Bloodied Mohawk: Mohawk Valley Defenders of American Revolution
- Author: Ken D. Johnson
- SKU: 1942
- ISBN: 089725399X
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$79.50
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Description:
THE BLOODIED MOHAWK The American Revolution in the Words of Fort Plank's Defenders and Other Mohawk Valley Partisans. By Fort Plank Historian Ken D. Johnson. 768pp. 16,021 Every Name Index and 6,599 Place Name Index. Smythe sewn and hard cover. 2009 (2000).
"The Bloodied Mohawk" is the best book on this subject I have seen in years. Ken D. Johnson makes the participants who lived in this area during the revolution come alive again via his painstaking documentation of their lives and of the events that help shaped our nation. His work is one against which all future books on the subject will be measured, and I cannot recommend it highly enough." - Henry Z Jones, Jr., Fellow, American Society of Genealogists, Author of The Palatine Families of New York - 1710 and More Palatine Families
"... (contains) long (often complete) quotations, the full voices of the original material...depositions in the Revolutionary pension files...a real bonus...list of sources is great". - David K. Martin, FASG
"...so many neat new facts and ideas..." - Lt. Col. Gavin K. Watt of the Museum of Applied Military History, King City, Ontario
Between the years 1778 and 1782, daily attacks were carried out against the inhabitants of the Mohawk Valley. These attacks directed by the British command in Canada ultimately caused the deaths of hundreds of people.
In this book the author presents the story of the American Revolution using the words of those who defended Fort Plank and the Mohawk Valley. These graphic accounts have been taken from many sources not previously drawn upon by historians. Also included are several journals, orderly books and memoranda. Finally, a comprehensive list of all Mohawk Valley Partisans is given, detailing those individual partisans who lived or served in the Mohawk Valley before or during the American Revolution.
All researchers of this Mohawk Valley region, whether historian or genealogist, will want to have a copy of this book. The addition of a Place Name Index along with Picton Press' standard Every Name Index will make it easy for a researcher to locate specific places in the region along with the individuals themselves.
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