15 April 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: Draft of a society to be formed by the American officers & to be called "the Cincinnati"

Document itself not signed, but docket has Knox's signature. This is a draft document describing the purpose and administrative organization of the officer's fraternal organization that became the Society of the Cincinnati. Says the Society was created to perpetuate "the remembrance of this great event [victory in the Revolution], as the mutual friendships which have been formed under the pressure of common danger, and in numerous instances cemented by the blood of the parties." One of its goals is to "preserve inviolate those exalted rights and liberties of human nature, for which they have…

GLC02437.02090

April 17, 1783 circa

Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return for a mason hired by the engineering department]

Return for the rations of a mason employed by the engineering department from 9 April to 17 April. A total of 12 rations were issued for the eight days. Signed by Superintendent Joseph Cheesman and countersigned by General Knox's aide-de-camp Major Shaw. Docket signed by a Jacob Wight that the rations were received from a contractor.

GLC02437.02100

9 April 1783

Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return]

Lists men by regiment and company with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note from Jacob Wight. Date and place writ from note.

GLC02437.02102

17 April 1783

Sears, Peter, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return]

Lists men by company with issued rations. Countersigned by John Doughty with a note from Dudley Mercer.

GLC02437.02103

April 20, 1783

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return for an artificer]

Ordered and signed by Major Samuel Shaw as Major General Knox's aide-de-camp. Return for rations for one man in Captain Thomas Patten's company of artificers, which belonged to the ordinance department, from 21 April to 24 April. 1 1/2 rations a day for four days was given, for a total of six rations. Also signed by Captain Patten. Docket signed by a Dudley Mercer as quartermaster sergeant stating that the rations were delivered by contractors. Left margin of document is water damaged.

GLC02437.02108

April 20, 1783 circa

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return for artificers]

Provision return for Captain Patten's company of artificers, which belonged to the ordinance department, from 21 April to 24 April. 69 soldiers were each given 1 1/2 rations a day for four days for a total of 432 rations issued. Signed twice by Patten on recto and verso. Countersigned by John Lillie, aide-de-camp. Docket signed by Dudley Mercer as quartermaster sergeant, stating that contractors delivered the rations.

GLC02437.02109

17 April 1783

Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return]

Lists men by department with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note from Jacob Wight. Date from note.

GLC02437.02118

17 April 1783

Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return]

Lists men by department with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note from Jacob Wight. Date from note.

GLC02437.02119

24-28 May 1783

Stewart, Alexander, fl. 1776-1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Two part document relating to Alexander Stewart's account regarding horses]

First part written by Alexander Stewart to John Lillie discussing how some horses are to be picked up later than expected and how Stewart is unable to care for them until that time due to a lack of proper feed. Second part lists the expenses for keeping the horses, including the prices for supplies such as corn for feed. Second part written by Samuel Shaw, dated 28 May 1783 at West Point, New York.

GLC02437.02132

25 May 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certificate]

Certifies that a Captain-Lieutenant [Cornelius] Swartwout received $600 for recruiting. Noted as a copy.

GLC02437.02134

May 1783

Forsyth, James, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [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

circa 2 June 1783

Freeman, Jeremiah, fl. 1775-1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Shaw

Asks Shaw to help him to apply to General Henry Knox to aid him with his debts that he incurred while still in the service and that he would have paid if he had received the half-pay due to soldiers who leave the army. "Free" stamped on address leaf with no signature.

GLC02437.02143

4 June 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: to Jeremiah Freeman

Informs Captain Jeremiah Freeman that he has supplied him with a certificate and that he hopes this will help his "present unfortunate situation." Also included, on the lower portion of the page, is the mentioned certificate, verifying Freeman as having served in the corp of artillery and received his provisions.

GLC02437.02145

10 June 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: to Royal Flint

Request for more flour as there is not "any in the store fit to be used." Noted received on verso.

GLC02437.02156

16 June 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Document

Title: [Certificate for Lieutenant John Thorp]

Written and signed for Henry Knox by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. This document certifies that Thorp served in the corps of artillery artificers from November 1776 to the present time. Says "his knowledge of and attention to his duty have invariably marked him an industrious and useful servant of the public." His unit being dissolved, he retires from the service agreeable to the Congressional resolution of 26 May.

GLC02437.02164

22 June 1783

Crane, John, 1744-1805

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Duplicate of GLC02437.02174. Discusses orders for officers to hand in returns in a timely manner concerning the "number of Officers ... and privates who will remain in service from the different corps at this post ... " Explains the return was created before all of the officers choosing to remain in service were accounted for, and since there were more officers who chose to stay than were expected, he needs to issue a new return. Had asked the officers to decide among themselves who would remain since "I do not think that I can with propriety derange any officer without his consent. If…

GLC02437.02175

26 June 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document

Title: [Account of vouchers]

Lists of sums. Date added later in pencil.

GLC02437.02190

26 June 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Account of vouchers]

Written and signed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide de camp, for Henry Knox and for Pay Master General, Charles Knowles.

GLC02437.02192

27 June 1783

Finck, Andrew, 1751-1820

Autograph document signed

Title: to the Contractors for the States of N. York & New Jersey

Finck, Major Commanding, New York State Regiment, issues one hundred and sixteen extra rations of provisions to an officer commanding a flag and his escort, from the British garrison at Oswego. Includes an endorsement signed by Immanuel Deake(?) stating the rations were received from the contractor for the states of New York and New Jersey.

GLC02437.02197

June 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: State of the invalid officers

Knox's working draft for an Inspection Board report on the Invalid Regiment. Lists eleven invalid officers and their assigned pensions. The report is for the following officers: Captain [John] McGowen, Captain [John] Riley, Captain [Moses] McFarland, Captain Lieutenant [William] McL.Hatton [McElhatton], Lieutenant [Osgood] Carleton, Lieutenant [Jonathan] Pugh, Lieutenant [Talmage] Hall, Captain [Thomas] Arnold, Lieutenant [William] Mainard [Maynard], Lieutenant [Samuel] Gibbs, and Captain [David] Dorance. Date and title taken from docket. See GLC02437.02882 for a related component of this…

GLC02437.02208

June 1783

Forsyth, James, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: 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 Shaw's return at GLC02437.02209. Note signed on page 2 by Forsyth who said Major Shaw gave him a receipt.

GLC02437.02210

1 July 1783 - 4 July 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return]

A provision return for eight men and two women employed in the ordinance department at one ration per day from July 1st to July 4th 1783, for a total of fifty-six rations. Noted and signed: "By order of the Comd. S. Shaw [Samuel Shaw]." Also signed by Lieutenant J. Wright and another name which is illegible.. The docket is signed by William Burrows.

GLC02437.02212

7 July 1783

Doughty, John, 1754-1826

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return]

A provision return for a soldier belonging to the third Massachusetts regiment on command in Dobb's Ferry. Noted: "By Order of Genl Knox [Henry Knox]." The docket is signed by James Gibsen.

GLC02437.02213

1 July 1783

North, William, 1755-1836

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return]

A provision return for four men belonging to Baron Steuben's barge. Three of the men were from the 2nd Massachusetts and one from the 1st Massachusetts regiment. Noted and signed by Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp, on page one: "-sixteen rations By order of the Comdr." The document also bears a handwritten docket signed by Shaw plus another docket signed by David Blake.

GLC02437.02214

1 July 1783

Manuscript document

Title: Monthly lists of costs

Includes amounts for the months of February through August. Date added at a later date in pencil.

GLC02437.02215