1776

by David McCullough

  Thomas, Peter D. G.Lord North. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1976.

  Thompson, Eben Francis.A Brief Chronicle of Rufus Putnam and His Rutland Home. Worcester, Mass.: Privately printed, 1930.

  Trevelyan, Sir George Otto.The American Revolution. Vols. I–IV. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899.

  Tuchman, Barbara W.The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam. New York: Ballantine Books, 1984.

  Turberville, A. S., ed.Johnson’s England: An Account of the Life and Manners of His Age. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1933.

  Tyler, Moses Coit.The Literary History of the American Revolution. Vols. I–II. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1957.

  Valentine, Alan.Lord Stirling: Colonial Gentleman and General in Washington’s Army. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.

  Van Doren, Carl.Secret History of the American Revolution. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Co., 1941.

  Van Tyne, Claude Halstead.Loyalists in the American Revolution. Gansevoort, N.Y.: Corner House Historical Publications, 1999.

  Wade, Herbert T., and Robert A. Lively, eds.This Glorious Cause: The Adventures of Two Company Officers in Washington’s Army. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1958.

  Ward, Christopher.The War of the Revolution. Edited by John Richard Alden. Vols. I–II. New York: Macmillan, 1952.

  Warden, G. B.Boston: 1689–1776. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970.

  Warren, Mercy Otis.History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution. Edited by Lester H. Cohen. Vols. I–IV. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1989 (orig., 1805).

  Warren-Adams Letters.Vol. I.1743–1777. New York: AMS Press, 1972.

  Washington, George.Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. Mt. Vernon, Va.: Mount Vernon’s Ladies Association, 1989.

  Weigley, Russell F.History of the United States Army. New York: Macmillan, 1967.

  Wheeler, Richard.Voices of 1776: The Story of the American Revolution in the Words of Those Who Were There. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1972.

  Whitehill, Walter Muir.Boston: A Topographical History. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1968.

  Whiteley, William G.The Revolutionary Soldiers of Delaware. Wilmington, Del.: James & Webb Printers, 1875.

  Wick, Wendy C.George Washington, an American Icon: The Eighteenth-Century Graphic Portraits. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Portrait Gallery, 1982.

  Wickwire, Franklin, and Mary Wickwire.Cornwallis: The American Adventure. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

  Willard, Margaret Wheeler, ed.Letters on the American Revolution, 1774–1776. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925.

  Willcox, William B.Portrait of a General: Sir Henry Clinton in the War of Independence. New York: Knopf, 1962.

  Winsor, Justin, ed.The Memorial History of Boston. Vol. III. Boston: James Osgood & Co., 1881.

  Wood, Gordon S.The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969.

  Wood, W. J.Battles of the Revolutionary War: 1775–1781. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.

  Wortley, The Honorable Mrs. E. Stuart, ed.A Prime Minister and His Son: From the Correspondence of the Third Earl of Bute and of Lieutenant General the Honorable Sir Charles Stuart. London: John Murray, 1925.

  Wright, Esmond.Fabric of Freedom: 1763–1800. New York: Hill & Wang, 1961.

  Reference Works

  Black, Jeremy, and Roy Porter, eds.The Penguin Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century History. London: Penguin Books, 1994.

  Boatner, Mark M., III, ed.Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. New York: David McKay Co., 1966.

  ———.Landmarks of the American Revolution. Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1973.

  Cappon, Lester J., ed.The Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era, 1760–1790. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976.

  Carnes, Mark C., and John A. Garraty.Mapping America’s Past: A Historical Atlas. New York: Holt, 1996.

  Dexter, Franklin Bowditch.Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College. Vol. III.1763–1778. New York: Holt, 1903.

  Foner, Eric, and John A. Garraty, eds.Reader’s Companion to American History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

  Grizzard, Frank E., Jr.George Washington: A Biographical Companion. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 2002.

  Homberger, Eric.Historical Atlas of New York City. New York: Holt, 1944.

