January 18, 1781

Stoddert, Benjamin, 1751-1813

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox.

Informs Knox that the Board of War has created a new position, the Deputy Field Commissary of Military Stores for the Southern Army. The Board wishes him to let a Mr. Thomas Jones know that they have appointed him to the position and to have Knox help him if he needs it. Written at the War Office.

GLC02437.00872

January 11, 1781

Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791

Printed document signed

Title: [Pay order]

"At Thirty Days Sight of this Second Bill, First, Third and Fourth not paid, pay to Dudley Woodbridge Jun. or Order, Twelve Dollars, in Sixty Livres Tournois, for Interest due on Money borrowed by the United States." Countersigned by the Commissioner of the Continental Loan-Office in Connecticut, William Finlay.

GLC02437.00873

January 22, 1781

Barber, Nathaniel, Jr., 1728-1787

Manuscript document signed

Title: Return of Cannon & Carriages Mortars & Beds in different Places belonging to the Continent

Lists artillery by type, and source location. All seem to be from the Boston, Massachusetts area.

GLC02437.00874

January 22, 1781

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Manuscript document signed

Title: Return of Ordnance Stores in the fort at Dorchester Heights belonging to the Continent

Lists military supplies and stores by fort and type. Written in Dorchester Heights, Boston, Massachusetts.

GLC02437.00875

January 22, 1781

Barber, Nathaniel, Jr., 1728-1787

Manuscript document signed

Title: Return of Ordnance in the forts at Dorchester Heights belonging to the State of Massachusetts

Lists artillery by type.

GLC02437.00876

January 22, 1781

Barber, Nathaniel, Jr., 1728-1787

Manuscript document signed

Title: Return of Ordnance & Stores

Lists miltary stores and ammunition by type and quantity.

GLC02437.00877

January 23, 1781

Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

General Lincoln discusses the issue of paying officers at half-pay for the rest of their lives at the close of the war. Instead, advocates giving them one lump sum at the end of the war.

GLC02437.00878

January 26, 1781

Barber, Nathaniel, Jr., 1728-1787

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel Shaw

Lists the accounts of pay for Nathaniel Barber, John Adams, Samuel Lord and John Austin and asks Shaw to send a certificate so that they can "receive from this Common Wealth, the depreciation thereon."

GLC02437.00879

January 27, 1781

Perkins, William, 1742-1802

Manuscript document signed

Title: General Return of Ordnance and Stores now on hand in the Rhode Island Department

A detailed list of military stores and supplies by type and condition.

GLC02437.00880

January 31, 1781

Moore, Andrew, fl. 1781

Manuscript document signed

Title: A Return of Ordinance & Military Stores In Garrison at Fort Schuyler with ye. Alterations Since Last

A detailed list of supplies and stores according to caliber and type. Written at Fort Schuyler, Utica, New York.

GLC02437.00881

February 4, 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Knox

Discusses the mutinies of Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops, and the quelling of the latter by forces under General Robert Howe. References execution of two of the mutinies' leaders.

GLC02437.00882

8 February 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certificate]

Certificate verifying the appointment of William Pennington as a Lieutenant of the Second regiment of Artillery. Written at a Park of Artillery.

GLC02437.00883

9 February 1781

United States. Continental Congress.

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Congressional Resolution]

Resolution stating that "the Officers & Men of the Regiment of Artillery Artificiers have the same pay from after the 1st of August, in Bill, of the new Emissions as was originally fixed in Bills of the then Emissions, by the Regulations of the Department made by Congress on the 11th of February 1778 & that they draw the Number of Rations there directed." Noted as an extract from General Order. In the hand of, and signed by, Henry Knox's aide, John Doughty.

GLC02437.00884

10 February 1781

Perkins, William, 1742-1802

Manuscript document signed

Title: General Return of Ordnance and Stores Now onhand in the Rhode Island Department.

Lists artillery, ammuntion, supplies and stores by condition, type and number.

GLC02437.00885

February 13, 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to the Board of War

Discusses a situation with Pennsylvania soldiers concerning their term of service. See GLC02437.00899 for a letter written by Richard Peters, on behalf of the War Department, responding to Knox's letter. Possibly incomplete.

GLC02437.00887

February 13, 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: to Benjamin Lincoln

Later copy. Discusses the status of troops throughout the New England states and a victory at Cowpens, South Carolina.

GLC02437.00888

February 13, 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Knox

Discusses a meeting with the French army and navy and General Daniel Morgan's victory over General Banastre Tarleton, "the Kill-Devil of Cornwallis's Army," at the battle of Cowpens, South Carolina, 17 January 1781.

GLC02437.00889

February 14, 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Certificate sent to Nathaniel Barber]

Certificate verifying the rank of officers in the Department of Military Stores and that they are "entitled to the allowance for depreciation of their pay ... " Written and signed for Knox in the hand of his aide Samuel Shaw.

GLC02437.00890

February 14, 1781

Cochran, John, 1730-1807

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Discharge recommendation]

Recommendation of discharge for William Ally.

GLC02437.00891

February 14, 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Updates Knox on what has been happening in the Massachusetts Legislature and mentions the issue of soldier's pay. Continues with the majority of the letter, describing the events of the suicide of a young gentleman.

GLC02437.00892

February 15 and February 16, 1781

Stevens, Ebenezer, 1751-1823

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox.

Writes a note to Henry Knox asking for approval concerning a discharge and encloses the discharge with the note (see GLC02437.00891). The discharge is written by Samuel Shaw on the second page, dated 16 February. Written at a Park of Artillery.

GLC02437.00893

17 February 1781

Craig, Isaac, 1742-1826

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Indent of Ordnance Stores Necessary at this Post in Addition to those at Present here in Case any Offensive Operations are Intended from this Place Against the Enemys Posts Westward

Lists artillery supplies and stores. Written at Fort Pitt, which is current day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

GLC02437.00894

19 February 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: Settlement with Col. [Timothy] Pickering for the extremes of Gen Knox's Waggon

Lists payments to various people. Title and date from docket. Bears autograph endorsement signed by Timothy Pickering's hand.

GLC02437.00896

19 February 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to the Board of War

Discusses artillery and stores in Pennsylvania and the situation regarding the term of service for the enlisted men of Pennsylvania.

GLC02437.00897

February 21, 1781

Peters, Richard, fl. 1732-1828

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Responds to Knox's previously written letter to the War Office on 13 February 1781(see GLC02437.0887). Discusses the status and new command of troops.

GLC02437.00899