Meet the 2024 History Teachers of the Year!
August 1782
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
[A mode of commuting to half pay]
Possibly in the handwriting of Henry Knox. List and calculations for half pay of various officers.
GLC02437.01528
31 August 1782
Hodgdon, Samuel, 1745-1824
to Ezekiel Cheever
Marked "copy." Written from the War Office. Declares that he has not yet responded to Cheever's last letter because he had not yet been able to get his account overlooked by the people whose business it is to do so; he is confident they will soon...
GLC02437.01553
3 September 1782
Return of musquet cartridges delivered to the several brigades from West Point from the 1st of March to the 1st September 1782
List of numbers of musket cartridges, broken down by brigade.
GLC02437.01558
1 September 1782
Return of public stores at Albany in the Department of the Quarter Master General ...
[title continues] ... "and which by order of Major General Lord Stirling are immediately to be sent to West Point recommended to the care of Major General Knox or the commanding officer there." List includes items like saws, axes, and spades.
GLC02437.01560
5 September 1782
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
Detail of guards in and about West Point
List of guards, broken down by department (such as sappers and miners and artillery). On verso is a "Detail of the despatched parties from the 2d Connt. Regiment," with the clerical signature of Heman Swift.
GLC02437.01578
12 September 1782
Price, William, ?-1790
Memorandum of stores with the laboratory
Return of artillery stores, such as knives, scrapers, and hammers. Price signs as lieutenant of artillery.
GLC02437.01602
Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803
to Henry Knox
Writes that he has sent, at "the first safe opportunity I had, those six maps you have subscribed for at Philadelphia. I hope they may meet your approbation; tho they are not printed so clean as I could wish, the least imagined to be done, but of...
GLC02437.01603
15 September 1782
Eayrs, John, fl. 1782
List of stores on board the Hope in the river
List of artillery stores, including tools and supplies.
GLC02437.01612
16 September 1782
Denniston, George J., fl. 1782
Return of riding horses in garrison at West Point
Written on behalf of Daniel Carthy, the Assistant Deputy Quarter Master, by George J. Denniston. Lists 22 horses and the people to whom they belong, including General Henry Knox, Major Villefranche, Colonel John Crane, etc.
GLC02437.01613
19 September 1782
Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810
Written from "War Office." Writes, "I have Sent for the German Armourers and will forward - them to you with the necessary Tools - If I can obtain any considerable number I think we had better send to Mr. [possibly Richard] Cranch who is now...
GLC02437.01619
Showing results 6161 - 6170