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An opinion delivered to His Excellency General George Washington

Knox answers Washington's queries from his 6 September 1780 council of war (refer to GLC02437.00838). Discusses the siege of New York and how the lack of supplies and stores is affecting their campaign. Knox's retained draft.

GLC02437.00840

to friend Paddon

Requesting information about the process of pressing and refining the surplus coal at the Tredegar Iron Works into a saleable product for steamers through compression into blocks that burn longer and produce more steam than unrefined bituminous coal...

GLC01896.084

to Henry Knox

Informs Knox that he has concluded some business settlement for him, perhaps including ordering a sword.

GLC02437.00839

[List of stores from 1780]

Later copy. Lists artillery supplies and stores by date. Date written in pencil.

GLC02437.00841

[Receipt]

Receipt for $2,500 accountable to Cheever, Comissary of Military Stores and Artillery. Written in Shaw's hand.

GLC02437.00842

to Mother

[See # 135.] Apologizes for not going somewhere last Monday night. Thanks Mathe for taking care of "No. 6."

GLC02715.131

to Christian Epperly

Writes that she will help find spouses for Christian and his sisters.

GLC02715.132

to Miss Lillie

Wishes to escort Miss Lillie to the institute. Note on verso wishes to escort Miss Lena to and from Church. Includes a biblical quote. The name Louola Martin is written several times on both sides of the paper.

GLC02715.133

to Josiah Smith

Discusses a debt owed.

GLC02715.134

to Nisenous E. Epperly

Comments that she is ill. Asks who Senous's sweetheart is. Discusses friends who may visit.

GLC02715.135

to Mary

Asks if all the cases of Roanoke Fever in Floyd have proven fatal. Says that he hopes she will come to visit.

GLC02715.136

[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers." White mount. Vignette bust portrait in uniform.

GLC04185.001

[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers." White mount. Vignette bust portrait in civilian dress.

GLC04185.002

[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers." White mount. Vignette bust portrait in civilian dress.

GLC04185.003

[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers." White mount. Vignette bust portrait in civilian dress with hat.

GLC04185.004

[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers." White mount. Vignette bust portrait in uniform.

GLC04185.005

[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers." White mount. Vignette bust portrait in civilian dress with hat.

GLC04185.006

[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers." White mount. Vignette bust portrait in uniform.

GLC04185.007

[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers." White mount. Vignette bust portrait in uniform.

GLC04185.008

[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers." White mount. Vignette bust portrait in uniform.

GLC04185.009

[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers." White mount. Vignette bust portrait in uniform.

GLC04185.010

[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers." White mount. Vignette bust portrait in uniform.

GLC04185.011

[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers." White mount. Vignette bust portrait in [uniform.]

GLC04185.012

Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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[Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

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Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

GLC04185.054

Carte de visite [Unidentified]

"D Company, 31st Mass. Volls. and Regimental Officers."

GLC04185.055

[Regulations for commissioning white officers for the Regiment of U.S. Colored Infantry]

States that men will not be commissioned as officers until they are approved by a Board of Examiners in Washington D.C., and appointed by the Secretary of War. Indicates that applications need to be submitted to the Colored Bureau, Washington D.C...

GLC08203

[Printed letter from Lincoln to McClellan].

Contemporary printed copy of Lincoln's April 9, 1862 letter to McClellan castigating him for failing to adequately defend Washington and for his lack of action: "The country will not fail to note--is noting now--that the present hesitation to move...

GLC08245

[to the King's Commissioners]

Responding to a memorial petition from the merchants of South Carolina and Georgia and contemplating a British attack on Georgia. Asks the king's (King George III) commissioners to use their judgment on how much of the memorial to comply with....

GLC08202

[Official notification of Santa Ana's Secularization Act]

Broadside in Spanish. Official notice that Catholic Church property has been given over to private petitioners.

GLC08204

[National Intelligencer Extra]

Printed presidential inauguration address of William Henry Harrison.

GLC08205

[Indictment of Joseph Harris as a counterfeiter]

Countersigned by Nathan Rowley. Charging Harris with defrauding and injuring the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in May 1785 by making 800 pieces of counterfeit money in mixed metals. Paine was Attorney General of Massachusetts 1777-1796.

GLC08206

to his father

Written from the U.S. Steam Sloop Brooklyn, Head of the Passes Mississippi River. Describes the Union naval preparations prior to the assault on New Orleans, with particular attention to the mortar fleet of David Dixon Porter. Discusses in depth...

GLC08207

[Collection of 3 letters written and received by Montgomery Meigs regarding the Capitol Dome]. Decimalized.

See descriptions in GLC08246.01-.03

GLC08246

to A.H. Bowman

Justifies the use of an ornate molding of the Capitol Dome.

GLC08246.01

to J. Glancy Jones

Meigs allays concerns over the Capitol Dome's stability: "There were plenty of people, who when Michel Angelo was building the Dome of St. Peter's thought it would never stand..." Jones was on the House Ways & Means Committee.

GLC08246.02

to Montgomery Meigs

Franklin, the superintendent of construction, writes to Meigs regarding the construction costs of the Capitol Dome.

GLC08246.03

to his mother

Archer writes to his mother, Frances, from England where he has sailed in the steamer C. S. S. Hawk in order to sell it at auction. His spirits are very low as he discusses the damage done by the failure of the "scheme to establish the V[irginia]. V...

GLC01896.071

to his father

Archer announces that the "Hawk" has been sold at public auction for a little more than ten thousand pounds, leaving a balance of more than five thousand pounds outstanding to cover travel costs. A ship built for a "particular" purpose [blockade...

