1781

Manuscript document

Title: [Invoice of Stores Received from Captain Seward]

Invoice of artillery stores including cartridges, bellows, engines, hooks, etc. Date added later in pencil.

GLC02437.01318

1781

Manuscript document

Title: No. 9: articles issued in the year 1781

List of military articles by date issued, including muskets, flints and Borax.

GLC02437.01321

4 November 1781

Manuscript document

Title: Return of ordnance and military stores prepared for the Southern detachment.

Lists mortars, howitzers, and their implements, field pieces, items "in common for the whole," and musquetry. Docket notes these items were "order'd to the Southward from York in Virginia under Genl [Arthur] St. Clair." Docketed by Henry Knox.

GLC02437.10027

4 December 1781

Manuscript document

Title: [Return of ordnance & military stores delivered to Samuel Hodgdon]

Lists stores delivered to Hodgdon, Commissary General of Military Stores, in Philadelphia. Ordnance stores were delivered by Mr. [Richard] Frothingham, a field commissary. Lists items such as brass cannons, howitzers, mortars, drag chain, wadhooks, ladles, and gunner belts, among others. Docketed by Samuel Shaw.

GLC02437.10029

15 December 1781

Craig, Isaac, 1742-1826

Manuscript document

Title: [Return of ordnance stores at Fort Pitt and Fort McIntosh]

Lists stores of shells, powder, cartridges, muskets, rifles, swords, etc. Fort Pitt was the site of present day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Fort McIntosh became the town of Beaver, Pennsylvania. Document is one long narrow sheet folded over many times. Dimensions are approximate. Addressed to William Irvine, Brigadier General.

GLC02437.10030

6 January 1782

Craig, Isaac, 1742-1826

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return of Ordnance stores at Fort Pitt and Fort McIntosh]

Signed by I. Craig, Captain of Artillery to Henry Knox, Brigadier General of Artillery. Lists stores of shells, powder, cartridges, muskets, rifles, swords, etc. Fort Pitt was the site of present day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Fort McIntosh became the town of Beaver, Pennsylvania. Document is one long narrow sheet folded over many times. Dimensions are approximate.

GLC02437.10032

1 October 1781

Autograph document

Title: Monthly Return of the Corps of Artillery.

Chart enumerating various types of ordnance held by several regiments, including Colonel John Lamb's 2nd Artillery. The ordnance was needed for the siege of Yorktown, which began that month. Henry Knox's copy.

GLC02437.10495

19 October 1781

Smith, John, ?-1837

Manuscript document signed

Title: Return of ordnance ammunition & stores at Glo'ster Point

Signed by Lieutenant Smith, commanding Royal Artillery Glocester.

GLC02437.10496

30 September 1781

Manuscript document

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and stores at Fishkill, New York for the months of August and September 1781. Items listed by type, and date issued. Noted as under the orders of John Ruddock.

GLC02437.10685

4 December 1781

Manuscript document

Title: [Return]

Return for the regiment of artillery and artificers stationed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania under command of Captain Thomas Wylie. Men listed by name (59 cited), time of enlistment, length of service, occupation and place of work. Bottom appears to have been cut off.

GLC02437.10686

December 31, 1781

Manuscript document

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered for the months of October, November, December 1781 at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and current condition. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.10687

December 31, 1781

Ruddock, John, fl. 1779-1796

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered for the months of October, November, December 1781 at Fishkill, New York. Items listed by type, weight and current condition. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.10688

1 January 1782

Jones, Thomas, fl. 1777-1782

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered from 1 August 1781 to 1 January 1782 for the Southern Department in Virginia. Items listed by type, weight and current condition. Date from docket.

GLC02437.10689

23 March 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

Written by Major General Knox to General Washington. Reports to Washington that he had to relieve the company of artillery under Captain Lieutenant Ephraim Fenno at Kings Ferry, due to problems with ordnance returns. Replaced Fenno's unit with the company of Colonel John Lamb now under the orders of Captain Fleming. Says if Washington wants a commander responsible directly to him, he recommends Fleming as qualified. Says Fenno was relieved because of an unexplained return which noted 18 damaged barrels of powder. Also, Fenno did not explain why two soldiers in his company left ordnance "…

GLC02437.02019

4 April 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

Discusses issuing ammunition and weaponry to the troops. Warns that if every brigade orders the same proportion the number of weaponry will be immense. Retained copy.

GLC02437.02062

8 June 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to George Washington

Discusses a lack of artificers and the importance of the arsenals and magazines for the artillery and any other branch of the military. Knox's retained draft.

GLC02437.02153

12 May 1783

Ruddock, John, fl. 1779-1796

Autograph document signed

Title: Return of Ordnance & Military Stores at Several Places

Lists amounts of shot, balls, cartridges, carriages, muskets, bayonets, etc at Danbury, Fishkill Landing, and Poughkeepsie. Says there is around three tons of lead at Poughkeepsie.

GLC02437.02123

27 May 1783

Chapman, Elijah, fl. 1775-1783

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Informs Knox of the theft of a barrel of flour and the circumstances under which this occured. Assures him that the lock to the door separating the ammunition from the provisions is secure and the lock to the stores in general has been replaced.

GLC02437.02136

28 May 1783

Fleming, George, 1748-1822

Document signed

Title: Return of ordnance, ordnance stores, apparatus & c. of the garrisons of Stoney & Verplank's Points- Kingsferry

Includes a note at the bottom of the pages discussing a barge and damaged powder. These two pages were previously connected; second page measures 15.2 x 75.9 cm. Torn in middle crease.

GLC02437.10111

1 April 1783

Guion, Isaac, fl. 1776-1823

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return of ordance and stores in the Northern Department]

Includes returns from posts along the Mohawk River including Fort Rensselaer, Fort Herkimer, Fort Dayton, and from Albany and Schenectady. Guion signed as Captain Lieutenant, 2nd Regiment Artillery.

GLC02437.10518

1 May 1783

Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.

GLC02437.10708

4 August 1781

Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824

Manuscript document signed

Title: Return of ordnance & part of the military stores on hand at Philadelphia Augt. 4, 1781

Consists of a return of artillery ammunition and supplies on hand at Philadelphia and of "Muskets &c delivered for the use of the undermention'd states & Troops" from 1 January to 4 August 1781. Signed by Hodgdon, Commissary General of Military Stores. Hodgdon notes that in addition to this list, "five hundred stand of arms will be forwarded... for the State of Maryland."

GLC02437.01115

13 August 1781

Manuscript document

Title: An invoice of military stores brought from [Succasunna Plains] New Jersey

Includes artillery ammunition and supplies, and other military supplies. Docketed twice.

GLC02437.01130

16 August 1781

Wetzell, Michael, fl. 1781

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sebastian Bauman

Second Lieutenant Wetzell reports on the poor state of ordnance and stores on board the sloop Liberty. The stores have sustained extensive water damage because of a damp, leaky hull. Declares, "Nor can I keep the Vessel afloat any longer On account of the Cables being so bad."

GLC02437.01135

7 September 1781

Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824

Manuscript document signed

Title: Invoice of Ordnance & Military Stores forwarded to the Southern Army.

Addressed to Richard Frothingham, Esq. The ordnance listed was for the siege of Yorktown, which began later that month. Hodgdon was the commissary general of military stores. This was Henry Knox's copy, docketed by Samuel Shaw.

GLC02437.01168