February 14, 1781

Cochran, John, 1730-1807

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Discharge recommendation]

Recommendation of discharge for William Ally.

GLC02437.00891

February 14, 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Updates Knox on what has been happening in the Massachusetts Legislature and mentions the issue of soldier's pay. Continues with the majority of the letter, describing the events of the suicide of a young gentleman.

GLC02437.00892

February 15 and February 16, 1781

Stevens, Ebenezer, 1751-1823

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox.

Writes a note to Henry Knox asking for approval concerning a discharge and encloses the discharge with the note (see GLC02437.00891). The discharge is written by Samuel Shaw on the second page, dated 16 February. Written at a Park of Artillery.

GLC02437.00893

February 21, 1781

Peters, Richard, fl. 1732-1828

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Responds to Knox's previously written letter to the War Office on 13 February 1781(see GLC02437.0887). Discusses the status and new command of troops.

GLC02437.00899

1 March 1781

Neufville, John de, fl. 1779-1789

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Knox

Discusses war with "haughty England" and, once peace is established, the astonishment of the world at "a young flourishing Republick... happy in its constitution." Mentions Sweden and England and a return trip to America.

GLC02437.00902

circa March 6, 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph manuscript

Title: General Return of Ordnance and Military Stores at the several places under mentioned, agreeable to their several dates

A very detailed list of artillery, ammunition, supplies and stores by type, weight and location. Date added later in pencil.

GLC02437.00903

7 March 1781

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Autograph document signed

Title: [Discharge of Francis Lovett with note by Shaw on verso]

Certifying Lovett's discharge from the "Company of Artillery Artificers."

GLC02437.00904

7 March 1781

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Autograph document signed

Title: [Discharge of Michael Joiner with note by Shaw on verso]

Written at a Park of Artillery. Certifies the discharge of Michael Joiner from Artillery Artifice.

GLC02437.00905

March 7, 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: to Benjamin Lincoln

Later copy. Discusses General Cornwallis' movements in the south in detail, particularly by the Virginia/North Carolina border and Generals Nathanael Greene and Daniel Morgan's efforts in harassing him. Wonders about Benedict Arnold's movements, who at this time is fighting for the British, and mentions the Marquis de Lafayette. Letter is incomplete.

GLC02437.00906

March 7, 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Knox

Discusses business, Cornwallis' activities, and General Nathanael Greene's movements. Mentions the Marquis de Lafayette.

GLC02437.00907

9 March 1781

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Autograph document signed

Title: [Discharge of Patrick When with note by Samuel Shaw on verso]

Certifiying the discharge of Patrick When, an Artillery artificer.

GLC02437.00908

16 March 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: To The Committee of the State of Jersey for examining the inlistments [sic] of their lines-at Morris Town

In Samuel Shaw's hand, and signed by Shaw for Knox. Discusses an incident where a Captain Hugg gave unauthorized discharges to a number of enlisted men who were his neighbors. Title from docket.

GLC02437.00909

1 January 1781

Aboville, Francois Marie, comte de, 1730-1817

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Related to the artillery of Rochambeau's army] [In French]

Signed by "d'Aboville," Colonel Francois Marie, comte de Aboville. Also signed by Gau as commissary of artillery and by Nadal as director of the artillery park. A third signature is illegible. Lists artillery equipment and munitions for a siege by the army of the Comte de Rochambeau for the 1781 campaign.

GLC02437.10016

January 28, 1781

Aboville, Francois Marie, comte de, 1730-1817

Manuscript document signed

Title: Account of the guns and principal artillery ammunitions compounding both equipage for the seige and field in the Rochambeau's Army at 28 January

Signed by "d'Aboville," Colonel Francois Marie, comte de Aboville. Also signed by Gau as commissary of artillery and by Nadal as director of the artillery park. A third signature is illegible. Docket, in Samuel Shaw's hand, indicates, "Ordnance stores with the French Army at Newport. 28 Jany 1781." This is an English-language copy of GLC02437.10016.

GLC02437.10017

circa 21 March 1781

Jones, Thomas, fl. 1777-1782

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered during the month of February of 1781. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.

