An essay written by Fort Plank Historian, Ken D. Johnson identifying the proper relationships of the first two generations of the Klock Family in the Palatine District of Albany County, New York.
On August 10, 1782, Jacob C. Klock, Jacob J. Klock, and Jacob House surrendered themselves to Rebel authorities. As a result, depositions were taken from each and are presented here verbatim in their entirety.
Transcripts of Military Correspondence generated by Colonel William Malcom while commanding the Northern War Department, including Tryon County, in the summer & of 1780. The original letters are found within The New-York Historical Society Collections in New York, New York; and, within the Public Papers of Governor George Clinton Papers (6:156, 6:285, and 8:153).
Documents Relating to the Battle of Oriskany and the Siege of Fort Stanwix. Second Edition. Compiled by Mr. Joseph S. Robertaccio of Utica, New York and presented here at his request. This is an excellent compendium of documents relating to these two historical events. It should be of great value to anyone studying the Battle or the Siege. A
supplemental to Mister Robertaccio work is also available.
A collection of eyewitness' statements on the Battle of Oriskany fought on August 6, 1777, taken from Revolutionary War Pension Applications by Fort Plank Historian Ken D. Johnson. Many of these accounts are not yet listed in the document above.
A list of persons banished from living within the State of New York on October 22, 1779 found within the DePeyster-Delane Papers (Manuscript Collection #10919, Folder 2 [Item 2]) in the New York State Library in Albany, New York.
An essay written by Fort Plank Historian Ken D. Johnson questioning the identities of Fort Plank Defenders: John Plank, John Plants, & John Plane of Captain Johan Jost House's Company of the Canajoharie District Regiment of Tryon County Militia. The essay also presents a hypothesis as to how Fort Plank became known as Fort Plain in the late summer of 1780.
The Quit-Rent Relief Acts of 1786 & 1787 from the published Laws of the State of New York. An article explaining the importance of these acts can be found here. The earliest known Certificate of Quit Rent Remission. The certificate is found in Collection A1228 of the New York state Archives and is in an extremely fragile condition. The document displays the autograph letter signatures of Judge Jelles Fonda of Montgomery County Court as well as those of the owners of the Conrad Countryman Patent.
A History of the Reformed German Church at Canajoharie, the mother congregation of the modern Dutch Reformed Church of Fort Plain, prepared by Fort Plank Historian Ken D. Johnson. An abstract of the ownership of the land upon which the Church stood prepared by Ken D. Johnson is also available here.
Alexander Thompson's "Journal of a Trip from the American Garrison . . . to Oswago . . . 1783". This journal is located in the Library of the Society of Cincinnati in Washington, D.C. and is provided to the author through their generosity.
The Personal Journal of Mister Lawrence Tremper was found in the collections of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. (Shelf #21,849) and microfilmed upon the request of the Fort Plank Historian. It is transcribed verbatim with a few notations added in [brackets] to warn the reader of changes. It should also be noted that there is no bolded text or footnotes within the journal. The endnotes and bolded text have been added to clue the reader into the presence of a person of interest. The footnotes contain the full names of those otherwise denoted only by their initials. Mister Tremper died in Stanton Township, Augusta County, Virginia sometime after 1818. He was first appointed an ensign in Lieutenant Colonel Marinus Willett's Regiment on July 24, 1782 and reappointed on March 21, 1783. The journal contains the names of many of his fellow officers, acquaintances, & "girlfriends", and is remarkable for its details on the life of a young man on the then western frontier. Verbatim transcipts of selected portions of the loose papers found within this manuscript collection, denoted by italicized text and select abstracts from can also be viewed here.
Lieutenant Colonel Marinus Willett’s personal draft correspondence on his 1782 Expedition against Fort Ontario. These letters are in extremely poor condition and were digitalized in 2009 at the request of Fort Plank Historian Ken D. Johnson. Many of these draft letters appear in their edited form in the George Washington Papers of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. They make up the bulk of Folder One Box One of the Willett Family Papers (Manuscript Collection #SC16670) in the New York State Library Manuscripts Division. A May 8, 1779 sketch of The Works at Oswego drawn by Captain Dieterick Brehm is found in the Sir Frederick Haldimand Papers (Add Mss 21760:209)in the British Library of London, England is here to give the reader an aspect of the fortress Willett was to attack. Note well: The fortress represented is Fort Ontario which lies directly across the Oswego River from the westernmost point of Colonial Tryon County.
A collection of eyewitness' statements concerning the death of Captain Solomon Woodworth on the West Canada Creek in September of 1781, taken from Colonial Era documents and Revolutionary War Pension Applications.
