Memoirs of the Long Island Historical Society

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Long Island Historical Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (State)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

New York (State).

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia Metropolitan Area--Description and travel..

Pennsylvania.

New York (State)--Long Island--History--Periodicals.

Local Subjects:

New York (State)--Long Island--History--Periodicals.

Physical Description:

4 v. : ill. (some col.), plates (some folded), ports., maps (some folded) ; 25 cm.

Irregular

Vol. 1-4.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, N.Y. : The Society, 1867-1889.

Contents:

v. 1. Journal of a voyage to New York and a tour in several of the American colonies in 1679-80 / by Jaspar Dankers and Peter Sluyter

v. 2. The Battle of Long Island ... / introductory narrative by Thomas W. Field

v. 3. The campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn, including a new and circumstantial account of the Battle of Long Island and the loss of New York, with a review of the events to the close of the war / by Henry P. Johnston

v. 4. George Washington and Mount Vernon : a collection of Washington's unpublished agricultural and personal letters / edited ... by Moncure Daniel Conway.

Local Notes:

Vol. 1 has penned presentation inscription of George Hannah, librarian of the Long Island Historiocal Society, and v. 3 has bookplate of George de Benneville Keim.

Contains:

Danckaerts, Jasper, b. 1639. Journal of a voyage to New York.

Field, Thomas W. (Thomas Warren), 1820-1881. Battle of Long Island.

Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923. Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn ...

Washington, George, 1732-1799. George Washington and Mount Vernon.

OCLC:

8174430