GLC02437.10675

8 June 1781

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter

Title: to George Washington

Replies to a letter he received from Washington on the same day. Refers to another letter Washington enclosed, from General [Ezekiel] Cornell. Cornell's letter referred to lead and cartridge expected to arrive from Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island. Further discusses gathering ammunition from other states, noting "the demands from the southward and westward so great as to claim the utmost economy..." Notes that General Duportail applied to the Quartermaster General for [artillery gun] platforms. Knox's retained draft.

GLC02437.00965

8 June 1781

Humphreys, David, 1752-1818

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Humphreys, an aide-de-camp for George Washington, informs Knox that Washington "thinks in the present state of our Ammunition not more than 15,000 of the Cartridges at Succasanna can be spared to the State of New Jersey..." Asks Knox to issue the order pertaining to the cartridges. Relates that Washington will also inform [William] Livingston, Governor of New Jersey, of the same. In a post script, instructs Knox to send the order in favor of Elias Woodruff.

GLC02437.00966

9 June 1781

Grayson, William, 1736-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [Henry Knox]

Grayson signs as a Commissioner of the Board of War. Docket appears to be Samuel Shaw's hand, thus it is likely this document was directed to Henry Knox. "The Board have directed the estimates to be made out immediately of the articles necessary to be purchased also of the transportation..." Assures Knox the Board will do everything in their power to facilitate the measures of George Washington.

GLC02437.00968

9 June 1781

Frothingham, Richard, 1748-1819

Manuscript document signed

Title: Return of arms and cartridge boxes at New Windsor West Point & Fishkill

Possibly created at New Windsor. Lists good and damaged muskets and cartridge boxes. Frothingham signs as Field Commissary of Military Stores.

GLC02437.00967

13 June 1781

Tharp, John, 1751-1819

Manuscript document

Title: [Stores received of Anthony Post by order of General Henry Knox]

Marked as a copy. Original written in Fredericksburgh, New York. Copied by Samuel Shaw, who was likely with Henry Knox at New Windsor, New York. Lists hammers, irons, anvils, and axes, among other items.

GLC02437.00969

15 June 1781

Manuscript document

Title: [The account of Otis & Henly, to ascertain the amount of clothing supplied by them]

Lists clothing shipped on board Captain Hardie's ship, Olimpe, at Brest, France 15 June 1781. A separate list indicates artillery, ordnance, and camp equipage on board the Cybelle, ordnance stores on the ship Ruise, and medicines and instruments on board the Active. Shipped by order of [John] Laurens, special minister to France.

GLC02437.00970

20 June 1781

Thomas, Joseph, 1755-1838

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Ordnance return for Captain Joseph Thomas's company]

Return of ordnance and ammunition annexed to Thomas's Company, 2nd regiment of artillery, 20 June 1781. Contains a chart listing ordnance and ammunition. Underneath chart, a note indicates that one six pounder was surrendered at Saratoga while another "was taken at the storm of the British Lines near Sarratoga" [sic]. Docket appears to be in the hand of Samuel Shaw.

GLC02437.00971

21 June 1781

Thomas, Joseph, 1755-1838

Document signed

Title: Return of Capt. Joseph Thomas's Company 2d. Regt. of Artillery, June 21st 1781-

Lists numbers of commissioned and noncommissioned officers.

GLC02437.00972

22 June 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: [Certificate pertaining to Captain Anthony Post]

Written in the hand of Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp. Created at an artillery park at or near New Windsor, where Knox was located in June 1781. Certifies that Post has served as Captain of Artillery Artificers stationed at Fredericksburgh, New York, since 11 January 1777, and receives fifty dollars per month in pay. Asserts that Post is entitled to his depreciation in pay.

GLC02437.00973

22 June 1781

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: [Captain Anthony Post's discharge]

Written in the hand of Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp. Created at an artillery park at or near New Windsor, where Knox was located in June 1781. The post at Fredericksburgh, New York, has been discontinued with respect to ordnance. Captain Post, who was in charge at Fredericksburgh, is honorably discharged. Shaw attests that Post is entitled to his pay.

GLC02437.00974