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Miscellanies, by an officer : (Colonel Arent Schuyler De Peyster, B. A.), 1774-1813, part I. With an appendix, explanatory notes, &c., &c., &c. Original letters of Col. De Peyster, Brig. Gen. Sir John Johnson, bart: Col. Guy Johnson, and others from 1776 to 1813, never before published. Also discovery of De Peyster Islands in the Pacific Ocean; part II. Biographical sketches and historical memoirs, especially public and military, of the De Peyster, Watts, and affiliated families, since their settlement in the present United States
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