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[Inspection return]
7 May 1784
North, William, 1755-1836
Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Inspection return for the infantry. Lists men by rank, present status, arms and supplies.
GLC02437.10581
[Return]
February 29, 1784
Price, William, ?-1790
Return of ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type and weight. Also includes a list of ordnance received and delivered since the last return.
GLC02437.10714
March 31, 1784
Return of ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and length. Also includes a list of ordnance received and delivered since the last return.
GLC02437.10715
30 April 1784
GLC02437.10716
31 May 1784
GLC02437.10717
31 July 1784
GLC02437.10718
July 1, 1784
Jefferds, Samuel, 1752-1804
Return of ordnance and military stores in the Northern department for the month of July 1784. Items listed by type and location. Also includes a list of ordnance delivered since the last return. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.
GLC02437.10719
31 August 1784
Return of ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and length. Also includes a list of ordnance received since the last return.
GLC02437.10720
30 September 1784
Return of ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and length. Also includes a list of ordnance delivered since the last return.
GLC02437.10721
31 October 1784
Return of ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and length.
GLC02437.10722
to Joseph Carleton
25 May 1785
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Knox, recently appointed Secretary at War, makes arrangements with Carleton, acting Secretary at War, to transmit pay and commissions to Major Wyllis (possibly John P. Wyllis) and his men.
GLC02437.03149
to Henry Knox
31 May 1785
Carleton, Joseph, 1754-1812
Carleton, acting Secretary at War, writes to Knox, recently elected Secretary at War. Relates that John Dickinson, President of Pennsylvania, informed him that Pennsylvania's quota of troops cannot be raised until the meeting of the General Assembly...
GLC02437.03150
9 June 1785
Bryant, John, 1742-1816
Captain Bryant, Deputy Commissary of Military Stores at the Springfield Armory, encloses a plan of the buildings belonging to the United States at the Springfield Armory. Discusses construction and repairs taking place there. See GLC02437.08362 for...
GLC02437.03152
12 June 1785
Carleton, previous acting Secretary at War, discusses military matters with Knox, recently appointed Secretary at War (Carleton is handling business from the War Office in Knox's absence). Discusses the pay and rank of several officers, the...
GLC02437.03154
to George Washington
14 July 1783
A letter regarding General Washington's sleigh. Knox apologetically writes that the painting of the sleigh has taken a long time. He explains that due to severe weather, the wood of the sleigh absorbed and congealed the oil, and could not be dried...
GLC02437.02286
31 July 1783
Brooks, David, 1756-1838
Written by Brooks as Assistant Clothier General to General Knox. Says that about 26 June when the troops marched from West Point for Philadelphia an order from Washington for 300 pairs of shoes for the 2nd Massachusetts Brigade and 2nd Massachusetts...
GLC02437.02353
15 August 1783
Discusses the possibility of leaving some cannon at Niagara and how to best arrange them. Knox's retained draft.
GLC02437.02391
[Journal of Revolutionary War military officers and other staff]
26 August 1783
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Hierarchical lists of (named) officers serving under Colonels [John] Lamb, [John] Crane, [Lewis] Nicola (Invalid Corps), [Benjamin] Tupper (10th Mass.), Butler (1st Conn.) and [Samuel] Webb (3rd Conn.), and Engineers and Sappers under Major [Jean...
GLC02437.02419
Informs Washington of the status of several commanders. States that the Baron von Steuben, is at Saratoga, New York and to expect more information regarding the situation at Newburgh, New York from Colonel Villefranche. Asks to send a detachment to...
GLC02437.02421
27 August 1783
Informs Washington he sent him a post concerning Captain Farley's confirmation "of the ill success of the Baron Steubens Mission." Says it appears they will not have possession of the Westward this fall and request Washington's final order...
GLC02437.02425
[Provision return]
28 August 1783
Capron, Seth, fl. 1783
Request for provisions for eleven men belonging to George Washington's barge. Countersigned by John Lillie with the docket signed by Gideon Buckingham. Addressed to a Mr. [Robert] Bell.
GLC02437.02438
9 July 1783
Wright, J., fl. 1783
Countersigned by Samuel Shaw, aide-de-camp to General Henry Knox.Provision return for four men employed in the ordnance department. Four men and two women were issued one and a half rations a day for four days. Docket note regarding rations signed...
GLC02437.02254
12 July 1783
Bushnell, David, 1740-1826
Provision returns for noncommissioned and privates belonging to the Corps of Sappers and Miners.
GLC02437.02266
Hillyer, David, fl. 1783
Signed by David Hillyer as quarter master and countersigned by John Doughty as Fort Major. Provisions return for twenty men of the Invalid Regiment, three women, and six children. States that the twenty men were detained on account of the Board of...
GLC02437.02269
[Order to supply rations to John Mundin]
Doughty, John, 1754-1826
Order of 27 rations to Sergeant John Mundin of the Invalid Regiment discharged and on his way to Albany, New York. The order for 27 rations also includes Mundin's wife and five children.
GLC02437.02271
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