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3 July 1781
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Richard Frothingham
Knox writes to Frothingham, Field Commissary of Military Stores. Provides a list of ordnance, ordering that it should be transported to Peekskill, New York.
GLC02437.01010
to John Crane
Directs the letter to Colonel Crane, in charge of the ordnance and stores forwarded from Boston, Massachusetts to Claverack, New York. Provides instructions for shipping the powder and other stores. Orders that the stores must be sent from...
GLC02437.01011
to [Ebenezer] Stevens
Gives Lieutenant Colonel Stevens specific instructions for organizing and gathering men and weapons at New Windsor, Peekskill, and West Point, New York. "From the frequent communications to you of my intentions & desires, you will be able to execute...
GLC02437.01012
to John Ruddock
Gives Ruddock orders regarding stores and cannon being transported from Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island to New Windsor, New York. Instructs that all stores and cannon coming in must be sent to West Point. Post...
GLC02437.01013
to [William] Perkins
Knox writes to Major William Perkins, overseer of stores at Providence, Rhode Island. "All the cannon & stores from Providence under you are to be transported to Fish Kill landing & there embark'd on board of vessels... & proceed to West Point..."...
GLC02437.01014
Cornell, Ezekiel, 1733-1800
to Henry Knox
Cornell writes on behalf of the Board of War. Informs Knox of the status of several supply orders, including spirits, paper, and linseed oil. Notes that [Samuel] Hodgdon, Commissary General of Military Stores, "has a fair prospect of being...
GLC02437.01015
to unknown
Informs the recipient: "I have information that a quantity of [struck: saltpetre] sulphur belonging to the United States has been deposited in the House in what you now live. This event happen'd either through the villany or carelessness of the...
GLC02437.01016
5 July 1781
to Captain Mitchell
Instructs Mitchell, Deputy Quartermaster General at Newburgh, New York, to expect stores arriving from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Orders Mitchell to forward the stores by ship to West Point, allowing the ships containing powder to remain at anchor...
GLC02437.01017
to Thomas Patten
Gives Captain Patten orders regarding his company of artillery artificers, mortar beds, the artillery park, garrison carriages, and other details. Instructs that the artillery park should join the army. Post script, docket, and Knox's copied...
GLC02437.01018
to William Price
Knox gives orders to Lieutenant Price regarding stores that are to arrive from Pennsylvania (Price was in charge of the laboratory at West Point). "You will please to have every thing in the Laboratory prepared with the utmost dispatch..."
GLC02437.01019
6 July 1781
Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785
[Certificate regarding Lieutenant John Tharp's pay]
Captain Patten certifies that Tharp, from Morris County, New Jersey, enlisted 27 November 1776. Lists Tharp's promotions. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.
GLC02437.01020
Return of the necessary impliments to compleat a howitzer for the field
Lists items such as rasps, chisels, ladels, and funnels, among others.
GLC02437.01022
to Mr. Turner
Instructs Turner, wagon master, to transport horses and wagons to the nearby artillery park by way of Fishkill, New York.
GLC02437.01023
to Lieutenant Price
Orders Price to inspect stores arriving from Rhode Island. Also gives Price orders regarding ordnance and stores arriving from Springfield, Massachusetts. Mentions Captain Seward and John Ruddock.
GLC02437.01024
Lincoln, Freeman, fl. 1781
[List of items received from Major William Perkins]
Lists items such as powder, cartridges, and fuzes, among others received from William Perkins of the artillery. Lincoln was an ox team contractor.
GLC02437.01025
Crane, John, 1744-1805
Discusses ordnance he gathered to be sent from Springfield to Claverack, New York. Notes that Captain Callendar, delivering this letter to Knox, will give Knox details of their march from Boston. Intends to depart for Claverack as soon as the...
GLC02437.01026
to Hugh Hughes
Informs Hughes, Deputy Quartermaster General at Fishkill, that the artillery park will move from New Windsor the following day. Notes that Colonel Ebenezer Stevens "will be here to morrow, please to let me know on what we are to depend when we shall...
