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Date added later in blue pencil. "Please to issue the allowance of Rum for five servants without arms in General Knox's family (or if you have no rum an equivalent in spirit) for the present month of January 1783. and charge the same to the General...

GLC02437.01774

[Provision return for eighteen army prisoners for eight days]

Return signed by Asa Andrews and R. Douglass, and countersigned "By order of the Comdt", S. [Samuel] Shaw, Aide-de-Camp. Note on verso signed illegibly.

GLC02437.01783

[A provision return for barge men]

Return signed by W. Woodstock and countersigned "By order of the Comdt", S. [Samuel] Shaw, Aide-de-Camp. Note on verso signed by Thomas Coghall.

GLC02437.01794

to the Commissary

Request for one day's provision for two men of the 2nd Jersey regiment.

GLC02437.01803

to Henry Knox

Written by Colonel Crane of the Continental Artillery to Major General Knox. Says the dispute between Captain Lieutenant Kemper and Lieutenant Crawley has been presented to a board of officers and their opinion presented to him. Says he does not know...

GLC02437.01808

Return of the Women & Children at the Post of West Point & its Dependencies, that would have drawn Rations under the late Regulations, and also of the number of Extra Rations drawn under the new Contract

Lists number of women and children by regiment and includes the amount of extra rations they will receive under the new regulations.

GLC02437.01809

A Provision Return for the Commdt. Barge Men Commencing the 5th and Ending the 8th jany 1783

Lists companies and men and the number rations issued. Signed by W. Woodstock; countersigned by Samuel Shaw. Endorsed by W. Woodstock on verso.

GLC02437.01811

to Henry Knox

Discusses and reports the state of ordnance at several forts including Rensellaer, Schuyler, and Herkimer.

GLC02437.01815

Provision Return for sixteen Carpenters Emply'd in the Engineer Department at West Point, Commence the fifth and ending the tenth day of January 1783 - both days included -

Lists people by regiment. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw. Signs his own name as "Niven." Endorsed by John Allin.

GLC02437.01821

to the Commissary

Orders to issue a day's worth of rations to musicians in the New Hampshire line "detained at this post by the present storm." Endorsed by a man named Samuel, surname illegible.

GLC02437.01825

Provision Return for Sixteen Soldiers for Six Days Employed In the Engineers Department at one Ration and a half per Day Commensing the Eleventh and Ending the Sixteenth Both Days Included

Lists men by regiment and company and rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw and endorsed by John Allin.

GLC02437.01826

[Army Rations issued to Elizabeth Cottril]

Orders to issue rations, "whiskey excepted," to Elizabeth Cottril, Richard Cottril's wife. Countersigned by Robert Forsythe and endorsed by Richard Cottril.

GLC02437.01832

[Provision return for one army prisoner for three days]

Shows the amount of provisions issued for one prisoner. Countersigned by R. Willis and John Doughty and endorsed by [Truman] Hotchkiss. Date from note.

GLC02437.01833

to Henry Knox

Written by Peirce to Major General Knox. It seems that Knox was making inquiries for property involving his Loyalist in-law's confiscated estates. Says he has seen Mr. Imman and Mr. Rowe and that the former said he would take 3,000 pounds for his...

GLC02437.01835

to Henry Knox

Requests a lock for the door to the stores of ammunition and provisions.

GLC02437.01837

[Army Rations issued to the Engineers Department]

Lists men by regiment and company with issued rations. Signed by Moses Dean. Countersigned by John Doughty and endorsed by a John [Allin]. Date and place writ from note.

GLC02437.01840

[Provision return of Capt. Thomas Patten's Company of Artificers]

Lists men by regiment, company, and trade with issued rations. Countersigned by John Doughty with an endorsement by D. S. Mercer. Date and place writ from docket.

GLC02437.01841

[Provision return for one army prisoner]

Lists amount of rations issued. Countersigned by E. Eills and John Doughty, with an endorsement by Jedediah Smith. Place writ from note.

GLC02437.01845

to Henry Knox

"The Commander in Chief has directed me to inclose you Lt. Campbells return, and to request you would cause some enquiry to be made into the loss of stores mentioned therein." Noted as written at Head Quarters. See GLC02437.01853 for Knox's follow...

GLC02437.01852

to Henry Knox

Forwarding Knox a letter from General Horatio Gates and informing him that he will help Gates in any way possible. Noted as granted. See GLC02437.01862 for the enclosed letter. Written at Constitution Island.

GLC02437.01865

[Verification for Cornelius Dunham's replacement]

Certifies that Cornelius Dunham found another man to take his place "for three years unless the war should expire Before that Time." Note from Samuel Shaw states that the replacement will be in the company of artillery.

GLC02437.01867

Victualing return for two army prisoners four days commencing the 27th and including the 31st of instant Jany

Lists men by regiment and includes rations issued. Countersigned by Ezra Selden and Samuel Shaw with endorsement on the verso by Phinehas [Prang]. Place writ from note.

GLC02437.01871

[Provision return for one man of captain Thomas Patten's Company]

Lists men by company with rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with endorsement by Dudley Mercer. Date from note.

GLC02437.01883

[Provision return of Capt Patten's Company]

Lists men by regiment and company with rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with endorsement signed by Dudley Mercer.

GLC02437.01891

[Request for supplies]

Request for planks and boards to finish building barracks. Spells his name "Niven."

GLC02437.01911