GLC01896.072

[Parole certificate]

Parole agreement for Aaron Jeffery as a prisoner of war in the "Headquarters Department of Virginia" signed by Evans, certifying parole, and again giving permission for him to return to Norfolk.

GLC01896.073

[Oath of loyalty]

Aaron Jeffery's signed loyalty oath "to support, protect, and defend the Constitution... [including] with references to slaves." Written at "Office of Provost Marshall", Richmond, Va.

GLC01896.074

[Appointment of Josiah Flagg to take charge of military stores in Rhode Island]

Signed by Shaw for Henry Ward and Theodore Foster. Marked as a copy (copied in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp). Contains the copied signatures of Henry Ward, Rhode Island Secretary of State, and Theodore Foster, Providence Town...

GLC02437.00981

to John Adams

A detailed account of the siege of Yorktown. Affirms the correctness of Adams' ideas about a need to conduct a major attack against the British in the southern states. Announces the recent surrender of Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Yorktown....

GLC02437.01252

to John Jay

Later copy of GLC02437.01253. 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...

GLC02437.01254

Resolutions of the Legislature of Kentucky, in relation to the Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, &c.

House of Representatives mis. doc. no. 90 (34th Congress, 1st session). Morehead, Governor of Kentucky, attests these resolutions were adopted by the general assembly of Kentucky in December 1855. Reprinted by Congress April 1856. Kentucky...

GLC08452.01

Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, in reference to the affairs of Kansas.

House of Representatives mis. doc. no. 100 (34th Congress, 1st session). Chase, Governor of Ohio, asserts these resolutions were passed by the legislature of Ohio in April 1856. Reprinted by Congress May 1856. Ohio resolves "That the cause of the...

GLC08452.02

Resolutions of the Legislature of Vermont, in relation to Kansas.

House of Representatives mis. doc. no. 103 (34th Congress, 1st session). Willard, Secretary of State for Vermont, certifies these as a true copy of resolutions passed by Vermont in December 1855. Reprinted by Congress in May 1856. "Resolved, that...

GLC08452.03

Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in relation to the Territory of Kansas.

House of Representatives mis. doc. no. 120 (34th Congress, 1st session). Gardner, Governor of Massachusetts, approved these resolutions 3 June 1856. Reprinted by Congress 14 June 1856. "...the inhabitants of Kansas are justifiable in declining to...

GLC08452.04

Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, concerning the recent occurrences in Congress and in Kansas.

House of Representatives mis. doc. no. 119. (34th Congress, 1st session). Bartlett, Secretary of State for Rhode Island, certifies these to be a true copy of resolutions passed in by the Rhode Island Legislature in May. Reprinted by Congress June...

GLC08452.05

Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine in relation to the extension of slavery, Kansas, and secret political associations.

House of Representatives mis. doc. no. 122 (34th Congress, 1st session). Wells, Governor of Maine, approved the resolutions in April 1856. Reprinted by Congress in June 1856. "...the people of Kansas Territory... are entitled to protection against...

GLC08452.06

Joint resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, in relation to slavery and the admission of Kansas into the Union.

House of Representatives mis. doc. no. 38 (34th Congress, 3rd session). Grimes, Governor of Iowa, approved these resolutions in January 1857. Reprinted by Congress in February. Iowa states its opposition to "the further extension of slavery within...

GLC08452.07

Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, in relation to Kansas affair.

House of Representatives mis. doc. no. 49 (34th Congress, 3rd session). Bingham, Governor of Michigan, approved these measures 10 February 1857. Reprinted by Congress 18 February. "Resolved... that our senators in Congress be instructed, and our...

GLC08452.08

[Certificate of pay] [In French]

Certificate to pay Mr. De Valnais, possibly Joseph Dupas de Valnais, a French consul in America. Signed by the Comte de Barras, and [Graucheau], major of the squadron under Barras. On verso, Valnais signs a note, transferring the money to William...

GLC02437.01122

to Henry Knox

Contemporary copy of GLC02437.01216. In response to Knox's letter ordering Hunter to send iron and ordnance to James River (GLC02437.01193), Hunter explains how he has complied and what problems he has encountered. Also mentions naval engagements...

GLC02437.01217

Return of Military Stores in the Magazine at Williamsburg.

Lists quanties of ordnance. Compiled shortly after the siege of Yorktown. Jones was a Deputy Field Commissary of Military Stores under the command of Colonel Edward Carrington.

GLC02437.01267

to Henry Knox [Request for supplies].

Signed in text. Duplicate of GLC02437.01268 with an additional note discussing swords and bayonets dated 29 October 1781. Asks Knox to exchange three drums and provide a fourth, and exchange cartridge boxes also. Also mentions that the Major...

GLC02437.01269

[Contract between the U.S. Treasury and Comfort, Richard, and Joshua Sands of New York for acquiring rations for West Point soldiers]

Agreement between Morris, acting as Superintendent of the Finances of the United States (appointed by Congress), and Comfort Sands, Richard Sands and Joshua Sands of New York that the Sandses will "furnish and deliver" to West Point and other nearby...

GLC02437.01301

to Benjamin Lincoln

Writes to respond to General Benjamin Lincoln's request of his opinon on where to store 4,000 barrels of public powder now in Boston. Declares that West Point is so important that they should do everything possible to provide ample supplies. Thinks...

GLC02437.01309

Mem. of some Articles in Ordn: Store at Springfield in care of Luke Bliss Esq. C.M.S.

List of stores in possession of Luke Bliss, Commissary of Military Stores. Date added later in pencil.

GLC02437.01320

[Print of Peter V. Daniel]

Print of Peter V. Daniel, Supreme Court Judge.

GLC02546.02