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[Request for provisions]
19 September 1783
Doughty, John, 1754-1826
Request for provisions for a former prisoner who is now returning to Philadelphia.
GLC02437.02538
[Request for goods]
20 September 1783
Lillie, John, 1755-1801
Request for twenty pounds of bread for General Henry Knox and his family.
GLC02437.02546
[Provision order]
24 September 1783
Request for twenty pounds of beef for General Henry Knox and his family. Docket signed by Jacob Johnson.
GLC02437.02562
[Provision return for a detachment of Massachusetts artificers]
circa September 30, 1783
Johnston, W., fl. 1783
Shows a breakdown of the rations issued to the Massachusetts artillery.
GLC02437.02585
[Provision return for the superintendant of the masons]
30 September 1783
Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783
Request for extra rations for the superintendent of the Masons;. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note on the verso from John Cheesman.
GLC02437.02587
[Provision return]
1 October 1783
Wright, Jotham, fl. 1779-1783
Lists men by company with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a signed docket by William Burrows.
GLC02437.02604
29 September 1783
Lists rations by number of men and type.
GLC02437.02605
4 October 1783
Jackson, Michael, 1734-1801
Issues thirty-one days' worth of rations for a man in the New York regiment.
GLC02437.02619
10-11 October 1783
Return for five men from the Massachusetts line. Includes a note on the verso from Mahlon Ford.
GLC02437.02638
[Receipt of rations]
13 October 1783
Foster, Jonathan, fl. 1783
Issues 66 packages of rations for the New Jersey and New York lines. Includes a note on the verso from Moses Scott in Brunswick, issuing six days' worth of provisions for eleven men in the Massachusetts line.
GLC02437.02647
20 October 1783
Tearse, Peter Bailey, fl. 1776-1783
Lists rations issued and the amount of days they are for. Noted as received on verso.
GLC02437.02694
26 October 1783
Benson, Joshua, fl. 1775-1783
Request for one day's worth of provisions for four prisoners. Countersigned by John Lillie.
GLC02437.02711
Brown, Zephaniah, 1739-1810
Return of provisions for Baron von Steuben's steward. Lists items such as soap, salt and vinegar. Date from docket. Includes a note of receipt on the verso signed by Sergeant Samuel Cranston.
GLC02437.02731
[Provision return for Canadians refugees]
October 1783
Merlet, H., fl. 1783
Lists men by military denomination with issued rations.
GLC02437.02737
to John Peirce
9 January 1784
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Knox instructs Peirce (in some sources "Pierce"), Paymaster General, to pay Daniel Parker & Co. on his account.
GLC02437.02933
28 October 1783
Provision return for five prisoners of the 4th Massachusetts regiment. Lists men by company and rations issued.
GLC02437.02720
[Army rations issued to detachments]
31 October 1783
Requests for ten days' worth of provisions for four men in the 4th Massachusetts regiment. Note of receipt on the verso signed by a Mr. Ford (first name is illegible).
GLC02437.02736
Abstract of extra issues
Lists number of rations and for what purpose they were issued.
GLC02437.02741
Provision return for the Canadian refugee drawing at West Point
November 1783
GLC02437.02811
[Provision return for an artificer]
12 December 1783
Lists men by company with issued rations. Countersigned by Michael Jackson with a note of receipt on the verso from J. [Toomy ?].
GLC02437.02828
25 December 1783
Request for five days' worth of provisions. Includes a note on the verso. Noted as written at Fort [Moyor ].
GLC02437.02859
[Supplies given to Colonel David Humphreys's regiment]
1786-1787
Date added later in pencil. Lists supplies provided to Colonel David Humphreys, such as hospital stores, rations, wood and clothing. Addressed to General Henry Knox.
GLC02437.03401
[List of expenses for the year 1794]
circa 1794
A list of the sums of money disbursed throughout the year of 1794. The expenses include pay subsistence and Forage of the Legion, clothing, bounty, hospital department, repairs , defence protection, Indian department, quartermaster's department...
GLC02437.06291
to Charles Wilkins Lexington
24 August 1791
St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818
Writes concerning the purchase of horses for the troops. States "in consequence of no person's appearing at Fort Washinton on the part of the Contractors to make provision for the transportation of the flour & for the Army, I had been obliged to...
GLC02437.10235
[Various documents related to Arthur St. Clair's 1791 Western expedition]
1790-1791
Nourse, Joseph, 1754-1841
Copies of documents written by various persons related to Arthur St. Clair's failed 1791 Western expedition. Pages 1-5 contain the copy of a report written 10 January 1793 by Joseph Nourse, Register of the Treasury. Discusses the enlistment of...
GLC02437.10357
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