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1 November 1782
Condy, Thomas Hollis, 1754-1833
Return of cartridges in the 9th Massa Regiment commanded by Majr Leml Trescott
Lists cartridges from the 9th Massachusetts. Countersigned by Major Lemuel Trescott.
GLC02437.01690
19 November 1782
Carrington, Edward, 1749-1810
to [Thomas] Jones
Marked "copy" by Carrington. Addressee is listed only as "Mr. Jones," but earlier correspondence suggests the addressee is Thomas Jones. Colonel Carrington writes that he has waited till this morning for Jones to arrive, before Carrington must...
GLC02437.01719
27 November 1782
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Orders for the issues of arms accoutrements and ammunitions
Unsigned, but written the hand of Samuel Shaw. Lists, by date between June and November, orders given to issuers of supplies, such as Mr. John Ruddock, Commissary at Fishkill, and Mr. Richard Frothingham, Commissary at West Point.
GLC02437.01725
2 December 1782
Denniston, George J., fl. 1782
Return of the boards & plank issued for the use of the Connecticut barracks
Addressed to Major General Henry Knox. Signed by George J. Denniston on behalf of John Campbell, Assistant Deputy Quarter Master. Return of the amount of boards and planks, as well as when they were delivered, to whom, and on whose orders.
GLC02437.01728
7 December 1782
Billings, Andrew, 1743-1808
to Henry Knox
Is honored to report that the two cannons entrusted to him will be ready for delivery by next Wednesday. Will soon be going away for some weeks and wishes he could be present to see them sent off, but hopes they will meet with Knox's approval....
GLC02437.01733
22 December 1782
Thomas, Joseph, 1755-1838
Report of the ordnance at the different posts and park of artillery
Chart of ordnance at Fort Clinton and nearby fortifications on the Hudson River. Artillery has been dismounted, spiked and "stoped with stones."
GLC02437.01757
13 December 1782
George, John, 1751-1820
[Ordnance return for an artillery park and other posts in the West Point vicinity]
Lists artillery numbers for several forts in vicinity surrounding West Point.
GLC02437.10067
27 October 1782-20 November 1782
Campbell, John, fl. 1782-1787
[Return of forage issued]
Lists the date issued, to whom, the quantity, and whether it was Indian corn, oats, rye, peas or hay.
GLC02437.10513
19 November 1781
to Thomas Nelson
Refers to a letter he forwarded to Nelson from General George Washington regarding a shipment of military stores to be deposited at Westham. If unable to find storage there, he was to ask Nelson for help finding storage in Richmond. Comments he...
GLC02437.01291
19 October 1781
[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...
GLC02437.01240
circa 21 October 1781-24 October 1781
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
2 November 1781
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Return of Cannon Sent to the Head of Elk, subject to the orders of Robert Morris Esq.
Lists quantities of supplies being sent to Head of Elk, Maryland. Clerical copy written by Samuel Shaw from a Park of Artillery. A note at the bottom from Colonel Edward Carrington, written in Samuel Shaw's hand, on 3 November 1781 indicates that he...
GLC02437.01281
30 November 1781
Return of Ordnance & Military Stores rec'd. of Rich Frothingham Esq. Field Commissary Military Stores Novem. 22 & 30th 1781.
List of military stores including brass cannons, brass howitzers, carriages, mortars, and bullets, as well as tools and cutlery. Includes several annotations in Knox's hand.
GLC02437.01298
1781
[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...
GLC02437.01315
circa 1782
No. 10: articles issued in the year 1782
List of military articles issued, sorted by date.
GLC02437.01335
4 November 1781
Return of ordnance and military stores prepared for the Southern detachment.
Lists mortars, howitzers, and their implements, field pieces, items "in common for the whole," and musquetry. Docket notes these items were "order'd to the Southward from York in Virginia under Genl [Arthur] St. Clair." Docketed by Henry Knox.
