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[Request for goods]

Request for half a bushel of salt for Henry Knox and his family. Addressed to Mr. [Robert] Bell, with the docket signed by John Rudemucker.

GLC02437.02498

[Certificate]

Statement regarding the people of the back settlements on land Knox owns (possibly in Maine). Circa date taken from a similar document (GLC02437.07622).

GLC02437.08097

[Return of ordnance and military stores in garrison at Fort Herkimer]

Recto contains the return. Verso contains detailed remarks on the return. Includes two dockets, one written by Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp.

GLC02437.00979

to unknown

Written from Head Quarters. No addressee is listed, but likely written to Henry Knox. Writes that "Mr. Cornell and Mr. Wadsworth have commenced a treaty, which I hope will terminate in the latter's taking up the Contracts of the whole Army - Mr...

GLC02437.01646

Certification that John Granger cannot perform his duties as a soldier due to a pulmonic complaint

This document contains notes written and signed by three people. The first, written and signed by Surgeon John Duffield at West Point on 12 December 1782, advises that John Granger, of the 10th Massachusetts Regiment, is suffering from a pulmonary...

GLC02437.01742

Return of Ordnance & Military Stores rec'd. of Rich Frothingham Esq. Field Commissary Military Stores Novem. 22 & 30th 1781.

List of military stores including brass cannons, brass howitzers, carriages, mortars, and bullets, as well as tools and cutlery. Includes several annotations in Knox's hand.

GLC02437.01298

The journal & field book of Jonathan Maynard

Maynard's journal while surveying the Waldo patent. A day by day accounting of the events that occured while in Knox's employment to survey the Waldo patent.

GLC02437.09259

[Excerpt from a letter regarding military appointments]

The author writes, "That you are not yet appointed need not surprise you when you have read this- I came here fully of opinion that I should have the second [Company] of [Artillery]; that you and all the other officers recommended by General Knox...

GLC02437.03361

to Henry Jackson

Informs Jackson he received the $100 from Mr. Robinson. Expresses disappointment with Jackson for refusing him money for supplies and asking him to call upon neighbors who are indebted to Knox. Writes, "it would be time ill spent to call on the...

GLC02437.06095

[Price current of lumber at Dublin, Ireland]

Lists the prices for various types of wood and other items, including white oak, pine, bees wax, and whale and cod oil. Addressed to William Knox.

GLC02437.05550