April 1776

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Abstract of pay due to the field and staff officers & nine companies of the artillery regiment commanded by Henry Knox]

Lists the various posts (colonel, major, adjutant, etc.) and the pay for each.

GLC02437.09516

10 May 1776

Manuscript document

Title: [List of officers]

Marked as a copy. Lists officers and pay for an unspecified company for the month of March.

GLC02437.09522

16 May 1776

Document

Title: [Abstract of pay due to the field and staff officers and nine companies of the artillery regiment]

Marked as a copy. Covers the months of February and March 1776.

GLC02437.09523

April- June 1776

Burbeck, Edward, 1740-1783

Document

Title: [Abstract of Captain Edward Burbeck's company in Henry Knox's artillery regiment]

Covers the months of April, May, and June. Marked as a copy.

GLC02437.09524

1776

Manuscript document

Title: [Account information between Henry Knox and Captain Edward Burbeck]

Lists transactions between Henry Knox and Edward Burbeck by date from 28 December 1773 to 15 March 1776. Includes amounts for the pay of Burbeck's men, "Blankett Money," and various unnamed articles.

GLC02437.10436

1775-1776

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Abstract of pay due to the field and staff officers and nine companies of the regiment of artillery commanded by Colonel Henry Knox]

Includes travel expenses and billeting. Contains information from December 1775 and January 1776.

GLC02437.10654

January 1776

Burbeck, Henry, 1754-1848

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Abstract of men in a regiment of artillery commanded by Colonel Henry Knox]

Lists the names of men in the regiment.

GLC02437.10659

31 March 1776

Burbeck, Edward, 1740-1783

Manuscript document

Title: [Roll of men in Captain Edward Burbeck's Company, a regiment of artillery commanded by Colonel Henry Knox]

Lists the names of men and their ranks in the regiment.

GLC02437.10660

1 April 1776

Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803

Manuscript document

Title: [Roll of enlisted men in Captain [Sebastian] Bauman's artillery company for the Continental Service ordered to be raised in the colony of New York by the Provincial Congress]

Lists the names of men, date of enlistment, and place of birth.

GLC02437.10661

27 April 1776

Badlam, Stephen, 1751-1815

Autograph document signed

Title: [Return]

Return from Military Stores at Albany, New York. Lists current stock of articles and articles carried forward.

GLC02437.10662

26 May 1776

Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803

Manuscript document

Title: [Muster roll of Captain Bauman's company of artillery in the regiment commanded by Henry Knox]

Lists names of officers and soldiers. Covers the month of March, entered in April.

GLC02437.10663

February 21, 1778

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Realizes that supplies are badly needed in many locations, but wishes to transport supplies as little as possible. Also mentions how well Knox has performed as superintendent of his division. Washington's signature has been clipped out of the letter.

GLC02437.09353

1 March 1781

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Transmits a requisition from New York for ammunition and says to send only what stock is deficient to Fort Schuyler. Written at "Head Quarters." At bottom, a note in the hand of Samuel Shaw reads, "Answered and the papers returned to the man who brought them." Bottom of the letter clipped to remove Washington's signature. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aid-de-camp.

GLC02437.09354

28 May 1781

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses the possible evacuation of New York and various issues regarding supplies. Requests an estimate of articles needed for Knox's department and asks Knox to attend to supplies needed by General Clinton and Captain Moodie. "I have only to request that you will be pleased to make all the necessary Estimates of Articles wanted in your Department, and also put the whole business for the Operation (so far as is within your reach) in the best train of execution, which our embarrassed circumstances will possibly admit." Washington's signature clipped out. Docketed by Henry Knox.

GLC02437.09355

1 May 1782

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Does not yet know the route Colonel Lamb's regiment will take, and has ordered the sappers and miners to West Point. "I am so totally in the dark at this Time, respecting the scene of our operations for the ensuing Campaign, that I cannot at present, give you any directions respecting the Time and Rout that Colo. Lamb's Regiment shall march." Washington's signature has been clipped. Written at Head Quarters.

GLC02437.09356

17 August 1782

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Requests Knox's opinion on the "proposed arrangement of the office of Field Commissary of Military Stores." Includes an extract from a letter by the Secretary of War at the end of his letter, which he wants Knox's opinion on. The extract is regarding the number of officers to be employed in the Field Commissary's department, and how and where they should be employed. Washington's signature clipped. Written at "Head Quarters." Docketed by Henry Knox.

GLC02437.09357

9 September 1782

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Proposes use of prisoners as armorers, discusses trial of Sergeant Spinoza [Spinosa] for treason, requests help organizing the Department of the Commissary of Military Stores and wonders if "it be possible to get the field pieces directed to be presented to the Count de Rochambeau, engraved with the proper inscriptions here - or must the Secretary at War endeavour to have it done in Philadela." Written at "Head Quarters." Washington's signature clipped.

GLC02437.09358

17 September 1782

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Refuses to grant leave to Captain Machin while he is on trial. "Captain Machin being under Arrest there would be an impropriety in his transacting any public business - or in granting him leave of absence from Camp. His Trial must soon come on in course, if that terminates in his favor I shall then have no objections to granting the leave requested, and if in the mean time any business of the Corps requires that an Officer should go to Philadelphia, leave shall be granted to any other you may think proper to send." Written at "Head Quarters." Washington's signature clipped.

GLC02437.09359

13 October 1782

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Suggesting stationary duty for an Invalid Regiment. Instructs Knox to "keep Van Schaick's Artificers," and fill the rest of his need for artificers with carpenters and Masons;. Also discusses movement of materials from Fishkill, condition of "the old Barracks on the Point" and the best place to move prisoners of war. Written at "Head Quarters." Washington's signature clipped.

GLC02437.09360

8 November 1782

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Suggests the Fourth Connecticut Regiment be used to lay wood for a hospital being built. Written at "Head Quarters." Washington's signature clipped.

GLC02437.09361

8 November 1782

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Enclosing a note regarding a case that he wishes Knox to deal with. "You will be pleased to take up the matter in question, have a fair investigation made into the Merits of it, and cause justice to be done to the Individual concerned, as well as the Public." A endorsement in the hand of Samuel Shaw at the bottom of the page reads "Answered, and the papers returned to the man who brought them." Written at "Head Quarters." Washington's signature clipped.

GLC02437.09362

February 1, 1783

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Requests that Knox "furnish me with an Estimate of every thing in the Ordnance and Artillery Department which will be necessary to carry on an Offensive and vigorous Campaign - considering also the Seige of New York as a probable Operation." Written at "Head Quarters." Washington's signature clipped.

GLC02437.09363

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

16 August 1783

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses the distribution of artillery at American garrisons, now that most hostilities have ceased. Written at "Head Quarters." Washington's signature clipped.

GLC02437.09365

29 August 1783

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Tells Knox to order "that a stop should be put to the movement of the Troops & Stores which were destined for the Western Posts." Also asks him to forward letters he has enclosed. Washington's signature clipped.

GLC02437.09366