April 1780

Murphy, John, fl. 1780

Manuscript signed

Title: [Lovett family receipt]

Front side dated 6 April 1780 confirms receipt from John Lovett of $800 for a share of the prizes of the first cruise of the privateer ship, the Pilgrim, Hugh Hill Commander. Other side details two accounts for prize monies signed by John Lovett. Lovett was a privateer ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. He served as the agent for the Pilgrim's prizes. Dated April 6, 1780 - April 13, 1780.

GLC01450.006.23

February 23, 1779

Johnston, Lawrance, fl. 1779

Manuscript signed

Title: [Lovett family receipt]

Countersigned as a witness by George Raymond. Certifies that he agrees to sell John Lovett half a share of the prizes from the privateer ship the Pilgrim, commanded by Hugh Hill. Confirms that Lovett paid to him $300 upon delivery. Reverse has a note about the account signed by Lovett. Lovett was a privateer ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. He served as the agent for the Pilgrim's prizes.

GLC01450.006.24

2 October 1778

Beckford, John, fl. 1778

Manuscript signed

Title: [Pilgrim's prize receipt]

Countersigned as a witness by William Leach. Certifies that Beckford gave to John Lovett 1/2 of a share of the prize captured by the privateer ship, the Pilgrim, Hugh Hill commander. In return, Beckford signs that he received from Lovett $220. Note on reverse signed by Lovett. Lovett was a privateer ship merchant and captain in Beverly, Massachusetts. He served as the agent for the prizes captured by the Pilgrim.

GLC01450.006.32

July 31, 1777

Hillegas, Michael, 1729-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Clarke

Transmits through the Treasury Board the Continental Loan Office certificates. Hillegas gives amounts of each and instructions on numbering them. The total of all the certificates comes to $354,000. The Continental Loan Offices administered loans to the Continental Treasury to help finance the war effort. Hillegas was the Treasurer of the United States. He signed as Continental Treasurer. Clarke was the Commissioner of the Continental Loan Office in Rhode Island.

GLC01450.008.02

September 10, 1777, December 29, 1777

Gibson, John, 1729-1782

Autograph document

Title: [Interest on Loan Office Certificates]

Clerical copy made by Charles Thomson, Secretary. Resolution of Congress stating that the interest accrued after the date of this document on Loan Office Certificates already issued or issued before 1 March 1778, shall be paid annually at the respective offices in Bills of Exchange on the Commissioners of the United States in Paris, at the rate of five livres (currency of France) for every Spanish milled dollar, or in Continental Bills of Credit, at the option of the lenders. Second resolution dated 29 December 1777 directs the Commissioners of the Continental Loan Offices of the United…

GLC01450.008.03

November 12, 1777

Govett, William, fl. 1777

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Clarke

Letter signed as Auditor General. Govett reports that the Committee on the Treasury has requested Clarke to pay strict attention to making monthly returns to the Treasury Board for monies received from the Continental Loan Office certificates. He states that several commissioners have neglected to do this and it has caused many inconveniences. The Continental Loan Offices administered loans to the Continental Treasury to help finance the war effort. Clarke was the Commissioner of the Continental Loan Office in Rhode Island.

GLC01450.008.04

December 29, 1777

Gibson, John, 1729-1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Clarke

Letter signed as Auditor General. Gibson informs Clarke of the Resolutions of Congress from December 29, 1777 and September 10, 1777 instructing how to correctly pay the interest accrued on Continental Loan Office certificates. States that interest on certificates dated on or before September 10, 1777 must be paid in Continental Bills of Credit. Interest after that time can be paid in Continental Bills or Bills of Exchange at the option of the lender. Requests that Clarke inform the Treasury Board of the state of his office immediately. The Continental Loan Offices administered loans to the…

GLC01450.008.05

March 24, 1778

Hillegas, Michael, 1729-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Clarke

