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5 April 1783
Sears, Peter, fl. 1783
[Provision return]
Countersigned by John Lillie and includes a note on verso from Dudley Mercer. Lists men by company with issued rations. Date and place writ from note.
GLC02437.02064
Countersigned by John Doughty with a note on verso from Dudley Mercer. Lists men by company with issued rations. Left edge is water damaged.
GLC02437.02066
7 April 1783
Lillie, John, 1755-1801
[Request for provisions]
Includes a note on the verso from Nehemiah Philips. Request for one day's worth of provisions for Nehemiah Philips.
GLC02437.02067
[Invoice of sundry articles]
Lists items forwarded to West Point, New York for the artillery. Includes linseed oil, lead, wine and camel hair pencils.
GLC02437.02068
1 April 1783
Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783
Countersigned by John Lillie with a note on verso from Jacob Wight.Lists men by regiment with issued rations. Date and place writ from note.
GLC02437.02070
8 April 1783
[Return for provisions]
Return for the provisions of Major Waitter of the engineering department from 4 April to 8 April. For the five days of service, Waitter was given 7 1/2 rations. Signed by Superintendent Joseph Cheesman. Countersigned by Major General Knox's aide-de...
GLC02437.02071
9 April 1783
Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785
[Provision return for Artillery Artificers]
Lists men by rank with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note from Dudley Mercer.
GLC02437.02077
10 April 1783
Hand, Edward, 1744-1802
to Benjamin Walker
Document written by General Hand to Lieutenant Colonel Walker as an aide-de-camp to General von Steuben. Says the bearer of this letter, a Mr. Victor, late an ensign in General Hazen's regiment waits on Walker to draw provisions as a Canadian refugee...
GLC02437.02080
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
[Calculations respecting forges and furnaces]
List of calculations regarding the casting of artillery, along with the proper amounts of necessary items for the casting.
GLC02437.02081
April 13, 1783 circa
[Return for rations]
Return for rations for one person from Captain Thomas Patten's company of artillery artificers from 13 April to 20 April. A total of eight rations were delivered. Signed by Captain Patten and countersigned by Major General Knox's aide-de-camp Major...
GLC02437.02084
13 April 1783
Lists men by company with issued rations. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with a note from Dudley Mercer.
GLC02437.02085
GLC02437.02086
15 April 1783
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Draft of a society to be formed by the American officers & to be called "the Cincinnati"
Document itself not signed, but docket has Knox's signature. This is a draft document describing the purpose and administrative organization of the officer's fraternal organization that became the Society of the Cincinnati. Says the Society was...
GLC02437.02090
April 17, 1783 circa
[Provision return for a mason hired by the engineering department]
Return for the rations of a mason employed by the engineering department from 9 April to 17 April. A total of 12 rations were issued for the eight days. Signed by Superintendent Joseph Cheesman and countersigned by General Knox's aide-de-camp Major...
GLC02437.02100
Lists men by regiment and company with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note from Jacob Wight. Date and place writ from note.
GLC02437.02102
17 April 1783
Lists men by company with issued rations. Countersigned by John Doughty with a note from Dudley Mercer.
GLC02437.02103
April 20, 1783
[Provision return for an artificer]
Ordered and signed by Major Samuel Shaw as Major General Knox's aide-de-camp. Return for rations for one man in Captain Thomas Patten's company of artificers, which belonged to the ordinance department, from 21 April to 24 April. 1 1/2 rations a...
GLC02437.02108
April 20, 1783 circa
[Provision return for artificers]
Provision return for Captain Patten's company of artificers, which belonged to the ordinance department, from 21 April to 24 April. 69 soldiers were each given 1 1/2 rations a day for four days for a total of 432 rations issued. Signed twice by...
GLC02437.02109
Lists men by department with issued rations. Countersigned by John Lillie with a note from Jacob Wight. Date from note.
GLC02437.02118
GLC02437.02119
24-28 May 1783
Stewart, Alexander, fl. 1776-1783
[Two part document relating to Alexander Stewart's account regarding horses]
First part written by Alexander Stewart to John Lillie discussing how some horses are to be picked up later than expected and how Stewart is unable to care for them until that time due to a lack of proper feed. Second part lists the expenses for...
GLC02437.02132
25 May 1783
[Certificate]
Certifies that a Captain-Lieutenant [Cornelius] Swartwout received $600 for recruiting. Noted as a copy.
GLC02437.02134
May 1783
Forsyth, James, fl. 1783
[Account of provisions and stores issued to Major General Knox's family]
Lists provisions by weight. Includes items such as flour, beef, fish, soap, rum and salt.
GLC02437.02141
circa 2 June 1783
Freeman, Jeremiah, fl. 1775-1789
to Samuel Shaw
Asks Shaw to help him to apply to General Henry Knox to aid him with his debts that he incurred while still in the service and that he would have paid if he had received the half-pay due to soldiers who leave the army. "Free" stamped on address leaf...
GLC02437.02143
4 June 1783
to Jeremiah Freeman
Informs Captain Jeremiah Freeman that he has supplied him with a certificate and that he hopes this will help his "present unfortunate situation." Also included, on the lower portion of the page, is the mentioned certificate, verifying Freeman as...
GLC02437.02145
10 June 1783
to Royal Flint
Request for more flour as there is not "any in the store fit to be used." Noted received on verso.
GLC02437.02156
16 June 1783
[Certificate for Lieutenant John Thorp]
Written and signed for Henry Knox by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp. This document certifies that Thorp served in the corps of artillery artificers from November 1776 to the present time. Says "his knowledge of and attention to his duty have...
