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to Albert Gillett

Begins her letter, "Tis Sabbath pleasant & cool & all nature seems to rejoice, even the birds singing in the trees wafting their songs while I sit by my window trying to talk to you in this silent way, but I trust the near future holds something...

GLC03523.05.26

to Albert Gillett

Writes about her work schedule. Expresses concern about when he is coming and if they will get married or not. Tells him that "your picture is very nice it looks just as I dreamed you did all but the whiskers oh how much I like to see whiskers." Adds...

GLC03523.05.27

to Albert Gillett

Addresses Albert as "Dear Sir." Tells him to take his time getting to her, but informs him of her schedule. Letter is quite short, but does include in the postscript that "now dont think that I dont care to see you for it seems as though the days...

GLC03523.05.28

to Albert Gillett

Addresses him "dear sir" and writes that she was surprised to hear from him. Reports that she has many cares and apologizes that she has fallen into the habit of not responding to letters. Speaks of her deceased husband and tells him, "we are a happy...

GLC03523.05.29

to Albert Gillett

Writes to his father about school tax, informing him that it is $1.70, which he would like him to pay. Reports to him about a number of deaths that have occurred. Envelope addressed to A. Gillett in Ravenna, Ohio.

GLC03523.05.30

to Della Gillett

Addresses letter "dear couson." Writes that they received a letter for Maggie, but tells her that she has gone home. Informs her that "we want you to pick hops for us..." Tells her that they went to Oneonta Plains for the Fourth of July, but their...

GLC03523.05.31

to Angeline Henry

Henry writes to his sister from a fort in Virginia. Name of fort is illegible. Expresses concern about his father's sprained ankle. States that he does expect to get paid soon. Comments that he does very little guard duty. Reports the weather is good...

GLC03523.07.29

to John, Sophia and Angeline Henry

Henry writes to his parents and sister from a fort in Virginia. Name of fort is illegible. Reports he has a fever and chills. States he is going to enlist for five years to fight the Indians on the frontier. Requests news from home. Mentions all the...

GLC03523.07.30

to Angeline Henry

Cousin Marrill writes to Angeline from Indiana. Reports her father is very ill and insane. Refers to cousin Josiah's war injury. Comments that rebels have attacked several places in Indiana "...but our own brave Indiana boys are enough for them."...

GLC03523.07.31

to Sophia Henry

Henry writes to his mother from camp on the Weldon Railroad. Reports brother George is in the hospital with bronchitis. Comments on the high number of deserters. Informs three will be hung. Anticipates being paid in four weeks and will send 90...

GLC03523.07.32

to Angeline Henry

Henry writes to his sister from the hospital in Fredericksburg. Comments on a possible transfer and his hope to spend the winter in Vermont. Mentions the draft, but feels he is exempt now. Refers to a dream he had about a neighbor whose grave he dug...

GLC03523.07.33

to Sarah Hays

Letter written to "my dearest sarah," gives her battle details, noting that they are still on one side of the Rappannock River and that the Confederates are on the other. Describes his brigade, which is commanded by Generals Amiel Whipple and Samuel...

GLC03523.12.01

to Sallie Logan

Writes to his wife telling her that they are still at the old Camp and he is enjoying good health. Although he states, "I believe that I told you that I got my face disfigured in the last fight at Chancerlsville [Chancellorsville] on Sunday last they...

GLC03523.12.02

to Henry Knox

Written by General Washington's aide-de-camp Colonel Humphreys to Major General Knox. Says Washington is pleased with the arrangements Knox has made. Asks that the party from the lines follow in the manner he proposed. Tells him General Howe (Robert...

GLC02437.02183

Draft of a society to be formed by the American officers & to be called "the Cincinnati"

Document itself not signed, but docket has Knox's signature. This is a draft document describing the purpose and administrative organization of the officer's fraternal organization that became the Society of the Cincinnati. Says the Society was...

