February 21, 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph note signed

Title: [Army Rations issued to Detachment]

Issues two days' worth of provisions for seven bargemen. Also includes an endorsement on the verso signed by Robert Todd.

GLC02437.01938

February 23, 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph note signed

Title: [Army Rations issued to Watermen]

Issues two days' worth of provisions to seven watermen. Includes an endorsement on the verso signed by Robert Todd.

GLC02437.01946

February 22, 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to David Bushnell

Discusses orders for various members of the Sappers and Miners, including David Kirkpatrick, Peter Taulman and de Lezane.

GLC02437.01947

8 January 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return for masons covering eight days]

Also signed by Joseph Cheesman, Superintendent [of Masons;]. A note written on verso, signed by [?] Hayden, confirms receipt of rations.

GLC02437.10078

1 January 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return for masons and miners covering eight days]

Also signed by Daniel Niven, Captain of Engineers, and Joseph Cheesman, Director of Masons;. A note written on verso, signed by [?] Hayden, confirms receipt of rations for West Point.

GLC02437.10079

January 27, 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return of rations issued to thirty-one prisoners]

Covers five days. Includes information for some regiments from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, and New York. Signed by Shaw as aide-de-camp to General Henry Knox, commander at West Point. Also signed by Captain Richard Douglass. Sergeant Benjamin Brooks signs a note on verso confirming receipt of provisions.

GLC02437.10085

March 9, 1783 circa

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Printed document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to Engineer's Department]

Document specifying the number of persons, days, and rations issued for the engineers at West Point from 1 March to 8 March. A total of 16 persons (from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Connecticut Regiments and the 3rd Artillery - as well as 1 hired mason) were used for the 8 days. A total of 192 rations were issued. Signed by Major Shaw as Knox's aide-de-camp and Joseph Chasman as superintendent. Docket signed with an illegible signature.

GLC02437.01991

8 August 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Return of the Tents & Camp Equipment, horses in General Knox's family.]

Lists items of camp equipment and horses and their quantities on 15 August 1781 and 8 October 1781. Signed twice by Shaw. The Continental Army was then engaged in the campaign against Yorktown.

GLC02437.01211

19 October 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: [Return of shot and shells].

Lists shot and shells sent to the line, expended, and left over at Yorktown on 19 October 1781. Also lists shot and shells expended from 9 October 1781 to 17 October 1781 under the command of John Lamb, Edward Carrington, Ebenezer Stevens, and Sebastian Bauman. Henry Knox's copy.

GLC02437.01240

26 October 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: State of the Artillery at York and its vicinity.

Lists quantities of various types of ordnance remaining after the siege of Yorktown including ordnance "taken from the English." Also gives a proposed breakdown between stores held by Colonel Edward Carrington, the state of Virginia, and Philadelphia. A note on the final page indicates that 1,000 arms and accoutrements and 250,000 musket cartridges are to be sent by Carrington to Nathanael Greene, and some to North Carolina. The rest of the ordnance will be deposited at Richmond, Virginia. Henry Knox's copy.

GLC02437.01262

28 October 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: Estimate of horses and waggons necessary for the transportation of the following cannon and stores.

Lists quanties of ordnance and the amount of horses and wagons needed to move them. Compiled shortly after the siege of Yorktown. Docket dated 29 October 1781.

GLC02437.01272

circa 21 October 1781-24 October 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: Ordnance & Stores directed to be Sent up the Bay of Chesapeake.

Lists quantities of different types of ordnance to be transported. The Battle of Yorktown had ended earlier that month.

GLC02437.01274

1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Rates of pay for 1777-1778]

Notes regarding changes in pay scale for military officers W. Barber, Samuel Lord, and John Austin passed by Congress in 1777 and 1778. Note at bottom reads: Mr. Shaw will be much obliged to Maj. [Platt] to fill up the above blanks with the particular dates of the resolves by which the above rates of pay were settled." Date added later in pencil.

GLC02437.01315

circa March 16, 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to prisoners]

Partially printed document detailing number or rations given to members of the [engineering] department from 9 March - 16 March. All in all, 18 persons from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Connecticut Regiments and the 3rd Regiment of Artillery, along with 1 independent mason were given 216 rations. Note on verso signed by a Jacob Gillet.

GLC02437.02006

1 April 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request for rations]

Request to issue two days' worth of provisions for two deserters from the British. Includes a note on verso from [Rueben Beach].

GLC02437.02052

18 April 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provisions return]

Lists men by rank with rations issued.

GLC02437.02113

20 May 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for rum]

Request for one quart of rum for General Henry Knox's boatmen.

GLC02437.02128

circa June 1, 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document

Title: [Henry Knox's account balances]

List of Knox's account balances for items such as horses, rye and hay. Bottom portion written by Shaw, with the top portion possibly written by Henry Knox. Balance paid General Knox on 1 June 1783.

GLC02437.02142

4 August 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Instructions to Sebastian Bauman and Thomas Patten]

In the first letter, Shaw instructs Major Bauman to deliver a traveling forge to New Windsor, New York. In the second letter, written on the same date, Shaw orders Captain Patten at New Windsor to complete the forge if it is unfinished.

GLC02437.01117

September 1776- December 1777

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: General Knox in account with [Samuel] Shaw

Lists account information regarding the purchase of a variety of goods: gloves, ducks, potatoes, oats, handkerchiefs, postage for letters, housekeeping, and various other items.

GLC02437.10456

27 June 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Issue of rum to boat men]

Shaw requests that a quart of rum be issued to eight boatmen on fatigue duty. Two other illegible signatures appear on the document. Noted "Genl Ordr No. 5" on verso.

GLC02437.02194

2 July 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision returns for Thomas Clews]

Written and signed by General Knox's aide-de-camp Samuel Shaw. Thomas Clews, of the Corps of Invalids, is given 107 complete rations by order of General Knox. A note of receipt from the contractors for the states of New York and New Jersey is included on the docket.

GLC02437.02223

3 July 1783 circa

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Document signed

Title: [Provision return of rations issued to light infantry]

Provision return for 12 men of the light infantry commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Hull for 3 days from 1 July to 3 July. A total of 36 rations were issued. This document was signed by S. Spring, a quartermaster, and Major Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp, and sent to James Forsyth, the Commissary of West Point. Docket signed by Tillotson stating that contractors delivered the rations.

GLC02437.02227

22 November 1778

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Army expenses of various regiments]

Contains instructions to Mr. Richards to deliver articles and collect receipts for them. The receipts are included on the following pages. Written at or near Fredericksburg (present-day Patterson, New York).

GLC02437.02263

17 July 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return for army rations issued]

Provision return for one man of the late 2nd Connecticut Regiment. He was issued 10 rations for 10 days. Signed by R. Sanderson as a quartermaster and Colonel H. Luith(?). Also signed by Major Shaw as Knox's aide-de-camp. Docket signed by an Ezekiel Whitney stating that contractors delivered the rations.

GLC02437.02295