Bixby Library’s Bredenberg Collection Access by Binder Title
Compiled by Oscar Bredenberg, an amateur but significant historian who worked mostly in the 1950s and ’60s, and given to Bixby by his son, this collection consists of more than 60 loose-leaf notebooks containing manuscripts and reference materials pertaining to the Champlain Valley during the Revolutionary War. Included is a compilation of documentary materials into a day-by-day account of the war in the Champlain Valley. These are a researcher’s personal notes, compilations, and annotations, organized by chronology of the subject. Several original manuscripts are included based on the research notes.
The Brendenberg Collection was recently referenced in an article in the Journal of the American Revolution published by local historian C.E. Pippenger.
There is a card that deciphers Bredenberg’s record code (pdf and transcript).
There is a card index in the library that has not been digitized. Bixby owns the only copy and access to this material could save researchers valuable time sifting through and discovering relevant original sources.
Included in this list of binders are two relating to the town of Monkton. Bredenberg shared some of his research with long-time Monkton Town Clerk Leon Bushey.
Click on the link below to view the PDF files that have been indexed by Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, so that they can be searched with text strings. Many of these files are quite large (in excess of 100 MB), so only review these with broadband access.
shelf 1:
A – CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
B – CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
C – CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
D – CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
E – CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
F – CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
G – CHAMPLAIN VALLEY
H – ROYAL SAVAGE
I – INFLEXIBLE/ROYAL SAVAGE/WASHINGTON/CONGRESS/AMER. & BRIT. VESSELS/BETSEY/JERSEY/TRUMBULL
J – MAPS
K – NOTES: 1785 TO 1814
L – REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONS & DESERTERS
M – JOURNALS: HAZEN/JESSUP/SIEGE OF QUEBEC/McLANE/SKENESBORO
N – LETTERS & CORRESPONDENCE OF BREDENBERG
O – POINT AU FER
P – XEROX – COLONIAL OFFICE RECORDS, ETC.
Q – LOYALISTS
R – ESCAPE ROUTES
S – AUDIT OFFICE
T – RAIDS OF 1778/1779/1780/1781
U – MONKTON
TOWN OF MONKTON – COMPILED BY LEON BUSHEY
# 1 – 6-1-75 TO 6-30-75
shelf 2:
# 2 – 7-1-75 TO 8-31-75
# 3 – 9-4-75 TO 12-25-75
# 4 – 1-1-76 TO 5-31-76
# 5 – X6-1-76 TO X6-30-76A
# 6 – X7-1-76 TO 8-7-76B
# 7 – 8-7-76C TO X9-30-76A
# 8 – 10-1-76 TO X12-31-76
# 9 – X1-1-77 TO X5-31-77
#10 – X6-1-77 TO X6-30-77J
#11 – 6-1-77 TO 7-1-77
#12 – X9-1-77 TO X12-30-77
#13 – X1-1-78 TO X7-15-78
#14 – 7-17-78C TO XX8-30-78
#15 – X9-1-78 TO X12-31-78
#16 – X1-1-79 TO X6-28-79
#17 – X7-1-79 TO X12-30-79
#18 – X1-1-80 TO X7-31-80
#19 – X8-1-80 TO X10-31-80B
#20 – 11-1-80 TO X12-27-80
#21 – X1-1-81 TO 5-15-81
shelf 3:
#22 – 5-16-81 TO 5-31-82
#23 – 6-1-82 TO 9-30-82
#24 – 10-1778 to 11-1778: Carleton’s Journal (copies 1 & 2)
#25 – Chazy (Copies 1 & 2)
#26 – De Miliere [French plans to conquer Canada – 1790’s (copy 3)
#27 – Guy Johnson Notes
#28 – Jessup (copy 1)
#29 – The “Liberty” including log – 1779 (copy 1)
#29 – The “Liberty” including log – 1779 (copy 2)
#30 – Lt. James Moody’s Narrative – 1776 to 1801
#31 – Loyalist Officers and Block House Tales
#32 – Otter River Saga – 1775 (copy 1)
#32 – Otter River Saga – 1775 (copy 2)
#33 – Royal Highland Regiment – 1759
#34 – Skenesboro (copy 2)
#35 – Washington County; Dr. Abbot’s Notes
#36 – Descendents of Andrew Everest
#1A – John Platt Notes; [Loyalist]
#1 – Genealogy -Averill, Platt, Joslyn, Kidder, Rogers, Chester, James Averill Jr; map of Champlain Village
#2 – Genealogy – Pritchard
#3 – Genealogy – Allen, The Camerons, The Campbells, The Wing Family
#4 – Genealogy – Odell Papers and Documents
#5 – Genealogy – Macintosh, Metcalf, Wing
Unmarked binder “-D-“