circa 1776-1830

Header Record

Title: Collection of items related to Colonel Thomas Marshall [Decimalized .01- .03]

GLC01450.005

1773-1858

Savage, Gideon, 1751-1833

Header Record

Title: [Collection of materials related to Gideon Savage, a soldier in the Continentental Army] [Decimalized .01-.20]

GLC01450.013

5 September 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Cornelius Vandenburgh

Communicates order from General Henry Knox for Vandenburgh to guard listed pieces of ordnance on the way to Christiana. If he is not relieved then, he is to take the ordnance to an officer at Head of Elk. Artificers will accompany the pieces in case there is a need for repair. The supplies were going down the Washington-Rochambeau route southward toward Yorktown. Shaw was aide-de-camp to Knox. Vandenburgh was a captain in the 14th Regiment of the Albany County Militia.

GLC02437.01166

21 October 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to John Jay

Indicates that French ships are about to dispatch with official accounts of the Battle of Yorktown. Knox feels he should tell Jay what has occurred because an official account from Congress may not be immediately forthcoming. Although the British had less forces in America than in 1776 or 1777, the Continental Army was compelled to attack Yorktown or consider the southern states lost. The Comte de Grasse was of similar opinion, and plans to attack New York were abandoned in favor of a siege of Yorktown. A detailed, chronological explanation of the Allied forces' actions between 27…

GLC02437.01253

4 November 1781

St. Clair, Arthur, 1734-1818

Manuscript document

Title: Extracts from the Queries laid before a Board of General Officers by General S Clair for His Excellency Genl Washington.

Discusses the case of Captain Gerlach, deputy quartermaster of the Brunswick troops. Suggests that [Heinrich] Gerlach be required to provide an inventory for stores that were supposed to be shipped to the Convention Troops, and that he complete the transport. Continues that if it is revealed that British Commissary Hoakerly disposed of the goods at Yorktown, as alleged, the vessel and remaining goods should be forfeited. Clerical copy in the hand of St. Clair's aide de camp.

GLC02437.01283

31 August 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Stores requested for the Southern expedition].

List of supplies requested from the Board of War and Ordnance for the siege of Yorktown. Accompanied letter (GLC02437.01160). The Board of War and Ordnance was responsible for supplying troops in the field. In Samuel Shaw's hand and signed by him for Knox.

GLC02437.01161

31 August 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: Ordnance and Stores requested from the Board of War & Ordnance.

Lists supplies and their quantities requested on several days in August 1781. The supplies were needed for the upcoming siege of Yorktown. In Samuel Shaw's hand.

GLC02437.01162

31 August 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: Deficiencies of the Ordnance and Stores requested from the Board of War & Ordnance.

Lists supplies and their quantities requested on several days in August 1781, but not obtained. The supplies were needed for the upcoming siege of Yorktown. In Samuel Shaw's hand.

GLC02437.01163

7 September 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: Ordnance & Stores Sent from Philadelphia by Mr. Hodgdon.

Lists supplies and quantities sent. The ordnance was for the siege of Yorktown, which began later that month. Mr. Hodgdon was Samuel Hodgdon, the commissary general of military stores. List accompanied letter (GLC02437.01173).

GLC02437.01172

9 September 1781

Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819

Autograph document signed

Title: Account of Military stores receiv'd from Philadelphia & forwarded to the Head of Elk.

Directed to Henry Knox. Lists quantities of ordnance. Supplies were being embarked at Elk Head, Maryland to support the upcoming siege of Yorktown.

GLC02437.01177

20 September 1781

Knox, William, 1756-1795

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Response to 4 September 1781 letter (GLC02437.01165). Discusses their financial situation, "which undoubtedly are in such a train as to require the strictest attention to Oeconomy." William has sold some goods to prepare for his business trip to Europe. Comments that "It would have been particularly agreeable if you could have received part of what the public are indebted to you." Mentions that the allocation of the cash from the loan John Laurens obtained from France has not been negotiated yet. Discusses the arrival of a shipment of tea, the arrival of the Amsterdam, and one of Knox's…

GLC02437.01185

26 September 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: Ordnance & Stores from Head of Elk & Baltimore arrived in James River.

Lists quantities of artillery supplies that had arrived and ships with supplies that had not yet arrived. The ordnance was for the siege of Yorktown. The last page is separated from the first two; the two parts are marked with the reference code VII-77 and VII -78, respectively. Henry Knox's copy.

GLC02437.01192

27 September 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: [Order for Captain Pryor]

Orders Pryor to collect and bring ordnance belonging to the state of Virginia to the "point of operation" for the siege of Yorktown. Pryor is to request assistance from the Governor of Virginia Thomas Nelson, Jr. Written in Samuel Shaw's hand and signed for Knox by Shaw.