GLC02437.01027
7 July 1781
Hughes, Hugh, ?-1804
Hughes, Deputy Quartermaster General at Fishkill, responds to a letter from Knox regarding moving the artillery park (GLC02437.01027). Discusses the upcoming campaign Colonel Timothy Pickering, Quartermaster General, and Henry Knox. Writes, "... my...
GLC02437.01028
An account of stores ordered to be sent from Philadelphia to the main army
Lists skins, leather, ladles, and writing paper, among other items.
GLC02437.01029
Richards, William, fl. 1781-1787
[Invoice of ordnance and stores brought to Fishkill, New York from Litchfield, Connecticut]
Lists grape shot and case shot among other ordnance and stores. The stores were delivered to Ruddock, Deputy Commissary of Military Stores at Fishkill.
GLC02437.01030
10 July 1781
Swift, Heman, 1733-1814
Colonel Swift informs Knox that his 2nd Connecticut Brigade "are destitute of a conductor of military stores and are much imbarrased [sic] for want of one..." Suggests Sergeant Amos Kellogg for the position. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide....
GLC02437.01031
11 July 1781
to Captain Howe
Instructs Howe regarding the transport of stores and cannon from Boston and Springfield, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island to West Point, New York. Howe is to instruct the officers in charge of sending the stores in case they do not receive...
GLC02437.01034
[Pertains to boarding vessels] [incomplete]
Fragment. Knox anticipates receiving returns of stores. Written at Philipsburgh, New York (near present-day Tarrytown).
GLC02437.01035
Gives Colonel Stevens instructions regarding the transportation of ammunition and stores. Discusses moving the artillery park and gathering ordnance and stores to be moved with the army. Mentions Richard Frothingham, a commissary, who will assist...
GLC02437.01036
to Sebastian Bauman
Knox writes to Major Bauman at West Point. Instructs Bauman to send one company of artillery from West Point to Dobbs Ferry, New York. Adds that the cannon must be put on board vessels and sent as soon as possible. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's...
GLC02437.01037
to [William] Price
Possibly to Lieutenant William Price. Asks Price to send a return of the articles he has obtained from the Quartermaster General. Reports that he has ordered laboratory stores from Philadelphia, and they are to be sent to Price at New Windsor....
GLC02437.01038
Gives Crane orders regarding the transport of cannon and stores sent from Springfield, Massachusetts through Claverack, New York to be sent to New Windsor, New York, where Crane will soon arrive. Gives instructions to be passed on to Captain Thomas...
GLC02437.01039
13 July 1781
Seward, Thomas, 1740-1800
[Invoice of military stores shipped from Claverack Landing]
Possibly written at Claverack, New York. Stores were shipped aboard the Nancy under the care of Captain Beckham. Also contains an "Invoice of sundry stores deliverd Lieut Wm Price by order of General Knox for the use of the Laboratory" at New...
GLC02437.01040
Stevens, Ebenezer, 1751-1823
Colonel Stevens plans to soon sail from his present location, bound for Kings Ferry, New York. Has endeavored to fulfill Knox's instructions in Knox's absence (Stevens possibly writes from New Windsor, New York). Notes that the arms available to...
GLC02437.01042
Bauman, Sebastian, 1739-1803
Major Bauman, in charge of artillery at West Point, writes "I saw Genl [Alexander] McDougall next morning at half passd seven, and by Eight I had all necessary orders given, and every thing in motion, and at noon had the cannon and stores at the...
GLC02437.01043
30 June 1781
Van Rensselaer, Philip, 1747-1798
[Return]
Return for ordnance and stores at Albany, New York. Items listed by type, and date issued.
GLC02437.10681
27 July 1781
Carrington, Edward, 1749-1810
Colonel Carrington writes to Knox from the "High hills of Santee," near the Santee River in South Carolina. Due to the resignation of Colonel Proctor, Colonel Carrington assumes he is to take command of the Fourth Regiment. Has not received orders...
