1749/05/19

Livingston, John, 1714-1786

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter DeWitt re: waiting for the completion of a coat

John Livingston writes that a coat he ordered for Peter DeWitt should be finished shortly. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.04446

1749/05/19

Livingston, Robert III, 1708-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter DeWitt re: the market for flour

Robert Livingston, Jr. discusses the various market prices for flour. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.04447

1749/05/30

Livingston, John, 1714-1786

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter DeWitt re: shipment of clothing

John Livingston describes some clothing he has just sent to Peter DeWitt. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.04448

1749/07/29

Livingston, Robert III, 1708-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter DeWitt re: slave trade

Robert Livingston, Jr. describes the multiple deaths of enslaved people on a trading vessel, and expresses disappointment at the financial loss.

GLC03107.04449

1749/09/19

Livingston, Robert III, 1708-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter DeWitt re: trade

Robert, Jr. discusses the various goods he would like to trade, as well as the current market prices of these goods.

GLC03107.04450

1749/10/04

Livingston, John, 1714-1786

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter DeWitt re: orders for trade

John Livingston asks DeWitt to sell the remainder of his enslaved people, and also orders some cattle and pigs. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.04451

1739/10/07

Van Duesen, Henry, fl. 1749

Letter

Title: to Peter DeWitt re: trade and settlement of accounts [fragment]

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.04452

1749/10/26

Van Duesen, Henry, fl. 1749

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter DeWitt re: trade

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.04453

1749/12/20

Williams, John, fl. 1749-1759

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter DeWitt re: conveyance of rents

Williams writes to explain the rents he is sending to DeWitt.

GLC03107.04454

1750/02/25

Stevenson, James, fl. 1750-1755

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Peter DeWitt re: receipt of payments

Stevenson acknowledges receipt of some payments, and also orders a shipment of butter.

GLC03107.04455

1734/07

Livingston, Hendrick, fl. 1734

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dirck Van Veghten re: trade

GLC03107.04456

1747/07/15

Note

Title: to Henry Livingston [(?)] re: rent agreement of Michiel Stoppelbeen

The note states that Michiel Stoppelbeen has taken a parcel of land, and notes the rent that he will pay. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.04457

1734/02/21

Wright, Anthony, fl. 1734

Manuscript document signed

Title: Grant of power of attorney to Peter Van Brugh Livingston

The document, written and signed by the notary public of London, states that Edward Spear has named Peter Van Brugh Livingston as his attorney. Livingston is therefore expected to retrieve outstanding debts from James Wallace on behalf of Edward Spear.

GLC03107.04458

2 August 1781

Winslow, Samuel, fl. 1781-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Introduces Knox to Joseph Whiting, relating that he and Whiting have a "mercantile connection." Recommends that George Washington grant Whiting permission to travel to New York to conduct business.

GLC02437.01109

16 June 1782

Crane, John, 1744-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Writes, "I mentioned to his Excellency General Washington, that it might be well to send some persons to the State of Vermont after [desertion], and he is pleased to approve of it. I have not the least doubt but the persons who deserted from your guard are gone to that place, as one of them owns a small farm there which he purchased last summer, previous to his being apprehended as a deserter, with an intention, that this [step] might prevent his being at all apprehended. If you should approve the sending some persons, I will do it immediately."

GLC02437.01454

1 November 1789

Crocker, Joseph, 1749-1797

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Relates details of George Washington's visit to Boston in October 1789, and praises the Triumphal Arch that was erected to honor the occasion: "The Reception of the President in this Town, was beyond discription [sic] superb: you will see Accounts of it in our Papers but they are vastly short of the real pomp & parade. The Assemblee at Concert Hall, I am enformed by several Gentlemen, was superb beyond description. The Triumphal Arch adjoining the State House is yet standing, & does [g]reat Honor to the Inventors." Mentions an illness sweeping town, noting that it is called the "…

GLC02437.04401

30 April 1782

Crane, John, 1744-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses various issues regarding the ordnance laboratory and supplies at West Point. Includes an estimate of the stores they will need for the laboratory there. Comments that they are working to tow timber and obtain materials. Refers to his letter of 18 February, in which he asked whether they had the correct number of fuses. Declares that when he did not receive an answer from Knox, he ordered more fuses to be made. See GLC02437.01401 for the enclosure that accompanied this letter.

GLC02437.01400

19 June 1782

Crane, John, 1744-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses the appointment of two conductors, Swartland and Trent. Apparently due to some error they were sent as artificers to the wrong company, but as they had been appointed by Knox as conductors, a Captain Sears has ordered their return to their rightful company and position. Note on bottom of verso, in Knox's hand, says the letter was answered by Captain [likely John] Lillie.

GLC02437.01456

12 July 1782

Crane, John, 1744-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Informs Knox that they have in their stores a number of "wide Horseman's belts," and many officers from the Infantry want to split the belts and "make two for their pouches." Is not sure whether Knox had another use for them so declined to give permission until he asked Knox.

GLC02437.01484

December 1782

Manuscript document

Title: Report of the board of general officers for settling the rank of Colonels Crane, & Lamb

Date added later in pencil. Marked "copy." Writes, "That Colo [John] Crane serving as a Captain with the Army from the 8th May 1775 by Virtue of a State Commission of that date, and a General Order, requesting such Officers, to send in their Commissions and receive others of the same date, ought to take precedence of Colo. [John] Lamb whose Commission as Captain in the Continental Army, bears date 30th June 1775. The also appears to this Board that Colo. Crane was Commissioned as Major in the Continental Army the 1st of January 1776, and Colo. Lamb appointed to a Majority the 9th to take…

GLC02437.01768

7 January 1783

Crane, John, 1744-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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 how to proceed and would like Knox's advice.

GLC02437.01808

22 June 1783

Crane, John, 1744-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Duplicate of GLC02437.02175. Discusses orders for officers to hand in returns in a timely manner concerning the "number of Officers ... and privates who will remain in service from the different corps at this post ... " Explains the return was created before all of the officers choosing to remain in service were accounted for, and since there were more officers who chose to stay than were expected, he needs to issue a new return. Had asked the officers to decide among themselves who would remain since "I do not think that I can with propriety derange any officer without his consent. If…

GLC02437.02174

12 July 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Certificate of service for Florence Crowley]

Written and signed for Knox in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. Certifies that retiring Lieutenant Florence Crowley served in the Corps of Artillery under General Knox from 1777 to 1783. Praises Crowley for being an "attentive, brave, and intelligent officer."

GLC02437.02268

22 November 1783

Townsend, David, 1753-1829

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certificate of illness]

Countersigned by Samuel Adams, a hospital surgeon. Certifies that soldiers in the general hospital are "so reduced by Sickness as totally to disqualify them for any Kind of military Duty & in our Opinion they will continue in that situation thro' the Winter. we do therefore recommend them as proper Subjects for a Discharge."

GLC02437.02793

16 December 1785

Winter, V., fl. 1785

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Writes, "Your accepted draught in favor of Peter Webbers is deposited on my hands with Instructions to put the same in suit unless forthwith discharged I thought proper to give you this previous notice before any Legal Steps were taken for the recovery of the amount thereof. As it appears to me this Bill cannot be Subject to a controversy in the hands of the present holder I could [work?] an amicable settlement to avoid the expense that must attend a litigation."

GLC02437.03225