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[Certificates pertaining to Baxter Howe]

In Samuel Shaw's hand, and signed by Shaw for Knox. Contains two certificates pertaining to the pay and service of Baxter Howe, from Massachusetts. Includes the copied signatures of Howe and Henry Knox. Written in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's...

GLC02437.00951

[Extract from minutes of a meeting of the Board of War]

Carleton, Secretary of the Board of War, attests that as soon as the Board of War receives an accurate return of field commissaries of military stores, Richard Frothingham will be appointed principal field commissary of military stores and will have...

GLC02437.00952

to Marquis de Lafayette

Captain Savage attests that Peter de [Lemay] of his detachment has served as a matross in the 3rd Regiment of Artillery for three years. Recommends him for discharge. This document apparently served as a register of provision orders; there are...

GLC02437.00955

Powder at different places contained in the general return from the board of war

Lists powder stores at Providence, Rhode Island; Springfield, Massachusetts; West Point, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; and Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania among others. Although unsigned, appears to be written in the hand of Samuel Shaw...

GLC02437.00956

Return of ordnance & military stores in the district of the States of Maryland and Delaware by Colo. Donaldson Yeates Deputy Quarter Master May 31st 1781

Created at Head of Elk, present-day Elkton, Maryland. Lists balls, shells, powder, and items in need of repair. A note at the bottom of the page and completed on verso, in Henry Knox's hand, refers to powder, shot, and cannon at Frederickstown...

GLC02437.00957

Stores to be brought from Springfield

Pages 1-3 are written in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. Final page is written and signed twice by Brigadier General Knox. Docket notes "Articles order'd from Boston and Springfield 2 & 3 June 1781." Knox's notes pertain to the...

GLC02437.00958

[Recommendation for the transfer of Lieutenant Timothy Mix to the Corps of Invalids]

Mix hopes to be transferred to the Corps of Invalids or to the Laboratory at Springfield, Massachusetts "by reason of the Wound he received... " Directed to General Henry Knox. Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp, authorizes on behalf of Knox...

GLC02437.00959

Stores to be forwarded from Pennsylvania

Contains a detailed list of stores, including ordnance, turpentine, hammers, copper ladles, aprons, and wire, among other items. Docket, written and signed for Knox in the hand of Samuel Shaw, notes creation at "Park of Artillery."

GLC02437.00960

[A rough estimate of the number of teams which will be wanting to transport cannon and stores]

Includes estimates for transport from: Providence, Rhode Island to Fishkill, New York; Boston, Massachusetts to [Claverack], New York; and from Springfield, Massachusetts to Claverack. Signed by Knox directed to Colonel Timothy Pickering.

GLC02437.00961

Ordnance & Stores to be brought from Pennsylvania- Springfield- Providence & Boston-

Title from docket. Originally enclosed with GLC02437.00962.

GLC02437.00963

[Return of stores at Albany]

Return of small arms, accoutrements, etc. on hand at Albany as of last return of April 1781.

GLC02437.10021

[Chart of field artillery ammunition stores in six locations]

Lists numbers of various sizes of ammunition held at "Park," New Windsor, Fishkill, and West Point, New York; Succasunna, New Jersey; and Litchfield, Connecticut.

GLC02437.10022

A return of ordnance & military stores in garrison at Fort Schuyler, with the alterations since last return

Written at Fort Schuyler. Lists numbers of cannon and mortars, case shot, fuzes, shells, ladles, and handspikes, among other items. Moodie signs as Captain, Second Regiment of Artillery.

GLC02437.10486

A return of stores in the laboratory at Springfield

Lists numbers of cylinders, cartridges, hammers, case shot, and bullet molds, among other items.

GLC02437.10488

Return of ordnance & military stores in garrison at Fort Schuyler with ye alterations since last return

Written at Fort Schuyler. Signed by Moodie as Captain, Second Regiment of Artillery. Lists numbers of cannon and mortars, ladles, casks of powder, flints, and other items.

GLC02437.10489

[Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered as of 31 May 1781. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.

GLC02437.10678

[Return]

Return for ordnance and stores at Albany, New York. Items listed by type, and date issued.

GLC02437.10679

46 treaties between the United States and various Indian Nations

A collection of forty-six printed treaties between the United States and various Indian Nations, signed in type by the following presidents: Franklin Pierce (1), Andrew Jackson (15), Abraham Lincoln (6), Martin Van Buren (4), James K. Polk (3)...

GLC08055

[Philadelphia] Inquirer Extra.

Reports latest developments at Gettysburg per Meade's dispatches. They have "repulsed the enemy on every attack."

GLC08056

Conditions of Peace Required of the So-called Seceded States

Eight articles express severe pro-Union sentiments. First article calls for unconditional surrender. Second article calls for one hundred "arch traitors" to be delievered up and hung. Third article calls for record of names of traitors so they can be...

GLC08057

A Bill, to amend the act, intituled, "An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters"

Print broadsheet of a bill before the U.S. House of Representatives which would make it illegal to "conceal, harbour, and employ, or aid or abet in concealing or harbouring any fugitive from labour, escaping from one state into another, or to, or...

GLC08058.01

A Bill, to amend the act, intituled, "An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters"

Same bill as GLC08058.01, with several amendments. Settles the penalty for knowingly harboring escaped slaves at $500 and requires those employing black labor to see a manumission paper. Says can avoid the penalty if the employer advertises a general...

GLC08058.02

[Compilation of printed material pertaining to Sierra Leone]

Documents issued in Sierra Leone, many dealing with slavery. Bound by Colonial Office Library (possibly the Colonial Office Library of London). Contains a brief and incomplete handwritten table of contents. An exhaustive compilation of documents...

GLC08059.01

To: John Sinclair.

Praising French Revolution: "It would be unfortunate were it in the power of one man [the king] to defeat the issue of so beautiful a revolution. I hope... that for the good of suffering humanity all over the earth, that revolution will be...

GLC08060

To: David Hartley.

Secret instructions for treat of Paris.

GLC08061