13 June 1793

Tanner, Benjamin, 1775-1848

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt]

Receipt for three state maps of New York bought from C. Tiebout.

GLC02437.08668

13 July 1794

Zerban, Wendell, fl. 1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Note]

Appears to be a receipt regarding transactions between Wendell Zerban and Henry Knox.

GLC02437.08675

24 May 1795

Meade, George, 1741-1808

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Drafts]

Drafts Henry Knox deposited with Samuel Hodgdson listed by date. Docket written in pencil.

GLC02437.08676

16 August 1794

Pintard, John M., ?-1811

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Invoice]

Invoice for a pipe and Madeira wine shipped by John Marsden Pintard for Henry Knox.

GLC02437.08677

November 28, 1794 - February 5, 1795

Manuscript document

Title: [Account]

Account information related to "J. Le Fevre," Philip Audebert, and others.

GLC02437.08681

25 May 1795

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Note]

A financial note for the sum of $1,524.33 involving Henry Knox, George Meade, and Samuel Hodgdon.

GLC02437.08692

25 May 1795

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Note]

A financial note for the sum of $2,048.56 involving Henry Knox, George Meade, and Samuel Hodgdon.

GLC02437.08693

circa 1795

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

Lists persons who agreed to unspecified terms for lands in 1795 but have not made any settlements. Also lists persons who referred their lots to the Commissioners.

GLC02437.08700

2 April 1796

Simpson, Henry Jr., fl. 1794-1796

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Account]

List of items bought, including boards, molasses, rum, chocolate, brandy, pepper, and others.

GLC02437.08702

circa 13 December 1796

Andrew & Loring, fl. 1796

Manuscript document

Title: [Accounts]

List of transactions between Thomas Flucker and the firm Andrew & Loring with payment from Henry Ware. Items listed by date.

GLC02437.08705

7-14 June 1796

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Probate account]

List of transactions regarding Thomas Flucker's estate by date. Includes a note dated 14 June 1796 stating that this was exhibited and accepted by the Probate office. Noted as a copy in the docket.

GLC02437.10391

29 May 1791

Manuscript document

Title: [Account]

Noted as a copy. A list of claims on the estate of Thomas Flucker. Docket notes the list are debts allowed by the Commissioners of Insolvency against Thomas Flucker's estate. Date taken from docket.

GLC02437.10617

1861-1865

Morris, John W., fl. 1890

Pamphlet

Title: War Claims Against The United States

A digest of laws and practice relative to war claims against the United States written by attorney John W. Morris, an expert in pension cases.

GLC03523.10.238

circa June 1785

Autograph document

Title: Dementions & cost of a 16 inch wall for a fore wall at the magazine at Springfield

Document states each side wall will be 116 feet long and the ends will be 52 feet wide. Provides costs for 70,560 bricks, sand, boards, timber, and the labor to lay the bricks. The total comes to £179.9.0. Though dated in pencil with the year 1779, this document is apparently an enclosure for GLC02437.03152, a letter to Henry Knox from June 1785. The letter was accompanied by several estimates for buildings and construction projects at the Springfield armory. One of the enclosures described in that letter matches the title of this document.

GLC02437.08362

circa 1784-1806

Manuscript document

Title: The following is a list of the names of persons with whom D. Fales in behalf of Gen Knox entered into Reference, viz.

List of 24 names whom Fales, probably an agent for Knox in Maine, gave references to in Knox's name. The place of residence in Maine is noted for each name.

GLC02437.08366

2 August 1774

Manuscript document

Title: [Bill for items purchased]

List of items purchased. These include a card table, a pot, a baking pan, 1 case of gin, 2 house bells, a tureen, a chest, a set of knives, among other things. The total comes to £97.16.6. Signed on verso saying "Recd. for Mr. Jos. Russell S. Clap." Possibly written by Samuel Shaw.

GLC02437.08368

18 October 1774

Autograph document

Title: [Bill for wine]

Notes that 1 quarter cask of Lisbon win cost £7.

GLC02437.08370

circa 1790

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Account from the Thomas Flucker estate]

Lists accounts to the Thomas Flucker estate from 1746-1774, including land as well as notes, bonds, and mortgages owed to Flucker. The real estate was valued at £4947.9.7 1/2. The other items in the estate brought the full value to £5806.19.7 1/2. Date added later in pencil.

GLC02437.08371

circa 1784-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: Deeds an[d] other papers related to the patent estate

Lists the deeds and other paperwork from the Flucker estate. Interspersed are Knox's notes, many of them on the margins. The notes relate how valuable the property is in his eyes and also mentions any legal updates on specific pieces of property. Many of the deeds go back as far as the 1720s and 1730s, but the oldest one listed deals with the original deed to New Harbour in 1625. Knox numbers what appears to be the more valuable documents 201-214. The miscellaneous papers, seemingly of lesser importance, are marked 300-320 and deal with issues such as leases, mortgages, deeds for small…

GLC02437.08372

September 1771-December 1774

Manuscript document

Title: The hon. Mr. Flucker to Ziphion Thayer

Lists various household items and services and their cost. Includes such things as altering a sofa, making of mattress and pillows, various lengths of lace and duck fabric, and various amounts of rope and twine. The total cost or expense comes to £20.3.6 1/2. Docket might be unrelated. It has a list of names with what appears to be payment amounts next to each. This amounts to £181.9.4.

GLC02437.08376

1783-1815

Knox, William, 1756-1795

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request to deliever one quart of wine]

William Knox asks that the bearer be given a quart of wine both on 24 April of an unknown year and another on Easter Monday of an unknown year. Signed twice by William.

GLC02437.08381

17 December 1775

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [List of cannons and shells]

Notes that twelve 4-pound and two 6-pound cannon and 5-10 tons of each size of various shot and shell were ordered on 27 November 1775. Several hundred more shells were ordered on 17 December.

GLC02437.08382

December 10, 1775 - January 13, 1776

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: An inventory of cannon &c brought from Ticonderoga

Evidently a working document, with entries added at various times; possibly part of a longer journal. The first page comprises a detailed inventory of 16 mortars and howitzers, and 43 cannon, with a total weight of 119,900 pounds, "brought from Ticonderoga December 10th 1775." Information includes composition (iron or brass), bore size and weight. Subsequent annotations amend figures and cite which armaments have been "Carr[ie]d." Pages two through three include a template of information to be kept regarding the transportation of the arms. The name of one carrier, Herman [Fort], has been…

GLC02437.08383

1783-1815

Manuscript document

Title: List of those persons that are suppos'd to be entitled to Meadow

Title taken from docket. Lists 47 original people who were entitled to meadow, apparently on Knox's Maine lands. A second column lists their representative if the original person has moved or died. Several names have numbers written to them. Docket ends with the sentence "NB all of 'em must produce their Deeds for our satisfaction."

GLC02437.08384

February 11, 1776

Harrod, Benjamin, 1741-1793

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request for rent from William Knox]

Harrod asks that William Knox pay £10 for the quarterly rent to his agent Joseph Bliss. The rent was due on 25 January. This could possibly be rent on Henry Knox's bookstore, which William was watching while Henry was fighting.

GLC02437.08385