The present work is not a history, but rather a contribution towards a history, of Queens County during the Revolution. The materials are derived from the following sources:

I. The printed Journals of the Continental and New York Provincial Congresses; and the MS. Journal, Letters and Papers of the N. Y. Provincial Congress.

II. The military papers of Col. John Sands and Major Richard Thorne, kindly loaned me by T. W. Smith and J. W. Thorne, respectively.

III. Force�s American Archives, Almon�s Remembrancer and Parliamentary Register, Gentleman�s Magazine, and the Brodhead Documents.

IV. Rivington�s Gazette, Gaine�s Mercury, Holt�s Journal, Loudon�s Packet, Hartford Courant, New Haven Journal, New London Gazette, New Jersey Gazette, Kollock�s New-York Gazetteer.

V. Spark�s Writings of Washington, Graydon�s Memoirs, Hinman�s Connecticut, Simcoe�s Journal, Gaine�s Almanac and Register, Thompson�s Long Island, Strong�s Flatbush, Dunlap�s Works, Haliburton�s Nova Scotia.

VI. Conversations with aged people of Queens County.

Many thanks are due to G. C. Schaeffer, of Columbia College Library; to Geo. H. Moore, of the Historical Rooms, New-York; to S. F. Haven, of Antiquarian Hall, Worcester; to E. C. Herrick, of Yale College Library; and to Messrs. Robbins, Brinley and Parsons, of the Connecticut Historical Society, for their courtesy in laying open the treasures of their respective libraries; and also to Gen. Johnson, B. F. Thompson, the Historian of Long Island, the Rev. John Goldsmith, Rev. J. B. Felt, Dr. E. Seely, and H. Floyd Jones, for sundry commications.

As this work is necessarily imperfect, the author would feel under obligations to anyone who will take the trouble to send him any corrections, or point ot other sources of information.

Jamaica, L.I., May 1, 1846.

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