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24 September 1783
Browen, fl. 1783
[Request for rations]
Victualling return for one of the soldiers "of the Escort to the British Flagg from Canada." Docket signed by a John Ompey.
GLC02437.02560
28 August 1783
Swartwout, Cornelius, fl. 1776-1783
Return of ordnance, ordnance stores, apparatus &c. &c. at the garrisons of Stoney and Verplanks Points- Kings Ferry- August the 28 1783
Signed by Swartwout, Captain Lieutenant Commanding Artillery at Kings Ferry.
GLC02437.10130
August 1783
Extra issues
Hand drawn chart, apparently listing issues distributed to prisoners, engineers department, police officer garrison, Indians, discharged person, artillery artificers, and General [Jedediah] Huntington. Verso contains the single word "Cast."
GLC02437.10131
19 September 1783
Moodie, Andrew, ?-1787
[Weekly return of the New York Corps of Artillery Commanded by Major Sebastian Bauman]
Lists numbers of majors, captains, surgeons mates, gunners, and other posts present and fit for duty, sick and present, on command, on extra duty, on the staff, on duty present, and absent with leave. Includes an illegible signature in addition to...
GLC02437.10140
20 September 1783
Weekly return of the Corps of Artillery
Lists numbers of commissioned, noncommissioned, and staff officers. Includes total numbers, or "strength of each corps respectively." Also lists numbers "fit for duty," including "sick present," "sick absent," "on duty," "absent with leave," and...
GLC02437.10141
1783
[Miscellaneous return of artillery]
Lists officers and their status (fit for duty, on command, etc.) for an unspecified location. Docket indicates "scale artillery."
GLC02437.10142
[Miscellaneous return of infantry]
Lists numbers of officers and their status ("sick present, sick absent, etc.) for regiments from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. Docket indicates "scale infantry."
GLC02437.10143
26 September 1783
Burbeck, Henry, 1754-1848
Monthly return of the Massachusetts Corp of Artillery
Signed by Captain Burbeck and Samuel Cooper, Adjutant. Lists numbers of officers present for duty, sick present, sick absent, etc. Includes notes for men on extra duty, on command, sick absent, on furlough, and in confinement. Also contains a list...
GLC02437.10144
16 September 1783
Mahony, John, fl. 1783
[Testimony related to Lieutenant Joseph Wheaton]
Testimony/disposition of soldiers in the Rhode Island troops in the trial of Lieutenant Wheaton, who sold rum to the soldiers at the garrison of Saratoga for profit. All three men signed with an "X" on "His Mark" at end of their testimonies. John...
GLC02437.10522
Cooper, Samuel, 1757-1840
[Return]
Return for the Massachusetts corp of artillery. Lists the rank and current status of the soldiers.
GLC02437.10523
Loomis, Libbeus, ?-1836
Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Return for a regiment of Connecticut foot soldiers. Lists men by company, rank, and present status. Countersigned by Ebenezer Huntington. Noted as printed in Philadelphia...
GLC02437.10524
Stafford, John R., ?-1812
Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Return for the third regiment of Massachusetts foot soldiers. Lists men by company, rank, and present status. Countersigned by Michael Jackson. Noted as printed in...
GLC02437.10525
GLC02437.10526
Greaton, John, 1741-1783
Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Return for the third regiment of Massachusetts foot soldiers. Lists men by company, rank, and present status. Also includes a chart for absent officers on the verso. Noted...
GLC02437.10528
Boynton, Joseph, fl. 1776-1783
Partially printed document with subsequent information written in by hand. Return for a regiment of New Hampshire foot soldiers. Lists men by company, rank, and present status. Countersigned by George Reid. Noted as printed in Philadelphia...
GLC02437.10529
6 September 1780
Collins, John, 1717-1795
Return of ordnance from the ordnance store at Springfield, Massachusetts, delivered to various locations. Items listed by type, status and delivery location.
GLC02437.10709
11 March 1783
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to George Washington
Sends his regrets to General George Washington as he was unable to make a meeting at Head Quarters due to the the large amount of ice in the river. Discusses the "extraodinary notification and address forwarded to Colonel Crane" (the first of the...
GLC02437.01995
22 March 1783
Livingston, Robert L., 1746-1813
Written in the hand of Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., Washington's Secretary. Marked as a copy of a letter from Secretary of Foreign Affairs Livingston to General Washington. Docket in Knox's hand. Sends "the agreeable Intelligence of Peace, upon which I...
GLC02437.02018
23 March 1783
Written by Major General Knox to General Washington. Reports to Washington that he had to relieve the company of artillery under Captain Lieutenant Ephraim Fenno at Kings Ferry, due to problems with ordnance returns. Replaced Fenno's unit with the...
GLC02437.02019
Parker, Daniel, 1782-1846
In the hand of Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., Washington's Secretary. Copy of a letter from Daniel Parker to George Washington. Informs General Washington that a general peace was signed on 20 January. Says a ship from Cadiz arrived with the news...
GLC02437.02020
28 March 1783
Written by Major General Knox to General Washington. Contains florid congratulations to Washington over peace. Says "how sublime must be your sensations at this moment!" Claims it is a "happy day for America!" Retained copy.
GLC02437.02034
4 April 1783
Discusses issuing ammunition and weaponry to the troops. Warns that if every brigade orders the same proportion the number of weaponry will be immense. Retained copy.
GLC02437.02062
9 April 1783
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
A copy, in the hand of Washington's secretary David Cobb, of the letter Hamilton wrote as a Continental Congressman from New York to General Washington. Hamilton was writing in his capacity as a chairman of a committee (other members included Madison...
GLC02437.02078
16 April 1783
Discusses the earnings of commissioned officers and the feelings of uneasiness among noncommissioned officers due to unequal payment. Suggests discharging noncommissioned officers as soon as possible under the pretext that it is being done so that...
GLC02437.02092
19 May 1783
Discusses an "atrocious violation of the Laws of Nations" by a Mr. Honniwell and urges a just punishment for the crime. See GLC02437.02125 for a related document.
GLC02437.02126
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