GLC02437.01195

7 October 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Discharge of David Day].

David Day, an artillery officer from Connecticut, who served from 7 October 1778 to 8 October 1781, is discharged from service of the Continental Army in accordance with the terms of his enlistment. Ordered by General Henry Knox. A certification of Day's service is written and signed on the verso by Captain T[homas] Patten at Yorktown on 7 October 1781. This discharge occurred during the siege of Yorktown.

GLC02437.01212

8 October 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: [Request for gunner quadrant]

Note requesting a gunner's quadrant for Captain Joseph Savage's 2nd artillery regiment. Another note on the bottom dated 15 October indicates that Savage received one. Savage's regiment was then involved in the siege of Yorktown.

GLC02437.01215

13 October 1781

Pryor, J., fl. 1781

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Reports that the ordnance expected from Richmond (see GLC02437.01195) have arrived at Trebell's Landing, but the vessels have orders (communicated through Pryor's Deputy) not to land more stores there. Asks Knox to whom the stores should be delivered. The ordnance was needed for the siege of Yorktown.

GLC02437.01223

13 October 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. Pryor

Responds to Captain Pryor's 12 October 1781 letter (see GLC02437.01223) and insists that the ordnance from Richmond be unloaded at Trebell's Landing. Writes, "The General desires you will immediately send him" a return of the number of shot and shells. The ordnance was needed for the siege of Yorktown. Written from "Trenches."

GLC02437.01225

13 October 1781

Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803

Autograph document signed

Title: Report of What ordnance Stores Expended, and On hand at the Batteries during my Command from the 12 to the 13 of Oct. Inst.

Lists quantities of stores used and on hand at the Grand Battery, Mortar Battery, and Left Battery under Major Bauman during the siege of Yorktown. Bauman commanded an artillery corps that was a part of Colonel John Lamb's Second Regiment of Continental Artillery.

GLC02437.01226

16 October 1781

Stevens, Ebenezer, 1751-1823

Manuscript document signed

Title: Return of Stores expended on the 15th & 16th Oct, by Lt. Col. Stevens.

Lists quantities of stores used at various locations and under the command of various officers during the siege of Yorktown. Also enumerates soldiers who were wounded, killed, and taken prisoner. Explains that a British attack at day break resulted in the deaths and woundings under Captain Joseph Savage. Also reports that the Grand Battery and Left Battery were dismantled and moved to the Second Parallel.

GLC02437.01229

16 October 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucy Knox

Responds to his wife's letter chastising him for not writing (see GLC02437.01230). Reports that he is well and comments on the siege of Yorktown. Mentions that they stormed the British works with little loss the night before. Hopes to end the operation in 10-12 days.

GLC02437.01231

17 October 1781

Lamb, John, 1735-1800

Autograph document signed

Title: Return of Stores expended, in the different Batteries, the 17th October 1781.

Lists quantities of ordnance used at the Grand Battery, Left Battery, Left Redoubt, Right Redoubt, and in the trenches during the siege of Yorktown. Colonel Lamb commanded the Second Regiment of Continental Artillery.

GLC02437.01234

18 October 1781

Manuscript letter

Title: to unknown

Requests that vessels with military stores disembark at Trebell's Landing and have the listed quantities of ordnance boarded onto the sloop Flora. Also lists items to be taken from the Flora and loaded onto another vessel, which will sail toward Yorktown. The instructions are in the same hand as notes written in the margins of GLC02437.01238, a list by Richard Frothingham, a Deputy and Principal Field Commissary of Military Stores in Henry Knox's artillery train. These orders are possibly connected to those given to J. Pryor in a letter dated 13 October 1781 (see GLC02437.01225).

GLC02437.01237

19 October 1781

Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819

Manuscript document signed

Title: Invoice of Stores on the lines.

Lists quantities of ordnance on the lines at the siege of Yorktown. Frothingham was a Deputy and Principal Field Commissary of Military Stores in Henry Knox's artillery train.

GLC02437.01242

19 October 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: [Return of Ordnance associated with the siege of Yorktown].

One side lists muskets, damaged arms, balls and shells that have been sent up the Chesapeake Bay, reserved for the Southern Army, remaining in Virginia, and fired at the British. The other side lists muskets, damaged arms, balls and shells that have been sent from various locations or seized from the British.

GLC02437.01248

October 1781

Autograph document

Title: Artillerie [in French]

French return of ordnance expended during the siege of Yorktown from the Armee de Rochambeau.

GLC02437.01276