3 October 1783

Lillie, John, 1755-1801

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request for provisions]

Request for six days' worth of provisions.

GLC02437.02613

6 October 1783

Johnston, W., fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return]

Lists provisions with amounts. Items include bread, vinegar, and beef.

GLC02437.02617

November 1783

Merlet, H., fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to Canadian refugees]

Lists men by military denomination, with issued rations.

GLC02437.02810

December 1, 1783

Price, William, ?-1790

Autograph document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to an officer of police]

Lists rations issued for one police officer at West Point. Includes a note on the verso from William Price, a police officer.

GLC02437.02816

14 May 1782-12 December 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: General Knox in account with Samuel Shaw [expense booklet]

Signed in text by Shaw. Lists expenses incurred dating from 14 May 1782 to 12 December 1783. Expenses and payments received include food, spirits, household items and services, payment to the commander-in-chief's bargemen, a loan to Baron von Steuben, payment to Colonel Brooks "toward sending the Massachusetts Committee to Boston" [regarding their half-pay memorial], "expence of sending a committee to Congress with the address of the Army," Knox's wages and commutation, etc. Mentions on 17 November 1783 the receipt of "certificates for nine thousand seven hundred and ninety four dollars,"…

GLC02437.02826

12 November 1783

Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

Manuscript letter

Title: to Robert Morris

Three sectioned-document written in the hand of Samuel Shaw. Marked as a copy. First part written by Lincoln to Morris concerning the allowance of pay for Henry Knox. Apparently "it was intended [Knox] should draw one hundred and fifty six dollars per month, to refund the expences of his table, in addition to his subsistence money." Wishes Morris will be able to give the paymaster "a sum sufficient to discharge the balance between what General Knox has monthly received and what has been received by the former commanding officers at the fort of West Point..." Contains Lincoln's copied…

GLC02437.10185

12 October 1783

Johnston, W., fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return for a detachment of the Massachusetts Artillery]

Lists provisions which include bread, candles, rum and vinegar, with amounts.

GLC02437.02624

10 October 1783

Lillie, John, 1755-1801

Autograph document signed

Title: [Order to deliver rations]

Order to deliver eighteen rations for Captain John Vincent and his men. Includes a note on the verso signed by Vincent with his mark.

GLC02437.02629

15 October 1783

Lillie, John, 1755-1801

Autograph document signed

Title: [Rations request]

Request to issue thirty packages of rations for John Vaughn of the Massachusetts regiment and his family. Includes a note of receipt on the verso signed by Vaughn.

GLC02437.02660

18 October 1783

Wright, J., fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to artificers]

Lists men by company with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie.

GLC02437.02679

25 October 1783

Wright, Jotham, fl. 1779-1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Army rations for the company of artificers]

Lists men by company with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note of receipt on the verso.

GLC02437.02709

28 October 1783

Antill, Edward, 1742-1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Informs Knox that he has yet to hear about the issue concerning his family provisions and if Knox would permit him to send someone over to hear of any news. "Public service" written on address leaf with no signature.

GLC02437.02718

30 October 1783

Smith, F., 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to detachments]

Return of provisions for five men. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note of receipt on the verso signed by James Robinson.

GLC02437.02727

October 1783

Merlet, H., fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Army return of Canadian refugees]

Lists men by military denomination and rations issued. Noted as a copy.

GLC02437.02734

31 October 1783

Tisdale, James, 1740-1811

Autograph document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to detachments]

Lists number of men with issued rations for the 4th Massachusetts Battalion. Date from docket.

GLC02437.02735

19 May 1862

Cheatham, Benjamin Franklin, 1820-1886

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Oscar Thadeus Keeler

Written near Corinth. Confederate Major General Cheatham, commander of the 2nd Division, lst Corps, Army of the Mississippi, thanks Keeler for a box of vegetables he sent, delivered by Mr. Moore. Writes "I assure you I relished the dinner you afforded me more than anything I have eaten for a long time- and fear you will spoil my appetite for the usual soldiers fare of meat & bread."

