December 31, 1783

Townsend, David, 1753-1829

Autograph document signed

Title: [Document regarding the organization of hospital staff at West Point]

Signed by Townsend and Samuel Adams, both hospital surgeons. Townsend and Adams assert that one hospital mate, one steward who also serves as ward master, and four orderlies will be sufficient staff for the hospital at West Point during the winter. This staff requirement is based on the estimate that twenty "helpless patients" will be at the West Point hospital. The surgeons also note that some members of the invalid corps sometimes need to stay at the hospital.

GLC02437.02879

1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [State of the invalid officers]

Knox's working draft for an Inspection Board report on the Invalid Regiment. Lists thirteen invalid officers and their injuries, disabilities or illnesses. The report is for the following officers: Captain John McGowen, Captain John Riley, Captain Moses McFarland, Captain Lieutenant William McL.Hatton [McElhatton], Lieutenant Osgood Carleton, Lieutenant Jonathan Pugh, Lieutenant Robert Barnet, Lieutenant Talmage Hall, Captain Thomas Arnold, Captain Eben Hill (crossed out), Lieutenant William Maynard, Lieutenant Samuel Gibbs, and Captain David Dorance. See GLC02437.02208 for a related…

GLC02437.02882

circa 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: Cash recieved from Col. Biddle DQMG at Trenton Jany 1 1777 to buy sundry necessaries for the corps of artillery

Written and signed for Henry Knox by Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. Includes information pertaining to Colonel [Clement] Biddle. Date of creation based on a previously inferred date written in pencil near the top of the page.

GLC02437.02884

1783

Sandford, John, fl. 1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Record of John Sandford, Absolom Martin and John Peck]

Indicates that Captain John Sandford is paymaster to Spencer's Regiment, and that Captain Martin and Peck are paymasters of the Jersey line. The line "with a Servant" has been struck.

GLC02437.02886

circa 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript document

Title: [Return of shoes and stockings received from General Thomas Mifflin's at Morristown 14 January 1777]

Written for Henry Knox by Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. Indicates the distribution of forty pairs of shoes and stockings among ten officers, Knox included. Date of creation previously inferred (but erroneously recorded as 1873) and written in pencil near the top of the page.

GLC02437.02887

circa 1783

Document

Title: [List of officers pertaining to New Hampshire]

This list of men corresponds to the New Hampshire battalion. Date of creation previously inferred and written in pencil in a different hand.

GLC02437.02889

4 January 1784

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Autograph document signed

Title: [An account of sleigh and horses bought from Colonel Timothy Pickering]

Pickering, Quartermaster General, attests that he received seventy dollars for "one second hand sleigh" and "two draught horses" from an unspecified buyer.

GLC02437.02905

4 January 1784

Sumner, Job, 1754-1789

Manuscript document

Title: Rolls of mens names belonging to the 1st, 2d, 3d & 4th Regt.

A note at the bottom of the page states: "All the men whose names are mentioned above were discharg'd the fourth day of January 1784 except two the 2nd day." Docket indicates that the men listed were discharged by Major Sumner, possibly Job Sumner.

GLC02437.02906

4 January 1784

Manuscript document

Title: [Return of the troops retained in the service of the United States stationed at West Point]

Lists infantry and artillery. Cites artillery officers who composed the corps retained for service. Lists invalids and the names of men in Brigadier General Henry Jackson's regiment.

GLC02437.02910

5 January 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certification of Samuel Shaw's military service]

Knox attest that Shaw has served in the Continental Artillery for eight years, "more than seven of which he has been particularly attached to the subscriber in the capacities of adjutant, Brigade-Major, and aid de Camp." Praises Shaw as "an intelligent active and gallant officer."

GLC02437.02915

5 January 1784

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Pickering, Quartermaster General, informs Knox he will attempt to leave for Boston before the following Sunday. Recommends the bearer of this note, Smith, to drive a team of oxen carrying Knox's baggage when he departs for Boston.

GLC02437.02916

8 January 1784

Cogswell, William, 1760-1831

Autograph document signed

Title: Return of the general hospital at Moorse house from the 1st to the 8th of January 1784

Cogswell, hospital mate, directs this hospital return to Major General Henry Knox. Lists admitted, discharged, deceased. Also lists numbers of those with fever, dysentery, rheumatism, epilepsy, and other conditions at the "General Hospital at [Moorse house]." Addressed to John Forbes, hospital steward.

GLC02437.02926

9 January 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: to John Peirce

Knox instructs Peirce (in some sources "Pierce"), Paymaster General, to pay Daniel Parker & Co. on his account.

GLC02437.02933

January 26, 1784

Hull, William, 1753-1825

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return]

Return for troops at West Point, New York. Lists men by rank and current status. Includes a list on the verso of absent officers.

GLC02437.10576

12 March 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Manuscript letter

Title: to Benjamin Lincoln

Later copy of GLC02437.02000. References the impatience of the officers on Congress's indecisiveness over half-pay. Mentions the Newburgh Address and the call for officers to meet. Washington asked for a postponement of that meeting until next Saturday.

GLC02437.02001

16 March 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Lincoln

Written by Major General Knox to Benjamin Lincoln. References his letter from "a few days past." Says that the letter mentioned a meeting of officers called for by a paper circulating around camp. Says "The meeting was had yesterday, and the General will forward the proceedings to Congress - which will, I am certain make you perfectly happy." Says the meeting went well and that it "will set the military character of America in a high point of view." Says that if the people have any gratitude in them they will now support the army. Wants to have the proceedings published immediately to affect…

GLC02437.02009

February 21, 1783

Strachan, William, 1752-1798

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses the condition of beef and states that "I think it not fit to be Issued to the Troops."

GLC02437.01941

February 22, 1783

Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Army rations issued to two masons]

Noted as a provision return for two Masons; at West Point, New York. Right edge is missing causing text loss. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with an endorsement on the verso. Signature is missing due to missing right edge.

GLC02437.01944

February 25, 1783

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provision return of Captain Thomas Patten's Company of Artificers]

Lists men by regiment and company with issued rations. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with an endorsement signed by Dudley Mercer.

GLC02437.01951

February 25, 1783

Craig, Isaac, 1742-1826

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Return of Detachment of the Pennsylvania Artillery]

Lists men by rank. Noted as written at Fort Pitt, which is present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

GLC02437.01953

February 26, 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ephraim Fenno

Informing Captain Lieutenant Fenno that General Henry Knox is sending them a lock and key for the magazine to prevent further loss of goods and theft. Also notes that Knox would like a return of all of the stores as well, to keep track of what they have at Verplanck's point and what they need.

GLC02437.01955

February 26, 1783

Callender, John, fl. 1747-1797

Autograph note signed

Title: [Report of the Artillery at Fort Clinton]

Informs Knox that he has "[e]xamined the Artillery at Fort Clinton Park & .c .c found them in good Order, Except one Morter one Howitzer ..."

GLC02437.01956

February 24, 1783

Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783

Document signed

Title: [Provision return for Bargemen]

Printed form with subsequent information filled in by hand. Lists men by regiment and company with issued rations. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw, and with an endorsement on verso signed by [Marghit Keyes].

GLC02437.01962

1 March 1783

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Provisions of Captain Thomas Patten's Company of Artillery]

Lists men by regiment and company with issued rations. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with an endorsement signed by Dudley Mercer.

GLC02437.01965

1 March 1783

Banks, John, fl. 1783

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Request for rations]

Request for a week's worth of provisions for a man of the Core of the Invalides. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with an endorsement signed (with an X) by Joseph Freeman.

GLC02437.01968