15 October 1778

Amory, Jonathan, fl. 1778-1779

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for William Knox]

Receipt given to William Knox after he paid three months rent to John Amory, Jr. The total was for £12.10.

GLC02437.08450

1778

Emmons, Nathaniel, fl. 1778

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Bill to William Knox]

William Knox bought 6 silver spoons and a sword for £2.14.0. The items were bought from Lech Brigden. Nathaniel Emmons, apparently an agent for Brigden, signed the bill stating payment was made.

GLC02437.08456

10 February 1779

Amory, Jonathan, fl. 1778-1779

Manuscript document

Title: [Receipt]

Receipt of items William Knox bought from Jonathan Amory. Items include bibles and knifes.

GLC02437.08465

February 1779

Callender, Benjamin, fl. 1772-1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Bill for William Knox]

Bill for making a coat and to mend another coat and a pair breeches. Also bills William for buttons, silk, and thread. The total is £7.16. Signed by Callender stating he received payment.

GLC02437.08474

2 April 1779

Callender, Benjamin, fl. 1772-1785

Manuscript document

Title: [Bill for William Knox]

Bill for making a jacket. Also for thread and mending a coat and a pair of breeches. Total came to £5.8.

GLC02437.08479

26 April 1779

Bird, Nathaniel, fl. 1774-1790

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Bill for William Knox]

William Knox bought 15 dozen shoe brushes and 3 dozen scrubbing brushes. The total was £167.2. Bird signed the document noting that full payment was made.

GLC02437.08485

28 April 1779

Callender, Benjamin, fl. 1772-1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Bill for William Knox]

Bill for making breeches as well as buttons and silk. The total came to £5.1. Signed by Callender stating payment was received.

GLC02437.08486

18 May 1779

Clement, Thomas, fl. 1778-1779

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for payment from William Knox]

Signed by Clement stating he received £200 from William Knox. The money was "sound & free from all Blemishes whatever."

GLC02437.08487

16 June 1779

Bell, Daniel, fl. 1772-1779

Manuscript document signed

Title: [William Knox's account with Daniel Bell]

William bought 10 hogsheads of tobacco. The total came to £3787. Bell signed off that he received payment.

GLC02437.08491

28 September 1779

Manuscript document

Title: [William Knox's account with Beckes] [in French]

William Knox purchased various items for a total of £167.2.

GLC02437.08496

22 December 1779

Burford, William, fl. 1779

Autograph document signed

Title: Receipt

Partially printed receipt for hosiery purchased from William Burford at the Golden Fleece for Henry Knox.

GLC02437.08513

23 December 1779

Bidwell, William, fl. 1779

Manuscript document signed

Title: Receipt

Receipt for material bought from Thomas Bowen for Mrs. John Timmins. Signed by William Bidwell.

GLC02437.08518

January 27, 1780

Bell, John, 1745-1831

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Books bought of John Bell]

Bought a copy of Halley's Astronomical Tables, a copy of the court calender, a copy of the list of the army, and a lead pencil. Total came to £1.3.

GLC02437.08527

13-19 March 1780

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: Receipt

Receipt of Henry Knox's payments to various merchants for goods such as foodstuffs, bearskins, clothing, etc.

GLC02437.08533

January 24, 1781

Magee, James, fl. 1781

Printed document signed

Title: Bills of Lading for the Brigatine Amsterdam

2 copies of bill of lading for "2 Casks Merchandize." The ship Amsterdam will take the goods from Boston to Alexandria, Virginia. Signed twice by Captain James Magee.

GLC02437.08542

30 April 1782

L., Blane, & Wagner, fl. 1782

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Bill to Henry Knox from L. Blaine & Wagner]

Knox's bill for various items, including a traveling case, hair powder, perfume, shaving soap, shaving brushes, etc. The total came to £16.5. Docket in Samuel Shaw's hand.

GLC02437.08543

12 September 1778

Brimmer, Martin, 1742-1804

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt]

Lists transactions of William Knox.

GLC02437.10387

circa 1771

Battelle, Ebenezer, fl. 1771

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Booklist]

A long list of books that Henry Knox purchased possibly from Eben Battelle. Date was added later in pencil. Henry Knox signed he received the books.

GLC02437.10612

circa 1782

Carr, James, fl. 1775-1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for a New Hampshire battalion commanded by James Carr. Lists men by company, rank, and present status. The year 1782 was noted on the docket at later date in pencil.

GLC02437.10613

September 25, 1778

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Tallmadge

Letter signed as commander in chief and written in the hand of John Laurens, Washington's aide. Assures Tallmadge that his cavalry would receive enough supplies but warns that there will be no new horses. Complains about the dragoon's ill use of the horses, "It gives me pain but I cannot forbear attributing the ill state of the Cavalry, in a great measure to the unrestrained licence of the Dragoons in the use of their horses; their speed is equally immoderate on all occasions; when they are detached, nor are their horses less freely employed on their own private concerns." Letter addressed to…

GLC01746

September 9, 1782

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Gen. David Forman

Letter written in the hand of Washington's aide-de-camp Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. Written two months before the signing of the first provisional peace treaty between Great Britain and the United States in Paris on November 30, during the uneasy lull that followed American victory at Yorktown in September 1781. As Brigadier General of New Jersey militia, Forman had acted as Washington's watchman since 1780 by keeping the Commander in Chief advised of enemy movements off the coast. Even after ratification of the peace treaty, it was not until November 1783 that British troops entirely evacuated…

GLC01783

1775

Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791

Book

Title: An address to the people of England, Ireland, and Scotland, on the present important crisis of affairs [Reprinted in "English defenders of American freedoms, 1774-1778"]

See the Macaulay papers, GLC 1784.01-1800.04. Vigorous, inflammatory attack on government of George III. Alerts people of Ireland, Scotland, and England to dangers of legislation without representation and parliamentary oppression. Solutions include the requirement of a civil test for all elected officials to ensure responsibility to the people, and the overturning of septennial parliaments. Reprinted in English Defenders of American Freedom, 1774-1448: Six Pamphlets Attacking British Policy, comp. Paul H. Smith (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1972). Third edition. (London;…

GLC01784.02

1774-1775

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania journal and weekly advertiser. [No. 1674 (January 4, 1774) - no. 1725 (December 27, 1775)] [with gaps]

Revolutionary War era newspaper: Pennsylvania Journal. 5 and 19 April 1775 issues contain fugitive slave ads. Issue number 1698 is missing. March 8, 1775 contains African Slavery In America written by Thomas Paine in 1774.

GLC01706

December 6, 1764

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [no. 1876 (December 6, 1764)]

Printed by Benjamin Franklin and D. Hall. Contains Governor William Penn's acceptance of a temorary peace with the Delawares and Shawnees. Penn appoints William Johnson as agent to negotiate final peace treaty. Declaration signed on 5 December 1764.

GLC01713.02

1766

Parker, James, fl. 1766-1771

Pamphlet

Title: Examination of Doctor Benjamin Franklin, before an August Assembly, relating to the Repeal of the Stamp-Act, &c.

Records Franklin's testimony before the House of Commons concerning American grievances about the Stamp Act, internal levies, the debts from the French and Indian War, costs and origins of that war, American manufactures, and American sentiments towards Britain and Parliament. Among the questions and answers are: "Q. What used to be the pride of Americans? / A. To indulge in the fashions and manufactures of Great-Britain. / Q. What now is their pride? / A. To wear their old cloaths over again, till they can make new ones." Copyright and libel laws prohibited any indication of the "august…

GLC01719