16 September 1783

Lillie, John, 1755-1801

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision order]

Order for one quart of rum, charged to General Henry Knox's account.

GLC02437.02521

1783-1815

Manuscript document

Title: Memoranda

Dated 12 November-14 April, although no year is provided. List of payments for sundries, including Indian meal, beef, lamp oil, rum, butter, wine, gloves, sugar, tea, etc.

GLC02437.08391

1783-1815

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: Statement &c

List of potential costs and profits for a mine. Gives a run down of amounts based on annually mining 100 tons of an unknown material (although it could be copper, see GLC02437.08433). Wants to have £12,000 capital. Part of the capital would go to rent, an engine, and the works to extract the material. Document in Knox's hand.

GLC02437.08425

November 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document

Title: Provisions drawn for Genl Knox's family 1780-1-2-3

Booklet containing accounts of stores drawn from commissaries (includes commissaries' names and lists of supplies). Stores acquired by the Knox family are presented in chart form (includes flour, beef, candles, rum, salt, rice, pork, and peas). Contains detailed notes on forage accounts related to the Knox family (including hay, corn, and oats, among other items). Also contains accounts of rations related to Knox's military service, including different names of merchants and/or officials whom Knox settled his accounts with at various times between 1780 and 1783. With ten blank leaves…

GLC02437.09440

17 August 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request]

Requests 12 pounds of bread for General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.09751

18 September 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request]

Requests 12 pounds of bread for General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.09755

18 September 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Request for goods]

Request for one barrel of flour and twelve pounds of bread for General Henry Knox. Docket signed received by Jacob Johnson.

GLC02437.02533

20 September 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision order]

Request for twenty pounds of beef for General Knox. Docket signed by Jacob Johnson.

GLC02437.02543

22 September 1783

Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision order]

Request for twelve pounds of bread for General Henry Knox and his family. Docket signed by Christopher Smith.

GLC02437.02549

23 September 1783

Lillie, John, 1755-1801

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision order]

Request for four gallons of vinegar for General Henry Knox and his family. Docket signed by Jacob Johnson.

GLC02437.02557

24 September 1783

Lillie, John, 1755-1801

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision order]

Request for one gallon of rum for General Henry Knox and his family. Docket signed by Christopher Smith.

GLC02437.02561

25 September 1783

Tearse, Peter Bailey, fl. 1776-1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return]

Return for two former captives in Canada, who are going home to Pennsylvania. Docket signed by James Wilson.

GLC02437.02566

28 September 1783

Dodge, Levi, fl. 1777-1783

Autograph document signed

Title: [Provision return]

Return for a detachment to West Point, New York.

GLC02437.02572

30 October - 1 November 1783

Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

Manuscript letter

Title: to Henry Knox

Copy of a letter dated 1 November 1783 from Benjamin Lincoln to Robert Morris, along with a copy of a Congressional resolution dated 30 October 1783. The letter and the resolution concern Congress's decision that Henry Knox should be allowed the pay of a Major General in a separate department during his command at West Point. The original resolution was signed by Charles Thomson, miscopied here as "Thompson." Copies written in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide de camp.

GLC02437.02748

29 December 1783

Price, William, ?-1790

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for various items]

Receipt of General Knox for various items for his men, including nine brass quadrants.

GLC02437.02868

circa 30 October 1783

Osgood, Samuel, 1748-1813

Manuscript document

Title: [Instructions for paying Knox during his command at West Point]

Indicates "That Genl Knox be allowed the pay of a Major Genl in a Separate Department during his Command at West Pt. his additional pay Granted by the Resolution of the 12th of Jany 1781 to cease during the Time he Receives the aforegoing Allowance..." This is most likely the enclosure cited by Samuel Shaw in GLC02437.02726.

GLC02437.02893

4 January 1784

Manuscript document

Title: [Bill for Henry Knox to pay Daniel Parker]

Knox is to pay $22.87 to Daniel Parker & Co., who furnished supplies for troops at West Point. Possibly created by Parker, fl. 1781-1790.

GLC02437.02912

9 January 1784

Adams, Samuel, 1745-1819

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Receipt for a tombstone for Knox's daughter Julia]

Knox orders William Neilson to pay on his behalf for a "marble tomb stone six feet in length and three feet wide for his Daughter Deceased." Signed by Dr. Samuel Adams. Adams also signs verso 16 June 1784 confirming receipt of payment for the tombstone. Neilson signs verso 30 January 1786 confirming receipt of the sum from Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide.

GLC02437.02932

8 December 1784

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: [Payment receipt penned on Lease agreement between John Singleton Copley and Henry Knox]

A receipt written and signed in text by Knox (on page three) for £25 paid to Mary Pelham. Also signed by Mary Pelham who confirms receipt of £25 for: "one quarters rent advance of the mansion of John Singleton Copley Esq Situated at the North part of the Common." The Lease agreement for Henry Knox to rent Copley's Boston mansion is listed on page one and two. Countersigned by John Allen, probably a lawyer, also bearing his holograph corrective witness statement. Signed again by Mary Pelham above Allen's signature. Body of this lease document is written in an unknown legal hand.…

GLC02437.03074

June 1785-January 1786

Sayre, Stephen, 1736-1818

Manuscript document

Title: [Account between Henry Knox and Stephen Sayre as agent for the Baron von Poellnitz]

Account listing, by date, the charges paid by Henry Knox for rent on the Baron von Poellnitz's house, with Stephen Sayre acting as agent. See GLC02437.03183 for a related document.

GLC02437.03236

22 November 1786

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document signed

Title: [Memorandum related to Robert Morris and Jeremiah Wadsworth]

Describes a series of meeting in October - November 1786 involving Knox, Robert Morris, Jeremiah Wadsworth, Gouverneur Morris, and Samuel Osgood to develop Knox's proposal to loan money to Congress to clothe, feed, pay and house the troops. Congress had recently passed a resolve that each state should donate money into Congress' treasury, and that Congress could take out private loans against this incoming treasury money. Docket, in Knox's hand, reads: "Minutes respecting an attempt to obtain Mr R Morris & Mr J Wadsworth to enter into contracts for supporting the troops directed to be…

GLC02437.03314

January 13, 1787

Sullivan, James, 1744-1808

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Bond for Henry Knox]

Bond declaring that James Sullivan of Boston owes Henry Knox of New York 900 pounds lawful money. Pertains to settling the Estate of the late Thomas Flucker, Knox's father-in-law. Signed by two witnesses, B. G. Amory and William Amory.

GLC02437.03414

18 April 1787

O'Connor, Matthias, fl. 1787

Autograph document signed

Title: [Bill for tuition]

Bill for teaching services provided to Henry Knox's daughter, Lucy and a girl named Betsey, both at boarding school and at home. Docketed by Knox, "for teaching my daughter Lucy and Betsey to write." Date added later in pencil.

GLC02437.03526

circa January-June 1787

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [Memorandum of accounts]

List of accounts dealing with corn, rye, and other supplies. Date added later in pencil.

GLC02437.03597

21 August 1787

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph document

Title: [An impulse of the moment]

Title taken from docket. Knox's beliefs concerning spirituality. Writes "[t]he mind of an intelligent man is overpowered with the extent magnitude and effulgence of inanimate nature Infinitely diversified indeed but every part having an essential connection with & dependance [sic] on each other, from an atom up to a world a system, an association of systems untill [sic] stretching into creation the immensity of the scale becomes too [large?] to be embraced by the imagination ..." and that "Analogy Philosophy and Religion teach us that there is also a glorious system of intellectual…

GLC02437.03641