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22 December 1782
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
[Return]
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
to Henry Knox
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
8 November 1782
Enclosing a note regarding a case that he wishes Knox to deal with. "You will be pleased to take up the matter in question, have a fair investigation made into the Merits of it, and cause justice to be done to the Individual concerned, as well as...
GLC02437.09362
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