The following link is from an extensive history/geneology website about New York state. http://www.threerivershms.com/Children.htm The pages range from Revolutionary War time back to early Dutch trappers. They give another view into the world in which the LOTM characters (and their real-life F&I War counterparts) lived.
I find it a little bit unvelievable that children would actually be asked to color some of the battle scenes, but that's just my opinion.