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[Return for military provision and supplies]
11 March 1783
Price, William, ?-1790
Lieutenant Price signs this return for cannon cartridge, ten pounds of twine, and twenty gallons of wine for the laboratory at West Point.
GLC02437.09686
to Henry Knox
ca. 1764
Lieutenant Price discusses the state of ordnance and provisions at his post. Notes, "We have been badly supplyed [sic] here with Provisions- have been out three Days at a time- and all the salt meat we have drawn has been to bad that it was merely...
GLC02437.10494
[Return]
28 December 1783
Return for ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and ammunition.
GLC02437.10712
February 29, 1784
Return of ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type and weight. Also includes a list of ordnance received and delivered since the last return.
GLC02437.10714
March 31, 1784
Return of ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and length. Also includes a list of ordnance received and delivered since the last return.
GLC02437.10715
30 April 1784
GLC02437.10716
31 May 1784
GLC02437.10717
31 July 1784
GLC02437.10718
31 August 1784
Return of ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and length. Also includes a list of ordnance received since the last return.
GLC02437.10720
30 September 1784
Return of ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and length. Also includes a list of ordnance delivered since the last return.
GLC02437.10721
31 October 1784
Return of ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and length.
GLC02437.10722
14 July 1781
Encloses a return of stores he has received from various captains. Dicusses stores such as cartridges, harnesses, howitzers, and quick match, among others. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide.
GLC02437.01044
to Lieutenant [William] Price
21 July 1781
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Possibly to Lieutenant William Price. Instructs Price that no artillery officer should obtain stores unless by Knox's order. Discusses supplies. Thanks Price for the attention he has given in his work. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide....
GLC02437.01072
23 July 1781
Lieutenant Price reports on items he has repaired and made since Knox's last letter. Discusses harnesses, mortars, and other items. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide.
GLC02437.01075
to William Price
5 July 1781
Knox gives orders to Lieutenant Price regarding stores that are to arrive from Pennsylvania (Price was in charge of the laboratory at West Point). "You will please to have every thing in the Laboratory prepared with the utmost dispatch..."
GLC02437.01019
to William Price and Thomas Patten
28 July 1781
Consists of two separate letters. In the first, Knox gives instructions to Price regarding fuzes and wooden bottoms (for artillery). In the second letter, written the same day and presumably at Dobbs Ferry, Knox gives instructions to Captain...
GLC02437.01096
[Instructions for Lieutenant Price, Captain Patten, John Ruddock, and Thomas Frothingham]
12 August 1781
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Shaw, aide for Henry Knox, transmits orders for Knox. All orders are issued 12 August. Orders Lieutenant [William] Price, at the New Windsor laboratory, to deliver tin to Captain Bushnell; orders Captain [Thomas] Patten, at New Windsor, to obtain...
GLC02437.01128
Provision return for a lieutenant officer police...
July 1, 1783
Written by William Price, Officer Police and countersigned by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp.. A provision return for one lieutenant officer police for the garrison of West Point. States that ninety three rations (three rations per day for thirty...
GLC02437.02211
[Provision return]
1 October 1783
Lists issued rations. Includes a note on the verso.
GLC02437.02603
8 July 1783
Signed by William Price and countersigned by Fort Major John Doughty by orders of General Knox. Provision ration for four discharged men for six days. A receipt note below the docket is signed by William Burrows.
GLC02437.02251
[William Price's oath sworn to the United States]
1 January 1784
Also signed by Major General Henry Knox. Price swears to serve the United States in the office of commissary of military stores (for West Point).
GLC02437.02920
4 January 1784
Orders Captain Price, commissary of military stores, to deliver supplies such as steel, wine, tin, flannel, leather, and blubber oil to Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster General.
GLC02437.02908
[Army rations issued to an officer of police]
December 1, 1783
Lists rations issued for one police officer at West Point. Includes a note on the verso from William Price, a police officer.
GLC02437.02816
[Receipt for various items]
29 December 1783
Receipt of General Knox for various items for his men, including nine brass quadrants.
GLC02437.02868
6 January 1784
Knox writes to Price, newly appointed commissary of military stores at West Point. Gives Price instructions regarding his post, including the method by which he must orders stores and keep meticulous records. Price will take orders from Major...
GLC02437.02919
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