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Return of Stores expended on the 15th & 16th Oct, by Lt. Col. Stevens.

Lists quantities of stores used at various locations and under the command of various officers during the siege of Yorktown. Also enumerates soldiers who were wounded, killed, and taken prisoner. Explains that a British attack at day break resulted...

GLC02437.01229

A Report of ordnance Ammunition Expended during my Command on the different Batteries in the lines, between the 16 & 17 Oct. inst.

Lists quantities of stores used in the first and second batteries under Major Bauman during the siege of Yorktown. Reports the death of Peter Peiner. Bauman commanded an artillery corps that was a part of Colonel John Lamb's Second Regiment of...

GLC02437.01232

to unknown

Requests that vessels with military stores disembark at Trebell's Landing and have the listed quantities of ordnance boarded onto the sloop Flora. Also lists items to be taken from the Flora and loaded onto another vessel, which will sail toward...

GLC02437.01237

to John Adams

Later copy of GLC02437.01252. A detailed account of the siege of Yorktown. Affirms the correctness of Adams' ideas about a need to conduct a major attack against the British in the southern states. Announces the recent surrender of Lord Cornwallis...

GLC02437.01251

to Henry Knox [Request for supplies].

Signed in text. Duplicate of GLC02437.01268 with an additional note discussing swords and bayonets dated 29 October 1781. Asks Knox to exchange three drums and provide a fourth, and exchange cartridge boxes also. Also mentions that the Major...

GLC02437.01269

Estimate of horses and waggons necessary for the transportation of the following cannon and stores.

Lists quanties of ordnance and the amount of horses and wagons needed to move them. Compiled shortly after the siege of Yorktown. Docket dated 29 October 1781.

GLC02437.01272

Ordnance & Stores directed to be Sent up the Bay of Chesapeake.

Lists quantities of different types of ordnance to be transported. The Battle of Yorktown had ended earlier that month.

GLC02437.01274

to Benjamin Lincoln

Later copy. Duplicate of GLC02437.01309. Writes to respond to General Benjamin Lincoln's request of his opinon on where to store 4,000 barrels of public powder now in Boston. Declares that West Point is so important that they should do everything...

GLC02437.01308

[Invoice of Stores Received from Captain Seward]

Invoice of artillery stores including cartridges, bellows, engines, hooks, etc. Date added later in pencil.

GLC02437.01318

No. 9: articles issued in the year 1781

List of military articles by date issued, including muskets, flints and Borax.

GLC02437.01321

to John Lamb

Marked "copy." Writes, "The General desires you will, on receipt of this, direct Mr. Frothingham, after leaving a conductor with you at Burlington, to repair immediately with the remaining conductors and clerks in his department to this place. They...

GLC02437.01452

to Henry Knox

Writes, "Colo. [John] Greaton the commanding officer of the 3 Massachusetts Brigade has marched with his Regiment to relieve the Ports at Dobbs Ferry, Stony, and Verplanks point, since which I have received information that the Brigade is without a...

GLC02437.01455

to General Kingsley

Communicates orders from General George Washington to expeditiously load all the stores that are being transported to Head Of Elk, Maryland onto vessels. Anything that cannot fit should be loaded onto French ships. The ordnance being transported...

GLC02437.01279

[Ordnance taken at York and Gloucester]

List of ordnance, arms and military stores "taken in the Enemies posts of" York and Gloucester. This "summary return" likely dates between October 19 and October 26, 1781. On the 26th, Washington drafted a letter to Congress (the final is addressed...

GLC02437.01316

Report of Ammunition expended in the different Batteries the 11th & 12th Oct. 1781.

List quantities of ordnance used at the Grand Battery, the Mortar Battery, and the Left Battery at the siege of Yorktown. Stevens served under the Marquis de Lafayette in Virginia, and for a part of the time commanded the artillery at Yorktown.

GLC02437.01222

to Henry Knox

Reports that the ordnance expected from Richmond (see GLC02437.01195) have arrived at Trebell's Landing, but the vessels have orders (communicated through Pryor's Deputy) not to land more stores there. Asks Knox to whom the stores should be...

GLC02437.01223

to J. Pryor

Responds to Captain Pryor's 12 October 1781 letter (see GLC02437.01223) and insists that the ordnance from Richmond be unloaded at Trebell's Landing. Writes, "The General desires you will immediately send him" a return of the number of shot and...

GLC02437.01225

Report of What ordnance Stores Expended, and On hand at the Batteries during my Command from the 12 to the 13 of Oct. Inst.

Lists quantities of stores used and on hand at the Grand Battery, Mortar Battery, and Left Battery under Major Bauman during the siege of Yorktown. Bauman commanded an artillery corps that was a part of Colonel John Lamb's Second Regiment of...

GLC02437.01226

Return of Stores expended, in the different Batteries, the 17th October 1781.

Lists quantities of ordnance used at the Grand Battery, Left Battery, Left Redoubt, Right Redoubt, and in the trenches during the siege of Yorktown. Colonel Lamb commanded the Second Regiment of Continental Artillery.

GLC02437.01234

Invoice of Stores on the lines.

Lists quantities of ordnance on the lines at the siege of Yorktown. Frothingham was a Deputy and Principal Field Commissary of Military Stores in Henry Knox's artillery train.

GLC02437.01242

to Henry Knox

Reports on the progress of ordnance being forwarded to Henry Knox. Mentions that some items left in Baltimore had been rejected by Major Sebastian Bauman. Comments on fixes made to munitions made by a Mr. Johnson that were cast without the necessary...

GLC02437.01249

Artillerie [in French]

French return of ordnance expended during the siege of Yorktown from the Armee de Rochambeau.

GLC02437.01276

to John Lamb

Puts Colonel Lamb in charge of ordnance being transported to Head of Elk, Maryland and instructs him on how to proceed. Includes instructions on where to store the ordnance, what to obtain from the quartermaster at Head of Elk, and what to demand of...

GLC02437.01280

Return of Ordnance and Stores Left at the Head of Elk. Brought from York Town in Virginia.

List of stores brought to Philadelphia from Yorktown. Mentions cannon, carriages, and shells. Signed by Frothingham, Field Commissary of Military Stores. Contains two dockets.

GLC02437.01297

to Henry Knox

Writes to inform Knox of his "wishes that the detachment from the Regiment may joine us" if consistent with Knox's plans. They are acquiring clothing for the regiment and he wants the men to anticipate the new clothes and feel satisfaction from...

GLC02437.01307