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[Invoice for soldier payment and artillery and supply purchases in Henry Knox's artillery regiment]

Records pay for members of the regiment and money spent on some supplies and ordnance associated with several officers.

GLC02437.00288

to Lucy Knox

Tells Lucy she was right not to return to New York because it is unsafe. Henry would be too worried if she were in danger. Discusses a Mrs. G[reene], who shocked her husband by coming to the city. Remarks that "the peace of this Town & of the...

GLC02437.00363

[Receipt for rations]

Also signed by John Kelley Smith, Adjutant in Colonel Edward Wigglesworth's Regiment. Palfrey signs on 18 July, verifying the issue of rations. Kelley signs 20 August 1778 approving a payment made to Thomas Smart.

GLC02437.00716

[Note for Mrs. Palfrey regarding monies owed to her late husband, Colonel Palfrey]

First section of the letter is an unknown hand and includes a short excerpt from William [Carty]. The second section of the document is unsigned, but handwriting suggests its author is Henry Knox. Provides details regarding monies owed to Colonel...

GLC02437.04176

to Mrs. Palfrey

Reports that when he visited the Board of Treasury today, Mr. [possibly Samuel] Osgood told him about monies owed to her through her late husband, Colonel Palfrey. A sum of 3200 dollars in Bills of Exchange was withdrawn in 1780. Knox outlines...

GLC02437.04174

[Certificate respecting monies owed to William Palfrey]

Declares that Congress, on 11 December 1780, ordered the Board of Treasury to provide a sum of 3200 dollars to Mr. William Palfrey, Paymaster General, and that the money was drawn upon Benjamin Franklin (see GLC02437.04175 for related information)....

GLC02437.04175