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30 August 1783
Livermore, Daniel, 1749-1798
[Provision return]
Countersigned by John Lillie with the docket signed by Peter Cross. Return for a prisoner from the "Late First New York Regiment."
GLC02437.02435
25 August 1783
Wheaton, Joseph, 1755-1828
Return for General von Steuben at Saratoga, New York. Docket signed by John Bowles.
GLC02437.02440
19 August 1783
Blake, Edward, fl. 1753-1800
[Provision return for army rations issued]
Signed by Edward Blake, a quartermaster for the artillery, and countersigned by Major Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp. Provision return for one man discharged from the Massachusetts Artillery from 25-31 August. A total of 7 rations were...
GLC02437.02441
24 August 1783
Signed by Edward Blake as a quartermaster of the artillery and addressed to Colonel John Crane. Provision return for a man discharged from the Massachusetts Artillery from 24-31 August 1783. The man received 7 rations over the 7 days. Docket is...
GLC02437.02443
August 1783 circa
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
[Disposal of one hundred suits of clothing]
Written and signed for Knox by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. Copy of a receipt for the disposal of 100 suits of clothing to the corps of artillery at Middlebrook, New Jersey on 2 July 1777. The clothing was sent from Philadelphia. The suits...
GLC02437.02452
1 September 1783
Parker, E.J., fl. 1783
[Provision return for fourteen men on duty at Poughkeepsie]
Provision return written by Lieutenant E. J. Parker of the 1st Massachusetts Regiment. It notes that 14 men were issued a total of 210 rations from 1-15 September. Note on second page, signed by a Stephen Patterson with a mark, states that the...
GLC02437.02454
Lillie, John, 1755-1801
[Order to issue provisions]
Signed by Lillie. Written and signed by Captain Ebenezer Smith of the main guard and Lillie. Order from Captain Lillie, an aide-de-camp to General Knox, telling Commissary Bell to issue one day's provisions for one prisoner, later of the 1st New...
GLC02437.02456
2 September 1783
[Order for rum for the Knox family]
Order issued by Captain Lillie, an aide-de-camp to Major General Knox, telling West Point Commissary Bell to deliver a half-gallon of country rum "or the value of it in Spirits or brandy" for the use of the Knox family. Docket is signed by a Tolberz...
GLC02437.02464
January 1783
Miles, John, fl. 1782-1783
Provision return for one captain lieut and police officer for the garrison of West Point at three rations pr day for the month of January 1783
Return signed by John Miles, Officer of Police, and countersigned "By order of the Comdt S. [Samuel] Shaw ADC [Aide-de-Camp]." Note on verso signed by Charles Tryer.
GLC02437.01771
circa January-September 1783
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
to unknown
Date added later in blue pencil. "Please to issue the allowance of Rum for five servants without arms in General Knox's family (or if you have no rum an equivalent in spirit) for the present month of January 1783. and charge the same to the General...
GLC02437.01774
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