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17 July 1783
Cheesman, Joseph, fl. 1783
[Provision return]
Return for superintendents of the Masons; in the engineering department. Countersigned by John Doughty.
GLC02437.02350
31 July 1783
Hasting, fl. 1783
[Provision return for army rations issued]
Signed by Captain Hasting of the main guard and countersigned by Major Shaw as an aide-de-camp to General Knox. Provision return for one man belonging to the sappers and miners. He was given one set of rations for 31 July 1783. Docket signed by a...
GLC02437.02352
1 August 1783
Shaw, Samuel, 1754-1794
[Provision request for Thomas Nelson]
Written by Major Shaw, an aide-de-camp to General Knox, to West Point Commissary James Forsyth to issue ten days provisions to Thomas Nelson, his wife, and two children. Nelson was late of the artillery and was detained by the sickness of his wife...
GLC02437.02357
Price, William, ?-1790
Signed by William Price, an officer of the police, and Major Samuel Shaw, an aide-de-camp to General Knox. Provision return for one lieutenant police officer for the garrison of West Point for the month of August 1783. A total of 93 rations were...
GLC02437.02358
2 August 1783
Shaw, John, fl. 1783
to William Heath
Written by Shaw, a soldier under Major General Heath. Shaw took a furlough beginning 22 June and he thought his unit would have been discharged by now. Since it is not, he is asking for an extension of his furlough because "the state of my Health...
GLC02437.02360
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