3 July 1781

Cornell, Ezekiel, 1733-1800

Letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Cornell writes on behalf of the Board of War. Informs Knox of the status of several supply orders, including spirits, paper, and linseed oil. Notes that [Samuel] Hodgdon, Commissary General of Military Stores, "has a fair prospect of being furnished with some money..." Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide, "From the Board of War 3d July 1781."

GLC02437.01015

3 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Informs the recipient: "I have information that a quantity of [struck: saltpetre] sulphur belonging to the United States has been deposited in the House in what you now live. This event happen'd either through the villany or carelessness of the persons employ'd to transport it." Instructs the inhabitant of the house to deliver the sulphur to the United States.

GLC02437.01016

5 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: to Captain Mitchell

Instructs Mitchell, Deputy Quartermaster General at Newburgh, New York, to expect stores arriving from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Orders Mitchell to forward the stores by ship to West Point, allowing the ships containing powder to remain at anchor in the Hudson near West Point, just above the chain (that crossed the Hudson). Written by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide. Signed by Shaw for Knox. Contains two dockets. One states, "Elias Woodhull."

GLC02437.01017

5 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to Thomas Patten

Gives Captain Patten orders regarding his company of artillery artificers, mortar beds, the artillery park, garrison carriages, and other details. Instructs that the artillery park should join the army. Post script, docket, and Knox's copied signature are written by Samuel Shaw.

GLC02437.01018

5 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Price

Knox gives orders to Lieutenant Price regarding stores that are to arrive from Pennsylvania (Price was in charge of the laboratory at West Point). "You will please to have every thing in the Laboratory prepared with the utmost dispatch..."

GLC02437.01019

6 July 1781

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certificate regarding Lieutenant John Tharp's pay]

Captain Patten certifies that Tharp, from Morris County, New Jersey, enlisted 27 November 1776. Lists Tharp's promotions. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.01020

6 July 1781

Manuscript document signed

Title: Return of the necessary impliments to compleat a howitzer for the field

Lists items such as rasps, chisels, ladels, and funnels, among others.

GLC02437.01022

6 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Turner

Instructs Turner, wagon master, to transport horses and wagons to the nearby artillery park by way of Fishkill, New York.

GLC02437.01023

6 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: to Lieutenant Price

Orders Price to inspect stores arriving from Rhode Island. Also gives Price orders regarding ordnance and stores arriving from Springfield, Massachusetts. Mentions Captain Seward and John Ruddock.

GLC02437.01024

6 July 1781

Lincoln, Freeman, fl. 1781

Manuscript signed

Title: [List of items received from Major William Perkins]

Lists items such as powder, cartridges, and fuzes, among others received from William Perkins of the artillery. Lincoln was an ox team contractor.

GLC02437.01025

6 July 1781

Crane, John, 1744-1805

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses ordnance he gathered to be sent from Springfield to Claverack, New York. Notes that Captain Callendar, delivering this letter to Knox, will give Knox details of their march from Boston. Intends to depart for Claverack as soon as the mortars are sent from Springfield.

GLC02437.01026

6 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Hugh Hughes

Informs Hughes, Deputy Quartermaster General at Fishkill, that the artillery park will move from New Windsor the following day. Notes that Colonel Ebenezer Stevens "will be here to morrow, please to let me know on what we are to depend when we shall arrive at Peekskill."

GLC02437.01027

7 July 1781

Hughes, Hugh, ?-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Hughes, Deputy Quartermaster General at Fishkill, responds to a letter from Knox regarding moving the artillery park (GLC02437.01027). Discusses the upcoming campaign Colonel Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster General, and Henry Knox. Writes, "... my Situation is truly disagreeable, as I have neither been furnished with Orders, nor Means to answer your Demands."

GLC02437.01028

7 July 1781

Manuscript document

Title: An account of stores ordered to be sent from Philadelphia to the main army

Lists skins, leather, ladles, and writing paper, among other items.

GLC02437.01029

7 July 1781

Richards, William, fl. 1781-1787

Manuscript document

Title: [Invoice of ordnance and stores brought to Fishkill, New York from Litchfield, Connecticut]

Lists grape shot and case shot among other ordnance and stores. The stores were delivered to Ruddock, Deputy Commissary of Military Stores at Fishkill.

GLC02437.01030

10 July 1781

Swift, Heman, 1733-1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Colonel Swift informs Knox that his 2nd Connecticut Brigade "are destitute of a conductor of military stores and are much imbarrased [sic] for want of one..." Suggests Sergeant Amos Kellogg for the position. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01031

11 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain Howe

Instructs Howe regarding the transport of stores and cannon from Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island to West Point, New York. Howe is to instruct the officers in charge of sending the stores in case they do not receive Knox's orders. The stores are to be shipped on the Hudson to West Point, and kept afloat in vessels above the chain. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01034

11 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Pertains to boarding vessels] [incomplete]

Fragment. Knox anticipates receiving returns of stores. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01035

11 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [Ebenezer] Stevens

Gives Colonel Stevens instructions regarding the transportation of ammunition and stores. Discusses moving the artillery park and gathering ordnance and stores to be moved with the army. Mentions Richard Frothingham, a commissary, who will assist with moving the stores. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01036

11 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sebastian Bauman

Knox writes to Major Bauman at West Point. Instructs Bauman to send one company of artillery from West Point to Dobbs Ferry, New York. Adds that the cannon must be put on board vessels and sent as soon as possible. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01037

11 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [William] Price

Possibly to Lieutenant William Price. Asks Price to send a return of the articles he has obtained from the Quartermaster General. Reports that he has ordered laboratory stores from Philadelphia, and they are to be sent to Price at New Windsor. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01038

11 July 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Crane

Gives Crane orders regarding the transport of cannon and stores sent from Springfield, Massachusetts through Claverack, New York to be sent to New Windsor, New York, where Crane will soon arrive. Gives instructions to be passed on to Captain Thomas Seward if Seward is at Claverack, New York. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).

GLC02437.01039

13 July 1781

Seward, Thomas, 1740-1800

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Invoice of military stores shipped from Claverack Landing]

Possibly written at Claverack, New York. Stores were shipped aboard the Nancy under the care of Captain Beckham. Also contains an "Invoice of sundry stores deliverd Lieut Wm Price by order of General Knox for the use of the Laboratory" at New Windsor. Seward signs as captain. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide.

GLC02437.01040

13 July 1781

Stevens, Ebenezer, 1751-1823

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Colonel Stevens plans to soon sail from his present location, bound for Kings Ferry, New York. Has endeavored to fulfill Knox's instructions in Knox's absence (Stevens possibly writes from New Windsor, New York). Notes that the arms available to his men at present are rusty and dirty, and expresses reluctance to march with these. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide.

GLC02437.01042

13 July 1781

Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Major Bauman, in charge of artillery at West Point, writes "I saw Genl [Alexander] McDougall next morning at half passd seven, and by Eight I had all necessary orders given, and every thing in motion, and at noon had the cannon and stores at the landing ready to put aboard some vessells..." Discusses stores being sent to Knox (at Philipsburgh, present-day Sleepy Hollow, New York). Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide.

GLC02437.01043