The Knox Trail - Bibliography
Compiled by Dr. Joseph Meany, Acting State Historian - 9/15/2000
Primary Sources: Manuscript
Henry Knox Diary, 20 Nov. 1775 - 13 Jan. 1776. Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
Knox Papers, 1719-1825. Correspondence, 20 Sept. 1775 - 4 Feb. 1776
Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, Morgan Library, NYC
Primary Sources: Printed
Becker, John P., The Sexagenary: Reminiscences of the American Revolution (Albany, NY: W.C. Little and O. Steele, 1883). Note earlier (1866) and possibly fuller edition from contributed papers published in the Albany Gazette, 1831-1833. Becker, age 12, accompanied his father on Knox's Winter Expedition. Typescript in Knox trail File.
Bowne, William L., Ye Cohorn Caravan: The Knox Expedition in the Winter of 1775-1776 (Schuylerville, NY: NaPaul Publishers, Inc., 1975). Reprints excepts from Knox Diary and Correspondence with commentary and argues for a suggested route.
Drake, Francis S., Life and Correspondence of Henry Knox, Major General in the American Revolutionary Army (Boston, MA: Samuel G. Drake, 1873). Old and Incomplete.
Primary Sources: Cartographic
Anon., "The Seat of War in New England by an American Volunteer with the marches of the several corps sent by the Colonies towards Boston," London, Sept. 2, 1775.
Anon., "Carte de Theatre de la Guerre Entre les Anglais et les Americans," Paris, 1777.
Becker, Howard I., "Maps of the Lower Mohawk."
Colles, Christopher, Survey of the Roads of the United States of America, 1789 (Walter W. Rostow, ed.; Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961).
Jeffrey's American Atlas of 1775, Map 16.
Miller, Francis, "A Plan of the Roads Between Boston and Albany Surveyed by Order of the Governor, in Pursuance of a Resolution of the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay, by Fras: Miller, 1765."
Paine, Robert Treat, Manuscript Map of 1755. [Crown Collection of American Maps ??]
Sauthier, Claude Joseph, "Chorographical Map of the Province of New York in North America, divided into counties, manors, patents and townships, Exhibiting likewise all the private Grants of Land made and located in that Province, Compiled from Actual Surveys deposited in the Patent office in New York, By Order of His Excellency Major General William Tryon by Claude Joseph Sauthier, Esqr." London: William Fadden, 1779, based on surveys conducted in 1771-1774.
Secondary Sources; Unpublished
Carter, Michael Darryl, "Nationbuilding and the Military: The Life and Career of Secretary of War Henry Knox, 1750-1806," Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Department of History, West Virginia University, 1997.
DuPont, John C., "Knox's Noble Train of 1776," 30 page unpublished typescript dated 31 December 1971. Knox Trail File, New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission Papers, New York State Archives.
Flick, Alexander C., State Historian of New York, to the Advisory Board on Battlefields and Historic Sites: Report of "the sub-committee, appointed on June 16, 1926, to investigate and report on marking the Trail over which General Henry Knox conducted the artillery train and supplies from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in the winter of 1775-1776." September 28, 1926, with accompanying timeline. Knox Trail File, Division of Museum Services, New York State Museum.
Secondary Sources: Articles
Callahan, North, "Henry Knox: American Artillerist," George Washington's Generals, George Athan Billias, ed.; New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, 1964), pp. 239-259. Derivative from Callahan's biography, Henry Knox: George Washington's General. See below.
Fiore, Jordan D., "Colonel Henry Knox's New Year's Gift to General Washington (1776)," The Noble train of Artillery, 200 Years Ago and Today (Boston, MA: Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission, March 1976).
Flick, Alexander C., "General Henry Knox's Ticonderoga Expedition," New York State Historical Association, Quarterly Journal (1928), 119-135. In 1928, Flick as State Historian of New York, chaired a subcommittee of the Advisory Board of Battlefields and Historic Sites [possibly an affiliate of the Conservation Department] to identify locations for the thirty (30) Knox Trail markers. See Flick report above.
Fuess, Claude M., " Knox, Henry," Dictionary of American Biography (Dumas Malone ed.; 20 vols.; New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933), Vol. X, pp. 475-477.
Haas, Robert C., "But now, Please God, they must go," Adirondack Life, Winter 1975, 57-60
McAfee, Michael L., "Artillery of the American Revolution, 1775-1783." (Washington, DC; American Defense Preparedness Association, 1974).
Perry, Clay, "Big Guns for Washington," American Heritage, April 1955, 12-15, 102. Derivative from Knox trail locations supplied by Albert C. Cory, State Historian of New York. See Knox Trail File, State Historian's Office, New York State Museum, Perry Correspondence, 7 Feb. 1952 - 4 Oct. 1954.
Roach, George W., "Colonial Highways in the Upper Hudson Valley," New York History (April 1959), 93-116.
Schruth, Susan E., "The Knox Trail Reenactment, 1976," The Noble Train of Artillery, 200 Years ago and Today, (Boston, MA: Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bicentennial Commission, March 1976).
Secondary Sources: Books
Brooks, Noah, Henry Knox: A Soldier of the Revolution (New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900). Out of date.
Callahan, North, Henry Knox: George Washington's General (New York, NY: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1958). From his unpublished doctoral dissertation, Department of history, New York University, 1954 [?].
Holbrook, Stewart Hall, The Story of the Boston Post Road (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1962).
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