8 January 1778

Wiley, M., fl. 1778

Manuscript document

Title: [Account of provisions delivered for the use of General Knox]

Created at Artillery Park, Great Valley [Valley Forge, Pennsylvania]. Includes account information from September 1777-January 1778. Lists items such as beef, pork, mutton, veal, bread, and other items. Signed by [M.?] Wiley. Verso contains additional account information also signed by Wiley.

GLC02437.10467

1864/10/08

Wells, Lewis J., fl. 1864

Document signed

Title: Resolution of the clerks of the Quartermaster General's office.

Death of John R. Meigs.

GLC07059.37

1864/10/09

Baninger, H., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: M[ontgomery] C. Meigs.

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GLC07059.38

1864/10/09

Donaldson, Js., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: M[ontgomery] C. Meigs.

GLC07059.39

1864/10/10

Brown, S.L., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: [Montgomery C. Meigs].

GLC07059.40

1864/10/10

Towsend, E.G., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: [Montgomery C.] Meigs.

GLC07059.44

1864/10/10

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: [Montgomery C.] Meigs.

GLC07059.45

1864/10/11

Farnsworth, Chandler, fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: [Montgomery] C. Meigs.

GLC07059.46

1864/10/12

Rodgers, John F., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: [Montgomery C. Meigs].

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GLC07059.48

1864/10/12

Smith, C., fl. 1864-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: [Montgomery C. Meigs]

. Written in Bleak Hill

GLC07059.49

1864/10/13

Macomb, J.A., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: [Montgomery C.] Meigs.

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GLC07059.50

1864/10/15

Allen, Edward J., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: M[ontgomery] C. Meigs.

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GLC07059.52

1864/10/17

Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: [Montgomery C.] Meigs.

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GLC07059.53

27 December 1777

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucy Knox

Written at Camp Great Valley [Valley Forge]. Relates that he has not set out for Boston, Lucy's location, due to urgent public business. Writes, "I should most certainly see you this winter if within the compass of human possibility but it will most assuredly be much better for my own satisfaction that I should have the honor of doing public business ... " Notes that George Washington hopes to wait for the arrival of an unspecified committee, and Knox hopes to be able to leave after the committee meets. Has not seen his brother William for "some days," due to William's illness and fatigue…

GLC02437.00675

circa 27-29 October 1777

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Draft of Knox's responses to questions regarding an attack on the British at Philadelphia]

"My sentiments are against a general attack of the enemy strongly posted as they are except upon the clearest principles of superior numbers to counterballance their superior discipline. I am fully of the opinion that we have no experience of our troops that will justify the supposition of their being able to storm redoubts defended by british troops..." Argues that the possible advantage gained by the Continental Army in taking Philadelphia will not equal the cost. Prepared for George Washington in response to his queries of 26 October 1777. See GLC02437.00660 for a draft in Shaw's hand.

GLC02437.00676

circa December 18, 1860

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: his son.

GLC07059.07

1861/12/15

Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: John R. Meigs.

GLC07059.11

17 December 1777

Franks, David Salisbury, fl. 1740-1793

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucy Knox

Franks, aide-de-camp for General Benedict Arnold, replies on behalf of Arnold to a letter from Lucy Knox. Notes that Arnold's indisposition prevented him from answering Lucy Knox's "Billet," and comments on Arnold's recovery (Arnold suffered from a leg wound inflicted during the Saratoga Campaign). Franks informs Lucy Knox that Arnold cannot part with the contents of an unspecified trunk until he reaches Boston, and offers Lucy Knox preference when he does dispose of the trunk's contents. See GLC02437.10452 regarding the trunk, the contents of which had been intended for Elisabeth De Blois…

GLC02437.00673

19-24 December 1777

Tiffin, William, fl. 1777

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Proof of British powder]

Written at Turtle Bay near New York. Chart recording the result of proofing [testing] of British powder and powder captured by the British. Includes names of prizes from which powder was taken and the capturing vessels. Signed twice by William Tiffin, Captain of the Royal Regiment of Artillery.

GLC02437.00674

31 December 1777

Manuscript document

Title: [Receipt for provisions issued]

Covers provisions issued from July-December 1777 in the Middle Department, "from Wilmington on the Delaware to Newark in Jersey." Also notes receipt of provisions from January 1778- August 1778 for the Middle Department.

GLC02437.00677

circa 1778

Printed document

Title: [Oath of allegiance to the United States]

Date inferred from the Journals of the Continental Congress circa January- February 1778. The Journals indicate that every officer who holds or is granted a commission or office from Congress should take the following oath: "I do acknowledge the UNITED STATES of AMERICA to be Free, Independent and Sovereign States, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King of Great-Britain; and I renounce, refuse and abjure any allegiance or obedience to him ... "

GLC02437.00678

1777

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: Statement of troops furnished by the following States, taken from actual returns of the army for the year 1777.

Includes two charts. The first indicates that Congress fixed quotas in September of 1776 for service, requiring three years or service during the war. Lists quotas required, including numbers of battalions and numbers of men for 1777. Includes numbers of Continental troops and militia furnished. Cites total number of Continental troops and militia. Second chart includes a "Conjectural estimate of militia employed in addition to" those listed in the first chart. A note in the right margin indicates the requirements for Georgia's troops, noting that the time of service has expired for…

GLC02437.10466

circa 1860-1869

Meigs, John R., fl. 1850-1864

Autograph letter

Title: to Mother

One letter addressed to his mother dated "Sunday Afternoon."

GLC07059.06

1861/07/21

Hunt, Henry Jackson, 1819-1889

Pamphlet

Title: Report of Light Battery M, Second Artillery,…Battle of Bull Run, July 21st 1861.

Inscribed by John R. Meigs.

GLC07059.08

1861/07/25

Hunt, Henry Jackson, 1819-1889

Manuscript document

Title: "Camp near Fort Albany."

Testament. Meigs's assistance at the Battle of Bull Run. Verso contains copy of J.B. Richardson's recommendation to appoint John R. Meigs lieutenant in the regular army.

GLC07059.09