GLC02437.02090

[Provision return for a mason hired by the engineering department]

Return for the rations of a mason employed by the engineering department from 9 April to 17 April. A total of 12 rations were issued for the eight days. Signed by Superintendent Joseph Cheesman and countersigned by General Knox's aide-de-camp Major...

GLC02437.02100

[Provision return]

Lists men by regiment and company with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note from Jacob Wight. Date and place writ from note.

GLC02437.02102

[Provision return]

Lists men by company with issued rations. Countersigned by John Doughty with a note from Dudley Mercer.

GLC02437.02103

[Provision return for an artificer]

Ordered and signed by Major Samuel Shaw as Major General Knox's aide-de-camp. Return for rations for one man in Captain Thomas Patten's company of artificers, which belonged to the ordinance department, from 21 April to 24 April. 1 1/2 rations a...

GLC02437.02108

[Provision return for artificers]

Provision return for Captain Patten's company of artificers, which belonged to the ordinance department, from 21 April to 24 April. 69 soldiers were each given 1 1/2 rations a day for four days for a total of 432 rations issued. Signed twice by...

GLC02437.02109

[Provision return]

Lists men by department with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note from Jacob Wight. Date from note.

GLC02437.02118

[Provision return]

Lists men by department with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note from Jacob Wight. Date from note.

GLC02437.02119

[Two part document relating to Alexander Stewart's account regarding horses]

First part written by Alexander Stewart to John Lillie discussing how some horses are to be picked up later than expected and how Stewart is unable to care for them until that time due to a lack of proper feed.
Second part lists the expenses for...

GLC02437.02132

[Certificate]

Certifies that a Captain-Lieutenant [Cornelius] Swartwout received $600 for recruiting. Noted as a copy.

GLC02437.02134

[Account of provisions and stores issued to Major General Knox's family]

Lists provisions by weight. Includes items such as flour, beef, fish, soap, rum and salt.

GLC02437.02141

to Samuel Shaw

Asks Shaw to help him to apply to General Henry Knox to aid him with his debts that he incurred while still in the service and that he would have paid if he had received the half-pay due to soldiers who leave the army. "Free" stamped on address leaf...

GLC02437.02143

to Jeremiah Freeman

Informs Captain Jeremiah Freeman that he has supplied him with a certificate and that he hopes this will help his "present unfortunate situation." Also included, on the lower portion of the page, is the mentioned certificate, verifying Freeman as...

GLC02437.02145

to Royal Flint

Request for more flour as there is not "any in the store fit to be used." Noted received on verso.

GLC02437.02156

[Certificate for Lieutenant John Thorp]

Written and signed for Henry Knox by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. This document certifies that Thorp served in the corps of artillery artificers from November 1776 to the present time. Says "his knowledge of and attention to his duty have...

GLC02437.02164

to Henry Knox

Duplicate of GLC02437.02174. 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...

GLC02437.02175

[Account of vouchers]

Lists of sums. Date added later in pencil.

GLC02437.02190

[Account of vouchers]

Written and signed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide de camp, for Henry Knox and for Pay Master General, Charles Knowles.

GLC02437.02192

to the Contractors for the States of N. York & New Jersey

Finck, Major Commanding, New York State Regiment, issues one hundred and sixteen extra rations of provisions to an officer commanding a flag and his escort, from the British garrison at Oswego. Includes an endorsement signed by Immanuel Deake(?)...

GLC02437.02197

State of the invalid officers

Knox's working draft for an Inspection Board report on the Invalid Regiment. Lists eleven invalid officers and their assigned pensions. The report is for the following officers: Captain [John] McGowen, Captain [John] Riley, Captain [Moses]...

GLC02437.02208

Provisions and Stores Issued to Major General Knox's family at West Point, in the month of June 1783

Chart created by Commissary of Stores of West Point Forsyth describing the issuing of rations to the Knox family. Delineates how the various articles (flour, beef, rum, vinegar, and Indian meal) were issued to the family over the month. Related to...

