Annals Of Tryon County; Or, The Border Warfare Of New-York, During The Revolution. By Willam W. Campbell … New-York: Printed And Published By J. & J. Harper, No. 82 Cliff-Street. And Sold By The Principal Booksellers Throughout The United States. 1831, and dated 1831 on the copyright page, which makes this a first edition (a single date on the title and copyright pages, and the dates match). With blank endpapers and “From the Mrs. Hulla J. Mercer collection” on the front free endpaper and “P R Johnson Ganesville [or Jonesville] 1832” inscribed on the next front free endpaper, with the fold-out frontis map of “A Sketch of the Siege of Fort Schuyler Presented to Col. Gansevoort by L. Flury” that is often missing, a two-page Preface after the title page, two pages of Contents, a seven-page Introduction, 191 pages of text, a 66-page appendix, followed by twelve pages of Notes, and a fold-out copy of a letter from 1777 written by Joseph Brant and inserted between pages 26 and 27 of the Appendix. The book provides the history of Tryon County, New York and the border wars that occurred there during the American Revolution; the county was named after the last provincial governor of New York and comprised the land from the Mohawk River to the Canadian border - i.e., it comprised all the Mohawk Valley and Iroquois country from a point about ten miles west of Schenectady and contained all the colonial settlements west and southwest of that village. Sir William Johnson dominated the affairs of the county until his death in 1774, when Guy Johnson became the leader of the Loyalist element; the latter group was driven into exile and returned to ravage the Mohawk Valley; the region, in fact, was subject to violent civil war between Patriot and Loyalist forces throughout much of the Revolution, with occasional incursions by Indians, British, and Continental troops. After the Revolutionary War, it was renamed Montgomery County. The book is 8vo. and measures 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. wide, with wear on the spine and the boards, and foxing throughout. The binding is tight, and the book has the important original fold-out map in front and the facsimile of the Joseph Brant letter. #51 #1711