The journal of Col. Rudolphus Ritzema, first N. Y. regiment, Aug. 8, 1775, to March 30, 1776, now in the N. Y. Hist. Soc., and printed in Mag. of Amer. Hist. (Feb., 1877), i. p. 98. Under date (Montreal) of Jan. 3, 1776, he gives an account of the failure at Quebec, news of which had just reached there by Mr. Antell, an express (from N. Y. Archives in Sparks MSS., xxix.).
Journal of the Rev. Ammi Ruhamah Robbins, chaplain in the American army, in the northern campaign of 1776 (New Haven, 1850).
The Shurtleff manuscript, No. 153. Being a narrative of certain events in Canada during the invasion by the American army, in 1775, by Mrs. Thomas Walker, with notes and introd. by Silas Ketchum (Contoocook, 1876), making part no. 2 of the Collections of the N. H. Antiquarian Soc.
Some of the diaries noted under the Kennebec expedition cover the attack on Quebec. Cf. Moore's Diary of the Rev., i. 185. A letter of Samuel Ward, Philad., Jan. 21, 1776, gives the news as it reached Congress (Sparks MSS., xxv.; cf. N. H. Prov. Papers, viii. 49).
A letter of Samuel Hodgkinson, before Quebec (April 27, 1776), is in the Penna. Mag. of Hist., July, 1886, p. 158.
Wilkinson joined the army in May, 1776, and his Memoirs (i. p. 39) has accordingly a personal interest.
The Memoirs of Charles Dennis Rusoe d'Eres, a native of Canada (Exeter, 1800), begins with the attack on Quebec.
More or less of reference to original sources is made in the lives of Washington by Marshall (i. 329) and Irving (ii. ch. 4, 5, 8, 12, 13, 15, 20, 22, 23); Lossing's Schuyler (i. ch. 28, 29); Leake's Lamb (ch. 7 and 8); Read's Geo. Read (i. 141); and the lives of Montgomery and Arnold already referred to. Intercepted letters from Arnold to Montgomery and Washington are in the Haldimand Papers.
Daniel Morgan, the commander of the Virginia riflemen, was a conspicuous actor in the attack. Rebecca McConkey, in her Hero of Cowpens (New York, 1881), claims that Morgan deserves the credit which Arnold usually receives. A description by Morgan of his part in the attack is among some papers gathered by Sparks for a life of Morgan (Sparks MSS., lii. vol. ii. p. 99), and this same autobiographic letter is printed at greater length in the Hist. Mag., xix. 379, as from the Pittsburgh Gazette of July 10, 1818, where it is said to have been found among some papers once belonging to Gen. Henry Lee, and is supposed to have been addressed to Lee by Morgan about 1800, two years before Morgan died. The copy made by Sparks is given as from a paper then (1831) in the possession of General Armstrong. Cf. Graham's Life of Morgan (ch. 5); Dennie's Portfolio, viii. p. 101; Southern Lit. Messenger, xx. p. 559.
The principal general accounts on the American side are in Bancroft (viii. ch. 52-54, or final revision, iv. ch. 19 and 24); Ramsay's Amer. Rev.; Hollister's Connecticut (ii. ch. 9); Dawson's Battles (ch. 7); Carrington's Battles (ch. 20, 21); Gay's Pop. Hist. U. S., ix. 133; Dennie's Portfolio, ix. 133.