List of Illustrations Foreword by Thomas S. Wermuth Preface by Barnabas McHenry, Esq. Acknowledgments Introduction by James M. Johnson 1. The American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley-An Overview Thomas S. Wermuth and James M. Johnson Part I. Politics and Loyalties 2. A Suspected Loyalist in the Rural Hudson Valley: The Revolutionary War Experience of Roeloff Josiah Eltinge Kenneth Shefsiek 3. "Can you on such principles think of quitting a Country?" Family, Faith, Law, Property, and the Loyalists of the Hudson Valley during the American Revolution Michael Diaz 4. New York's Committees in the American Revolution Colin Williams 5. Robert R. Livingston, Jr.: The Reluctant Revolutionary Clare Brandt 6. Skinners: Patriot "Friends" or Loyalist "Foes"? Lincoln Diamant 7. The Central Hudson Valley and the American Revolution Thomas S. Wermuth Part II. Suffrage and Society 8. Open to All Parties: Alexander and James Robertson, Albany Printers, 1771-1777 Denis P. Brennan 9. Taxation and Suffrage in Revolutionary New York Jonathan Clark 10. The Right to Choose: Suffrage During the Revolutionary Era in Charlotte Precinct William P. McDermott 11. "The women! in this place have risen in a mob": Women Rioters and the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley Thomas S. Wermuth 12. Three Officers and a Lady: The Hudson Highlands and Georgia During the Revolution Edward J. Cashin Part III. Fortresses, Prisons, and Huts 13. Lewis Graham's House in Pine Plains: A Revolutionary Log Building Neil Larson 14. Revolutionary War Fleet Prison at Esopus, NY Frank Doherty 15. The Flawed Works of Fort Constitution James M. Johnson Part IV. Battles and Warfare 16. A Warm Reception in the Hudson Highlands James M. Johnson 17. Civil War in Schaghticoke: A Footnote to the Revolution in Upstate New York R. Beth Kloptt 18. Interpreting the Battle for the Hudson River Valley: The Battle of Fort Montgomery James M. Johnson and Gregory Smith 19. Revolutionary Road: Incident on Gallows Hill Thomas C. O'Keefe 20. Soldier of '76: The Revolutionary War Service of a Connecticut Private in the Campaign for New York William Sullivan 21. Valcour Island: Setting the Conditions for Victory at Saratoga Gregory M. Tomlin Contributors Index
James M. Johnson is Executive Director of the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College, Military Historian of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, and Dr. Frank T. Bumpus Professor of Hudson River Valley History. He is also coeditor (with Christopher Pryslopski and Thomas S. Wermuth) of America's First River: The History and Culture of the Hudson River Valley, also published by SUNY Press. At the Hudson River Valley Institute, Christopher Pryslopski is Program Director. At the Hudson River Valley Institute, Andrew Villani is Coordinator.
"The quality of the book speaks to the various editors and authors involved in creating a text which is of the highest academic level of history writing, yet is at the same time easily accessible to a general audience. In short, this collection is a work that is a valuable addition to any classroom as well as to any home in the Hudson Valley and beyond." - About Town "...a rich compilation ... This is a veritable treasure trove of Revolutionary War trivia." - Kaatskill Life
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