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1781
[Invoice of Stores Received from Captain Seward]
Invoice of artillery stores including cartridges, bellows, engines, hooks, etc. Date added later in pencil.
GLC02437.01318
No. 9: articles issued in the year 1781
List of military articles by date issued, including muskets, flints and Borax.
GLC02437.01321
10 January 1782
Carrington, Edward, 1749-1810
to Henry Knox
Discusses problems related to the transportation of military stores from Yorktown to Westham or Richmond, Virginia. Comments that he and his associates are bound in their ability to carry out orders because the state government of Virginia refuses...
GLC02437.01330
circa 1782
No. 10: articles issued in the year 1782
List of military articles issued, sorted by date.
GLC02437.01335
29 January 1782
Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785
Account of timber wanted for the use of the brigade of artillery for building carriages, waggons and tumbrils
Written from Burlington, likely in New Jersey. Calculations for the amount of wood necessary to build carriages, wagons, and tumbrils (a type of cart).
GLC02437.01343
Return of materials wanted for the use of the brigade of artillery
List of necessary materials for the brigade of artillery. Countersigned by Henry Knox, with the words: "Copy given to the War Office this 29 January 1782." Written in Burlington, likely in New Jersey.
GLC02437.01345
2 February 1782
Burnet, Ichabod, fl. 1778-1782
Writes, "I arrived at this place on my way to West Point but the ice has prevented me from proceeding any further and I am obligated to return to Carolina immediately which makes it necessary for me to go to Newark immediately. The brave I have...
GLC02437.01347
4 February 1782
Boyer, James, fl. 1782
Writes to tell Knox that "application has been made to the Quarter Master for Teams to transport the Iron selected" by Captain [Thomas] Patton to Burlington, New Jersey. The Quartermaster replied that as navigation will soon be opened, it might make...
GLC02437.01348
4 November 1781
Return of ordnance and military stores prepared for the Southern detachment.
Lists mortars, howitzers, and their implements, field pieces, items "in common for the whole," and musquetry. Docket notes these items were "order'd to the Southward from York in Virginia under Genl [Arthur] St. Clair." Docketed by Henry Knox.
GLC02437.10027
4 December 1781
[Return of ordnance & military stores delivered to Samuel Hodgdon]
Lists stores delivered to Hodgdon, Commissary General of Military Stores, in Philadelphia. Ordnance stores were delivered by Mr. [Richard] Frothingham, a field commissary. Lists items such as brass cannons, howitzers, mortars, drag chain, wadhooks...
GLC02437.10029
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