17 March 1783

Copeland, Asa, fl. 1781-1783

Autograph document signed

Title: to Mr. Forsyth

Countersigned by Henry Knox's aide, John Lillie. Request for ten days' worth of provisions for a man from the Invalid Corps. Includes a note on verso signed with Joseph Freeman's mark.

GLC02437.02013

17 March 1783

Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Return of provisions]

Provision return for one mason. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw. Contains a note on verso signed by Jacob Gillet.

GLC02437.02014

circa March 24, 1783

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return for Captain Thomas Patten's company]

Return for rations of Captain Thomas Patten's Company of Artillery Artificers belonging to the Ordnance Department. 65 sergeants and privates received 1 1/2 rations per day from 21 March to 24 March for a total of 407 rations delivered (this included 17 extra rations). Signed by Captain Patten and countersigned by John Lillie. There are two notes on verso -- one signed by Captain Patten details the troops on furlough in his unit and the other was signed by Sergent George Groom, who stated contractors delivered the 407 rations.

GLC02437.02016

23 March 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ephraim Fenno

Informs Captain Fenno that Captain George Fleming will be relieving him and his company from their post at Verplanck's Point.

GLC02437.02022

24 March 1783

Nicolas, Lewis, 1717-1807

Autograph document

Title: Considerations on Military Punishments

Discusses his views on military punishment, which are quite moderate as well as how other countries maintain control and discipline in their own military. Also lists suggestions on proper punishments for offenses. The closing page is in Nicola's hand. Originally enclosed with GLC02437.02026.

GLC02437.02027

25 March 1783

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return for Captain Patten]

Lists men by company with issued rations. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw, with a note from George Groom.

GLC02437.02030

29 March 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Request for extra rations]

Request for three days' worth of provisions for two watermen. Creator signature illegible. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with a note from Robert Matthews. Place writ from note.

GLC02437.02038

30 March 1783

Andrews, Asa, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Return for one army prisoner]

Countersigned by Captain David Judson and Samuel Shaw with a note on the verso from a Isaac Robert. Includes regiment and rations issued.

GLC02437.02041

30 March 1783

Batten, Thomas, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return]

Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with a note on the verso from John Warner. Lists men by company with issued rations.

GLC02437.02042

31 March 1783

Batten, Thomas, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return]

Countersigned by John Doughty with a note on verso from John Armstrong. Lists men by company with issued rations.

GLC02437.02045

31 March 1783

Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Hawes

Requests Captain Hawes to "furnish for the use of the Artillery as many buttons as General Knox shall report to you are required for that Corps." Noted as written at the War Office. Originally enclosed with GLC02437.02047.

GLC02437.02046

March 1783

Manuscript document

Title: to Hawes

List of rations issued. Rations total 4,155.

GLC02437.02049

31 March 1783

Manuscript document

Title: Provisions issued for Major General Henry Knox and his family in March1783

Lists provisions and amounts.

GLC02437.02051

1 April 1783

Batten, Thomas, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return]

Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with a note on verso from Dudley Mercer. Lists men according to regiment with issued rations. Inks is faded on the left side, making it difficult to read.

GLC02437.02054

22 August 1783

Anspach, Peter, fl. 1775-1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision request for Indians]

Orders rations to be issued for the use of five Indians going from Newburgh to Albany. The rations included 60 pounds of bread and 60 pounds of beef and also one gallon of rum as directed by Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Walker, an aide-de-camp to General Washington. A Thomas [Hind] signed the second page, stating that contractors delivered the rations.

GLC02437.02406

27 August 1783

Humphreys, David, 1752-1818

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request for goods]

Request for one gallon of rum for George Washington's barge crew. Noted as written at head quarters (Newburgh, New York). Docket signed by Seth Capron.

GLC02437.02423

28 August 1783

Lillie, John, 1755-1801

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return]

Return for two men in George Washington's barge. Docket signed by Jesse [Rice].

GLC02437.02439

31 July 1783

Hasting, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return for army rations issued]

Signed by Captain Hasting of the main guard and countersigned by Major Shaw as an aide-de-camp to General Knox. Provision return for one man belonging to the sappers and miners. He was given one set of rations for 31 July 1783. Docket signed by a Benjamin Warner that the rations were delivered by a contractor.

GLC02437.02352

1 August 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision request for Thomas Nelson]

Written by Major Shaw, an aide-de-camp to General Knox, to West Point Commissary James Forsyth to issue ten days provisions to Thomas Nelson, his wife, and two children. Nelson was late of the artillery and was detained by the sickness of his wife. Docket is signed by Nelson and a C. Brandy stating that contractors delivered the rations.

GLC02437.02357

1 August 1783

Price, William, ?-1790

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return for army rations issued]

Signed by William Price, an officer of the police, and Major Samuel Shaw, an aide-de-camp to General Knox. Provision return for one lieutenant police officer for the garrison of West Point for the month of August 1783. A total of 93 rations were issued for the 31 days. Docket signed by Price stating that contractors delivered the rations. Docket also signed by a C. Rum.

GLC02437.02358

2 August 1783

Shaw, John, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: to William Heath

Written by Shaw, a soldier under Major General Heath. Shaw took a furlough beginning 22 June and he thought his unit would have been discharged by now. Since it is not, he is asking for an extension of his furlough because "the state of my Health will not admit of the Fatigue [of] a march to Camp[.] I having for some time been Exercised with a Dysentery." Below Shaw's letter is a signed note from Percival Hall, a physician in New Braintree, who confirmed Shaw's poor health. Hall seems to have written Shaw's portion of the letter, but Shaw signed it himself.

GLC02437.02360

3 August 1783

Sawyer, James, 1762-1827

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return]

Return for a fatigue party stationed by Fort Montgomery. Countersigned by John Lillie and a Mr. Bell, with a signed docket by John Prescott. Mr. Bell, most likely refers to Robert Bell, an assisstant commissary of issues in New Jersey.

GLC02437.02362

23 June 1783

Crowley, Florence, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Certificate of approval for the conduct of John Popkin]

States the subscribers approve of Lieutenant Colonel John Popkin's conduct in "leaving our state notes in Boston to be Exchang'd into Current Money..." Certifies the above statement as a copy, written three years prior on 4 August, at West Point. For related documents, see GLC02437.02139, .02219, .02220, .02226, .02235, .02236, .10082, .10112, and .10117.

GLC02437.02364

7 August 1783

Thead, Henry, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for goods]

Note of receipt of goods such as beef, gills and rum. On verso is another receipt for beef and rum for five men.

GLC02437.02366

6 August 1783

Cogswell, Amos, 1752-1826

Autograph document signed

Title: [Rations for sappers and miners]

Note for rations for the corp of sappers and miners. Countersigned by John Lillie, aide-de-camp.

GLC02437.02367