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• New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1775-1865

• Settlement in the West. Sketches of Rochester; with incidental notices of western New-York ... (Rochester, W. Alling, 1838), by Henry O'Reilly (page images at HathiTrust)
• An animadversory address to the inhabitants of the state of Vermont; with remarks on a proclamation, under the hand of His Excellency George Clinton, Esq; governor of the state of New-York. / By Ethan Allen. (Hartford: : Printed by Watson and Goodwin, near the great bridge., M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]), by Ethan Allen (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A vindication of the opposition of the inhabitants of Vermont to the government of New-York, and of their right to form into an independent state. Humbly submitted to the consideration of the impartial world. / By Ethan Allen. ([Dresden, Vt., i.e., Hanover, N.H.] : Printed by Alden Spooner, 1779, printer to the state of Vermont., [1779]), by Ethan Allen (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A concise refutation of the claims of New-Hampshire and Massachusetts-Bay, to the territory of Vermont; with occasional remarks on the long disputed claim of New-York to the same. / Written by Ethan Allen and Jonas Fay, Esq'rs. ; And published by order of the governor and Council of Vermont. Bennington, the first day of January, 1780. Joseph Fay, sec'ry. (Hartford: : Printed by Hudson and Goodwin., [1780]), by Ethan Allen, Jonas Fay, and Vermont. General Assembly (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna: A Descriptive Tale (2 volumes; New York: C. Wiley, 1823), by James Fenimore Cooper
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I; HTML at Northwestern
  • Volume II: HTML at Northwestern
• Kuvauksia Metsäelämästä Sivistyksen Äärimmäisellä Rajalla: Eli Natty Bumpon Elämänvaiheet (in Finnish; Helsinki: G. W. Edlund, 1879), by James Fenimore Cooper, trans. by Knut Emil Sonck (Gutenberg text)
• The Pioneers, by James Fenimore Cooper (Gutenberg text)
• Satanstoe, or, The littlepage manuscripts : a tale of the colony / by J. Fenimore Cooper. (New York : D. Appleton, 1873), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving, illust. by Arthur Rackham (Gutenberg ebook)
• "Nuori Kotka" ja vanha metsästäjä (in Finnish), by James Fenimore Cooper, trans. by Sohvi Reijonen (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Little Girl in Old New York, by Amanda M. Douglas (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A history of the treaty of Big Tree, and an account of celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the making of the treaty, held at Geneseo, N. Y., September the fifteenth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven. ([Dansville, N.Y.] Livingston County historical society, [1897?]), by Livingston County Historical Society (N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer history of the Holland Purchase of western New York : embracing some account of the ancient remains, ... and a history of pioneer settlement under the auspices of the Holland Company, including reminiscences of the War of 1812; the origin, progress and completion of the Erie Canal, etc., etc., etc. / (Buffalo : Geo. H. Derby and Co., 1850), by O. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer period of western New York. Being largely reminiscences of the struggles to lay the foundations of an empire in the wilderness; and of the burning of Buffalo, the surrender of Fort Niagara, the flight of the inhabitants; with many incidents never before published. ([Buffalo, N.Y., Bigelow Bros., 1888]), by Chipman P. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joseph Ellicott and stories of the Holland Purchase, ([Batavia, N.Y.] The Author, 1936), by Clara L. T. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Robert Morris and the Holland purchase, (Batavia, N.Y., J.F. Hall, 1894), by John Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer history of the Holland purchase of western New York: embracing some account of the ancient remains ... and a history of pioneer settlement under the auspices of the Holland company; including reminiscences of the war of 1812; the origin, progress and completion of the Erie canal, etc., etc., etc. (Buffalo, Jewett, Thomas & co. [etc.], 1849), by O. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneer history of the Holland purchase of Western New York. (Buffalo : Jewett, Thomas & co. [etc.], 1850), by O. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the treaty of Big Tree : and an account of the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the making of the treaty, held at Geneseo, N.Y., September the fifteenth, eighteen hundred ninety-seven / (Dansville, N.Y. : Livingston County Historical Society, [1897?]), by Livingston County Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the treaty of Big Tree, ([Dansville, N.Y.] Livingston County historical society, [1897?]), by Livingston County Historical Society (N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in the years 1791 and 1792 in Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont; journals of John Lincklaen, agent of the Holland land company, (New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897), by John Lincklaen, ed. by Helen L. Fairchild (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Regents' Boundary Commission upon the New York and Pennsylvania boundary, (Albany, Weed, Parsons and company, legislative printers, 1886), by University of the State of New York. Boundary Commission, H. Wadsworth Clarke, Henry R. Pierson, and Joint Boundary Commission of the States of New York and Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reminiscences of New York by an Octogenarian (1816 - 1860), by Chas. H. Haswell (HTML at jmisc.net)
• History of the City of New York: Its Origin, Rise, and Progress (3 volumes; New York: A.S. Barnes Co., c1896), by Martha J. Lamb and Mrs. Burton Harrison (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The conflagration in the city of New-York : a discourse delivered in the Second Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn, December 20th, 1835, on the subject of the fire in New-York on the night of December 16th / by Ichabod S. Spencer. (New-York : J. Post's Press, 1836), by Ichabod Smith Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old New York; or, Reminiscences of the past sixty years. Being an enlarged and revised edition of the anniversary discourse delivered before the New York historical society, (November 17, 1857,) by John W. Francis ... (New York, C. Roe, 1858), by John W. Francis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The city of New York in the year of Washington's inauguration, 1789; (New York, 1889), by Thomas E. V. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• City of New York, north of Canal street, in 1808 to 1821. (New York, 1864), by John Randel (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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)
