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10 January 1783
Andrews, Asa, fl. 1783
[Army Rations issued to Prisoners & Detachment]
Lists men by company and amount of rations issued. Countersigned by E. Ellis and Samuel Shaw and endorsed by Andrew Hibbard.
GLC02437.01824
11 January 1783
Dean, Moses, fl. 1782-1783
Provision Return for Sixteen Soldiers for Six Days Employed In the Engineers Department at one Ration and a half per Day Commensing the Eleventh and Ending the Sixteenth Both Days Included
Lists men by regiment and company and rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw and endorsed by John Allin.
GLC02437.01826
9 January 1783
A Provision Return for the Commdt. Bargemen Commencing the 9th and Ending 12th Jany. 1783
Lists men by regiment and company. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw and endorsed by John Robertson. Date and place writ from note.
GLC02437.01828
14 January 1783
Platt, Richard, 1755-1830
[Army Rations issued to Elizabeth Cottril]
Orders to issue rations, "whiskey excepted," to Elizabeth Cottril, Richard Cottril's wife. Countersigned by Robert Forsythe and endorsed by Richard Cottril.
GLC02437.01832
Nevin, Daniel, 1749-1802
[Provision return for three men draughted from the line on duty in the engineers barge]
Lists men according to regiment and company with issued rations. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw and endorsed by Peter Fitzpatrick. Date and place writ from note.
GLC02437.01836
15 January 1783
Bradley, Daniel, fl. 1777-1783
to Henry Knox
Requests a lock for the door to the stores of ammunition and provisions.
GLC02437.01837
13 January 1783
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
[Provision return for the command of bargemen]
Lists men by regiment and company with issued rations. Includes an endorsement by a John [Sells ?]. Date and place writ from note.
GLC02437.01838
17 January 1783
[Army Rations issued to the Engineers Department]
Lists men by regiment and company with issued rations. Signed by Moses Dean. Countersigned by John Doughty and endorsed by a John [Allin]. Date and place writ from note.
GLC02437.01840
Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785
[Provision return for a member of Thomas Patten's company]
Lists the amount of provisions for a member of Patten's company. Countersigned by John Doughty with an endorsement by D. S. Mercer.
GLC02437.01842
Day, Joseph, fl. 1783
[Provision return for a party of artificers from the Connecticut Brigade]
Lists men by regiment and company with rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw and endorsed by Joseph Day on the verso.
GLC02437.01846
22 January 1783
[Provision return for two army prisoners]
Lists men by regiment and company with rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with a note from Asa Baker. Place writ from note.
GLC02437.01850
16 January 1783
Doughty, John, 1754-1826
Provision Return for the Masons Under My Directions for Eight Days Comminsing [sic] 17th of Jany 83 & Ending 24th Both Ddayts in Cluded [sic].
Lists men by regiment and company with rations issued. Also signed by Joseph Cheesman with an endorsement on the verso signed by a person surnamed Hayden. The first name is illegible.
GLC02437.01855
24 January 1783
[Victualing return for five army prisoners]
Lists men by regiment and rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw and Ezra Selden. Endorsement on verso signed by Asa Andrews.
GLC02437.01856
25 January 1783
[Army Rations issued to the Engineer's Department]
Printed form with subsequent information filled in by hand. Endorsed by John Doughty and John Allin. Lists men by regiment and company with rations issued.
GLC02437.01858
[Provision return for the men belonging to the Ordnance Department]
Lists men by regiment and company with issued rations. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with an endorsement by Dudley Mercer.
GLC02437.01859
26 January 1783
Rogers, Hezekiah, fl. 1777-1811
Lists men by regiment and company with rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with endorsement by Joseph Day. Date and place writ from note.
GLC02437.01877
1 February 1783
[Army Rations issued to Engineer's Department]
Printed form with subsequent information filled in by hand. Lists men by regiment and company with rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw and [unknown] Woodsworth.
GLC02437.01881
[Victualing return for army prisoners]
Lists men by regiment and company with rations issued. Countersigned by E. Reed and Samuel Shaw with endorsement by Edward Blake. Date and place writ from note.
GLC02437.01882
5 February 1783
Walker, Benjamin, 1753-1818
[Army Rations issued to Canadian Refugees]
Request to provide provisions for Canadian refugees. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with endorsement signed by Felix Victor. Place writ from note.
GLC02437.01892
Lists men by company with rations issued. Countersigned by Henry Ten Eyck and Samuel Shaw with endorsement signed by Andrew Hilbard. Date and place writ from note.
GLC02437.01894
Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783
[Army rations issued to prisoners employed int he engineers department...]
Lists men by regiment, company and occupation along with rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with endorsement signed by Jacob Wight. Date and place writ from note.
GLC02437.01898
[Provision return for the soldiers employed in the Engineer's Department]
Printed form with subsequent information filled in by hand. Lists men by regiment and company with rations issued. Endorsed by Samuel Shaw and Mosed Dean.
GLC02437.01900
9 February 1783
[Army Rations issued to the Engineer's Department & Detachment]
Printed form with subsequent information filled in by hand. Lists men by regiment and company with rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw and Jacob Wight.
GLC02437.01903
[Army Rations issued to Prisoners & Artificers]
States return for a man from the "3 Rigt. [sic] of Artillery." Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with an endorsement signed by Samuel Fullerton on verso.
GLC02437.01904
12 February 1783
McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786
Written by General McDougall, but signed anonymously as "Brutus" to Major General Knox. McDougall reports that he seems to be making progress in lobbying Congress for funding for half-pay pensions for the officers. Says that since the Committee of...