Hillegas states that he is transmitting from the Treasury Board to Clarke Continental Loan Office certificates amounting to $521,000 escorted by Mr. Norton Brailsford and William Dodd. He reports that he sent $21,000 in certificates from Baltimore last summer when the Treasury Board was in Philadelphia, but they were returned so he is sending them again. He asks Clarke to give bearers duplicate receipts to bring back, and details amounts of each certificate and how they should be numbered. Docketed received April 7, 1778. The Continental Loan Offices administered loans to the Continental…

GLC01450.008.06

16 June 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: [Appointment of Josiah Flagg to take charge of military stores in Rhode Island]

Signed by Shaw for Henry Ward and Theodore Foster. Marked as a copy (copied in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp). Contains the copied signatures of Henry Ward, Rhode Island Secretary of State, and Theodore Foster, Providence Town Clerk. Ward confirms that Flagg is to replace Mr. Perkins, because Perkins was ordered to George Washington's headquarters. Contains resolves of the State of Rhode Island "and Providence Plantation" issued 26 June 1781 instructing Perkins to leave certain stores for use by the militia. Foster had signed as witness to the resolves.

GLC02437.00981

18 June 1780

Harrison, Richard, 1750-1841

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Jarvis

Mentions a difficult trip to Cadiz, Spain and discusses possible business ventures with produce, fabric, and other goods. Address leaf also contains several calculations.

GLC02437.00811

25 November 1777

Blodget, William, 1754-1809

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Weedon

Blodget, General Nathanael Greene's aide-de-camp, writes to General George Weedon. Greene informs Weedon that General John Glover's brigade will soon be within a few miles of Greene's troops. Greene has ordered that all troops should be in motion by eight in the morning. Mentions the Marquis (possibly the Marquis de Lafayette). Addressed to Weedon at Moorstown (possibly Moorestown, New Jersey). On address leaf, includes a note indicating that this letter should be allowed to pass to Moorstown, by order of General Greene.

GLC06498.02

5 December 1782

Swan, J., fl. 1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Weedon

To General Weedon at Fredericksburg, Virginia. Major Swan discusses affairs at Charleston, South Carolina: "We have all been in the utmost state of suspense with respect to Charles Town. I believe it will not any longer admit of a doubt and a few days will give us the long wished for possession of that place." Discussing General Nathanael Greene, notes that he has great merit, but "the majority of the army here are not so fond of him as they were Eighteen months ago..." Updates Weedon on military affairs among his troops. Notes that he will remain in the area for the winter. Recently…

GLC06498.03

22 June 1782

Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819

Manuscript document

Title: Return of Arms & Accoutrements at West Point

List of arms and accoutrements including scabbards and muskets with and without bayonets.

GLC02437.01464

24 June 1782

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the Quartermaster at Morristown, New Jersey

Written by Major Shaw of Major General Henry Knox's staff to the Quartermaster at Morristown, New Jersey. Reports that on the march north from Burlington, New Jersey to New Windsor, New York, one of Knox's wagon horses "foundered" in such a way to make it impossible for her to continue. Says she was a grey mare and that she was left with a John Salter of Pompton, New Jersey, less than a mile from the Yellow House Tavern. Wants the quartermaster to pay the expense of recovering the mare so she can be put to public use.

GLC02437.01466

30 June 1782

Craig, Isaac, 1742-1826

Manuscript document signed

Title: Return of the detachment for the 4th Pennsylvania Regiment of Artillery & a detachment of artillery artificers, commanded by Major Isaac Craig

Written from Fort Pitt, present day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Chart of numbers of soldiers in a detachment from the 4th Pennsylvania Regiment of Artillery, sorted by rank as well as health and fitness for duty. See GLC02437.01470 for accompanying letter.

GLC02437.01471

1 July 1782

Lillie, John, 1755-1801

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Ruddock

Writes, "General Knox desires me to inform you, that a Conductor, or Some person in your department who was lately at the Magazine near Head Quarters broke open the lock, & left the door tied with a string. He wishes you to have it secured without a moments delay, as the Stores are much exposed and bring the person with you to his quarters on Wednesday Morning at ten oclock."

