Key to the Northern Country

James M. Johnson is Executive Director of the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College, Military Historian of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area, and Dr. Frank T. Bumpus Professor of Hudson River Valley History. He is also coeditor (with Christopher Pryslopski and Thomas S. Wermuth) of America's First River: The History and Culture of the Hudson River Valley, also published by SUNY Press. At the Hudson River Valley Institute, Christopher Pryslopski is Program Director and Andrew Villani is Coordinator.

"The quality of the book speaks to the various editors and authors involved in creating a text which is of the highest academic level of history writing, yet is at the same time easily accessible to a general audience. In short, this collection is a work that is a valuable addition to any classroom as well as to any home in the Hudson Valley and beyond." — About Town"…a rich compilation … This is a veritable treasure trove of Revolutionary War trivia." — Kaatskill Life

• List of IllustrationsForeword by Thomas S. WermuthPreface by Barnabas McHenry, Esq.AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by James M. Johnson1. The American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley—An OverviewThomas S. Wermuth and James M. JohnsonPart I. Politics and Loyalties 2. A Suspected Loyalist in the Rural Hudson Valley: The Revolutionary War Experience of Roeloff Josiah EltingeKenneth Shefsiek3. "Can you on such principles think of quitting a Country?" Family, Faith, Law, Property, and the Loyalists of the Hudson Valley during the American RevolutionMichael Diaz4. New York’s Committees in the American RevolutionColin Williams5. Robert R. Livingston, Jr.: The Reluctant RevolutionaryClare Brandt6. Skinners: Patriot "Friends" or Loyalist "Foes"?Lincoln Diamant7. The Central Hudson Valley and the American RevolutionThomas S. WermuthPart II. Suffrage and Society 8. Open to All Parties: Alexander and James Robertson, Albany Printers, 1771–1777Denis P. Brennan9. Taxation and Suffrage in Revolutionary New YorkJonathan Clark10. The Right to Choose: Suffrage During the Revolutionary Era in Charlotte PrecinctWilliam P. McDermott11. "The women! in this place have risen in a mob": Women Rioters and the American Revolution in the Hudson River ValleyThomas S. Wermuth12. Three Officers and a Lady: The Hudson Highlands and Georgia During the RevolutionEdward J. CashinPart III. Fortresses, Prisons, and Huts 13. Lewis Graham’s House in Pine Plains: A Revolutionary Log BuildingNeil Larson14. Revolutionary War Fleet Prison at Esopus, NYFrank Doherty15. The Flawed Works of Fort ConstitutionJames M. JohnsonPart IV. Battles and Warfare 16. A Warm Reception in the Hudson HighlandsJames M. Johnson17. Civil War in Schaghticoke: A Footnote to the Revolution in Upstate New YorkR. Beth Kloptt18. Interpreting the Battle for the Hudson River Valley: The Battle of Fort MontgomeryJames M. Johnson and Gregory Smith19. Revolutionary Road: Incident on Gallows HillThomas C. O’Keefe20. Soldier of ’76: The Revolutionary War Service of a Connecticut Private in the Campaign for New YorkWilliam Sullivan21. Valcour Island: Setting the Conditions for Victory at SaratogaGregory M. TomlinContributorsIndex