers, 1864-1865), by William Ketchum (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the City of Buffalo and Erie County, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason and Co., 1884), by H. P. Smith (PDF files at niagara.edu)
• The Picture Book of Earlier Buffalo (Buffalo: Buffalo Historical Society, 1912), ed. by Frank H. Severance (page images at Cornell)

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