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Settlement with Col. [Timothy] Pickering for the extremes of Gen Knox's Waggon

Lists payments to various people. Title and date from docket. Bears autograph endorsement signed by Timothy Pickering's hand.

GLC02437.00896

to the Board of War

Discusses artillery and stores in Pennsylvania and the situation regarding the term of service for the enlisted men of Pennsylvania.

GLC02437.00897

General Return of Ordnance and Military Stores at the several places under mentioned, agreeable to their several dates

A very detailed list of artillery, ammunition, supplies and stores by type, weight and location. Date added later in pencil.

GLC02437.00903

to the Board of War and Ordnance

Argues that a small group of artificers attached to the Park of Artillery have served since the beginning of the campaign of 1777 and "are duly entitled to have the depreciation of their pay made good... the very good character these troops sustain...

GLC02437.00928

[Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered during the month of February of 1781. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.

GLC02437.10675

[Continental Army War Council minutes]

Minutes of a council of war held by Washington with his generals on 6 September 1780 at Camp Bergen County. Discusses the effects of a blockade in Rhode Island Harbor by the British fleet on the amount of supplies and the issue of raising troops as...

GLC02437.00838

An opinion delivered to His Excellency General George Washington

Knox answers Washington's queries from his 6 September 1780 council of war (refer to GLC02437.00838). Discusses the siege of New York and how the lack of supplies and stores is affecting their campaign. Knox's retained draft.

GLC02437.00840

[List of stores from 1780]

Later copy. Lists artillery supplies and stores by date. Date written in pencil.

GLC02437.00841

[Receipt]

Receipt for $2,500 accountable to Cheever, Comissary of Military Stores and Artillery. Written in Shaw's hand.

GLC02437.00842

An Estimate of arms, accountrements and ammunition requisite for an army of 30,000 men, in an active campaign, The dificiences are calculated in specie at six shillings to the dollar, after the rate the articles could have been purchased in 1774.

Lists supplies for men on active campaign by type, number required, number supposedly available, the difference and value. Written at a Park of Artillery. Document is not signed but is written in the hand of Samuel Shaw.

GLC02437.00843