December 1789

Rivington, James, 1724-1802

Manuscript document

Title: [Knox's account]

Lists charges for books to the account by date, 30 September 1789 - 2 December 1789. Books include "Clarke's Vigetius," probably John Clarke's translation of Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus's book, Epitoma rei militaris. Also includes James Hampton's translation of Polybius's History; Charles Forster Smith's translation of Thucydides; one Marine Dictionary; "Lloyd on War" (likely Henry Lloyd's book, The history of the late war in Germany...); and "Fergusons Society," likely Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society.

GLC02437.04424

27 July 1784

Druitt, John, fl. 1784

Manuscript document signed

Title: Account bill

Account bill for Henry Knox's daughter's schooling, books and shoes.

GLC02437.08566

circa 14 April 1789

Rivington, John, fl. 1789

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt]

Lists items bought by Henry Knox from James Rivington, including dictionaries and visiting cards. Noted as received for James Rivington by John Rivington, presumably James' brother.

GLC02437.08626

circa 1771-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Memorandum]

List of items, including books on geography, grammar, electricity, Pilgrim's Progress, copy books, Aesop's fables, and others.

GLC02437.08262

7 September 1771-20 March 1772

Russell, Ezekiel, 1743-1796

Manuscript document

Title: [Account with Henry Knox]

Lists transactions with Henry Knox by date, ranging from 7 September 1771 to 20 March 1772.

GLC02437.08263

January 15, 1772

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Manuscript document

Title: [Bills of goods]

Bill for a shipment of what seems to be books going to Boston, covering a variety of subjects.

GLC02437.08271

15 June 1772

Edes & Gill, fl. 1772

Manuscript document

Title: [Account]

List of transactions between Henry Knox and the firm Eades & Gill dating from 29 July 1771-15 June 1772. Items include books, printing letters and paper.

GLC02437.08293

16 September 1772

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Manuscript document

Title: [Invoice of goods]

List of books on a variety of subjects sent from London to Boston. Items also include pamphlets on criminal law and arts and science. Noted as a copy in the docket.

GLC02437.08294

1772

Manuscript document

Title: [Memoranda]

List of stationery and their prices. Includes items such as paper, quills and sealing wax. Date previously inferred, written in blue.

GLC02437.08303

22 April 1771-31 December 1772

Manuscript document

Title: [Account]

List of transactions between Henry Knox and Thomas Longman dating from 22 April 1771 to 31 December 1772.

GLC02437.08306

February 15, 1773

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Manuscript document

Title: [Invoice of goods]

List of books on various topics to be shipped to Boston for Henry Knox. Items include sermons, lectures, memoirs, travel diaries and others.

GLC02437.08310

10 August 1773

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Manuscript document

Title: [Invoice of goods]

Lists books on a variety of subjects to be shipped to Boston for Henry Knox. Includes books on architecture, animals, spelling books, letters, dictionaries, novels, lectures and others.

GLC02437.08330

29 July 1774

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Autograph document

Title: [Invoice of goods shipped to Henry Knox by Thomas Longman]

Marked "Copy" on docket. List of books Longman shipped to Knox. It was shipped in 5 packages. The shipment also included chapbooks, plays, and monthly reviews. The cost of trunks, cases, shipping, and insurance is included. The total came to £238.8.6 1/2. Gives a short list of books out of print or unavailable in England.

GLC02437.08367

22 April 1771

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

List of goods ordered and bought by Henry Knox to be shipped to Boston. Consists of books on a variety of topics, including Classical Literature, grammar books, medicine and the sciences.

GLC02437.10366

12 October 1771

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

List of goods ordered and bought by Henry Knox to be shipped to Boston. Consists of books on a variety of topics, including lectures, biographies, and poetry.

GLC02437.10368

10 February 1772

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

List of goods ordered and bought by Henry Knox to be shipped to Boston. Consists of books on a variety of topics, including literature and novels, guide books, periodicals and poetry.

GLC02437.10371

10 April 1772

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

List of goods ordered and bought by Henry Knox to be shipped to Boston. Consists of books on a variety of topics, including cookbooks, novels, sermons and travel.

GLC02437.10373

18 July 1772

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Manuscript document

Title: [Invoice]

List of goods ordered and bought by Henry Knox to be shipped to Boston. Consists of books on a variety of topics, including the sermons, dictionaries, the sciences, medicine and others. Noted as a copy.

GLC02437.10376

10 March 1774

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Manuscript document

Title: [Invoice]

List of goods ordered and bought by Henry Knox to be shipped to Boston. Consists of books on a variety of topics, including government, sermons, law and others. Date from docket.

GLC02437.10380

19 May 1773

Longman, Thomas, 1731-1797

Manuscript document

Title: [Invoice]

List of goods ordered and bought by Henry Knox to be shipped to Boston. Consists of books on a variety of topics, including geography, song books, biographies, and others.

GLC02437.10381

9 June 1773

Hopkins, David, fl. 1773

Manuscript document

Title: [Invoice]

List of goods ordered and bought by Henry Knox to be shipped to Boston. Consists of books on a variety of topics, including novels, law, Classical literature, and others. Noted as written in Newport, state unknown.

GLC02437.10382

3 April 1774

Montague, Richard, 1729-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Orders a book for records. Post scripts indicate that he once bought magazines from Knox for William Billing of Sunderland, Massachusetts and that the record book was needed for the recently incorporated town of Leverett, Massachusetts. Montague later became a minute man, was at the Lexington Alarm, and fought under Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga. He was at Bunker Hill and with the army at Cambridge when Washington took command and promoted him to the rank of major.

GLC02437.00134

6 April 1774

Rivington, James, 1724-1802

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Details of arrangements to have Knox advertise and sell Rivington's books. Discusses the children's book he was printing (also see GLC02437.00128). Proposes arrangements to have Knox sell other books. An inventory at the top of the letter lists books sent to Knox. Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer.

GLC02437.00135

8 April 1774

Rivington, James, 1724-1802

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Indicates that he has enclosed a print that he wants Paul Revere to engrave immediately. Explains that he needs the engraving for a fold-out in a copy of Cook's Voyage he is printing. Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer.

GLC02437.00136

11 April 1774

Rivington, James, 1724-1802

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Asks Knox to forward letters to the surgeon and apothecary John Manning, along with a draft against him. Rivington previously asked for Manning's address (see GLC02437.00131). Rivington was a bookseller, printer, and journalist who came to America in 1760. He published Rivington's New-York Gazetteer.

GLC02437.00137