New York Colonial Muster Rolls Two Volumes New

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New York Colonial Muster Rolls, 1664-1775
Report of the State Historian of the State of New York. Reprinted  in Two Volumes
New York State Historian
Two volumes  totaling
1294
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Originally published as appendices, or supplements, to the
Annual      Report of the State Historian of the State of New York
for      the years 1897 and 1898, these two volumes contain transcriptions of all      colonial muster rolls on deposit in the state capital at Albany for the      years 1664 to 1775. Incorporating a variety of records, including pay rolls,      size rolls, petitions, minutes of meetings and official proceedings,      journals, correspondence, and various field reports, this offical record of      New York's colonial militia covers the period concerning the capture of New      Netherlands from the Dutch (1664), the recapture of New York by the Dutch      (1673), the restoration of New York to the English (1674), the unsuccessful      expeditions against Canada (1689-1690 and 1709-1711), the French and Indian      War, including the Battle of Lake George in 1755, and the outbreak of the      War of the Revolution in 1775, listing all militia companies raised to quell      mutinies, insurrections, and uprisings, or to do battle with the French and      Indians and to protect New York's borders--usually from French and Iroquois      incursions or threatened hostilities from Connecticut.
Chiefly of interest to information-starved New York      researchers and to others whose roots reach back to colonial New York, this      work identifies approximately 30,000 men who served in the various militia      companies during the period before the Revolution, including privateers and      free-lancers such as Captain William Kidd. Arranged chronologically, and      then more or less by county, city, town, and manor, and thereunder by      militia company--each headed by a captain--the muster rolls are both spare      and full, spare during the early years and comparatively rich in later      years. At a minimum, each militiaman is noted in connection with his date of      enlistment, his company and company commander, his rank, and his place of      residence. But more often than not, information provided in the muster rolls      includes such important items as place of birth, age, occupation, height,      and physical description. Altogether this is an extraordinary body of      information, little known until now, but of immeasurable value to anyone      undertaking early New York genealogical research. In fact, it is one of the      last great New York resources to be reprinted, though ironically it may      prove to be a starting point in research.
Published originally as Appendix "H" of the
Second Annual Report of the State Historian of the State of New York
(1897)      and Appendix "M" of the
Third Annual Report
(1898), all names mentioned in the two volumes are indexed together at the end of      Appendix "M".
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