GLC02437.10027
6 January 1782
Craig, Isaac, 1742-1826
[Return of Ordnance stores at Fort Pitt and Fort McIntosh]
Signed by I. Craig, Captain of Artillery to Henry Knox, Brigadier General of Artillery. Lists stores of shells, powder, cartridges, muskets, rifles, swords, etc. Fort Pitt was the site of present day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Fort McIntosh became...
GLC02437.10032
Smith, John, ?-1837
Return of ordnance ammunition & stores at Glo'ster Point
Signed by Lieutenant Smith, commanding Royal Artillery Glocester.
GLC02437.10496
31 December 1781
[Return]
Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered for the months of October, November, December 1781 at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and current condition. Date previously inferred, written in pencil.
GLC02437.10687
circa 1 February 1782
Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered for the month of January 1782 at West Point, New York. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.
GLC02437.10691
Ruddock, John, fl. 1779-1796
Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered for the month of January 1782 at Fishkill, New York. Items listed by type and weight.
GLC02437.10692
3 August 1781
Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810
[Map of Charleston, South Carolina]
Manuscript map of Charleston, South Carolina showing the coastline, various rivers and geographic features, certain structures and county names. Date and creator inferred, based on the presumption that this map accompanies GLC02437.01112.
GLC02437.01113
4 August 1781
[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
16 August 1781
Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803
Written by Major Bauman, commander of artillery at West Point, to Brigadier General Knox. A response to Knox's letter regarding his transfer from West Point (GLC02437.01134). Says General McDougall has no objections to Bauman's transfer and that...
GLC02437.01136
20 August 1781
to Samuel Shaw
An angry letter written by Major Bauman, commander of artillery at West Point, to Major Shaw, aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Henry Knox. Says "You will please to inform the general that it is moral[ly] impossible for me to join the party at New...
GLC02437.01145
7 September 1781
Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824
Invoice of Ordnance & Military Stores forwarded to the Southern Army.
Addressed to Richard Frothingham, Esq. The ordnance listed was for the siege of Yorktown, which began later that month. Hodgdon was the commissary general of military stores. This was Henry Knox's copy, docketed by Samuel Shaw.
GLC02437.01168
O'Hannan, A.B., fl. 1781
A General return of military Stores State [of] Virginia.
Chart enumerating various types of ordnance held in Irvins Store, Charlottesville, Staunton, New London, Richmond and West Ham. The ordnance was needed for the siege of Yorktown, which began later that month. O'Hannan's name is signed in a...
GLC02437.01171
9 September 1781
to Board of War and Ordnance
Reports that almost all the stores are embarked at Head of Elk, Maryland. He has not yet received a full account of ordnance sent from Philadelphia from Samuel Hodgdon, the commissary general of military stores, so he does not know if the Board's...
GLC02437.01175
12 September 1781
Tells Knox that this letter will be delivered by a Lieutenant Ford, who will also deliver ordnance and information about available ships. Describes his activities fulfilling Knox's orders to obtain ordnance and shipping vessels. Mentions using shot...
GLC02437.01183
29 September 1781
Peters, Richard, fl. 1732-1828
Orders Knox to send ordnance to General Nathanael Greene, who was "extremely destitute of Musket Ammunition." The Continental Army began to invest the British works for the siege of Yorktown the day before. Peters was the Secretary of the Board of...
GLC02437.01197
30 September 1781
to Thomas Shild
Orders Shild, captain of the schooner Betsy, to load his vessels with oak planks on the eastern shore of Maryland. Describes the planks as essential supplies for the siege of Yorktown. Authorizes the impressment of materials and procurement of...
GLC02437.01200
6 October 1781
to Samuel Hodgdon
Orders Hodgdon to proceed immediately with fulfilling General Henry Knox's request for ordnance (see GLC02437.01189). Emphasizes the need for swift action and mentions that the Board of War & Ordnance will be held responsible for any failure....
GLC02437.01210
August 1781
[Plan of encampment at Philipsburg, in Westchester County, New York]
Hand drawn map in Knox's hand, bearing his corrections and additions, of picket lines from Tuckahoe west to the Hudson River at Dobbs Ferry, New York. The Hudson River is referred to as the North River. In 1781, the Dobbs Ferry shoreline was...