• Comley's history of the state of New York, embracing a general review of her agricultural and mineralogical resources, her manufacturing industries, trade and commerce, together with a description of her great metropolis, from its settlement by the Dutch, in 1609. By W. J. Comley. Also, an encyclopædia of biography of some of the old settlers, and many of her most prominent professional and business men. (New York, Comley brothers' manufacturing and publishing co., 1877), by W. J. Comley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical recreations in the history of the empire state, designed to accompany Hendrick's "Brief history of the empire state." (Honeoye, N.Y., F.B. Short, 1894), by L. A. Toepp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The making of the Empire state / by Jacques Wardlaw Redway. (New York : Silver, Burdett, [1904]), by Jacques W. Redway (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of New York, (Chicago, New York [etc.] Belford, Clarke & co., [1889]), by Jeannette H. Walworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketches of northern New York and the Adirondac wilderness: (Troy, N.Y., W. H. Young, 1877), by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lake country. An annal of olden days in central New York. The land of gold. By John Corbett. (Rochester, N.Y., Democrat and chronicle print, 1898), by John Corbett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The need of a history of New York. ([New York, Printed by Harper & brothers], 1915), by United historical and patriotic societies and associations of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of events at Lake George, from the early colonial times to the close of the revolution. by B.F. De Costa. (New York, 1868), by B. F. DeCosta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lake Champlain tercentenary. Dates and places of formal exercises; July 5, Crown Point; July 6, Fort Ticonderoga; July 7, Plattsburg; July 8, Burlington; July 9, Isle La Motte. (Albany : New York state education dept., 1909), by University of the State of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lecture on the topography and history of New York. By Horatio Seymour. (Utica, N.Y., D. C. Grove, Printer, 1856), by Horatio Seymour (page images at HathiTrust)
• New York in the Spanish-American war 1898. (Albany, J. B. Lyon company, state printers, 1902), by New York (State). Adjutant General's Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Special history of New York. ([New York, D. Appleton & co., 1878]), by G. P. Quackenbos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosities in American history : The Green Mountain boys: or Vermont and the New York land jobbers, / by Philip H. Smith. (Pawling, N.Y. : P.H. Smith, 1885), by Philip Henry Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Olden time in New York / by a member of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. (New York : G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1872), by William Ingraham Kip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical sketch of the Chemung Valley, ect., by T. Apoleon Cheney. (Watkins, N. Y., 1868), by T. Apoleon Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hudson-Fulton celebration, September 25 to October 9, 1909; (Albany, New York state education dept., 1909), by University of the State of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of several passages and letters between His Excellency Benjamin Fletcher, captain general and governour in chief of the province of New-York, province of Pennsilvania, county of New-Castle, &c. commissionated by Their Majesties under the Great Seal of England, to be their lieut. and commander in chief of the militia, and of all forces by sea and land within Their Majesties collony of Connecticut, and of all forts and places of strength within the same. And the present administrators of the laws in the collony of Connecticut, in the month of October, 1693: ([New York] : printed and sold by William Bradford, printer to Their Majesties, King William and Queen Mary, at the Bible in New-York, 1693]), by New York (State). Governor (1692-1698 : Fletcher), Benjamin Fletcher, Robert Treat, and Connecticut. General Assembly (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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)
• Chronological list of the laws of New York relating to the war of the rebellion and veterans of that war, 1861-1910, by James D. Bell judge-advocate, Department of New York, G.A.R. and W. Burt Cook, jr. ([Albany, J.B. Lyon & co., state printers, 1910]), by James D. Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communication from the governor transmitting the report of the Board of state officers named in the act of April 16, 1861, ([Albany, 1862]), by New York (State) Military board of state officers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of Committee to Recruit the Ninth Army Corps. February to August, 1864. Prepared by the secretary. (New York, J. W. Amerman, printer, 1866), by New York (N.Y.). Committee to Recruit the Ninth Army Corps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communication from the Governor transmitting a report of Mr. John Jay, ([Albany, 1868]), by New York (State). Special Commissioner to Represent the State in the Board of Managers of the National Cemetery at Antietam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings attending the presentation of regimental colors to the legislature. (Albany, Van Benthuysen's Steam Print. House, 1864), by New York (State) Bureau of Military Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee on Militia and Public Defence : in answer to a resolution of the Senate, relative to the number of men enlisted and furnished the federal government from this state, the term for which they were enlisted, &c. / transmitted to the Legislature February 19, 1863. (Albany : Comstock & Cassidy, Printers, 1863), by New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Committee on Militia and Public Defense (page images at HathiTrust)

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