GLC02437.01472

15 July 1782

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: Ordnance of stores received during the year

Authorship inferred from handwriting. Date added later in pencil. Ordnance items listed in two columns, with dates written at the top of each. Paragraph below columns reads, "The return to be continued in the aforegoing manner for the whole year - then the total of each particular article inserted under its own proper head in the general return."

GLC02437.01486

17 July 1782

Peirce, John, 1750-1798

Manuscript document

Title: Return of sundry articles which are much wanted for the different posts on the Mohawk River

In the handwriting of Captain Peirce of the artillery, most likely John Peirce, son of Isaac Peirce and younger brother of Joseph. Chart for supplies wanted at different posts on the Mohawk River in New York. Divided into five columns: for 12 pounder, for 7 pdr, for 6 pounds, for 3 pounder, and sundry articles. The cannons need flannel and paper cartridges as well as caps, cylinders, grape shot, and round shot. The sundry articles include lead aprons, twine, thread, yard, paper, and matches. Note on bottom says a quantity of oakum for the corking magazine is desired, as well as a quantity of…

GLC02437.01488

20 July 1782

Sands Livingston & Company, fl. 1782

Manuscript document

Title: Instructions to the issuing commissaries

Marked "copy." Writes, "All Issuing Commissaries are hereby directed to request the Commanding Officers of Regiments, Detachments, and Smaller Parties, to make regular Returns on clear paper, and large enough to take proper receipts thereon." Adds, "Received of the Contractors for the moving Army, one hundred Rations in full of all species for the above Return."

GLC02437.01496

24 July 1782

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: to Alexander Hamilton

Later copy. Knox sent Hamilton the latest information on what is now known as the Huddy-Asgill Affair.

GLC02437.01499

July 1782

Officers of the Massachusetts Line

Manuscript document

Title: to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in General Court Assembled

In the hand of Samuel Shaw. Writes on behalf of the officers of the Massachusetts line that the Massachusetts state legislature has, following the direction of Congress, settled payment with the officers for the years 1779 and 1780, but have not yet made payments for the year 1781. The officers request that the legislature send a committee to camp to settle payment with the officers, because officers need to be in camp in case a campaign happens at a moment's notice. Also informs the legislature that the officers are owed for unpaid food and clothing rations for several years past, which,…

GLC02437.01514

circa 1782

Manuscript document

Title: Articles issued in the year 1782

Possibly in the hand of Samuel Shaw. Year in title added later in pencil. A blank form describing military stores in two columns, organized by date, including flints and powder. A note below the chart reads, "The return to be continued in the aforegoing manner for the whole year, then the total of each particular article inserted under its own proper head in the general return." See GLC02437.01486 for a related document.

GLC02437.01515

circa 1774-1788

Autograph letter

Title: to Lucy Knox [incomplete]

Possibly by Hannah Flucker Urquhart to her sister, Lucy Knox. Discusses the death of her husband (possibly James Urquhart) writing, "Know your superior happiness in having a Dear and good husband to sympathize with you, you have still a comforter, you have a Protector for yourself and Dear Children, and you can never feel the pain and inconveniences of Poverty. In me see the Child of ill fortune- having the greatest affliction to encounter and no hope of alleviation." Notes that her mother-in-law, Mrs. Urquhart, comforted her through hardships. Mentions that money she (Hannah) brought into…

GLC02437.09453

25 October 1782

Seward, Thomas, 1740-1800

Manuscript document signed

Title: A report of Captain Thomas Sewards Company 3rd regiment of artillery return'd from the Northern Department

Contains a chart of personnel from the 3rd Regiment of Artillery, broken down by position, such as bombardiers, gunmen, and drum & fifes.

GLC02437.01680

25 October 1782

Gibbs, Samuel, fl. 1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lewis Nicola

Written from Fish Kill Landing, present-day Fishkill, New York. Writes, "I saw a Gentleman from Hartford yesterday who gave me a letter for Sergt Gerolds; and at the same time inform'd me that the Srgt's wife died, verry sudden in a fit, six or seven days since and left four little children one at the breast. the Serg. Comes with my leave to Obtain leave of the Colonel to visit the Orfins if he should judge proper." See GLC02437.01679 for a related document.

GLC02437.01682