GLC02437.10024
3 October 1781
Frothingham, Thomas, 1755-1827
Return for ordnance and military stores available, received and delivered for the month of September 1781. Items listed by type, weight and current condition.
GLC02437.10684
circa 1779-1783
Disposal of Sixty three hogshead of clothing received for the Corps of Artillery in 1778
Signed for Knox by Samuel Shaw, Knox aide-de-camp. Large chart describing amounts of clothing (hats, coats, vests, woolen breeches, linen breeches, leather breeches, shirts, socks, overalls, stockings, shoes, and blankets) distributed to various...
GLC02437.02446
12 September 1778
Brimmer, Martin, 1742-1804
[Receipt]
Lists transactions of William Knox.
GLC02437.10387
circa 1771
Battelle, Ebenezer, fl. 1771
[Booklist]
A long list of books that Henry Knox purchased possibly from Eben Battelle. Date was added later in pencil. Henry Knox signed he received the books.
GLC02437.10612
January 1776
Perkins, William, 1742-1802
[Abstract of pay due for Captain Perkins's company in Colonel Henry Knox's regiment]
Lists the number of persons at specific positions in the regiment (one captain, three lieutenants, etc.).
GLC02437.09494
10 May 1776
[List of officers]
Marked as a copy. Lists officers and pay for an unspecified company for the month of March.
GLC02437.09522
28 October 1776
Stringer, Samuel, 1725-?
[Listing of American and British vessels engaged in the Battle of Valcour]
A list of the "Fleet of the United States that were engaged…" followed by a list of "The Enemies Fleet engaged…." The lists include number and type of vessels, and their number and type of guns. The American list includes the names of the two...
GLC02437.09538
29 May 1781
Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785
[Certificate of discharge for David Cawood]
Attests that Captain Cawood has served as an artificer for three years.
GLC02437.09554
Butler, Zebulon, 1731-1795
[Recommendation for a leave of absence for Captain Lemuel Clift]
Colonel Butler recommends Clift for a sixty day leave of absence. Directs his request to Major General Henry Knox.
GLC02437.09587
28 December 1782
Webb, Samuel Blachley, 1753-1807
[Recommendation for a leave of absence for Lieutenant Aaron Benjamin]
Colonel Webb recommends Benjamin, in the Third Connecticut Regiment, for a leave of absence until 20 February 1782. Directs his request to Major General Henry Knox at West Point.
GLC02437.09595
circa 1775-1783
List of eight named soldiers, by rank. Docketed as "Capt Perkins abstract for Jany."
GLC02437.09932
List of 34 named soldiers. Docketed as "Those of the men to be under Capt Buchanan."
GLC02437.09975
1782/09/17
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Consents to stopping work on the magazine and instead having the men work on the barracks. "I shall inform the Secretary at War, who seemed to have the completion of the Magazine much at heart, of the reasons which have hindered us from proceeding."...
GLC02437.09380
30 March 1782
General Washington discusses a "character" (possibly Loyalist Henry Van Schaack) present with Knox in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Instructs Knox to guard his colleague (possibly Gouverneur Morris) against freely discussing matters with this person...
GLC02437.09400
30 April 1782
to Henry Knox and Gouvenor Morris
Discusses Morris and Knox's progress regarding "the commission you were charged with by me" (possibly a commission to negotiate prisoner exchange with the British in Elizabethtown, New Jersey). Has received Morris and Knox's dispatches, as well as...
GLC02437.09309
1 March 1781
Transmits a requisition from New York for ammunition and says to send only what stock is deficient to Fort Schuyler. Written at "Head Quarters." At bottom, a note in the hand of Samuel Shaw reads, "Answered and the papers returned to the man who...
GLC02437.09354
9 September 1782
Proposes use of prisoners as armorers, discusses trial of Sergeant Spinoza [Spinosa] for treason, requests help organizing the Department of the Commissary of Military Stores and wonders if "it be possible to get the field pieces directed to be...
GLC02437.09358
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