May 1782

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document

Title: [Payment for board in Burlington, New Jersey]

Payment to Elizabeth Peck for board in Burlington, New Jersey. Purchases include butter, milk, cream, asparagus, and eggs. Total came to £1.13. In Samuel Shaw's hand is written "Burlington Paid." Docket also in Shaw's hand.

GLC02437.08559

1788

Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

List of expenses incurred by Mrs. Lucy Knox, her family, and household by date, including corks, wages for servants, pickles, brandy and other household expenses.

GLC02437.08612

2 April 1796

Simpson, Henry Jr., fl. 1794-1796

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Account]

List of items bought, including boards, molasses, rum, chocolate, brandy, pepper, and others.

GLC02437.08702

14 March 1778-25 November 1778

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Account book of Henry Knox]

Written in Samuel Shaw's hand. Includes expenses for goods, services and travel. On 30 April [1778] Knox receives money for the travel expense of a journey from New England and for the expense of moving his and General [Nathanael] Greene's baggage last year to Morris Town. On 11 May paid Samuel Holt's travel expenses to Allentown & Lebanon which included mending, shoe repairs, food, etc. Listed expenses also include food: on 12 & 20 May and the 2 June notes food expenses for General [John Peter Gabriel] Muhlenberg's Brigade (Muhlenberg and his troops spent the winter of 1777 at…

GLC02437.08402

20-24 January 1779

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Account of William Knox with Joseph Pierce]

Peirce worked the bookstore, moved goods from the King Street location, as well as providing linen, snuff, and almonds. The total came to £5.14.0. Pierce signed the document stating payment was made.

GLC02437.08461

circa 1750-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Receipt for wine, rum, cider, etc.]

List of items and their costs. Includes wine, rum, cider, oats, hay, and other goods.

GLC02437.08281

12 April 1773

Flucker, Thomas, 1719-1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Account]

List of transactions for various items, including wine and linen, by date, starting in what appears to be February of 1772 to April of the same year.

GLC02437.08283

circa 1774-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

List of items that Lucy Knox bought from a S.P. Items include caps, butter, wine, apron tape, thread, and others.

GLC02437.08350

15 April - 1 June 1798

Manuscript document

Title: [Accounts]

Lists the accounts of disposed goods at various locations. Lists items by type, amount and amount of consumption. Also includes two inventory lists of the amount of goods available, notes regarding goods and cattle and a list of the work done at Brigadier's Island for the month of May. Lists workmen by name, wage and employment.

GLC02437.08738

12 November 1802

Gleason, John, fl. 1796-1811

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt]

Receipt of beef and money on behalf of Henry Knox.

GLC02437.08807

17 May 1777

Sweers, Cornelius, fl. 1777

Autograph document signed

Title: [Account of goods for Henry Knox by order of Captain Lieutenant Treat]

Signed by Sweers, commissary of military stores in Philadelphia, who notes that the contents were received in full from Treat. Lists water biscuits, green tea, and other items.

GLC02437.00594

4 March 1862

McParlin, Thomas A., 1825-1897

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mother and Brother

Sends news home. Comments on food including having a "porter house steak" for "Carnivale," weather conditions, and his schedule. Discusses supplies and surgeons for Wisconsin Regiments, with autograph letter signed on verso from Alida McParlin.

GLC02649.11

27 November 1864

McParlin, Thomas A., 1825-1897

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alida Roca McParlin

McParlin sends news of himself and asks for more letters from his wife. Writes about life and work at the hospital in Annapolis, Maryland. Comments on religion, friends, and food. Has been so cold that he has been using his "buffalo robe." Troops and officers received apples from the "patriotic merchants" of New York and turkey as well for Thanksgiving. There is text loss where the year was written and elsewhere along the edges of the paper.

GLC02649.39

10 September 1864

Knox, Andrew, 1835-?

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sarah Knox

A Union lieutenant in the 1st Connecticut Artillery offers his opinion of McClellan's presidential campaign. " ... Gen. Mc Clellan's election, on the platform of the late convention I do not think he stands any sight whatever. It is decidedly a peace platform. I doubt if he will get many votes from the soldiers ... In fact I hear many soldiers already denouncing him ... Perhaps if he would come out with a strong war acceptance these things may be changed ... I think the majority of the soldiers are for Lincoln." Also discusses everyday things like what he has been eating; codfish,…

GLC03523.20.16

circa 1777

Hill, Jonathan, fl. 1777-1782

Autograph document

Title: to Robert Kingston

Hill, a Lieutenant Colonel in the 9th Regiment of Foot, was updating Kingston, a staff officer for Lieutenant General John Burgoyne, on the allocation of funds. Says two of seven guineas were given to Boyle as a guide for the 9th Regiment and that the other 5 were also given to Boyle to compensate him for the plundering of his house, garden, and potato field. Claims the General's servant told him that he was to have two loaves of sugar and that he has only received one. Asks for another in mock desperation.

