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Joseph McCracken: New York’s First Revolutionary Captain
On June 8, 1776, New York’s Capt. Joseph McCracken presented to the Albany Committee of Correspondence a payroll of men “employed in the taking…
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William Dickens, John Rose, and William Turnbull: Soldiers of the 2nd New York Regiment
It is often believed or reported that the 2nd New York Regiment of 1775, commanded by Col. Goose Van Schaick, morphed into the 1st…
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The Court-Martial of Captain Joel Pratt
On one Sunday morning in late April 1775, news arrived in Spencertown, New York, of the occurrences at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. This alarm…
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The Hard Service and Sufferings of James Dole
In January 1775, James Dole of Troy, New York, joined a company of minutemen commanded by James Wells. It was armed and equipped in…
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Evans & Bean of the Hampshire Grants
Immediately following the taking of Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys in early May 1775, Capt. John Visscher raised a…
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The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Ticonderoga Vendetta
Lt. Col. Anthony Walton White of the 3rd New Jersey Regiment had a very rocky 1776. His service was peppered with several episodes more…
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The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Plundering of Johnson Hall
The newly formed 3rd New Jersey Regiment, commanded by Col. Elias Dayton, was mustered into the Continental Army on May 2, 1776. It was…
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Henry Defendorff: A Very Intelligent Man
Henry Defendorff enlisted as a sergeant in Christopher P. Yates’s Tryon County company of the 2nd New York Provincial Battalion commanded by Col. Goose…
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The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Ill-Fated Patrol
In the summer of 1776, the restored Fort Stanwix (renamed as Fort Schuyler) sat on what was the western edge of civilization in present…
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The Worthy but Troubled Continental Service of Capt. Barent J. Ten Eyck
With the clash of arms that began the American Revolution, Capt. Barent J. Ten Eyck, of the Albany County Militia, served as courier for…
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The 3rd New Jersey Regiment’s Mighty Dueling Frolic
Mr. Duncan McDougall, a merchant from German Flats area of New York’s Mohawk Valley, joined Capt. Joseph Bloomfield’s company of the 3rd New Jersey…