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27 June 1783
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Captain Brewster
General Knox requests a loan from Captain Brewster in the amount of one thousand dollars for the term of one year.
GLC02437.02193
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
[Issue of rum to boat men]
Shaw requests that a quart of rum be issued to eight boatmen on fatigue duty. Two other illegible signatures appear on the document. Noted "Genl Ordr No. 5" on verso.
GLC02437.02194
28 June 1783
Billings, Andrew, 1743-1808
[Receipt for cannon]
Receipt of two brass cannons from General Knox by the hand of Captain Buchanan for engraving.
GLC02437.02196
to Henry Knox
Written by Captain Major Billings to Major General Knox. References a previous letter from Knox that arrived with 2 brass cannons -- says he will "set about them as soon as the directions arrive, and will finish them as soon as possible." Billings is...
GLC02437.02198
July 1, 1783
Price, William, ?-1790
Provision return for a lieutenant officer police...
Written by William Price, Officer Police and countersigned by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp.. A provision return for one lieutenant officer police for the garrison of West Point. States that ninety three rations (three rations per day for thirty...
GLC02437.02211
2 July 1783
Antill, Edward, 1742-1789
Requests that the bearer of the letter, Joseph Dyer, and two other men (John Lenen and James Kendall) be given enough provisions to return home on furlough. Explains that the men are from Boston and that Dyer is a man "distinguished with honor and...
GLC02437.02222
[Provision returns for Thomas Clews]
Written and signed by General Knox's aide-de-camp Samuel Shaw. Thomas Clews, of the Corps of Invalids, is given 107 complete rations by order of General Knox. A note of receipt from the contractors for the states of New York and New Jersey is...
GLC02437.02223
3 July 1783 circa
[Provision return of rations issued to light infantry]
Provision return for 12 men of the light infantry commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Hull for 3 days from 1 July to 3 July. A total of 36 rations were issued. This document was signed by S. Spring, a quartermaster, and Major Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp...
GLC02437.02227
4 July 1783 circa
Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783
[Provision return for masons hired by the engineers department]
Provision return for the superintendent of the Masons; employed by the engineers department. One man was hired for four days from 1 - 4 July 1783 for a total of six rations issued. Signed by Joseph Cheesman, a superintendent, and countersigned by...
GLC02437.02232
6 July 1783 circa
Hillyer, David, fl. 1783
[Provision return for army rations issued]
Signed by David Hillyer, a quartermaster. Countersigned by Major Samuel Shaw as Henry Knox's aide-de-camp. Provision return sent to James Forsyth, the commissary at West Point, for non-commissioned officers and privates belonging to Captain McGowan's...
GLC02437.02242
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