  Johnson, Allen, ed.Dictionary of American Biography. 11 vols. New York: Scribner, 1936–1964.

  Ketchum, Richard M., ed.The American Heritage Book of the Revolution. New York: American Heritage, 1958.

  Kiple, Kenneth F.Cambridge World History of Human Disease. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

  Marshall, P. J., ed.The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century. Vol. II. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1998.

  Mollo, John, and Malcolm McGregor.Uniforms of the American Revolution in Color. New York: Macmillan, 1975.

  Nebenzahl, Kenneth, ed.Atlas of the American Revolution. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1974.

  Purcell, L. Edward, and David F. Burg, eds.World Almanac of the American Revolution. New York: World Almanac, 1992.

  Sebastian, Anton.Dictionary of the History of Medicine. New York: Parthenon Publishers, 1999.

  Shipton, Clifford K., ed.Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, Vols. XIII, XVII. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1965, 1975.

  Stember, Sol.The Bicentennial Guide to the American Revolution. Vol. II. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1974.

  Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sir Sidney Lee, eds.Dictionary of National Biography. Vols. I–LX. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2004.

  Symonds, Craig L.A Battlefield Atlas of the American Revolution. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation Publishing, 1986.

  Diaries, Journals, and Memoirs

  Adlum, John.Memoirs of the Life of John Adlum in the Revolutionary War. Edited by Howard H. Peckham. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1968.

  Amory, Thomas C. “Memoir of General Sullivan.”Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. II. Philadelphia: Published for the Society, 1878.

  Anderson, Enoch.Personal Recollections of Captain Enoch Anderson. Vol XVI of thePapers of the Historical Society of Delaware. Wilmington: Historical Society of Delaware, 1896.

  Baldwin, Jeduthan.The Revolutionary Journal of Col. Jeduthan Baldwin, 1775–1778. Edited by Thomas Williams Baldwin. Bangor, Maine: Printed for the DeBurians, 1906.

  Bangs, Isaac.Journal of Lieutenant Isaac Bangs: April 1, 1776–July 29, 1776. Edited by Edward Bangs. Cambridge, Mass.: John Wilson & Son, 1890.

  Barker, John.The British in Boston: The Diary of Lieutenant John Barker. Edited by Elizabeth Ellery Dana. New York: Arno Press, 1969.

  Bixby, Samuel. “Diary of Samuel Bixby, August 3–12, 1775.”Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Vol. XIV (1875–1876).

  Black, Jeannette D., and William Greene Roelker, eds.A Rhode Island Chaplain in the Revolution: Letters of Ebenezer David to Nicholas Brown, 1775–1778. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Mich.

  Boyle, Joseph Lee, ed.From Redcoat to Rebel: The Thomas Sullivan Journal. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1997.

  Bradford, S. Sidney, ed. “A British Officer’s Revolutionary War Journal, 1776–1778.”Maryland History Magazine, Vol. LVI (June 1961).

  Bray, Robert, and Paul Bushnell, eds.Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution: 1775–1783. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1978.

  Burgoyne, Bruce E.An Anonymous Hessian Diary, Probably the Diary of Lieutenant Johann Heinrich von Bardeleben of the Hesse-Cassel von Donop Regiment. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1998.

  ———, ed.Defeat, Disaster, and Dedication: The Diaries of the Hessian Officers Jakob Piel and Andreas Wiederhold. Translated from manuscripts in the New York Public Library. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, Inc., 1997.

  Campbell, Lachlan. “British Journ
al from Aboard Ship in Boston Commencing January 1776 and Then Moving to New York.” New-York Historical Society.

  Carter, Lt. William.A Genuine Detail of the Several Engagements, Positions, and Movements of Royal and American Armies During the Years 1775 and 1776. London: Printed for the Author, 1784.

  Chastellux, Marquis de.Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782. Vols. I–II. Edited by Howard C. Rice. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1963.

  Cheever, William. “William Cheever’s Diary, 1775–1776.”Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Vol. LX (October 1926–June 1927).

