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[Articles of agreement with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts]

Articles of agreement between Phillips, Leonard Jarvis and John Read for the state of Massachusetts and Henry Jackson and associates for the sale of two million acres "of unappropriated lands in the Eastern parts of [the] Commonwealth..." There are...

GLC02437.10230

Henry Knox Esq. Secretary at War in a/c current with the United States

Three parts. First part dated 16 November. Lists expenditures due to Indian treaties as well as expenses incurred through different departments. Total amounts to $51,464.36. Note stating "By a Statement of this Transaction mark't A it appears that...

GLC02437.10259

to unknown

Discusses money and materials in constructing the house and states that he is "extremely anxious that it should be completed in the course of the year, although my heart fears that I shall not be able to go there this summer." Mentions the new corps...

GLC02437.10299

Copy of a conveyance to Joseph Hall

Title from docket. Pertains to a mortgage payment and land. Signed by Knox. Contains a note written April 1802 at Boston signed by [William?] Sullivan, Justice of the Peace. Docketed by Knox.

GLC02437.10343

[Deed to Israel Thorndike and William Prescott]

Title from docket. Docket, written in Knox's hand, also notes: "This was a deed which by a verbal agreement was to be reconvey[ed] on the payment of 17000 Dollars." Henry and Lucy Knox convey the land to Thorndike and Prescott.

GLC02437.10349

[Indenture between Henry and Lucy Knox with Israel Thorndike, William Prescott, and David Sears]

Signed by Thorndike, Sears, Prescott, Henry and Lucy Knox. Countersigned by Joseph Platt, Justice of the Peace, and Ebenezer Gage as witnesses. Contains a note written in Boston 24 July 1806 by Joseph Platt. Pertains to Knox's Maine lands.

GLC02437.10350

[List]

List of goods ordered and bought by Henry Knox to be shipped to Boston. Consists of books on a variety of topics, including the sciences, essays, commentaries and travel diaries.

GLC02437.10374

[Invoice]

List of goods ordered and bought by Henry Knox to be shipped to Boston. Consists of books on a variety of topics, including medicine, sermons, Classical literature, and others.

GLC02437.10384

[Account]

List of transactions between Henry Knox and John Marston by date, from 20 September to 18 October 1806.

GLC02437.10403

[Certificate]

Certifies that all of the signers were present at a court hearing which found Samuel Waldo "guilty of Injustice, unfaithfullness [sic] in his Trust, Fraud & Cruelty in refusing to make due Payments to [diverted ?] Persons..." Also mentions William...

GLC02437.10413

[Estate report] [incomplete]

Discusses the will of the parents of Lucy Knox and Hannah Urquhart Harwood, as Knox and Hannah are listed as its executors. Writes about debts and who has the rights to what. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.

GLC02437.10430

[Cannon machinery]

Notes regarding the construction of an artillery device along with a diagram with labeled parts corresponding to the notes.

GLC02437.10450

[Account between Henry Knox and the Quartermaster General's Department for 1776]

Anspach signs, noting that he received from Samuel Hodgdon, field commissary of military stores, the amount due on Knox's account. Verso contains further account information.

GLC02437.10483

Return of the men commissioned officers and privates of my company that are absent belonging to the State of Connecticut

Lists names, occupation, term of time in service, state and town where the officers and privates are from, and deserters. Lists men from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.

GLC02437.10499

[Monthly return of the 2nd New York Regiment of Artillery commaned by Colonel John Lamb]

Lists number of men by rank. Also absentees, on duty, on command, and on extra duty. Title from docket.

GLC02437.10509

[Return]

Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Return for troops at West Point, New York, commanded by Henry Knox. Lists men by company, rank, and present status. Noted as printed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by F...

GLC02437.10535

[Account]

Account of Henry Knox for disbursements regarding Indian treaties with the United States. Noted as a copy in the docket and as written at the auditor's office.

GLC02437.10587

Eastern repository. [Vol. IV, no. 21 (November 11, 1806)]

Contains the notice of Henry Knox's death and his eulogy. Describes Knox's burial and the military honors given. Along with discussing Knox's character, the eulogy addresses Knox's contribution to the Revolutionary War, his time as Secretary of War...

GLC02437.10608

[Proposal for a monument]

"A DESCRIPTION OF A MONUMENT DESIGNED TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF AMERICAN LIBERTY." A portion of it states, "THE GODDESS is represented descending in a car drawn by four horses, darting through a volume of clouds, which conceals the summit of a...

GLC02437.10610

[Account]

Dr. Wales & Beale account with General Henry Knox. Lists dates, articles, times, interest, and amounts from 2 May 1806 to 31 July 1806.

GLC02437.10628

[Deed]

Signed by Jonathan and Hannah Waldo. Bartholomew Gedney and Edward Emerson signed as witnesses. Samuel [Chookley] signed as Justice of the Peace on 19 September 172[2]. A deed of gift from Jonathan Waldo to Samuel Waldo for several parcels of land...

GLC02437.10631

[Application and petition on behalf of the officers and soldiers of the Massachusetts regiments of the Continental Army for compensation as a result of their services during the American Revolution]

Written by a Committee appointed "by the Officers of the Massachusetts line of the late army to attend to and prosecute their memorial to the Congress of the United States, on the subject of compensation for the losses sustained by them and the...

GLC02437.10244

Legal document regarding dispute over land deeds

Discusses the decision made concerning a deed to a tract of land. Mr. De la Roche and Madame de Leval "went unto Henry Jackson ... and demanded of him title, to a tract of Land ... " which he refused to do so, saying "he has already assigned to Mr...

GLC02437.10256

to Joseph Peirce [incomplete]

Discusses taxes and states "in case of all taxes in future, it would be much more acceptable to me, and more civil, that he would notify you [Jackson] ... " Continues writing about taxes and the possible ramifications of an increase. Watermarked...

GLC02437.10303

[Bond between Henry Knox, Henry Jackson, Benjamin Lincoln, and Benjamin Pickman]

Knox, Jackson, and Lincoln promise to pay Pickman twelve thousand dollars. Contains the terms of their obligation. Docketed 16 December 180[4]: "Cancelled."

GLC02437.10336