GLC02460.03

22 June 1862

Van Dorn, Earl, 1820-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the senior officer in command of the troops in the vicinity of Grenada

Written by Confederate Major General Van Dorn at the Headquarters of the Department of Southern Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana. Says before he left Tupelo he was authorized to order any portion of his command, including the corps of General Breckenridge, to his department should circumstances render it necessary. Reports that a fleet with transports and about 10,000 men are now under sail for Vicksburg. Wants 6,000 men with 10 days rations under a suitable officer sent to him. Presumes that the enemy will reach Vicksburg on Tuesday next. Wants him to take measures to have the detachment…

GLC02460.17

5 May 1862

Johnson, Richard W., 1827-1897

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. B. Fry

Informs Fry, "I am very much in want of a Commissary for my Brigade. Understanding that my former Commissary, Capt. Palmer, has returned, I would respectfully request that he be ordered to my Brigade. I have no officer in the Brigade who can perform the duties of Commissary, hence my request." Endorsed by Brigadier General Alexander McDowell McCook. One bust engraving of Johnson included as collateral.

GLC02456.13

19 September 1775

Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Trumbull

Written by General Arnold as commander of one of the two columns marching on Canada (General Philip Schuyler's forces in New York being the other) to Trumbull as Commissary General of Purchases to George Washington's army at Cambridge. In August 1775 Arnold had convinced Washington to give him a command to march through the Maine wilderness to Quebec. This letter references the good weather at the start of his journey northward, by ship, from the coastal town of Newburyport to Maine. Thanks him for his letter he sent by Mr. Thomas. Says he has added to his army's provisions. Wishes him…

GLC02451

circa March 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript

Title: [Letterbook related to the Newburgh Conspiracy]

Table of contents is written on front cover in what appears to be a later hand. Includes copies of letters by various individuals, all in the hand of Samuel Shaw, relating to officers' complaints regarding pay, supplies, and other topics. Contains George Washington's address to officers at Newburgh, New York, intended to quiet dissatisfaction. Letter 1, dated 7 October 1780, is from Nathanael Greene and five other generals in Tappan, New York, including Henry Knox, written to the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut "to represent the distressing condition…

GLC02437.09443

8 March 1783

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

The wives and children of soldiers in the New York Artillery regiment who are living in camp are to be provisioned by the army, in order to make sure they do not leave and take their soldier husbands with them. This provision only applies to women who are already in camp, and not new arrivals. "The number of Women and Children in the New York Regiments of Infantry before the new System of Issues took place obliged me, either to depart from that System and allow them provision or by driving them from the Army risk the loss of a number of Men, who very probably would have followed." Written…

GLC02437.09364

8 October 1783

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Reports receiving a letter from Knox, delivered by Captain Shaw (possibly Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp). Informs Knox, commanding at West Point, he has been impatiently waiting for Congress to decide the number of troops to be stationed at West Point during the winter. Relates that some members of Congress seem reluctant to lessen the present force while the British remain in the United States. Intends to send orders to Colonel [Timothy] Pickering, Quarter Master General, to extend winter provisions for the supply of 2500-3000 men. Notes that Shaw has gone to Philadelphia. Docketed in…

GLC02437.09392

6 May 1783

Doughty, John, 1754-1826

Manuscript document signed

Title: Victualing return for one army prisoner

Under the return, lists the names Asa [Andrews?] and Richard Douglass (possibly quartermaster and captain respectively; text is faded). Doughty signs by order of General Knox. Contains a note on page two written by [P.?] Austen, noting receipt of rations.

GLC02437.09710

1 May 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return for the superintendent of the masons employed in the engineers department]

Also signed by Joseph Cheeseman, superintendent of Masons;. Contains a note on page two written by Jacob Wight, who confirms receipt of rations. Covers 1-8 May. Possibly created at West Point.

GLC02437.09712

9 May 1783

Lillie, John, 1755-1801

Manuscript document signed

Title: Provision return for thirteen men employed in the Ordnance Department

Also signed by Captain Thomas Batten. Covers 9-12 May. Contains a note on page two written by Sergeant R. Blakley, confirming receipt of rations. Contains extensive water damage.

GLC02437.09714