6 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: to Lieutenant Price

Orders Price to inspect stores arriving from Rhode Island. Also gives Price orders regarding ordnance and stores arriving from Springfield, Massachusetts. Mentions Captain Seward and John Ruddock.

GLC02437.01024

6 July 1781

Lincoln, Freeman, fl. 1781

Manuscript signed

Title: [List of items received from Major William Perkins]

Lists items such as powder, cartridges, and fuzes, among others received from William Perkins of the artillery. Lincoln was an ox team contractor.

GLC02437.01025

6 July 1781

Crane, John, 1744-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses ordnance he gathered to be sent from Springfield to Claverack, New York. Notes that Captain Callendar, delivering this letter to Knox, will give Knox details of their march from Boston. Intends to depart for Claverack as soon as the mortars are sent from Springfield.

GLC02437.01026

6 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Hugh Hughes

Informs Hughes, Deputy Quartermaster General at Fishkill, that the artillery park will move from New Windsor the following day. Notes that Colonel Ebenezer Stevens "will be here to morrow, please to let me know on what we are to depend when we shall arrive at Peekskill."

GLC02437.01027

7 July 1781

Hughes, Hugh, ?-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Hughes, Deputy Quartermaster General at Fishkill, responds to a letter from Knox regarding moving the artillery park (GLC02437.01027). Discusses the upcoming campaign Colonel Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster General, and Henry Knox. Writes, "... my Situation is truly disagreeable, as I have neither been furnished with Orders, nor Means to answer your Demands."

GLC02437.01028

7 July 1781

Manuscript document

Title: An account of stores ordered to be sent from Philadelphia to the main army

Lists skins, leather, ladles, and writing paper, among other items.

GLC02437.01029

7 July 1781

Richards, William, fl. 1781-1787

Manuscript document

Title: [Invoice of ordnance and stores brought to Fishkill, New York from Litchfield, Connecticut]

Lists grape shot and case shot among other ordnance and stores. The stores were delivered to Ruddock, Deputy Commissary of Military Stores at Fishkill.

GLC02437.01030

10 July 1781

Swift, Heman, 1733-1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Colonel Swift informs Knox that his 2nd Connecticut Brigade "are destitute of a conductor of military stores and are much imbarrased [sic] for want of one..." Suggests Sergeant Amos Kellogg for the position. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01031

11 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain Howe

Instructs Howe regarding the transport of stores and cannon from Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island to West Point, New York. Howe is to instruct the officers in charge of sending the stores in case they do not receive Knox's orders. The stores are to be shipped on the Hudson to West Point, and kept afloat in vessels above the chain. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01034

11 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Pertains to boarding vessels] [incomplete]

Fragment. Knox anticipates receiving returns of stores. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01035

11 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [Ebenezer] Stevens

Gives Colonel Stevens instructions regarding the transportation of ammunition and stores. Discusses moving the artillery park and gathering ordnance and stores to be moved with the army. Mentions Richard Frothingham, a commissary, who will assist with moving the stores. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01036

11 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sebastian Bauman

Knox writes to Major Bauman at West Point. Instructs Bauman to send one company of artillery from West Point to Dobbs Ferry, New York. Adds that the cannon must be put on board vessels and sent as soon as possible. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01037

11 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [William] Price

Possibly to Lieutenant William Price. Asks Price to send a return of the articles he has obtained from the Quartermaster General. Reports that he has ordered laboratory stores from Philadelphia, and they are to be sent to Price at New Windsor. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01038

11 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Crane

Gives Crane orders regarding the transport of cannon and stores sent from Springfield, Massachusetts through Claverack, New York to be sent to New Windsor, New York, where Crane will soon arrive. Gives instructions to be passed on to Captain Thomas Seward if Seward is at Claverack, New York. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01039

13 July 1781

Seward, Thomas, 1740-1800

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Invoice of military stores shipped from Claverack Landing]

Possibly written at Claverack, New York. Stores were shipped aboard the Nancy under the care of Captain Beckham. Also contains an "Invoice of sundry stores deliverd Lieut Wm Price by order of General Knox for the use of the Laboratory" at New Windsor. Seward signs as captain. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide.

GLC02437.01040

13 July 1781

Stevens, Ebenezer, 1751-1823

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Colonel Stevens plans to soon sail from his present location, bound for Kings Ferry, New York. Has endeavored to fulfill Knox's instructions in Knox's absence (Stevens possibly writes from New Windsor, New York). Notes that the arms available to his men at present are rusty and dirty, and expresses reluctance to march with these. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide.

GLC02437.01042

13 July 1781

Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Major Bauman, in charge of artillery at West Point, writes "I saw Genl [Alexander] McDougall next morning at half passd seven, and by Eight I had all necessary orders given, and every thing in motion, and at noon had the cannon and stores at the landing ready to put aboard some vessells..." Discusses stores being sent to Knox (at Philipsburgh, present-day Sleepy Hollow, New York). Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide.

GLC02437.01043

30 June 1781

Van Rensselaer, Philip, 1747-1798

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and stores at Albany, New York. Items listed by type, and date issued.

GLC02437.10681

27 July 1781

Carrington, Edward, 1749-1810

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Colonel Carrington writes to Knox from the "High hills of Santee," near the Santee River in South Carolina. Due to the resignation of Colonel Proctor, Colonel Carrington assumes he is to take command of the Fourth Regiment. Has not received orders to that effect, and anxiously awaits direction from Knox or General George Washington (through Nathanael Greene).

GLC02437.01093

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Sculpture designs: 4 standing figures, 1 female and 3 male]

Two of the sketches are probably of George Washington. Black ink, tracing paper.

GLC06343.033

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Standing man in profile with out-stretched arm]

Probably George Washington. Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.034

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Standing man facing front with out-stretched arm]

Probably George Washington. Pale graphite.

GLC06343.035

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Standing man with crossed arms]

Probably Washington. Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.036

circa 1900

Wells, Cora E., fl. 1900

Typed document

Title: J. Q. A Ward, the Eminent American Sculptor

Features an article on Ward and his works and, photos of Ward, the New York Stock Exchange pediment, and a George Washington sculpture at Wall St. Printed ink; coated wove paper.

GLC06343.037

24 September 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Introduction for Edward Everett ]

Of Everett, President Lincoln states "His reputation, and the present condition of our country, are such that his visit then is such to attract notice, and may be misconstrued. I therefore think fit to say that he bears no mission from this government ... I am greatly conscious that he could better introduce me than I him, in Europe."

GLC08074