circa 1759

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

Lists sailors from Germany. Includes the sailor's names, trade, age, and various other details. The year 1759 was added at a later date in pencil.

GLC02437.09892

May 13, 1799

Hager, Martha, fl. 1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucy Knox

Writes to her friend Lucy Knox (Henry and Lucy Knox's daughter). Discusses her family and says she is finally feeling well. Mentions her last remaining brother died in November from sickness. Comments her composure and health has gradually returned and she is now peaceful. Circa date inferred from Lucy Knox's life span.

GLC02437.09893

1781

Necker, Jacques, 1732-1804

Manuscript document

Title: [Excerpt from "Le compte rendu au roi"] [in French]

Excerpt from French finance minister Necker's 1781 report, to the king, of the royal finances. Entirely in the hand of Henry Knox's aide-de-camp Samuel Shaw.

GLC02437.09896

circa 1781-1783

Nicolas, Lewis, 1717-1807

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Plan]

Outlines an alternate, cost-saving plan to the proposal for promoting all colonels and putting them on brigadier's half pay.

GLC02437.09899

circa 20 December 1791

Turner, George, 1750-1843

Autograph document signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Notes on the distances from the Wabash River and observations on its navigation. Includes notes of errors in Thomas Hutchinson's map. The dating inferred from dated copy in the Papers of James Madison at the Library of Congress. Turner was a judge of the Northwest Territory.

GLC02437.09904

circa 1750-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Notice]

A notice [possibly an advertisement] for Mr. Enoch's house in Plymouth County, Massachusetts to be sold at public auction.

GLC02437.09906

circa 1775-1776

Morton, Dimond, 1743-1792

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

Lists Captain Morton's men lodging and travel expenses before they joined their commissions. Circa date based on Morton's military service in the Artillery.

GLC02437.09907

circa 29 March 1748

Manuscript document

Title: [Memo]

A memo regarding the inventory conducted in 1748 on James Bowdoin's estate in Suffolk County, [Massachusetts]. The inventory includes "warehouse goods & the whole."

GLC02437.09908

circa 1791

Henri, Pierre, fl. 1760-1822

Printed document

Title: to Henry Knox

"Henri," an artist, sends samples of his work (not present) and asks for the addressee's patronage. He gives his address, and notes he can also do portraits in crayon. Location and date of creation inferred from dates of Henri's presence in Philadelphia, and Knox's rental of a house on the street cited on the address leaf. Henri was a miniature painter from France.

GLC02437.09910

1777

Manuscript document

Title: Reasons for Springfield being preferable to Brookfield as a place proper to have Magazines Laboratories &c.

Both towns are in Massachusetts, but Springfield is near the Connecticut River and other waterways, making it, according to the author, a more suitable place for a magazine. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.09912

circa 1750-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Accounts]

Lists transactions for a Mr. Flucker, most likely Thomas Flucker, and others.

GLC02437.09918

circa 1784-1817

Hichborn, Benjamin, 1746-1817

Manuscript document

Title: [Memo]

Memo discussing Samuel Waldo's estate.

GLC02437.09919

circa 30 November 1750-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Account]

List of transactions relating to £45 and how it was spent. Year of creation unknown. Address "For Mr. Flucker."

GLC02437.09920

circa 1750-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

Lists names of people with ages, gender, date of death and freight payment. Appears to relate to early German settlers on the Waldo Patent, but it is not clear whether it is an early, original document or a late 18th century summary of information.

GLC02437.09922

circa 17 December 1786-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph note signed

Title: [Note]

Discusses a mortgage. Year of creation unknown.

GLC02437.09926

circa February 6, 1750

Pemberton, Ebenezer, fl. 1747-1810

Autograph note signed

Title: [Request]

Places an order to have a pair of shoes made for Thomas Flucker. Year of creation unknown.

GLC02437.09929

circa 1750-1820

Manuscript document

Title: [Agreement]

Agreement between Samuel Waldo and settlers in the St. Georges region regarding the division of land.

GLC02437.09931

circa 1784-1806

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Arguments]

Arguments relating to a contract between the commonwealth, most likely Massachusetts, and proprietors of a particular plot of land. Likely related to Knox's land dealings in Maine.

GLC02437.09938

circa 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Minutes]

Minutes regarding land.

GLC02437.09941

1746

Shirley, fl. 1746-1749

Autograph letter

Title: to Mr. Pelham

Discusses the situation regarding field officers and promotions. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.09943

1783

Manuscript document

Title: [List]

Lists the officers of the invalid regiment who had accepted provisions at West Point, New York by name. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.09944

1790

Sullivan, James, 1744-1808

Autograph document signed

Title: [List]

List of questions for Henry Knox, regarding financial business. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.09946

8 August 1861

Wilkinson, Frederick W., fl. 1861-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Amanda Wilkinson

Sends Dr. Fuller to his wife to explain to her what occurred at the Battle of Bull Run. Explains that Dr. Fuller is a good friend and she should ask him any questions she has. Writes that he has been in the hospital for a day or so. Tells his wife that much of the regiment will return home, however, he wants to re-enlist, which could last as long as three years. Says it will depend somewhat on her wishes.

GLC03523.13.009

13 August 1861

Wilkinson, Frederick W., fl. 1861-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Amanda Wilkinson

Tells his wife that he is continually thinking of her, and that the thought of being with her again gives him courage. A young man whom his wife had written about in one of her letters was killed from a shot to the head in the 1st Michigan Infantry. Says that he has received a lot of papers from Wink, his sister. He is very glad that he did not bring her with him to the front.

GLC03523.13.010

1 August 1861

Wilkinson, Frederick W., fl. 1861-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Amanda Wilkinson

Tells his wife that his sister, Wink, wrote to him that she had heard some incorrect things about his regiment's casualties. He reports that they had "very few wounded." He also reports that he was in the hardest part of the battle. States that the retreat was so bad he almost lost confidence in the "Grand Army" and its officers. Once again his regiment attacked a larger number of troops, 5,000, and "stood on ground for over half an hour" while losing only two men and one wounded.

GLC03523.13.011