circa 1794

Manuscript document

Title: [List of expenses for the year 1794]

A list of the sums of money disbursed throughout the year of 1794. The expenses include pay subsistence and Forage of the Legion, clothing, bounty, hospital department, repairs , defence protection, Indian department, quartermaster's department, contingencies of War Department, invalid pensions, naval armament, equipment of galleys, fortification of harbors, Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, defense of Southwest territory, detachment of militia, building and repairing arsenals, national armouries, and arms ammunition. Total sum for the year is $2,197,805.65.

GLC02437.06291

24 January 1795

Jarvis, Leonard, fl. 1788-1795

Autograph letter signed

Title: to General Jackson

Appears to discuss property rights and possibly selling land located in Maine. Requests Jackson tells Henry Knox that the people (possibly the Commissioners for the Sale of Lands) will consider themselves at liberty to sell some land in Maine after the 15th of next month. Possibly referring to the land located between the Penobscot River and the Waldo patent land.

GLC02437.06324

February 4, 1795

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Ink is extremely faded and as a result, the document is largely illegible. Most likely about issues involved with the Waldo patent lands. Letterpress copy.

GLC02437.06345

February 4, 1795

Lewis, Samuel, fl. 1795

Autograph document signed

Title: [Salaries for members of the Department of War]

Lists the amount paid for the salaries of the members of the war department by quarter. Noted as written at the War Office.

GLC02437.06348

February 1795

Manuscript document

Title: [Memorial to the legislature of Massachusetts]

Memorial stating that Royal Flint entered into a contract with the Committee regarding the sale of a tract of land in the area of Maine and that surveyors have discovered that the Committee underestimated the actual acreage of the land.

GLC02437.06364

7 March 1795

Manuscript document

Title: Agreement between WB & DC

Confirming the agreement between William Bingham and David Cobb for the maintenance and care on various tracts of Bingham's lands located in Maine (see GLC02437.06368 for the full agreement). Date taken from docket..

GLC02437.06369

10 April 1795

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: [Note of introduction]

Note of introduction for a Mr. René Pillet from France.

GLC02437.06384

22 April 1795

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809

Manuscript letter

Title: [Statement]

Statement before the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands in Massachusetts regarding the sale of land in Maine. Discusses the discrepancies between the borders and acreage stated in the original contract and what is actually there as documented by surveyors.

GLC02437.06400

4 May 1795

Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824

Autograph letter

Title: to Mrs. Flucker

Discusses friends and various other related matters.

GLC02437.06408

15 May 1795

Phillips, Samuel, 1752-1802

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Jackson

Discusses a dispute by Jackson regarding the location of borders for a tract of land in Maine.

GLC02437.06415

6 June 1795

Shute, Benjamin, fl. 1767-1801

Autograph document signed

Title: [Lease of land]

Grants permission to occupy a plot of land and details the borders. Signer of the U.S. Constitution.

GLC02437.06437

12 June 1795

Avery, John, 1739-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Resolves of the General Court]

Resolve to grant settlers in a town more time to pay for the sale of the eastern lands. Noted as written in the House of Representatives, most likely that of Massachusetts.

GLC02437.06440

19 June 1795

Goodhue, Benjamin, fl. 1795

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Pierce

Informs Peirce of the trouble he is having finding proper lodgings for a Frenchman who is visiting.

GLC02437.06445

19 June 1795

Avery, John, 1739-1806

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Resolutions regarding the town of Hempden]

Resolves relating to boundaries and deeds of the inhabitants of the town of Hempden as well as payments for tracts of land. Noted as written at the House of Representatives, most likely that of Massachusetts.

GLC02437.06446

8 July 1795

Ames, Jacob, fl. 1795

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Purchase of land in Ducktrap, Maine]

Statement of purchase for a tract of land in Ducktrap, Maine.

GLC02437.06461

24 August 1795

Maynard, Jonathan, 1752-1835

Autograph letter signed

Title: A Sketch of the Boundaries of the Land Survey'd for Maj'r Swan

Describes by tract, the border lands that have been surveyed.

