, Captain in Col. John Lamb's Second Regiment
(N.Y.) Artillery. From April 19 to 23, 1779, in Colonel Van Schaick's
expedition against the Onondagas. Published in the Magazine of
American History, November, 1879. Communicated by F.H. Roof.

XVII.--NUKERCK, CHARLES, Lieutenant and Captain in Colonel Van
Cortlandt's Second New York Regiment. From May 1, 1779, to December
11, 1780. Captain (afterward Colonel) Nukerck was born in Hurley,
Ulster County, New York. In 1776 he was serving as Second Lieutenant
in Colonel Ritzema's 3d New York Regiment, organized to garrison the
forts southward of Crown Point. Under the call of September 16, 1776,
he entered the Second New York Regiment _to serve during the war_, and
continued with that regiment as Lieutenant and Captain until the
consolidation of the five New York regiments into two in December,
1780, when he was assigned to the class of deranged officers, and
continued in service to the close of the war. He afterward settled at
Palatine Church, in the Mohawk Valley, where he died greatly respected
in November, 1822.

This Journal has had a somewhat interesting history. A portion
of it appeared in 1831 in Campbell's Annals of Tryon County, as
"extracts from the manuscript Journal of an officer," but
without giving the author's name. Extracts have also appeared
from time to time in the writings of the late Thomas Maxwell of
Elmira, as the Journal of Colonel Gansevoort. In Colonel
Stone's Life of Brant, 1838, Introduction p. xxiii, he says
"the author has likewise been favored with the manuscript diary
of the venerable Captain Theodosius Fowler of this city, who
was an active officer during the whole campaign. In addition to
the valuable memoranda contained in this diary, Capt. Fowler
has preserved a drawing of the Order of March * * * and a plan
of the _great battle fought at Newtown_, both of which drawings
have been engraved, and will be found in the Appendix." In the
body of the work he incorporates the text as found in
Campbell's Annals, including several interpolations from
Seaver's Life of Mary Jemison, which appear in the Annals _as
quoted_, but in Colonel Stone's work as _part of the original
Journal_. At page 18, Vol. II. appears the "Order of March" and
"Order of Battle," the latter having no reference whatever to
the battle of Newtown, it being nothing more than