3 January 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Knox

Discusses the hiring of a new servant and asks his brother William to look for someone "rather small in stature" among other qualitfications. Makes reference to the "affair of Tarleton & Sumpter."

GLC02437.00870

5 January 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: to George Washington

Lists ordnance and military stores necessary for the campaign of 1781 according to type and number needed. Also includes a list of artillery necessary for a siege and a note concerning the making and cost of gun carriages. Written in a Park of Artillery. Written and signed for Knox by Samuel Shaw.

GLC02437.00871

February 13, 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to George Washington

Knox's analysis and recommendations to Washington on the military situation for the next campaign, in terms of artillery and ammunitions supply and other military stores. Knox's working draft. Closing and signature are in the hand of Samuel Shaw.

GLC02437.00886

19 February 1781

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter

Title: to the Board of War and Ordnance

In the hand of, and composed by, Henry Knox on behalf of George Washington. Discusses order to prepare a battering train in Philadelphia concerning a secret mission.

GLC02437.00898

February 25, 1781

Hiwell, John, fl. 1788

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Return of the Music of the army under the immediate Command of his Excellency General Washington

Lists musicians in the army by type, (fife, drum, B clarinet) location, and status. Includes a note from Knox in the hand of Samuel Shaw (who also signs for Knox) mentioning the needs of other states as well. Appears to be a copy of the enclosure cited in GLC02437.00928.

GLC02437.00900

July 15, 1878

Manuscript document

Title: [Itemized lists of furniture]

Itemized list of furniture with monetary amount for each item. The list contains such items as "One arm chair. Parlour," "1/2 Doz Walnut chairs," "Large Bed," and "Glass Bowl." Overall, all seventeen items are tabulated to fetch $56.50. In a separate list on the reverse side is scrawled in pencil a number of items labeled as "J.W. A' Articles given to Bert [Roberta Jeffery?]-" which includes items like "1 pr. Curtains," "1 Tea pot," "1 small Table," and "Market basket." Total number of items in this list is 13.

GLC01896.100

July 15, 1878

Jeffery, B.A., fl. 1870-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Itemized list of furniture]

"List no. 4" which itemizes furniture with monetary amount for each item. The list contains such items as "one Parlour armchair," "oil painting - Samson," "one Mahogany Bureau," and "7 beds." Overall, all fourteen items are tabulated to fetch $57.00. On the reverse side is scrawled in pencil the name"S.E. Anderson." The list is accompanied by an incomplete letter discussing a visit from Willie Taft, news from his friend Rogers trip to China.

GLC01896.101

July 15, 1878

Manuscript document

Title: [Itemized list of furniture]

Numbered list 8. Itemized list of furniture with monetary amount for each item. The list contains such items as "3 Parlour chairs," "1 pr curtains in Parlour," and "1 F. Bed." List is incomplete, only listing twelve items. In the upper right corner, "Mr. Archer" is scrawled in pencil.

GLC01896.103

1866

Archer, Robert, fl. 1842-1875

Autograph manuscript

Title: "The night after Christmas"

Parody of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" poem. In Archer's "The Night After Christmas," children all over the town had eaten sweets to such an extent that it made them all sick. Instead of hearing the clattering of hooves on the roof, the family is awoken by the moans and groans of the children: "O' Me! I'm so sick: I shall die of this pain; I'll never touch Santa Claus' candy again!" At the end of the parody there reads: "Written when he broke his arm for his granddaughter Roberta Archer Jeffrey."

GLC01896.116

1 January 1781

Moodie, Andrew, ?-1787

Manuscript document signed

Title: A Return of Ordinances & Stores in Garrison at Fort Schuyler Jany. 1st 1781

Lists ordnance by caliber and type of shot. Noted as being from the garrison at Fort Schuyler.

GLC02437.00869

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