GLC02437.06500

26 October 1795

Beaumez, Sarah Lyons Flucker, fl. 1784-1801

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lucy Knox

Apologizes for not writing and discusses the delivery of a parcel and a Lisbon merchant.

GLC02437.06550

26 July 1782

Hall, James, A., 1750-1819

Manuscript document

Title: [Report of shells cast at Salisbury Furnace]

Created by Captain Lieutenant Hall of the 3rd Regiment of Artillery. Contains Hall's signature, possibly copied (document is in the hand of Samuel Shaw). Hall divides his assessment into 8 inch and 5 1/2 inch shells. Docketed 27 July 1782.

GLC02437.10037

30 August 1782

Moodie, Andrew, ?-1787

Manuscript document signed

Title: At a garrison court martial held at West Point 30th August 82 by order of General Patterson for the tryal of Phillip Francis and Peggy Martin

Includes testimony of several witnesses regarding money, supposedly stolen by Peggy Martin. In her defense, Martin said she was invited to Peter Hubbard's for a beer, and while there a man asked her to sell him calico. For the calico, he paid her with the stolen note. Martin was acquitted.

GLC02437.10041

8 October 1782

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Frothingham

Shaw instructs Frothingham, Field Commissary of Military Stores, to send articles to Lieutenant Fenno for his use at Stony Point, New York. Requests items such as cartridges, ladles, quadrants, dredging boxes, hand spikes, hammers, weights, shovels, and buckets, among others.

GLC02437.10048

18 November 1782

Trescott, Lemuel, 1751-1826

Autograph document signed

Title: [Grievances of the Ninth Massachusetts Line]

Written at camp of the Ninth Massachusetts Regiment. Directed to "Gentlemen," a committee including General Henry Knox chosen to address the regiment's grievances to Congress. Lieutenants Thomas Edwards and Charles Seldon, and Major Lemuel Trescott sign on behalf of the 9th Massachusetts Regiment: "We wish... to mention generally that we think our grievances consist materially in not receiving our monthly pay & having our Accounts regularly settled, especially those of retiring Officers, and there being no fund for the payment of the half pay promis'd us by Congress after the War, or…

GLC02437.10053

19 November 1782

Mills, John, fl. 1755-1796

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Grievances of the First Massachusetts Regiment]

Directed to "Gentlemen," a committee including General Henry Knox chosen to present the regiment's grievances to Congress. Captain John Mills, Major Pettingill, and Lieutenant Richard Bachs sign on behalf of the First Massachusetts Regiment. Their complaints include lack of pay, lack of subsistence, retirement without compensation, and other grievances. Address leaf includes a note to hand this document to Colonel [John] Greaton.

GLC02437.10054

19 November 1782

Tisdale, James, 1745-1832

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Grievances of the Third Massachusetts Regiment]

Directed to "Gentlemen," a committee including General Henry Knox chosen to present the regiment's grievances to Congress. Address directed to Colonel [John] Greaton. Tisdale and J. Sumner present grievances such as a lack of future security in payment, deprivation of monthly pay, and a lack of settlement regarding detained rations, among other complaints.

GLC02437.10055

19 November 1782

Shepard, William, 1737-1817

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Grievances of the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment]

Addressed to Colonel [John] Greaton, part of a committee, with Henry Knox, chosen to present the regiment's grievances to Congress. Colonel Shepard, Captain Isaac Pope and [Surgeon] Daniel Shute present grievances regarding lack of pay and lack of financial security for veteran soldiers, among others. They write, "We wish the Committee to inform Congress that unless they take up this matter respecting our grievances and redress them... we are fully convinced that we shall be under the disagreeable necessity of returning our commissions to that power from which they originated..."

GLC02437.10056

19 November 1782

Finley, James Edward Burr, 1758-1819

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Grievances of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment]

Written to the committee chosen to present the regiment's grievances to Congress. Cosigned by Finley, a surgeon, Captain John [Trotter] and Lieutenant Nathaniel [Thacher]. They cite lack of pay, unfair treatment to veteran non-commissioned officers, and lack of provision, among other grievances. Written from camp near New Windsor.

GLC02437.10057