GLC04764.18

September 4, 1813

Perry, Oliver Hazard, 1785-1819

Letter

Title: to Daniel Dobbins

From aboard the USS Lawrence during the War of 1812., Commodore Perry instructs Captain Dobbins to "proceed again to Erie for the purpose of bringing up provisions & Stores for the Squadron." Indicates that "the services of the Ohio will in all probability be wanting in a week" and notes that "Every thing that belongs to the Squadron must be brought on." He was right, six days later, Perry fought the Battle of Lake Erie. The letter is pasted to a piece of paper, and pasted to the verso is an undated engraving of Perry. A copy of the letter.

GLC00496.273.02

3 May 1849

Caspar, fl. 1849

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his parents

Describes his overland route through Mexico and how he was swindled by Captain Innes, the expedition leader who ran out of money and had his charges pay his way. Relays the entire story of Innes' desertion and return to the travelers. Reports that he was elected the guide after Innes left permanently. Discusses the food and customs of the common people.

GLC05527.02

1778/11/06

Duffield, John, fl. 1778

Document signed

Title: [Receipt for tea]

Duffield attests to receiving 837 British pounds worth of tea from Robert Campbell.

GLC08696.01

1779/10/25

Brown & Morgan, fl. 1779

Document

Title: [Receipt for tea and sugar]

Attests to receipt of two half chests of tea and one barrel of sugar by Greenbury Dorsey, possibly Greensbury Dorsey (d. 1807) of Huntington County, Pennsylvania.

GLC08696.02

1780/07/14

Hopkins, R., fl. 1780

Document

Title: [Receipt for tea]

Attests to receipt of 179 pounds of tea by Greenbury Dorsey, possibly Greensbury Dorsey (d. 1807) of Huntington County, Pennsylvania. Notes that R. Hopkins was paid $6000.

GLC08696.03

20 February 1777

Schaack, H.V., fl. 1777

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for $1040 received from Theodore Sedgwick]

Money paid for the purchase of 1040 bushels of wheat.

GLC01450.232.02

1915 circa

Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York

Broadside

Title: Women in the home

Argues that a woman's place may be in the home, but that she can perform these domestic duties much better if allowed the vote, since she will have greater control outside events that influence her housekeeping, such as public health and clean food. "ALONE she CANNOT make these things right. WHO or WHAT can?...the City Government...DO THE WOMEN ELECT THEM? NO, the men do. So it is the MEN and NOT THE WOMEN that are responsible" for the ills of their household. "MEN are responsible for the for the conditions under which the children live, but we hold WOMEN responsible for the results of…

GLC08964

10 November 1777

Rollinson, J., fl. 1777

Autograph document signed

Title: [Objections of officers of the 20th Regiment to conditions under the Articles of Convention]

Document by the Captains, Subalterns, and staff of the 20th Regiment of Foot asserts that the Americans need to follow through on the stipulations in the Articles of Convention, which delineated the conditions of surrender after the Battle of Saratoga. Says they will not follow the Articles unless the Americans hold up their end of the deal. Asserts that they are acting on their principles of honor, justice and duty. The complaints include: not being quartered by rank, restrictions on hours they are allowed to move about, restrictions on the movement of servants, and restrictions on…

GLC04764.40

1777-1778

Autograph document

Title: Advanced Corps

Complaints of the Advanced Corps over the implementation of the Articles of Convention after the Battle of Saratoga. Date inferred from other documents in this collection, which have similar complaints around the end of 1777. Place written inferred from the fact that prisoners of war from the Battle of Saratoga were sent to Cambridge, Massachusetts. They are angry about not being quartered by rank, their early curfew, and the inability to buy items like bread and milk from anyone other than the commissary. The Advanced Corps was an elite group in General John Burgoyne's army that was defeated…

GLC04764.41

1777-1778

Autograph document

Title: The Field Officers of the 9th Objections to the Parole

Field officers of the 9th Regiment of Foot sent their complaints against the implementation of the Articles of Convention after the Battle of Saratoga. Date inferred from other documents in this collection listing the complaints of other British units around the end of 1777. Place written inferred from the fact that the prisoners of war after Saratoga were sent to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Objections include: Officers and men not quartered agreeable to the Articles, that they do not receive wood, rations, or provisions, restrictions on the purchasing of items outside the commissary. Was…

GLC04764.42