The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental - LightNovelsOnl.com
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[The following Journals were once in existence, but diligent inquiry has failed to bring them to light:]
XXIV.--DEAN, JUDGE JAMES, the well known interpreter, and first Judge of Herkimer County, N.Y.
XXV.--PIERCE, WILLIAM, Captain in Colonel Harrison's Regiment of artillery, First A.D.C. to General Sullivan.
XXVI.--HOOPS, ADAM, Major, Third A.D.C. to General Sullivan. "The facts concerning Van Campen and Boyd are taken from a part of a copy of _my journal_ which had been copied from that of Major William Pierce."--Letter Sept. 18, 1841, p. 180 Sullivan's Campaign.
XXVII.--PRINCE, KIMBALL, Sergeant Major in the Artillery. His diary was in possession of his son Frederick Prince as late as 1822, but was then stolen from a trunk during the ravages of the yellow fever in New York City.
XXVIII.--NEWMAN ---- Referred to in Miner's History of Wyoming.
Supposed to have been destroyed by fire in the office of the Record of the Times at Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 9, 1869.
[The following narratives have been written by parties actively engaged in the campaign. Some are valuable, others are untrustworthy, and well calculated to mislead:]
XXIX.--DAVIS, NATHAN. Private in the First New Hamps.h.i.+re Regiment.
Published in the Historical Magazine, April, 1868, p. 198.
x.x.x.--GANO, REV. JOHN, Chaplain in Clinton's Brigade. Published in the Historical Magazine, November, 1861, p. 330.
x.x.xI.--SALMON, JOHN. Published in Seaver's Life of Mary Jemison.
x.x.xII.--VAN CAMPEN, MOSES. Appears in a memorial to Congress for a pension.
x.x.xIII.--VAN CORTLANDT, PHILIP, Colonel commanding Second New York Regiment. Autobiography written in 1825. Published in full in Magazine of American History, May, 1878.
x.x.xIV.--MAXWELL, Major. Published in Vol. VII of the Historical Collections of the Ess.e.x Inst.i.tute, p. 97.
x.x.xV.--LODGE, CAPT. BENJAMIN was in charge of a party that accompanied the army from Easton, and with compa.s.s and chain surveyed the entire route to the Genesee river. On the return march, commencing at Kanadaseaga, the party accompanied Colonel Butler and made a like survey along the east side of Cayuga Lake, connecting with the main line near present Horseheads. But one section of the map has been found, and that was among the papers of Captain Machin, an artillery officer. The original is now in the hands of J.R. Symms, Esq., of Fort Plain, N.Y. Several parties have photographic copies. This section extends north of Tioga Point and west as far as Kanadaseaga.
In addition to the preceding, is the correspondence and instructions of General Was.h.i.+ngton; General Sullivan's Official Reports; many valuable letters from General James Clinton; and undoubtedly many journals will be added to those already known, now that the attention of the public has been directed to the revolutionary period, and especially to the Campaign of 1779.
