17 July 1783

Bushnell, David, 1740-1826

Manuscript document signed

Title: Provision return

Provision return for non-commissioned officers and privates belonging to the Corps of Sappers and Miners. A total of 68 rations for four days was provided to the officers and privates. The docket acknowledging receipt is signed by Sergeant J. Lovely.

GLC02437.02309

22 July 1783

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for Knox's donation to the Society of the Cincinnati]

Written in a secretarial hand and signed by Colonel Jackson in his capacity as the Treasurer of the Massachusetts branch of the Society of the Cincinnati. This receipt acknowledges that Knox gave one month's pay to be used for the establishment of a fund agreeable to the Society.

GLC02437.02313

23 July 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph note signed

Title: [Order to issue army rations to three British deserters]

Order issued by General Knox's aide-de-camp Major Shaw for West Point Commissary James Forsyth to issue seven days worth of rations for three British deserters "to carry them to Philadelphia." It appears that Shaw was reusing paper, as a few lines of poetry are written on the verso of this document.

GLC02437.02316

28 June 1783

Swartwout, Cornelius, fl. 1776-1783

Document

Title: Return of ordnance... & stores, apparatus & c. & c. at the Garrison of Stoney & Verplanks Points- Kingsferry

Signed by Swartwout, Captain Lieutenant Commanding Artillery at Kings Ferry.

GLC02437.10113

June 1783

Burbeck, Henry, 1754-1848

Manuscript document signed

Title: A return of the officers which remain in service with the three years men

Captain Henry Burbeck signs. Contains a list of named of officers and their respective rank.

GLC02437.10114

1 July 1783

Pierce, John, ?-1788

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Account information pertaining to General Henry Knox and the United States]

Account information is written by Samuel Shaw. Includes regimental expenses from December 1775 - February 1779. Pierce, Paymaster General, attests that Knox "produced vouchers... for the within sum of forty five thousand seven hundred forty five dollars received by him from the United States..." Signed by Pierce 1 July 1783.

GLC02437.10115

1 July 1783

Pierce, John, ?-1788

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Account information pertaining to General Henry Knox and the United States]

Includes regimental expenses from December 1775 - February 1779. Pierce, Paymaster General, attests that Knox "produced vouchers... for the within sum of forty five thousand seven hundred forty five dollars received by him from the United States..." Signed by Pierce 1 July 1783.

GLC02437.10116

14 July 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Bryant

Discusses the furloughs of two soldiers who served under Bryant (refer to GLC02437.10122). The men have to obtain blank discharge forms from army headquarters which must be filled out by Bryant before they can receive their furloughs. Expresses his opinion that Bryant should come to West Point to settle the accounts of the "poor fellows" (and Bryant's own account) with the army paymaster. Notes that the troops at West Point have received pay for four months of 1783. Instructs Bryant to keep the men serving under him "mustered up to the present time."

GLC02437.10123

9 January 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: to George Washington

Knox reports that he has made all the necessary arrangements to leave West Point "and in a few [hours]... shall set out for Boston. The public interest has been my actuating principle in the cause of this business and I flatter myself will meet your approbation." Arranged matters so that officers detained at West Point can be permitted to draw rations. Knox's retained draft.

GLC02437.02931

14 February 1784

Carleton, Joseph, 1754-1812

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Jackson

Carleton signs as "executing the business of the War Department by authority from Congress." Requests information regarding returns of engineers who remain in service. Reports that the remaining engineers were assured by George Washington that "...they would be retained for the purpose of superintending the works and fortifications of the United States, that are now or hereafter may be established on the Frontier, for the prospection... of the Western Inhabitants." Written at the War Office.

GLC02437.02954

21 February 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

Knox reflects on the Revolutionary War: "Your calm retreat to Mount Vernon must be a source of ineffable delight to you. You can from there take a retrospective view of the critical exigencies of the War, and see a thousand ways by which the issue might have been the reverse of what it is- And your happiness must be in proportion to the extreme difficulties and danger in the contest and the immense blessings secured to your country by the glorious peace... " Gives Washington news of Congress. Discusses the Society of the Cincinnati: "The Cincinnati appears however groundless to be an…

GLC02437.02960

18 May 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Adams

Knox writes a letter of introduction for Colonel David Humphreys, George Washington's former aide-de-camp.

GLC02437.03000

24 May 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to George Washington

Expresses his mortification at arriving in Annapolis the day Washington left. Reports that "...all the necessary business will not be finished before Congress adjourns." Discusses a matter pertaining to the recommendation "of the Gentlemen of Family" to Congress. Knox's retained draft.

GLC02437.03004

3 July 1784

Estaing, Charles Henri, comte d', 1729-1794

Manuscript document

Title: Ideas upon the association of the Cincinnati

Written in Knox's hand. Docketed 13 July 1784. Contains reforms and resolutions in response to public reaction against the Society of the Cincinnati.