  Clinton, Sir Henry.The American Rebellion: Sir Henry Clinton’s Narrative of His Campaigns, 1775–1782. Edited by William B. Willcox. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1954.

  Cresswell, Nicholas.The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774–1777. New York: Dial Press, 1924.

  Curwen, Samuel.The Journal of Samuel Curwen, Loyalist. Vols. I–II. Edited by Andrew Oliver. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972.

  “Diary of Reverend Benjamin Boardman” (July 31, 1775–Nov. 12, 1775).Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 2nd series. Vol. VII (1891–1892).

  “Diary of Obadiah Brown.”Quarterly Bulletin of the Westchester County Historical Society. Nos. 4–5 (1928–1929).

  Diary of Reverend Samuel Cooper. Massachusetts Historical Society.

  Diary of John Kettel. Massachusetts Historical Society.

  Diary of Loyalist Thomas Moffatt. Peter Force Papers. Library of Congress.

  “Diary of Nathan Sellers, 1776.” American Philosophical Society.

  “A Diary of Trifling Occurrences: Sarah Fisher Logan.”Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. LXXXII (1958).

  “Diary of Ebenezer Wild.”Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 2nd series. Vol. VI (1891).

  Duane, William, ed.Diary of Christopher Marshall, 1774–1781. Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell, 1877.

  Emerson, William.Diaries and Letters of William Emerson, 1743–1776. Edited by Amelia Forbes Emerson. Boston: Thomas Todd, 1972.

  Ewald, Captain Johann.Diary of the American War: A Hessian Journal. Edited by Joseph P. Tustin. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979.

  Fitch, Jabez. “Boston Siege Diary of Jabez Fitch.”Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 2nd series. Vol IX (1894–1895).

  ———.The New York Diary of Lieutenant Jabez Fitch of the 17th (Connecticut) Regiment from August 2, 1776, to December 15, 1777. Edited by W. H. W. Sabine. New York: Colburn & Tegg, 1954.

  Fithian, Philip Vickers.Philip Vickers Fithian: Journal, 1775–1776, Written on the Virginia-Pennsylvania Frontier and in the Army Around New York. Edited by Robert Greenhalgh Albion and Leonidas Dodson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1934.

  Graydon, Alexander.Memoirs of His Own Time: With Reminiscences of the Men and Events of the Revolution. Edited by John Stockton Littell. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1846.

  Greenwood, John.The Revolutionary Services of John Greenwood of Boston and New York, 1775–1783. Edited by Isaac J. Greenwood. New York: De Vinne Press 1922.

  Gruber, Ira D., ed.John Peeble’s American War: The Diary of a Scottish Grenadier, 1776–1782. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1998.

  Hanson, Robert Brand, ed.The Diary of Dr. Nathaniel Ames of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1758–1822. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1998.

  Heath, Major General William.Heath’s Memoirs of the American War. Edited by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. New York: A. Wessels Co., 1904.

  Hutchinson, Thomas.The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson Esq. Edited by Peter Orlando Hutchinson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884.

  Inman, George. “George Inman’s Narrative of the American Revolution.”Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. VII (1883).

  “Journal of Samuel Correy, New Jersey Militia.” Clements Library.

  “A Journal Kept by John Leach, During His Confinement by the British, in Boston ‘Gaol’ in 1775.”New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vol. XIX (1865).

  “Journal of Ensign Nathaniel Morgan, April 21 to December 11, 1775.”Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society. Vol. VII (1889).

  “Journal of Nathaniel Ober.” Massachusetts Historical Society.

  “Journal of Lieutenant Williams.” New-York Historical Society.

  “Journal of Captain James Wood, Third British Battalion, Royal Artillery, 1775.” New-York Historical Society.

  “Journal of Sergeant William Young.”Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. VIII (1884).

  Kemble, Stephen.Journals of Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Kemble, 1773–1789, and British Army Orders: General Sir William Howe, 1775–1778; General Sir Henry Clinton, 1778; and General Daniel Jones, 1778. Boston: Gregg Press, 1972.

