5. Robert R. Livingston, Jr.: The Reluctant Revolutionary

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Preface xii
6. Acknowledgments xiii
7. Introduction xiv
8. 1. The American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley—An Overview 1
9. Part I. Politics and Loyalties
10. 2 A Suspected Loyalist in the Rural Hudson Valley: The Revolutionary War Experience of Roeloff Josiah Eltinge 9
11. 3. “Can you on such principles think of quitting a Country?” Family, Faith, Law, Property, and the Loyalists of the Hudson Valley during the American Revolution 27
12. 4. New York’s Committees in the American Revolution 48
13. 5. Robert R. Livingston, Jr.: The Reluctant Revolutionary 84
14. 6. Skinners: Patriot “Friends” or Loyalist “Foes”? 93
15. 7. The Central Hudson Valley and the American Revolution 102
16. Part II. Suffrage and Society
17. 8. Open to All Parties: Alexander and James Robertson, Albany Printers, 1771–1777 125
18. 9. Taxation and Suffrage in Revolutionary New York 135
19. 10. The Right to Choose: Suffrage During the Revolutionary Era in Charlotte Precinct 143
20. 11. “The women! in this place have risen in a mob”: Women Rioters and the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley 153
21. 12. Three Officers and a Lady: The Hudson Highlands and Georgia During the Revolution 159
22. Part III. Fortresses, Prisons, and Huts
23. 13. Lewis Graham’s House in Pine Plains: A Revolutionary Log Building 169
24. 14. Revolutionary War Fleet Prison at Esopus, NY 184
25. 15. The Flawed Works of Fort Constitution 200
26. Part IV. Battles and Warfare
27. 16. A Warm Reception in the Hudson Highlands 211
28. 17. Civil War in Schaghticoke: A Footnote to the Revolution in Upstate New York 218
29. 18. Interpreting the Battle for the Hudson River Valley: The Battle of Fort Montgomery 223
30. 19. Revolutionary Road: Incident on Gallows Hill 232
31. 20. Soldier of ’76: The Revolutionary War Service of a Connecticut Private in the Campaign for New York 249
32. 21. Valcour Island: Setting the Conditions for Victory at Saratoga 269
33. Contributors 285
34. Index 287