GLC02437.03027

26 July 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington

Responds to a 2 June 1784 letter from Washington. Discusses a recent Congressional order requiring Frederick Haldimand, Governor of the Province of Quebec, to give the United States information as to when British troops will completely evacuate Western forts, and how cannon and stores from the forts can be exchanged. Knox is incensed, writing "I cannot say but that I am well satisfied to be excluded from any responsibility in arrangements that cannot be executed. The attempt to employ militia for twelve months in an arduous operation of conveying the stores and making permanent…

GLC02437.03031

5 January 1784

Haskell, Elnathan, 1755-1825

Autograph letter signed

Title: to David Brooks

Marked as a duplicate. Major Haskell and Captain J. Bliss write to Brooks, assistant clothier general. They give Brooks a report on their inspection of 499 hats in the clothing store: "... in our judgment the whole unfit to be issued to the Troops-- some of them are too small in the crown, others are too narrow brim'd, and the remainder are so illy made as to render them almost unfit for any service."

GLC02437.02914

6 January 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Bryant

Knox gives orders regarding the receipt and distribution of stores to Bryant, Deputy Commissary of Military Stores at the Springfield, Massachusetts Armory. The stores will be delivered by Daniel Parker & Co., contractors who provided the army with supplies under contract.

GLC02437.02917

6 January 1784

Haskell, Elnathan, 1755-1825

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Major Haskell and Captain J. Bliss report that they assessed the clothing stores, as ordered, and rejected a number of hats.

GLC02437.02922

21 January 1784

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

Manuscript document

Title: [Miscellaneous garrison orders]

Orders that a field officer will be appointed each Thursday to visit the works and redoubts in the vicinity of West Point. Adds that as the weather becomes more severe, duties of the grand parade will be dispensed with. Includes several other specific orders. Written and signed by Charles Selden, who certifies that this document is an exact transcript of garrison orders issued by Brigadier General Henry Jackson.

GLC02437.02934

27 January 1784

Barber, William, fl. 1783-1784

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Place name is illegible. Possibly written in New Jersey. Barber answers Knox's request, enclosing "the Act respecting the sales of the confiscated property in this State." Discusses monetary inflation of soldiers' notes. Mentions that estates in [Bergen] County are advertized for a March sale at "Hoebuck," a colonial term for Hoboken, New Jersey.

GLC02437.02937

4 February 1784

Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Hull

Marked as a "coppy," by Major Bauman. Bauman, commanding the artillery at West Point, writes to Hull, commandant of West Point. Bauman expresses his "surprise and grief" at Hull's order requiring captains to be detailed by an adjutant, thus placing the artillery in rotation with the infantry to perform common duties. Declares, "it is unwarrantable... to send Artillery men into the lines, and infantry on the Batteries." Threatens to take his complaints to Henry Knox, the Secretary of War, then Congress if Hull does not withdraw his order.

GLC02437.02941

5 February 1784

Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803

Manuscript letter

Title: to William Hull

Major Bauman, commanding the artillery at West Point, writes to Hull, commandant of West Point. Refuses to comply with orders issued by Hull requiring artillery to engage in "the common duty of the Garrison" under the adjutant. Anticipates his suspension, noting the command of ordnance and stores should pass to the next senior officer until he receives a proper investigation. Requests a supply of firewood in the interim. Docketed as "No. 2."

GLC02437.02943

6 February 1784

Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803

Manuscript letter

Title: to William Hull

Major Bauman, commanding the artillery at West Point, writes to Hull, commandant of West Point. In response to Hull's orders requiring artillery to perform common garrison duties under direction of the adjutant, Bauman had previously requested suspension of his own command (GLC02437.02944). Implies that Hull denied this suspension, stating "... if you can not suspend with what I have requested in my two letters... you may deprive me of what command I have left in what manner you please..." Docketed as "No. 4."

GLC02437.02944

7 February 1784

Hull, William, 1753-1825

Manuscript letter

Title: to Sebastian Bauman

Hull, commandant at West Point, complies with Bauman's request for a suspension (Bauman was commander of artillery at West Point and objected to Hull's orders placing artillery on regular garrison duty under direction of the commandant). Bauman's suspension will last until General Henry Knox's opinion can be obtained. Agrees to supply Bauman with firewood in the interim. Docketed "No. 5."

GLC02437.02945

7 February 1784

Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Bauman, in charge of the artillery at West Point, complains of "a most cingular circumstance that is agitated against the honor of my command and disparagement of the corps of Artillery." Gives numerous reasons for his disagreement with Lieutenant Colonel William Hull (commandant of West Point). Hull's orders placed artillery on regular garrison duty under direction of the adjutant. Bauman refused to comply and was suspended at his own request. Bauman complains that he can not carry out his artillery duties when ordered on garrison duty, declaring "...I cannot in justice to the trust…

GLC02437.02947