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The British and Provincial Conquest of Cuba: Colonial

We have much pleasure in recognizing the success of the New York Branch of the Society of Colonial Wars in collecting and making available the scanty but precious material. There are abundant documents comparatively of the revolutionary times, but the presentation of such papers as exist relating to military matters for the colonial period, while intelligently attempted, was rather due to fortunate accidents than to systematic effort. The report of the Committee on Historical Documents of the Society of Colonial Wars on the part the colonies took in the expeditions against the Spanish, 1740-1742, published in the Society's Year Book of 1894, and addressed to the general court of the Society of Colonial Wars in the state of New York, is valuable for showing the steadiness with which the colonies were relied upon to aid the English in establishing themselves in the West Indies. The report on historical documents opens with the statement that there was an effort made to prepare a muster-roll of the colonial troops, but "after a good deal of investigation into the public records of the several states of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, and after communicating with a number of officials and gentlemen of learning in these states, your committee is unable to prepare a complete muster-roll."