  Kipping, Ernst, ed.At General Howe’s Side, 1776–1778: The Diary of General William Howe’s Aide de Camp, Captain Friedrich von Muenchhausen. Monmouth Beach, N.J.: Philip Freneau Press, 1974.

  Knox, Henry. “Knox’s Diary During His Ticonderoga Expedition.”New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vol. XXX (1876).

  Leggett, Abraham.The Narrative of Major Abraham Leggett. New York: Arno Press, 1971.

  Lender, Mark E., and James Kirby Martin, eds.Citizen Soldier: The Revolutionary War Journal of Joseph Bloomfield. Newark: New Jersey Historical Society, 1982.

  Lyman, Simeon.Journal of Simeon Lyman of Sharon, August 10 to December 28, 1775. Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society. Vol. VII (1899).

  Lynn, Mary C., ed.An Eyewitness Account of the American Revolution and New England Life: The Journal of J. F. Wasmus, German Company Surgeon, 1776–1783. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

  Martin, Joseph Plumb.A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some of the Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001.

  McKenzie, Frederick.Diary of Frederick Mackenzie. Vol. I. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1930.

  Montresor, John.“Journals of Captain John Montresor.” Edited by G. D. Scull. Collections of the New-York Historical Society, 1881.

  Morris, Margaret.Private Journal Kept During the Revolutionary War. New York: Arno Press, 1969.

  Murray, James.Letters from America, 1773 to 1780: Being the Letters of a Scots Officer, Sir James Murray. Edited by Eric Robson. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1874.

  Nash, Solomon.Journal of Solomon Nash, a Soldier of the Revolution, 1776–1777. Edited by Charles I. Bushnell. New York: Privately printed, 1861.

  “The Papers of General Samuel Smith.”Historical Magazine. 2nd series. Vol. VII (February 1870).

  Rau, Louise, ed. “Sergeant John Smith’s Diary of 1776.”Mississippi Valley Historical Review. Vol. XX (1933–1934).

  Rawdon, Reginald Lord.Report on the Manuscripts of the Late Reginald Rawdon Hastings. 4 vols. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1930–1947.

  “Recollections of Incidents of the Revolution: General Jeremiah Johnson.”Journal of Long Island History. Vol. XII, No. 2 (Spring 1976).

  Robertson, Archibald.Archibald Robertson: His Diaries and Sketches in America, 1762–1780. Edited by Harry Miller Lydenberg. New York: New York Public Library, 1930.

  Rowe, John.Letters and Diary of John Rowe, Boston Merchant, 1759–1762, 1764–1779. Edited by Anne Rowe Cunningham. Boston: W. B. Clarke Co., 1903.

  Sargent, Winthrop, ed. “Letters of John Andrews, Esq. of Boston: 1772–1776.” Cambridge, Eng.: Press of J. Wilson & Sons, 1866.

  Scull, G. D., ed.Memoir and Letters of Captain W. Glanville Evelyn, 1747–1776. Oxford, Eng.: James Parker & Co., 1879.

  Serle, Ambrose.The American Journal of Ambrose Serle, Secretary to Lord Howe, 1776–1778. Edited by Edward H. Tatum, Jr. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1940.

  Sleeper, Moses.Diary of a Soldier, June 1775–September 1776. Longfellow House National Historic Site, Cambridge, Mass.

  Stable
r, Lois K., ed.Very Poor and of a Lo Make: The Journal of Abner Sanger. Portsmouth, N.H.: Historical Society of Cheshire County, 1986.

  Stark, John.Memoir and Official Correspondence of General John Stark. Edited by Caleb Stark. Boston: Gregg Press, 1972.

  Stiles, Ezra.The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: President of Yale College. Edited by Franklin Bowditch Dexter. Vols. I–II. New York: Scribner, 1901.

  Tallmadge, Benjamin.Memoir of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge. New York: Arno Press, 1968.