1 April 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request for rations]

Request to issue two days' worth of provisions for two deserters from the British. Includes a note on verso from [Rueben Beach].

GLC02437.02052

1 April 1783

Batten, Thomas, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Army Rations issued to Detachments]

Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with a note on verso from George Groom. Lists men by Regiment with rations issued.

GLC02437.02053

1 April 1783

Batten, Thomas, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Army Rations issued to Artificers]

Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with a note from George Groom. Lists men by company with issued rations.

GLC02437.02055

5 April 1783

Sears, Peter, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Army Rations issued to Artificers]

Countersigned by John Lillie with a note on verso by Dudley Mercer. Lists men by company with issued rations.

GLC02437.02065

1 April 1783

Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Army Rations issued to the Artificers and Engineer's Department]

Countersigned by John Lillie with a note on verso from Jacob Wight. Lists men by regiment with issued rations. Date and place writ from note.

GLC02437.02069

9 April 1783

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return for Artificers]

Lists men by regiment with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note from Dudley Mercer.

GLC02437.02076

10 April 1783

Mitchel, John, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to the Water Guard]

Return for the provisions provided for nine men belonging to the Water Guard for two days under the command of Captain Pray(?). Signed by "Comd John Mitchel." Countersigned by John Lillie, aide de camp, that the rations were issued. Mitchel (or Mitchell) signed the docket that contractors delivered the rations.

GLC02437.02079

13 April 1783

Lillie, John, 1755-1801

Autograph document signed

Title: [Army Rations issued to Jonathan Kidney and artificers]

Written by Lillie as an aide-de-camp asking Forsyth to deliver one day of provisions to Jonathan Kidney, who had just come out of captivity. Docket signed by Kidney that he received the provisions from a contractor.

GLC02437.02082

1 April 1783

Denniston, George J., fl. 1782

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request for Army rations]

Request for sixteen rations for William Bigelow. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with a note from Bigelow.

GLC02437.02097

April 17, 1783 circa

Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Army Rations issued to artificier]

Return for rations for one member of the engineering department beginning 9 April and ending 17 April. It appears that the person came from the 8 Massachusetts Regiment. A total of 12 rations were issued over the eight days. Signed by Superintendent Joseph Cheesman and countersigned by Lillie as an aide-de-camp. Docket signed by a Jacob Wight stating that contractors delivered the rations.

GLC02437.02099

21 April 1783

Lillie, John, 1755-1801

Autograph document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to recently released prisoners]

Note from Lillie, an aide-de-camp to Henry Knox, allowing the issue of one day's worth of provisions for two recently released prisoners. Written to Mr. Forsyth as the commissary of issues. Docket signed that contractors delivered the rations.

GLC02437.02107

18 April 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provisions return]

Lists men by rank with rations issued.

GLC02437.02113

25 April 1783

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Army Rations issued to Artificers]

Lists men by company with issued rations. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with a note from Dudley Mercer.

GLC02437.02115

12 May 1783

Ruddock, John, fl. 1779-1796

Autograph document signed

Title: Return of Ordnance & Military Stores at Several Places

Lists amounts of shot, balls, cartridges, carriages, muskets, bayonets, etc at Danbury, Fishkill Landing, and Poughkeepsie. Says there is around three tons of lead at Poughkeepsie.

GLC02437.02123

4 June 1783

Barber, William, fl. 1783-1784

Autograph document signed

Title: [Army Rations issued to Joseph Manning]

Issues six days' worth of provisions for Joseph Manning of the Rhode Island regiment. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with a note from Manning.

GLC02437.02146

6 June 1783

Trumbull, Jonathan, Jr., 1740-1809

Autograph document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to George Finlayson]

Jonathan Trumbull Jr. issues provisions for Finlayson of the Maryland line who has been recently discharged from service. Includes a note on the verso from Finlayson stating his receipt of the provisions.

GLC02437.02149

1 June 1783

Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783

Document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to the Engineer Department]

Partially printed document with subsequent information filled in by hand. Lists men by regiment and company with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note from Jacob Wight.

GLC02437.02155

12 June - 1 July 1783

Nicolas, Lewis, 1717-1807

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Army Rations issued]

Three part document. First portion issues rations to a soldier in the Invalides regiment. Signed Lewis Nicola, Constitution Island, New York 12 June 1783. Second and third portions on the verso signed by David Hillyer and Samuel Shaw respectively, both authorizing the issue of rations. Shaw signed at West Point, New York on 1 July 1783. Written at Constitution Island.

GLC02437.02159

28 May 1783

Fleming, George, 1748-1822

Document signed

Title: Return of ordnance, ordnance stores, apparatus & c. of the garrisons of Stoney & Verplank's Points- Kingsferry

Includes a note at the bottom of the pages discussing a barge and damaged powder. These two pages were previously connected; second page measures 15.2 x 75.9 cm. Torn in middle crease.

GLC02437.10111

1 April 1783

Guion, Isaac, fl. 1776-1823

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return of ordance and stores in the Northern Department]

Includes returns from posts along the Mohawk River including Fort Rensselaer, Fort Herkimer, Fort Dayton, and from Albany and Schenectady. Guion signed as Captain Lieutenant, 2nd Regiment Artillery.

GLC02437.10518

1 May 1783

Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.

GLC02437.10708

5 August 1779

Ruddock, John, fl. 1779-1796

Manuscript document

Title: [Account of clothing pertaining to Lieutenant Colonel E. Cheever's company]

Possibly relates to Colonel Ezekiel Cheever, Commissary General of Artillery Stores. Includes account information from 28 December 1776-5 April 1777. Notes that clothing came from Fort Washington. Lists who ordered the clothes and to whom they were delivered.

GLC02437.10474

4 August 1781

Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824

Manuscript document signed

Title: Return of ordnance & part of the military stores on hand at Philadelphia Augt. 4, 1781

Consists of a return of artillery ammunition and supplies on hand at Philadelphia and of "Muskets &c delivered for the use of the undermention'd states & Troops" from 1 January to 4 August 1781. Signed by Hodgdon, Commissary General of Military Stores. Hodgdon notes that in addition to this list, "five hundred stand of arms will be forwarded... for the State of Maryland."

GLC02437.01115

13 August 1781

Manuscript document

Title: An invoice of military stores brought from [Succasunna Plains] New Jersey

Includes artillery ammunition and supplies, and other military supplies. Docketed twice.

GLC02437.01130

7 September 1781

Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824

Manuscript document signed

Title: Invoice of Ordnance & Military Stores forwarded to the Southern Army.

Addressed to Richard Frothingham, Esq. The ordnance listed was for the siege of Yorktown, which began later that month. Hodgdon was the commissary general of military stores. This was Henry Knox's copy, docketed by Samuel Shaw.

GLC02437.01168