REVOLUTION IN THE MID-HUDSON: SELECTED SOURCES FOR TEACHERS
This guide was created to help teachers bring primary source based stories of the Mid-Hudson region in the Revolutionary War into the classroom. The counties covered are: Orange, Ulster, Sullivan, and Dutchess.
Regional Web Resources & Organizations
- All of the counties this guide covers are within the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area.
- The region is also served by the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College:
- Hudson River Valley Heritage Digital Collection (hrvh.org) Has many early scanned documents. Currently (Nov. 2018) being migrated to a new platform, but a selection of early documents can be viewed at this link (date limited to 1776):
- New York in the Revolution as Colony and State (do search for your county/town in the "search inside" tool):
- George Washington's Hudson Valley History (six sites in the Mid-Hudson;see also archived webpage, file below)
Brief Overviews & Background: The Mid Hudson in the Revolution
- The American Revolution in the Hudson Valley
- Old Town Cemetery, Newburgh - Revolutionary Biographies (men from different towns in the region).
- Articles & Essays from the Hudson River Valley Institute
- Map of Revolutionary War sites along the Hudson (Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area)
- Mid-Hudson Extracts from Landmarks of the Revolution in New York State (see file below)
- Treason During the American RevolutionOnline exhibit & curriculum materials from the New York State archives, primarily about the Benedict Arnold treason.
New York State (General) Primary Documents - Broadsides
- Raising the New York roops: Enlistment Broadside including supplies to be issued, 1776
- Instructions to Recruiters for New York, 1776
- Purchasing Agents for the State of New York (including Mid-Hudson), 1776
- General Putnam's Declaration Regarding a Moratorium on Prosecuting Deserters (Proclamation), 1777
- Offer of Pardon, New York State, 1777
- Trial by Martial Law for all those accused of Treason, 1777
- Governor Clinton's Declaration of the Cessation of Hostilities (Proclamation), 1783
- Published list of Americans taken at Fts. Montgomery and Clinton:
Everyday LIfe, Folk Culture & Foodways (specific to Mid Hudson)
- Everyday Life
- Under Old Rooftrees by Eliza Hornby (compendium of well recorded lifestyle stories, recorded in mid to late 1800s)
- Google Books (original edition): https://archive.org/details/cu31924022250470/page/n11
- Subject index to the original edition, and an annotated edition:
- Gomez Mill House (Foodways of the Colonial Sephardic Jews in the Mid Hudson)
- Around the Table: Early Cooking in the Hudson Valley
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