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[Return for one army prisoner]

Countersigned by Captain David Judson and Samuel Shaw with a note on the verso from a Isaac Robert. Includes regiment and rations issued.

GLC02437.02041

[Army Rations issued to Detachment]

Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with a note on verso from Johnathan [Carley]. Lists provisions with issued rations.

GLC02437.02050

[Request for rations]

Request to issue two days' worth of provisions for two deserters from the British. Includes a note on verso from [Rueben Beach].

GLC02437.02052

[Provision return]

Countersigned by John Lillie. Lists rations issued for Lieutenant Police Officers.

GLC02437.02056

[Return for provisions]

Return for the provisions of Major Waitter of the engineering department from 4 April to 8 April. For the five days of service, Waitter was given 7 1/2 rations. Signed by Superintendent Joseph Cheesman. Countersigned by Major General Knox's aide-de...

GLC02437.02071

[Army Rations issued to artificier]

Return for rations for one member of the engineering department beginning 9 April and ending 17 April. It appears that the person came from the 8 Massachusetts Regiment. A total of 12 rations were issued over the eight days. Signed by Superintendent...

GLC02437.02099

[Provision return]

Request for "two hundred and forty gills of common rum, or spirits equivalent to it - on account of Gen. Knox."

GLC02437.02101

to Henry Knox

Peirce notes that his son, Hardy Peirce, "Lost his Life at Fort Lee while you Sir was Colo. of the Regiment viz Novr 5th 1776." Requests Knox for help in obtaining his late son's pay and rations. Knox's reply on verso, dated 20 May 1783, is written...

GLC02437.02117

[Provisions received for Henry Knox]

List of various items and amounts, such as beef, candles and flour.

GLC02437.02120

[Account of provisions and stores issued to Major General Knox's family]

Lists provisions by weight. Includes items such as flour, beef, fish, soap, rum and salt.

GLC02437.02141

[Army Rations issued]

Three part document. First portion issues rations to a soldier in the Invalides regiment. Signed Lewis Nicola, Constitution Island, New York 12 June 1783. Second and third portions on the verso signed by David Hillyer and Samuel Shaw respectively...

GLC02437.02159

Provisions and Stores Issued to Major General Knox's family at West Point, in the month of June 1783

Chart created by Commissary of Stores of West Point Forsyth describing the issuing of rations to the Knox family. Delineates how the various articles (flour, beef, rum, vinegar, and Indian meal) were issued to the family over the month. Related to...

GLC02437.02210

Provision return for a lieutenant officer police...

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 for man of Capt Pattens Company of Artificers belonging to the ordinance department at one ration and a half per day]

Return signed by Captain Thomas Patten of the Artillery Artificers and countersigned "By order of the Comdt", S. [Samuel] Shaw, Aide-de-Camp. Note on verso signed by Dudley Mercer.

GLC02437.01782

to the Commissary

Writes, "Please to issue provisions, from this day to the 12th inclusive, to Benjamin Jenkins, soldier in the Rhode Island Regiment on command from Saratoga, he having been served up to the 31st ulto. as per certificate from Col. Olney commanding...

GLC02437.01787

Provision Return for a party of Men in Genl Huntington's Bardge [sic] from the Connt. Brigade Commencing 1st & ending the 12th Jany 1783

Lists men by regiment and company with rations issued. Signed by Rogers; countersigned by Samuel Shaw and endorsed by Curtis Crane.

GLC02437.01829

[Provision return for a party of artificers from the Connecticut Brigade]

Lists men by regiment and company with rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with endorsement by Joseph Day. Date and place writ from note.

GLC02437.01877

[Victualing return for army prisoners]

Lists men by company with rations issued. Countersigned by Henry Ten Eyck and Samuel Shaw with endorsement signed by Andrew Hilbard. Date and place writ from note.

GLC02437.01894

Army Rations issued to Prisoners & Detachment

Lists men by company with rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with an endorsement signed by Dudley Mercer. Date and place writ from note.

GLC02437.01929

[Army Rations issued to Detachment and Bargemen]

Lists rations per day and total number of rations. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw. Includes an endorsement on the verso signed by Charles [Foyer?]

GLC02437.01961

[Army Rations issued to Prisoners and Detachment]

Lists men by regiment with issued rations. Countersigned by Ezra Selden and John Doughty with an endorsement on the verso signed by Charles [Coudon?].

GLC02437.01967

[Extra officers rations]

Request for a week's worth of provisions. Signed by a John K. (rest of the surname is illegible), countersigned by Samuel Shaw and includes a note on the verso from Joseph Banks.

GLC02437.01990

[Army rations issued to Major Watters]

Document providing 6 days of rations to Major Watters of the sappers. Authorized and signed by Captain Joseph C. Dellezenn and countersigned by Major Samuel Shaw, Major General Henry Knox's aide-de-camp. Shaw noted that these rations were "chargeable...

GLC02437.02010

[Provision return for masons]

Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with a note on verso from Jacob Wight. Lists amount of extra rations provided for Masons;. Date and place writ from note on verso.

GLC02437.02044

[Provisions drawn for Henry Knox]

Lists of stores ordered on behalf of General Knox. Includes such items as flour, beef, candles, and rum.

GLC02437.02048