The most comprehensive collection of original documents which deal with the activities of the Rangers during the Revolution and their settlement after the war is found in the British Library in London. Microfilm copies of this collection are held at major archives and educational institutions across Canada and the United States. The collection is commonly referred to as "The Haldimand Papers." The British Library call numbers are: Additional Manuscripts 21661 to 21892.
War claims are found in the Public Record Office in London: Audit Office 12 and 13, and microfilm copies are found in most major libraries.
The National Archives of Canada holds: The Butler Papers: Documents and Papers Relating to Colonel John Butler and His Corps of Rangers, 1710-1977. Call number: MG 31, E 80.
| Some American sources include: | |
| New York Public Library. The Glen Papers and the Colden Letter Books. | |
| New York State Library at Albany. the Sir William Johnson Papers. | |
| Selected Secondary Sources: | |
| EA Cruikshank. The Story of Butler's Rangers and the Settlement of Niagara (Welland, 1893). | |
| EA Cruikshank. The King's Royal Regiment of New York (Ontario Historical Society, Papers and Records, Vol 27, 1931). | |
| EA Cruikshank. Memoir of Lt-Col John McDonell (Ontario Historical Society, Papers and Records, Vol 22, 1927). | |
| Mary Beacock Fryer. The King's Men: The Soldier Founders of Ontario (Toronto, 1980). | |
| Mary Beacock Fryer. Rolls of the Provincial (Loyalist) Corps, Canadian Command, American Revolutionary Period (Toronto, 1981). | |
| Barbara Graymont. The Iroquois in the American Revolution (New York, 1976). | |
| Hugh Hastings, Ed. The Public Papers of George Clinton (10 volumes, Albany, 100-1914). | |
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