GLC02437.01093
circa 1830-1910
Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910
[Sculpture designs: 4 standing figures, 1 female and 3 male]
Two of the sketches are probably of George Washington. Black ink, tracing paper.
GLC06343.033
[Standing man in profile with out-stretched arm]
Probably George Washington. Graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.034
[Standing man facing front with out-stretched arm]
Probably George Washington. Pale graphite.
GLC06343.035
[Standing man with crossed arms]
Probably Washington. Graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.036
circa 1900
Wells, Cora E., fl. 1900
J. Q. A Ward, the Eminent American Sculptor
Features an article on Ward and his works and, photos of Ward, the New York Stock Exchange pediment, and a George Washington sculpture at Wall St. Printed ink; coated wove paper.
GLC06343.037
24 September 1862
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
[Introduction for Edward Everett ]
Of Everett, President Lincoln states "His reputation, and the present condition of our country, are such that his visit then is such to attract notice, and may be misconstrued. I therefore think fit to say that he bears no mission from this...
GLC08074
6 October 1794
Washington, George, 1732-1799
to John Clark
Declines to take Major Clark on as an aide during the Whiskey Rebellion. Comments: "Nothing short of imperious necessity can justify my being absent from the seat of government while Congress is in session."
GLC08075
4 April 1794
Responds to a letter from Secretary of War Knox relating to the security of the Old Northwest. Comments on a speech by Lord Dorchester [Sir Guy Carleton], the commander in chief in British North America, and states his belief that the British intend...
GLC08076
08 November 1777
To: John Mckinley
Appealing for provisions, including shoes . For troops soon to be at Valley Forge. (To the president of Delaware).
GLC08078
28 July 1781
Monthly return of the corps of artillery
Partially printed, with a handwritten second page listing sick or absent, on duty, and extra service. This return pertains to the regiments of Colonels John Crane and John Lamb.
GLC02437.01094
Bliss, Luke, 1738-1811
Bliss, commissary of military stores, encloses a return of ordnance stores (GLC02437.01097).
GLC02437.01095
to William Price and Thomas Patten
Consists of two separate letters. In the first, Knox gives instructions to Price regarding fuzes and wooden bottoms (for artillery). In the second letter, written the same day and presumably at Dobbs Ferry, Knox gives instructions to Captain...
GLC02437.01096
[Return of ordnance and stores at Springfield, in booklet form]
Bliss, commissary of stores at Springfield, sends Knox a neatly written return. Possibly accompanied by cover note (GLC02437.01095).
GLC02437.01097
29 July 1781
Baubert, V., fl. 1781
[Certificate of pay] [In French]
Apparently written at Phillipsburg (present-day Sleepy Hollow, New York). Certificate to pay Wadsworth and Carter, Jeremiah Wadsworth being a commissary for the Count de Rochambeau's army. On verso, William Little signs, transferring the money to...
GLC02437.01098
to Asa Copeland
Orders Copeland, conductor of military stores, to procure 1500 muskets, 3 tons of lead, and all of the pistols at New Windsor. Gives further instructions pertaining to arms, ordering Copeland to transfer stores to Philadelphia. Apparently written...
GLC02437.01099
to Samuel Hodgdon
Discusses arms, stores, and other military matters with Hodgdon, Commissary General of Military Stores. Compliments Hodgdon on his new appointment. Written at Phillipsburg (present-day Sleepy Hollow, New York).
GLC02437.01100
30 July 1781
McDougall, Alexander, 1732-1786
McDougall signs as "Brutus," a pseudonym often attributed to him related to his involvement in the Newburgh Conspiracy. Writes a cryptic and critical letter, questioning plans made for the Continental army and the authority of Congress. Expresses...
GLC02437.01101
31 July 1781
to Captain Morcourt
Apologizes for not being able to immediately fulfill Morcourt's request for shot. Written at Phillipsburg (present-day Sleepy Hollow, New York).
GLC02437.01102
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