GLC02437.02164
22 June 1783
Crane, John, 1744-1805
to Henry Knox
Duplicate of GLC02437.02174. Discusses orders for officers to hand in returns in a timely manner concerning the "number of Officers ... and privates who will remain in service from the different corps at this post ... " Explains the return was...
GLC02437.02175
26 June 1783
[Account of vouchers]
Lists of sums. Date added later in pencil.
GLC02437.02190
Written and signed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide de camp, for Henry Knox and for Pay Master General, Charles Knowles.
GLC02437.02192
27 June 1783
Finck, Andrew, 1751-1820
to the Contractors for the States of N. York & New Jersey
Finck, Major Commanding, New York State Regiment, issues one hundred and sixteen extra rations of provisions to an officer commanding a flag and his escort, from the British garrison at Oswego. Includes an endorsement signed by Immanuel Deake(?)...
GLC02437.02197
June 1783
State of the invalid officers
Knox's working draft for an Inspection Board report on the Invalid Regiment. Lists eleven invalid officers and their assigned pensions. The report is for the following officers: Captain [John] McGowen, Captain [John] Riley, Captain [Moses]...
GLC02437.02208
Provisions and Stores Issued to Major General Knox's family at West Point, in the month of June 1783
Chart created by Commissary of Stores of West Point Forsyth describing the issuing of rations to the Knox family. Delineates how the various articles (flour, beef, rum, vinegar, and Indian meal) were issued to the family over the month. Related to...
GLC02437.02210
1 July 1783 - 4 July 1783
A provision return for eight men and two women employed in the ordinance department at one ration per day from July 1st to July 4th 1783, for a total of fifty-six rations. Noted and signed: "By order of the Comd. S. Shaw [Samuel Shaw]." Also signed...
GLC02437.02212
7 July 1783
Doughty, John, 1754-1826
A provision return for a soldier belonging to the third Massachusetts regiment on command in Dobb's Ferry. Noted: "By Order of Genl Knox [Henry Knox]." The docket is signed by James Gibsen.
GLC02437.02213
1 July 1783
North, William, 1755-1836
A provision return for four men belonging to Baron Steuben's barge. Three of the men were from the 2nd Massachusetts and one from the 1st Massachusetts regiment. Noted and signed by Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp, on page one: "-sixteen...
GLC02437.02214
Monthly lists of costs
Includes amounts for the months of February through August. Date added at a later date in pencil.
GLC02437.02215
Account of vouchers
Knox certifies that $982 were paid to Captain Steven's and Bedlam's companies in the artillery regiment, before their march from Cambridge to Canada. Charles Knowles, Pay Master to the Massachusetts artillery, certifies that General Knox has...
GLC02437.02216
2 July 1783
[Order stating General Knox paid for Robert Symonds board]
Written by Major Shaw as Major General Knox's aide-de-camp. States that Robert Symonds of the New York Artillery, who was stationed in the country with horses belonging to General Knox and other officers, received rations from 15 October 1782 to 8...
GLC02437.02221
3 July 1783
Request written by Fortress Major Doughty to West Point Commissary James Forsyth. Asks that a week's provisions be issued to Nathaniel Evans, an invalid soldier, commencing 1 July through 7 July. Docket signed by Nathaniel Evans stating that...
GLC02437.02228
4 July 1783
Return for provisions written by Fortress Major of West Point Doughty to the Commissary of Issues James Forsyth. Asks that 10 days of provisions be issued to John Mooder, a furloughed soldier of the Massachusetts Artillery on his way to Boston...
GLC02437.02230
4 July 1783 circa
Buchanan, John, fl. 1783
[Provision return for four men from the Connecticut line]
Signed by Captain John Buchanan and countersigned by Major Samuel Shaw as the aide-de-camp of Major General Henry Knox. Provision return for four men in the Connecticut Line for four days from 1- 4 July 1783. The four officers, all captains, were...
GLC02437.02231
Bushnell, David, 1740-1826
[Army rations issued to sappers & miners]
Provision return for non-commissioned officers and privates belonging to the corps of sappers and miners from 1-4 July. A total of 18 men received a total of 76 rations.
GLC02437.02233
8 July 1783 circa
[Provision return for miners and sappers]
Provision return for non-commissioned officers and privates belonging to the corps of sappers and miners for rations issued 5-8 July. 16 non-commissioned officers and privates drew a total of 68 rations over 4 days. Document is signed by Captain D...
GLC02437.02238
[Provision return of men in ordnance department]
Provision return for 8 men employed by the ordnance department from 5-8 July. The return also shows two women were hired for the four days. The ten people were issued a total of 56 rations. Signed by Doughty as Fort Major of West Point as well as...
GLC02437.02239
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 Knox's aide-de-camp. Provision return for four men from Captain McGowan's Company of the Invalid Regiment who came to West Point from the Fishkill Barracks from 1-6 July...
GLC02437.02243
Blake, Edward, fl. 1753-1800
Signed by Edward Blake, a quartermaster with the artillery, and countersigned by Major Samuel Shaw as Knox's aide-de-camp. Provision return for rations issued to one man, one woman and two children from 1-6 July. A total of 18 rations were issued...
GLC02437.02244
8 September 1747
[List]
Lists bonds received by Thomas Flucker by name with corresponding amounts.
GLC02437.09461
09/24/1863
Bogart, Abram, fl. 1825-1865
to Mary M. Bogart
Writes to his wife telling her he wished she wrote more often as he is lonely and in a "godforsaken plase for we are hemed in here on an island where we can see nor hear nothing but death and distruction on every side..." He reports to her that their...
GLC03523.11.11
10/15/1863
Writes to wife, addressing her as "friend," inquiring about his parents, and why they have not written to him more than they have. Speculates that it is because he has not sent home more money and asks his wife if there is perhaps something between...
GLC03523.11.12
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