February 4, 1781

Jones, Thomas, fl. 1777-1782

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered during the month of January of 1781. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.

GLC02437.10672

28 February 1781

Van Rensselaer, Philip, 1747-1798

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance at Albany, New York. Items listed by type, and current condition.

GLC02437.10673

January and February 1781

Manuscript document

Title: Return of military stores received, delivered, and on hand at West Point and its dependencies for the months of January and February 1781.

Divides records into 3, 4, 6, 9, and 12 pound ordnance.

GLC02437.10674

1 May 1781

Frothingham, Thomas, 1755-1827

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered during the months of March and April of 1781. Items listed by type, weight and date of reception or delivery.

GLC02437.10677

1 June 1781

Ruddock, John, fl. 1779-1796

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered at Fishkill, New York for the month of May 1781. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.

GLC02437.10680

30 June 1781

Ruddock, John, fl. 1779-1796

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered at Fishkill, New York for the month of June 1781. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.

GLC02437.10682

3 October 1781

Frothingham, Thomas, 1755-1827

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered for the month of September 1781. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.

GLC02437.10684

23 June 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

Discusses the housing of troops in the area in and around West Point, New York and Constitution Island. Knox's retained draft.

GLC02437.02176

25 June 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

Written by General Knox to General Washington. Says that Sprout's regiment of Paterson's brigade with two artillery pieces will be in Stony Point and that they will commence their march from there in the morning. Reports that part of Paterson's regiments have not yet joined the line and will only catch up with difficulty. Tells Washington that the Connecticut regiments are scattered in the redoubts and that it will be difficult to get them together. Says the remaining Massachusetts regiment will barely be enough to man the garrisons. Knox's retained draft.

GLC02437.02185

28 June 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Andrew Billings

Written by Major General Knox to Captain Major Billings. Says that General Washington directed him to forward two cannons to Billings to be engraved in a similar fashion to the cannon done for Count De Rochambeau (see GLC02437.02198). These cannons are for Count De Grasse and reports that the inscription to be engraved will be sent from headquarters. Would like to know how long it will take. Hastily written postscript asks that the design for Rochambeau's cannons be sent if he still has them as it will be necessary to make some alterations to the emblems and coat of arms.

GLC02437.02199

29 June 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

Informs General Washington that 250 men of the 3rd Massachusetts will not be ready to march until the afternoon due to lack of essential articles for their march. Reports that the regiment is without their compliment of field officers and Colonels Michael Jackson and Rose have never joined at the post. Also reports that Lieutenant Colonel Maxwell and Major Pettingal are unwell.

GLC02437.02202

5 July 1783

Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

Major Bauman of the artillery corps asks General Washington to discharge four older German men under Bauman's command. Says that the Board of Inspectors of Invalids told him to go to Washington as the men did not "come under the description of men in bad health." Says the Germans are all in their 60s and worn out and want to go back to Germany; they and their families seek discharge. The Germans said "from their short service they have rendered this Country, they could never Expect or demand any bounty from it, and their sphere of live being passed to labour, consequently would become a…

GLC02437.02241

14 July 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

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. Wishes General Washington "agreable jaunts" on the river.

GLC02437.02286

16 June 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Chevalier [Francois Jean] de Chastellux

Discusses the character of the people of the new nation and hopes that the central government will be strong to prevent anarchy.

GLC02437.02165

24 June 1783

Height, Silvanus, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: Petition of Inhabitants to have Captain Taylor continue on the South redoubts

Signed by Height and four other individuals. Request from the inhabitants of the south Redoubts that Captain [Othniel] Taylor remain in command of the area since "the people in this Quarter [have lived] in the greatest Harmony and friendship with the Troops ... " Possibly written in New York.

GLC02437.02180

26 June 1783

Stewart, M., fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to Joseph Manning]

Orders to the contractors at Newburgh, New York for six days provisions for Joseph Manning, a soldier in the Rhode Island regiment who is going to home on furlough. Two dockets on verso. One is signed by Manning stating that the contractors delivered the rations. The second one is signed by Major Samuel Shaw, one of Knox's aides-de-camp. Shaw ordered the commissary to issue the rations.

GLC02437.02186

26 June 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain [Claude] Blanchard

Instructs Blanchard to relieve Captain Taylor's men at the east side of the River and from General McDougall. Advises Blanchard that Captain Taylor has written instructions for the governance and safety of the posts. Knox writes that Blanchard is not expected to have the same amount of sentries as prescribed in the instructions, as one sentry per work will be sufficient. Instructs Blanchard to have the men lodge inside the work and the gates closed until permitted to be opened.

GLC02437.02188

26 June 1783

Campbell, John, fl. 1782-1783

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Receipt for shoes]

Receipt for three hundred pairs of shoes from Morris Carl for troops marching towards Philadelphia.

GLC02437.02189

27 June 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain Brewster

General Knox requests a loan from Captain Brewster in the amount of one thousand dollars for the term of one year.

GLC02437.02193

27 June 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Issue of rum to boat men]

Shaw requests that a quart of rum be issued to eight boatmen on fatigue duty. Two other illegible signatures appear on the document. Noted "Genl Ordr No. 5" on verso.

GLC02437.02194

28 June 1783

Billings, Andrew, 1743-1808

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for cannon]

Receipt of two brass cannons from General Knox by the hand of Captain Buchanan for engraving.

GLC02437.02196

28 June 1783

Billings, Andrew, 1743-1808

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Written by Captain Major Billings to Major General Knox. References a previous letter from Knox that arrived with 2 brass cannons -- says he will "set about them as soon as the directions arrive, and will finish them as soon as possible." Billings is engraving the cannon for Count De Rocheambeau (see GLC02437.02199) also has designs relating to the Society of Cincinnati but he claims the "design [is] ... so defased and torn that they are unfit to be seen, if that is wanted I will draw it over and send down, I have a design now drawn which if aproved off may suit for those cannon for sake of…

GLC02437.02198

July 1, 1783

Price, William, ?-1790

Autograph document signed

Title: 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-one days) were issued for the month of July 1783. The document is also signed by Samuel Shaw.

GLC02437.02211

2 July 1783

Antill, Edward, 1742-1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Requests that the bearer of the letter, Joseph Dyer, and two other men (John Lenen and James Kendall) be given enough provisions to return home on furlough. Explains that the men are from Boston and that Dyer is a man "distinguished with honor and merrits some little notice." The verso includes an autograph endorsement signed by General Knox which grants each man ten days provisions for their trip back to Boston. Also included on the verso is a receipt of rations signed by John Dyer.

GLC02437.02222

2 July 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision returns for Thomas Clews]

Written and signed by General Knox's aide-de-camp Samuel Shaw. Thomas Clews, of the Corps of Invalids, is given 107 complete rations by order of General Knox. A note of receipt from the contractors for the states of New York and New Jersey is included on the docket.

GLC02437.02223