Miscellanies, by an officer.
Subtitle: (Colonel Arent Schuyler De Peyster, B. A.), 1774-1813, part I.
By: 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 the 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, by J. Watts De Peyster.
Contributors: De Peyster, J. Watts 1821-1907
Publisher: A. E. Chasmer & co. [etc.]
Published: 1888
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: De Peyster family (Johannes De Peyster, fl. 1633-1677); Watts family (Robert Watts, 1678?-1750); Indians of North America -- Northwest, Old; Mackinac Island (Mich.) -- History
Notes: Cover-title.

Part 2 has imprint: New York, C. H. Ludwig.

Reprint, with extensive additions by the editor, of a volume of poems by A. S. De Peyster, first published, Dumfries, Scotland, 1813. Several of the poems relate to the author's experiences as commandant of the British post at Mackinac Island, Michigan.