GLC02437.01912
13 February 1783
Byers, James, fl. 1767-1784
Discusses the casting of new artillery, namely howitzers.
GLC02437.01917
circa February 14, 1783
A Bill for the Provisional Establishment and Regulation of Trade and Intercourse between the Subjects of Great Britain and those of the United States of North America
Printing of the bill being considered before the British Parliament to re-open trade between Britain and the United States. Divided into clauses A-I. This bill's provisions curtailed the United States's ability to trade with the British West Indies...
GLC02437.01920
15 February 1783
Lists men by company with issued rations. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with an endorsement signed by William Denison.
GLC02437.01922
16 February 1783
GLC02437.01928
Army Rations issued to Prisoners & Detachment
Lists men by company with rations issued. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with an endorsement signed by Dudley Mercer. Date and place writ from note.
GLC02437.01929
19 February 1783
Discusses casting howitzers, making shells for the howitzers, and impressing or embossing the "arms of the United States," possibly on howitzers. Also mentions that he needs someone to help repair the weapons. See GLC02437.01957 for Knox's response...
GLC02437.01935
21 February 1783
[Army Rations issued to Detachment]
Issues two days' worth of provisions for seven bargemen. Also includes an endorsement on the verso signed by Robert Todd.
GLC02437.01938
22 February 1783
Banks, John, fl. 1783
[Army Rations issued to Artificers]
Request for a week's worth of provisions with the month's allowance of candles for a man from the Core of Invalides. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw with an endorsement on the verso signed by Joseph Jackson.
GLC02437.01943
23 February 1783
[Army Rations issued to Watermen]
Issues two days' worth of provisions to seven watermen. Includes an endorsement on the verso signed by Robert Todd.
GLC02437.01946
to David Bushnell
Discusses orders for various members of the Sappers and Miners, including David Kirkpatrick, Peter Taulman and de Lezane.
GLC02437.01947
24 February 1783
[Army Rations issued to Prisoners]
Lists men by regiment with issued rations. Countersigned by John Buell and Samuel Shaw with an endorsement on the verso signed by Asa Andrews. Place writ from note.
GLC02437.01950
26 February 1783
Brewster, Caleb, 1747-1827
Recounts and describes a gunboat fight with an enemy ship, which they boarded.
GLC02437.01954
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to James Byers
Discusses the casting of more artillery and the establishment of a system of ordnance for the United States as a whole.
GLC02437.01957
27 February 1783
Written by General McDougall under the alias "Brutus" to Major General Knox, lamenting Congress's refusal to pay the army and fund pensions for the officers. Says the motion was declined by Congress "for fear the States would consider it a design in...
GLC02437.01959
O'Donnell, Nathaniel, fl. 1783
[Ordnance examination]
Captain O'Donnell says he examined all the ordnance and found it as usual.
GLC02437.01960
28 February 1783
Miles, John, fl. 1782-1783
[Army Rations issued to Detachment and Bargemen]
Lists rations per day and total number of rations. Countersigned by Samuel Shaw. Includes an endorsement on the verso signed by Charles [Foyer?]
GLC02437.01961
1 March 1783
Fenno, Ephraim, fl. 1776-1784
[Ordnance return from Kings Ferry]
Lists stores and arms by type, weight and amount.
GLC02437.01966
[Army Rations issued to Prisoners and Detachment]
Lists men by regiment with issued rations. Countersigned by Ezra Selden and John Doughty with an endorsement on the verso signed by Charles [Coudon?].
GLC02437.01967
1 January 1783
[Provision return for masons and miners covering eight days]
Also signed by Daniel Niven, Captain of Engineers, and Joseph Cheesman, Director of Masons;. A note written on verso, signed by [?] Hayden, confirms receipt of rations for West Point.
GLC02437.10079
Campbell, John, fl. 1782-1783
Return of ordnance and ordnance stores at the posts of Verplancks Point
Includes a list of ordnance stolen from the magazine since the last return. Signed by Campbell, Lieutenant of the 2nd New York Regiment of Artillery.
GLC02437.10081
27 January 1783
[Return of rations issued to thirty-one prisoners]
Covers five days. Includes information for some regiments from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, and New York. Signed by Shaw as aide-de-camp to General Henry Knox, commander at West Point. Also signed by Captain Richard Douglass. Sergeant...
GLC02437.10085
29 January 1783
Return of plank & boards issued for the use of the different buildings at this post since the 1st Octr 82
Possibly created at West Point, New York. Lists amounts of plank and boards ordered for various purposes, including officers' quarters, artillery barracks, and several military posts.
GLC02437.10087
31 January 1783
General Knox, commanding at West Point, writes to Byers, who operated a foundry in Springfield, Massachusetts. Encloses a letter from the "Minister of War," referring to Benjamin Lincoln, Secretary of War. Indicates that Lincoln ordered Byers to...
GLC02437.10089
Blackwood, Samuel, fl. 1777-1783
Return of ordnance stores, & c. at Fort Pitt and Fort McIntosh
Blackwood signs as [Condts. military stores?]. Also signed by I. Craig, Major of Artillery. Because of the extensive length of this document, it is folded and housed with Size 2 documents.
GLC02437.10100
4 March 1783
Gardner, James, fl. 1783
[Ordnance return from North Redoubt, New York]
Includes ordnance, ammunition implements, and provisions. With notes.
GLC02437.10516
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