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• The Century book of the American revolution. The story of the pilgrimage of a party of young people to the battlefields of the American revolution (The Century Co., 1897), by Elbridge S. Brooks and Sons of the American Revolution. Empire State Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addresses made at the banquet, given to officers and members of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, representing the different state societies of that name throughout the Union (New York Printing Company], 1890), by Sons of the American Revolution (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and letters of John Paul Jones (C. Scribner's Sons, 1913), by Anna Farwell De Koven (page images at HathiTrust)
• England and America, 1763 to 1783; the history of a reaction (Brown, Langham, & Co., Ltd., 1907), by Mary A. M. Marks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diary of the American Revolution. From newspapers and original documents. (C. Scribner; [etc., etc.], 1860), by Frank Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Mr. Lee's plan--March 29, 1777" : the treason of Charles Lee, major general, second in command in the American Army of the Revolution (C. Scribner, 1860), by George Henry Moore and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical register of officers of the Continental Army during the war of the revolution, April 1775, to December, 1783 (Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914), by Francis B. Heitman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georgia's roster of the revolution, containing a list of the states defenders; officers and men; soldiers and sailors; partisans and regulars; whether enlisted from Georgia or settled in Georgia after the close of hostilities. (Index Printing Co., 1920), by Georgia. Department of Archives and History and Lucian Lamar Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Moultrie Montague letters, 1781 : some related matters. (Keowee Courier Presses, 1904), by William Moultrie, William Ashmead Courtenay, and Charles-Greville Montagu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Log-book of Timothy Boardman; kept on board the privateer Oliver Cromwell, during a cruise from New London, Ct., to Charleston, S. C., and return, in 1778; also, a biographical sketch of the author. (Munsell, 1885), by Timothy Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir and letters of Captain W. Glanville Evelyn : of the 4th regiment, ("King's own") from North America, 1774-1776 (Printed for private circulation by J. Parker, 1879), by William Glanville Evelyn and G. D. Scull (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York City during the American Revolution : being a collection of original papers (now first published) from the manuscripts in the possession of the Mercantile Library Association, of New York City. (Privately printed for the Association, 1861), by Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York, Henry B. Dawson, and Abraham Tomlinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documentary history of the armed neutralities, 1780 and 1800, together with selected documents relating to the war of American independence 1776-1783, and the Dutch war 1780-1784 (University of London press, ltd., 1919), by Francis Taylor Piggott and George W. T. Omond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The John Bogart letters; forty-two letters written to John Bogart of Queen's college, now Rutgers college, and five letters written by him, 1776-1782, with notes. (Rutgers college, 1914), by John Bogart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of General Graham : with notices of the campaigns in which he was engaged from 1779 to 1801 (Priv. print. by R. & R. Clark, 1862), by Samuel Graham and J. J. Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rodney (Macmillan and Co., 1891), by David Hannay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aboard the Mavis : it is told in this book how five boys and five girls cruise in the schooner "Mavis" about the east end of Long Island, and how, in addition to sundry good times, they learn somewhat of the early history of their country (Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1880), by Richard Markham, Frank Beard, Milton J. Burns, George F. Swain, Avery & Co Rand, and Mead & Company Dodd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pictorial field-book of the revolution; or, Illustrations,by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the war for Independence. (Harper & brothers, 1860), by Benson John Lossing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters written by Ebenezer Huntington during the American Revolution. (Printed for C.F. Heartman, 1915), by Ebenezer Huntington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The campaign of Lieut. Gen. John Burgoyne : and the expedition of Lieut. Col. Barry St. Leger (J. Munsell, 1877), by William L. Stone, Seventh Regiment Military Library, Huntington Free Library, and Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The storming of Stony Point on the Hudson, midnight, July 15, 1779; its importance in the light of unpublished documents (J. T. White, 1900), by Henry Phelps Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of Du Roi the elder, lieutenant and adjutant, in the service of the Duke of Brunswick, 1776-1778. (University of Pennsylvania;, 1911), by August Wilhelm Du Roi and Charlotte Sabine Julianne Epping (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of John Charles Philip von Krafft ... 