1813/12/27

Patterson, Daniel, fl. 1803-1818

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Walter Patterson re: family news

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC03107.04516

1816/07/19

Manuscript document

Title: Account of Mr. Patterson [in French]

GLC03107.04517

1816/05/25

Manuscript document

Title: Account of Mr. Patterson [in French]

GLC03107.04518

1816

Manuscript document

Title: Account [in French]

GLC03107.04519

1816/04/23

Document

Title: Document [in French]

GLC03107.04520

1816/05

Document

Title: Account of Mr. Patterson [in French]

GLC03107.04521

1816/07/01&06

Manuscript document

Title: Account [in French]

GLC03107.04522

1816/07/16

Campbell, fl. 1816-1862

Autograph document signed

Title: Account of Mr. Patterson

GLC03107.04523

1816/07/20

Manuscript document

Title: Collection of financial documents [in French]

The documents are bound together with string.

GLC03107.04524

1816/07/26

Patterson, J.W., fl. 1812-1816

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Walter Patterson re: financial concerns

J.W. Patterson discusses his debts and financial concerns, and complains that he is too old to try himself at a new career.

GLC03107.04525

1862/03/24

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Major M. Smith.

Siezing supply of Confederate Bacon, directing operations before Shiloh. "You are particularly cautioned against fighting an enemy of your own, or superior power . . . nothing could be gained by a small victory which would cost us a single man."

GLC07961

1795/04/03

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: George Joy Esqr.

Jay's treaty, French revolution, whiskey rebellion

GLC07964

7 September 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sebastian Bauman

Encloses an account of the cannons and other ordnance Major Bauman is to bring down to the Chesapeake from Baltimore. Coordination with other ordnance vessels will be organized by George Washington and another General [Mordecai] Gist. Also discusses some munitions in Frederick, Maryland and gives additional instructions. The account appears on the back page. The ordnance was for the siege of Yorktown, which began later that month.

GLC02437.01170

11 November 1782

Faesch, John Jacob, 1729-1799

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Writes to inform Knox that he has completed all the shells he was commissioned to create, according to their agreement. Mentions that Captain [possibly William] Stevens has arrived and will build a fence around shot and shells and then take his men to West Point. Declares that he has received a note from Captain de Haacke and Lieutenant Heldring, who have arrived in New York and would like to pay him a visit at Dobbs Ferry. He has set aside time to see them and mentions that they had both been prisoners of war. Relates that the officer at Dobbs Ferry will not "allow any person coming with…

GLC02437.01707

14 October 1781

Lamb, John, 1735-1800

Autograph document signed

Title: Return of Stores, expended at the different Batteries, on the 13th and 14th Instant.

Lists quantities of stores used at the Grand Battery, Left Battery, and Redoubt under Colonel Lamb during the siege of Yorktown. Lamb commanded the Second Regiment of Continental Artillery.

GLC02437.01227

24 October 1781

Greene, Nathanael, 1742-1786

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses the difficulty of completing work without artificers in the south. Requests that a few carpenters and smiths be sent to their aid.

GLC02437.01258

22 February 1782

Eyen, Frederic, fl. 1782-1787

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox [in French]

Written from Burlington, likely in New Jersey. Mentions John Doughty. Cannot go to Philadelphia due to a broken arm sustained in a fight, possibly with Doughty. Appear to have served as a cook.

GLC02437.01358

25 May 1782

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: to John Jacob Faesch

Written in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp, and signed by Shaw for Knox. Advises Faesch that Captain [William] Stevens will soon be arriving with a small party to reproof shells, and will be bringing "a section of a French 8 inch shell, with an order from the Secretary at War to cast three thousand of that construction." Explains, "You may remember that I mentioned to you that we found some French 8 inch howitzers at York in Virginia. These we have now mounted, but we find by the fairest experiment that the shells cast for English ordnance of that name will not answer, the…

GLC02437.01431

13 August 1782

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Jacob Faesch

Writes to Faesch, a metalworker building arms and ammunition for the army, to discuss the amount and sizes of shells necessary to fit the French howitzers the army has procured. Mentions that he has been in contact with General Benjamin Lincoln regarding the amount of shells to order, but asks Faesch to write to him to get a final decision on the subject. Also suggests that Faesch imprint a letter "F" on one side of these shells and the letters "U.S." on the other.

GLC02437.01527

20 September 1782

Faesch, John Jacob, 1729-1799

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Writes, "I have reciev'd an Answer from Genl. [Benjamin] Lincoln a Coppy of which you will find on the other Side, the Two Tea Kittles with handles are ready, & shall be forwarded by first opportunity to Capt. Wm. Ellison at New Windsor, to be forwarded to West Point."

GLC02437.01621

28 July 1783

Dunscomb, Andrew, fl. 1783

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Writes that he has received an appointment to precede Mr. Peirce (possibly referring to John Peirce, Paymaster General and Commissioner of Army Accounts) in the settlement of the Virginia line accounts. Requests that "a lad" from Colonel Swift's regiment go with Mr. Peirce. A note initialed by Samuel Shaw reads " cannot be granted."

GLC02437.02340

21 October 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain Dusten

Informs Captain Dusten that a quartermaster will show him where to get firewood and other supplies for his men to aid them throughout the coming winter. Mentions Stoney Point and Verplanks Point. Mentions he also sent this information to Captain Swartwout, see GLC02437.02693 for that letter.

GLC02437.02695

30 October 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Jacob Faesch

Writes a letter of introduction for a Major [Hodijah] Baylies.

GLC02437.02728

2 April 1787

Eyen, Frederic, fl. 1782-1787

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Lists his expenses and asks Knox for assistance in finding employment in New York since he has lost his position as a clerk. Copies in a recommendation from his former employer and gives the reason for his discharge as the liquidation of the firm.

GLC02437.03511

27 February 1788

Faesch, John Jacob, 1729-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Informs Knox, "It is with the most poignant grief I inform you of the departure of my dear partner, who after a severe illness of near four weeks took her leave of this scene of trouble on Saturday the 23d Instant..."

GLC02437.03808