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[Request for goods]
8 September 1783
Lillie, John, 1755-1801
Request for four pounds of soap for Henry Knox and his family. Addressed to Mr. [Robert] Bell, with the docket signed by Jacob Johnson.
GLC02437.02477
[Supply order]
9 September 1783
McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786
Request for fifteen pounds of putty.
GLC02437.02487
[Receipt for various items]
December 29, 1783
Price, William, ?-1790
Receipt of General Knox for various items for his men, including nine brass quadrants.
GLC02437.02868
[Bill for Henry Knox to pay Daniel Parker]
4 January 1784
Knox is to pay $22.87 to Daniel Parker & Co., who furnished supplies for troops at West Point. Possibly created by Parker, fl. 1781-1790.
GLC02437.02912
Abstract of provisions issued to General Henry Knox
October 1783
Appears to be a list of goods issued to Henry Knox throughout the month of September in 1783. Items include bread, flour, beef, soap, candles, country rum, rum, and salt. Title taken from the title of the document.
GLC02437.09810
to Henry Knox
15 November 1793
Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796
Marked "Private." Makes reference to the "baneful leaven," the radical democratic principles of the French Revolution, influencing troops in his army. Mentions that Thomas Paine's "The rights of man, has been held up as a Criterion, even of...
GLC02437.05975
[Memorandum related to Robert Morris and Jeremiah Wadsworth]
22 November 1786
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Describes a series of meeting in October - November 1786 involving Knox, Robert Morris, Jeremiah Wadsworth, Gouverneur Morris, and Samuel Osgood to develop Knox's proposal to loan money to Congress to clothe, feed, pay and house the troops. Congress...
GLC02437.03314
[Order to pay William Smith, Esquire]
28 June 1788
Signed by Knox as Secretary at War. Includes the copied signature of Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth. Smith is paid for "supplies furnished by him for public use..." Smith signs on verso.
GLC02437.03916
[Receipt]
31 August 1789
Signed in text by Knox "Genl Knox." Also signed by William Hull. Notes that Knox gave $540.74 to William Hill "on account of supplies furnished the indian commissioners." Half the page contains a list of names and sums of money that may be unrelated.
GLC02437.04344
1 September 1789
Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803
Receipt for 350 dollars given by Henry Knox to Sebastian Bauman for supplies furnished to the commissioners for negotiations with the Southern Indians. A possibly unrelated list appears at the top of the page in a different hand (perhaps that of...
GLC02437.04347
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