Annals of Tryon County; or, The Border Warfare of New-York, During the Revolution

xx, 257 pp. Reissue of Sabin 10275. Howes C-103. New introduction for this edition by Douglas Campbell. Fold-out map of Tryon County and surrounding territory precedes text. Includes a chapter on the Sullivan Expedition. An account of raids on New York's borders by Tories and Native Americans goaded by the British during the Revolutionary War. Published eighteen years after the 1831 original, with additional content included. The author states in his dedication that "The original text will be left as it was, and these articles, even at the expense of some repetition, will be inserted in the Appendix. Such is the 'Memoir of General James Clinton,' read before the New York Historical Society in 1837; also, the article on the 'Direct agency of the British Government in the employment of the Indians in the Revolutionary war,' read before the same Society in 1845, and the 'Centennial Address,' delivered at my native town of Cherry Valley, in 1840. Sabin 10275: "Includes a letter to John Brant from Thomas Campbell, in regard to the mention of Brant's father in Gertrude of Wyoming."