GLC02437.02210

[Provision return]

A provision return for eight men and two women employed in the ordinance department at one ration per day from July 1st to July 4th 1783, for a total of fifty-six rations. Noted and signed: "By order of the Comd. S. Shaw [Samuel Shaw]." Also signed...

GLC02437.02212

[Provision return]

A provision return for a soldier belonging to the third Massachusetts regiment on command in Dobb's Ferry. Noted: "By Order of Genl Knox [Henry Knox]." The docket is signed by James Gibsen.

GLC02437.02213

[Provision return]

A provision return for four men belonging to Baron Steuben's barge. Three of the men were from the 2nd Massachusetts and one from the 1st Massachusetts regiment. Noted and signed by Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp, on page one: "-sixteen...

GLC02437.02214

Monthly lists of costs

Includes amounts for the months of February through August. Date added at a later date in pencil.

GLC02437.02215

Account of vouchers

Knox certifies that $982 were paid to Captain Steven's and Bedlam's companies in the artillery regiment, before their march from Cambridge to Canada. Charles Knowles, Pay Master to the Massachusetts artillery, certifies that General Knox has...

GLC02437.02216

[Order stating General Knox paid for Robert Symonds board]

Written by Major Shaw as Major General Knox's aide-de-camp. States that Robert Symonds of the New York Artillery, who was stationed in the country with horses belonging to General Knox and other officers, received rations from 15 October 1782 to 8...

GLC02437.02221

[Request for provisions]

Request written by Fortress Major Doughty to West Point Commissary James Forsyth. Asks that a week's provisions be issued to Nathaniel Evans, an invalid soldier, commencing 1 July through 7 July. Docket signed by Nathaniel Evans stating that...

GLC02437.02228

[Request for provisions]

Return for provisions written by Fortress Major of West Point Doughty to the Commissary of Issues James Forsyth. Asks that 10 days of provisions be issued to John Mooder, a furloughed soldier of the Massachusetts Artillery on his way to Boston...

GLC02437.02230

[Provision return for four men from the Connecticut line]

Signed by Captain John Buchanan and countersigned by Major Samuel Shaw as the aide-de-camp of Major General Henry Knox. Provision return for four men in the Connecticut Line for four days from 1- 4 July 1783. The four officers, all captains, were...

GLC02437.02231

[Army rations issued to sappers & miners]

Provision return for non-commissioned officers and privates belonging to the corps of sappers and miners from 1-4 July. A total of 18 men received a total of 76 rations.

GLC02437.02233

[Provision return for miners and sappers]

Provision return for non-commissioned officers and privates belonging to the corps of sappers and miners for rations issued 5-8 July. 16 non-commissioned officers and privates drew a total of 68 rations over 4 days. Document is signed by Captain D...

GLC02437.02238

[Provision return of men in ordnance department]

Provision return for 8 men employed by the ordnance department from 5-8 July. The return also shows two women were hired for the four days. The ten people were issued a total of 56 rations. Signed by Doughty as Fort Major of West Point as well as...

GLC02437.02239

[Provision return for army rations issued]

Signed by David Hillyer, a quartermaster. Countersigned by Major Samuel Shaw as Knox's aide-de-camp. Provision return for four men from Captain McGowan's Company of the Invalid Regiment who came to West Point from the Fishkill Barracks from 1-6 July...

GLC02437.02243

[Provision return for army rations issued]

Signed by Edward Blake, a quartermaster with the artillery, and countersigned by Major Samuel Shaw as Knox's aide-de-camp. Provision return for rations issued to one man, one woman and two children from 1-6 July. A total of 18 rations were issued...

GLC02437.02244

[Provision return for army rations issued]

Signed by Lieutenant Major B. Wells and countersigned by Fort Major of West Point Doughty. Provision return for four men from Captain Dustin's(?) Company of the New Hampshire line for one day. The unit had been "on command at Dobbs Ferry." A total of...

GLC02437.02248