1776-1784. (Printed for private distribution only, 1888), by Johann Carl Philipp von Krafft and Thomas H. Edsall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obstructions to the navigation of Hudson's River : embracing the minutes of the secret committee appointed by the Provincial convention of New York, July 16, l776, and other original documents relating to the subject ; together with papers relating to the beacons (J. Munsell, 1860), by Edward Manning Ruttenber (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...Centennial history of the town of Nunda : with a preliminary recital of the winning of western New York, from the fort builders age to the last conquest by our revolutionary forefathers (Rochester Herald press, 1908), by H. Wells Hand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, of Philadelphia. 1765-1798. (Press of W. F. Fell & Co., 1893), by Jacob Hiltzheimer and Jacob Cox Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rosbrugh, a tale of the Revolution, or, Life, labors and death of Rev. John Rosbrugh pastor of Greenwich, Oxford and Mansfield Woodhouse (Washington) Presbyterian Churches, N.J., from 1764 to 1769, and of Allen Township Church, Pa., from 1769 to 1777 : chaplain in the Continental Army, clerical martyr of the Revolution, killed by Hessians, in the Battle of Assunpink, at Trenton, New Jersey, Jan. 2d, 1777 ([s.n.], 1880), by John Cunningham Clyde and New Jersey Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendar of historical manuscripts, relating to the war of the revolution, in the office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y. (Weed, Parsons & Co., Printers, 1868), by New York (State). Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• American independence and the French revolution (1760-1801) (G. Bell, 1915), by Samuel Edward Winbolt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proceedings of the ... Conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution (The Daughters], 1898), by Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clark papers (Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1912), by George Rogers Clark and James Alton James (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diary of Captain Jabez Fitch. ([New York] : [Prison Ship Marytrs' Monument Association], [1899], 1899), by Jabez Fitch and Vernon D. Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boston National Historical Park, Massachusetts (Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1998), by United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications and Boston National Historical Park (Agency : U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Katharine Walton; or, The rebel of Dorchester. (Redfield, 1854), by William Gilmore Simms (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Partisan, a romance of the revolution. (Redfield, 1853), by William Gilmore Simms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberty's triumph. A poem. (Alfred H. Rogers, 1851), by Robert W. Landis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tableau et révolutions des colonies angloises dans l'Amérique septentrionale (Chez la Compagnie des libraires, 1781), by abbé Raynal, H. A. Rattermann, Compagnie des libraires (Amsterdam), and H.A. Rattermann Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last men of the Revolution : a photograph of each from life, together with views of their homes printed in colors : accompanied by brief biographical sketches of the men (Hartford, Conn. : Published by N.A. & R.A. Moore, 1864., 1864), by E. B. Hillard, Harry S. Griffiths, Bingham & Dodd, and N.A. & R.A. Moore (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Separation of church and state in Virginia; a study in the development of the Revolution. (D. Bottom, Supt. of Public Print, 1910), by Virginia State Library. Archives Division and H. J. Eckenrode (page images at HathiTrust)
• A brief account of the finances and paper money of the Revolutionary War. (John Campbell & Son, 1874), by J. W. Schuckers and Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diary of the American Revolution, from newspapers and original documents (Charles T. Evans, 1863), by Frank Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The state records of North Carolina (P.M. Hale, 1886), by North Carolina, Stephen Beauregard Weeks, William Laurence Saunders, and Walter Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ceremonies at the unveiling of the monument erected to the memory of William Mapes, a revolutionary soldier, at Big Flats, Aug. 5, 1871 (Gazette Publ. Co., 1873), by John L. Sexton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sullivan expedition : an address delivered at the Seneca County Centennial Celebration at Waterloo, September 3, 1879 (Observer Book and Job Printing House, 1880), by David Craft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elisha Stevens, fragments of memoranda ([Meriden, Conn., 1922), by Elisha Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Quaker government in Pennsylvania (T.S. Leach, 1900), by Isaac Sharpless (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virginians, a tale of the last century. (Harper, 1890), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hugh Wynne, free Quaker : sometime brevet lieutenant-colonel of the staff of His Excellency General Washington (Century, 1905), by S. Weir Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guert Ten Eyck; a hero story (D. Lothrop company, 1893), by William O. Stoddard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1876), by John Paul Jones and George Benjamin Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1880), by John Paul Jones and George Benjamin Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saratoga monument : historic sculpture : together with a brief reference to some of the general and elementary principles involved in a national art and the leading characteristics and uses of art in general (s.n.], 1886), by Jared Clark Markham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The parsonage between two manors; annals of Clover-Reach (The Hudson Press, 1909), by Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spy : a tale of the neutral ground (Dana Estes & co., 1910), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Carvel (Grosset & Dunlap, 1914), by Winston Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eutaw : a sequel to The forayers; or, The raid of the dog-days; a tale of the revolution (A. C. Armstrong, 1856), by William Gilmore Simms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Katharine Walton; or, The rebel of Dorchester. (A.C.Armstrong, 1882), by William Gilmore Simms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Independence; a story of the revolution (Funk & Wagnalls company, 1893), by John R. Musick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ledger of Doctor Benjamin Franklin ... postmaster general, 1776 : a fac-simile of the original manuscript now on file on the records of the Post office department of the United States. (Historic Documents Pub. Co., 1900), by Benjamin Franklin and United States Post Office Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Captain Jeremiah O'Brien, Machias, Maine : commander of the first American naval flying squadron of the War of the Revolution (G.W. Sherman, 1902), by Andrew M. Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York in the revolution as colony and state. (Weed-Parsons Printing Company, printers, 1897), by New York (State). Comptroller's Office, Daniel P. Witter, James A. Roberts, and Babcock Post no. 59 (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York in the Revolution as colony and state : a compilation of documents and records from the Office of the State Comptroller. (J.B. Lyon Co., 1904), by New York (State). Comptroller's Office and Benno Loewy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Samuel Smith, a soldier of the revolution, 1776-1786. (Priv. print., 1860), by Samuel Smith and Charles Ira Bushnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cymry or, Welshmen and their descendants of the American Revolution : an address with an appendix, containing notes, sketches, and nomenclature of the Cymbri (Sheldon, Lamport & Co., 1855), by Alexander Jones and Samuel Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georgian: a pattern of spoons, forks and all other pieces of table flat ware is fully shown in this book, in which is also given an account of the chief events of the war of the revolution and the acts of oppression which preceded and provoked it... (s.n.], 1906), by Towle Mfg. Company and George P. Tilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The French war and the Revolution (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893), by William Milligan Sloane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The bombardment of New York : and the fight for independence on the waters of New York City against the sea power of Great Britain in the year 1776 (The Author], 1915), by Reginald Pelham Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thanksgiving sermon preached long ago : delivered in the present First Reformed Church, Easton, on Oct. 17, 1779 (Ethan Allen Weaver, 1914), by Israel Evans and Ethan Allen Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• General Maxwell's Brigade of the New Jersey Contintental Line in the expedition against the Indians in the year 1779 (W. S. Sharp, printer, 1885), by William S. Stryker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters by Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and others, written during and after the Revolution, to John Langdon, New Hampshire. (Press of H. B. Ashmead, 1880), by John Langdon, Alfred Langdon Elwyn, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and George Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blazing the way to final victory : Washington's order of 29th Aug. 1781. (Historical Club, 1920), by Austin Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of Aaron Burr : lieutenant-colonel in the army of the revolution, United States Senator, Vice-President of the United States, etc. (James R. Osgood, 1872), by James Parton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The capture of Ticonderoga : annual address before the Vermont Historical Society delivered at Montpelier, Vt., on Tuesday evening, October 8, 1872 (Tuttle & co., printers, 1872), by L. E. Chittenden and Vermont. General Assembly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Year book of the Society, Sons of the Revolution, in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, 1894-1913 : and catalogue of military land warrants granted by the Commonwealth of Virginia to soldiers and sailors of the Revolution ([Kentucky Society of the Sons of the Revolution], 1913), by Sons of the Revolution. Kentucky Society and Samuel M. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence of Henry Laurens, of South Carolina. (Printed for the Zenger Club, 1861), by Henry Laurens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chaplains and clergy of the Revolution. (G. & F. Bill, 1861), by J. T. Headley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theatrum majorum : the Cambridge of 1776, wherein is set forth an account of the town, and of the events it witnessed ; with which is incorporated the diary of Dorothy Dudley, now first publish'd ... (Lockwood, Brooks, 1876), by William Dean Howells, Dorothy Dudley, and Arthur Gilman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lunenburgh, or, The old Eastern district : its settlement and early progress : with personal recollections of the town of Cornwall, from 1824 : to which are added a history of the King's Royal Regiment of New York and other corps; the names of all those who drew lands in the counties of Stormont, Dundras, and Glengarry, up to November, 1786; and several other lists of interest to the descendants of the old settlers (Standard Print. House, 1890), by J. F. Pringle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of South Carolina (Macmillan, 1897), by Edward McCrady (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historic and antiquarian scenes in Brooklyn and its vicinity : with illustrations of some of its antiquities ([s.n.], 1868), by Thomas W. Field (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illustrated catalogue of colonial and Revolutionary books, broadsides and other important Americana : from various collections : to be sold ... February 26th, 1917 ... ([The Association], 1917), by American Art Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Webster's election-sermon, May 28, 1777 (Printed by Edes & Gill, in Queen-Street, 1777), by Samuel Webster and Massachusetts General Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• The narrative of Colonel David Fanning (a Tory in the revolutionary war with Great Britain) : giving an account of his adventures in North Carolina, from 1775 to 1783 (Reprinted for J. Sabin, 1865), by David Fanning, Thos. H. Wynne, Huntington Free Library, Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian, and Seventh Regiment Military Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blanche of Brandywine : an American patriotic spectacle, dramatised for, and originally performed at Laura Keene's Theatre, Thursday evening, April 22, 1858, with unbounded success. (Samuel French, 1858), by James G. Burnett, George Lippard, and Joseph Jefferson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three colonial boys : a story of the times of '76 (W.A. Wilde & Company, 1895), by Everett T. Tomlinson, Charles Copeland, and W.A. Wilde & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lionel Lincoln : or the leaguer of Boston (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhode Island repudiation: or the history of the revolutionary debt of Rhode Island. In three chapters. (Sayles, Miller & Simons, 1855), by John W. Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Virginians; a tale of the last century. (Mershon, in the 1890s), by William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Massachusetts : from July, 1775, when General Washington took command of the American Army, at Cambridge, to the year 1789, (inclusive,) when the federal government was established under the present Constitution. (Published by Wells and Lilly, 1825), by Alden Bradford and Wells and Lilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georgian : a pattern of spoons, forks and all other pieces of table flat ware is partly shown in this book, in which is also given an account of the chief events of the War of the Revolution and the acts of oppression which preceded and provoked it ... (Towle Mfg. Co., 1899), by George P. Tilton and Towle Mfg. Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Late news (Printed by the Press at Harvard college for the Club of odd volumes, 1927), by William Sutherland, Harold Murdock, and Richard Pope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous numbered records (the manuscript file) in the War Deaprtment collection of Revolutionary War records, 1775-1790's (National Archives and Records Service, 1972), by United States National Archives and Records Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The revolution on the upper Ohio, 1775-1777. (Wisconsin historical Society, 1908), by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Louise Phelps Kellogg, Sons of the American Revolution. Wisconsin Society, and State Historical Society of Wisconsin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of George Washington. Part Four (New York : P.F. Collier & Son, 1904., 1904), by Washington Irving and George Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richard Pryne : a novel of the American Revolution (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941., 1941), by Cyril Harris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historia de los Estados-Unidos (Imprenta del gobierno, 1870), by Édouard Laboulaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from the Hon. John Adams, to the Hon. Wm. Tudor, and others, on the events of the American Revolution. (Cornell University Library, 1818), by John Adams and William Tudor (page images at HathiTrust)
• True to the old flag : a tale of the American war of independence (Blackie & Son, 49 & 50 Old Bailey, E.C., 1889), by G. A. Henty, Florence G. Roberts, Gordon Browne, and Blackie & Son (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement to Revolutionary soldiers of Onondaga. (1915), by William Martin Beauchamp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wagoner of the Alleghanies. A poem of the days of seventy-six. (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1892), by Thomas Buchanan Read (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revolutionary manuscripts and portraits ... Collection of American historical letters and documents ... Original portraits and miniatures ... Relics of the confederacy ... To be sold ... April 5th and 6th, 1892 ... (Bicking Print, 1892), by Stan. V. Henkels (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres de Monsieur le marquis de Montcalm (Chez J. Almon, vis a vis de Burlington-house, Piccadilly, 1777), by Pierre Joseph Antoine Roubaud, Nicolas-René Berryer, and Louis-Joseph Montcalm de Saint-Véran (page images at HathiTrust)
• A little maid of Concord town : a romance of the American revolution (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1900), by Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop and Frank T. Merrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hugh Wynne, free Quaker : sometime brevet lieutenant-colonel on the staff of His Excellency General Washington (The Century Co., 1922), by S. Weir Mitchell and Howard Pyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Veteran Corps of Artillery, 1790-1812 ([The Corps], 1909), by Veteran Corps of Artillery (N.Y.) and Military Society of the War of 1812 (N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Revolution in two volumes (Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894, [1891], 1894), by John Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)

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