Miscellanies by an officer Colonel Arent Schuyler De Peyster, B.A., 1774-1813, part I ... ; edited by J. Watts de Peyster, Brev ; Maj. Gen., S.N.Y. 1888

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Peyster, Arent Schuyler, 1736-1822.

Contributor:

De Peyster, J. Watts (John Watts), 1821-1907.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century.

English poetry.

Indians of North America--Northwest, Old.

Indians of North America.

De Peyster genealogy (Johannes De Peyster, fl. 1633-1677).

Watts genealogy (Robert Watts, 1678?-1750).

Mackinac--History.

Mackinac.

Physical Description:

80 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York : A.E. Chasmer, 1888]

Notes:

Reprint, with extensive additions by the editor, of a volume of poems by A. S. De Peyster, first published, Dumfries, Scotland, 1813. Several of the poems relate to the author's experiences as commandant of the British post at Mackinac Island, Michigan.

With an appendix, explanatory notes, &c.

Original letters of Col. De Peyster, Brig. Gen. Sir John Johnson, bart.; Col. Guy Johnson, and others from 1776 to 1813, never before published. Also discovery of the De Peyster islands in the Pacific Ocean; part II. Biographical sketches and historical memoirs, especially public and military, of the De Peyster, Watts, and affiliated families, since their settlement in the present United States, by J. Watts De Peyster.

Cover title.

Local Notes:

Part 2 has imprint: New York, C.H. Ludwig.

Frederic R. Kirkland collection.

Inscribed by the editor.