Download or read book Account of Payments Made by Henry Knox 24 May 1780 5 June 1781 written by Samuel Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First 4 pages summarizes money received and expended from 10 January 1778 to 20 March 1780. The detailed account begins on 24 May 1780. The accounts from 1778-1780 mostly includes items used in daily life: various types of cloth, sugar, oil, ribbons, olives, etc. The total came to [Dollar sign]20,348. Rest of the account gives expenses from May 1780 to June 1781. Includes payments for various goods and services: having a wagon painted, purchase of milk, sugar, coffee, and tea, money given to his wife, expenses for various journeys, etc. Includes a notation of 3,000 dollars borrowed from General Greene on 21 August 1780 -- the money was paid back on 1 September. On 8 October 1780 Knox paid Cato [likely Cato Freeman] 40 dollars in wages. Cato was often sent to buy many of the items mentioned in this account. Notes that Knox paid back Lord Stirling [Dollar sign]2,440 of old emission money on 5 June 1781. At end of account book, Shaw notes that almost all the entries were in new emission dollars. He mentions that 40 dollars in new emission is equal to 1 dollar in old emission. Is bound with black thread, although some of the pages have become separated. The thread is starting to fray.

Download or read book Henry Knox to Unknown about Payments 28 May 1798 written by Henry Knox and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Account Book of Henry Knox 14 March 25 November 1778 written by Henry Knox and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in Samuel Shaw's hand. Includes expenses for goods, services and travel. On 30 April [1778] Knox receives money for the travel expense of a journey from New England and for the expense of moving his and General [Nathanael] Greene's baggage last year to Morris Town. On 11 May paid Samuel Holt's travel expenses to Allentown & Lebanon which included mending, shoe repairs, food, etc. Listed expenses also include food: on 12 & 20 May and the 2 June notes food expenses for General [John Peter Gabriel] Muhlenberg's Brigade (Muhlenberg and his troops spent the winter of 1777 at Valley Forge) and on 18 June paid the travel expense for Israel Holt who was left sick at Valley Forge. From the 18th to the 20th June paid for sundry items brought in Philadelphia (because of the date and location, the list of sundry items could be related to the Continental Army's evacuation of Valley Forge on 19 June): hats, hair ribbons, shoe clasps, knifes, forks, six pairs of stocking for Major Frank, books, food, etc. On 7 October he paid: General Benjamin Lincoln for 32 pounds of loaf sugar, payment to porters for moving baggage, payments to his wife (one for a gown made for her on 4 August), payment for various household items and goods, as well as payments for clothing, etc.

Download or read book Henry Knox s Account with Samuel Shaw 20 March 1780 20 March 1782 written by Samuel Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of monies received and expended for General Henry Knox by Samuel Shaw. Includes payments for sundry items such as cloth, food, coffee, etc., household expenses, and services rendered. On page 3, Paid Cato Bradish at 4 payments per recd on account of his wages as a servant to Mrs Knox. Many other mentions of giving Cato money to pay for goods or for his wages. In January 1781, lists travel expenses paid such as ferryage, horses, passage in a sloop, etc. Notes a payment of [dollar sign] 500 made to Mr. Ellison for money borrowed to pay Cato Beals when he was discharged from the army. Payments made to Colonel Timothy Pickering, Richard Frothingham, Lord Stirling, among others. The last page lists accounts Knox must charge the United States for extra services. In June 1780, expences of a journey from camp to Pennsylvania, by order of the Commander in Chief..., and in January 1781 expence for a journey to the four New England States & back to camp...

Download or read book Henry Knox to Walter Livingston about a Payment 6 June 1791 written by Henry Knox and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book William Knox to Henry Knox about Henry s Pay and Privateer Actions 26 June 1781 written by William Knox and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William writes to his brother, Brigadier General Henry Knox, stationed at New Windsor, New York. William, who oversaw much of Henry's personal and financial business, confirms receipt of three months of Henry's pay. Discusses currency and exchange in detail. Forwards Henry his account with the state (not included), noting that the state has considered you as entitled to 25pcent more than an officer of equal rank in the Infantry. Discusses books he bought in Europe, possibly to sell in Knox's bookstore. Reports that the Brutus, a privateer, captured a British prize on course from Gibraltar to England. The privateer contained diamonds and a Number of Jews who reported all their fraternity were leaving Gibraltar, as well as many others with all their effects, in consequence they say of the Engsh. having been beat in that Quarter, and their expectation of the Garrison falling into the hands of the Spaniards... Comments on the success of General Nathanael Greene, leading troops in the southern United States. Sends his love to his sister-in-law and the children.

Download or read book Henry Knox to Benjamin Lincoln about Army Pay 2 June 1783 written by Henry Knox and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives an account of his advancement in the army and his wages as a way to show the unfair methods of payment of the soldiers and the lack of an organized system to deal with soldiers' wages.

Download or read book Henry Knox to Peter Anspach Concerning His Financial Accounts 13 March 1780 written by Henry Knox and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Balance of Henry s Knox s Account 22 January 1781 written by S Gorham and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account is dated 31 December 1779; Gorham certifies the account 22 January 1781. Pertains to the State of Massachusetts.

Download or read book Invoice of Payments to Henry Knox from the Unites States incomplete Approximately January 1777 written by Henry Knox and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of payments made to Knox by the United States between November 1775 and January 1777. Includes dates payments were made, what they were for, how much they were for, and who actually gave the money to Knox. Figures include pay for Knox and his men as well as money for blankets during their expedition to retrieve cannon from Fort Ticonderoga during the winter of 1775-1776, pay and recruiting fees throughout 1776, and money to be distributed as a bounty in January 1777.

Download or read book Account of Henry Knox 10 May 1780 written by Samuel Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists transactions of Henry Knox regarding the estate of the late Captain [Samuel ?] Treat by date.

Download or read book Henry Knox to Benjamin Lincoln on an Urgent Payment 28 June 1798 written by Henry Knox and published by . This book was released on 1798 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letterpress copy. Discusses the expiration of a note, and stresses the fact that he needs the money which is due.

Download or read book Henry Knox to William Knox Regarding the State of Paper Currency 5 May 1781 written by Henry Knox and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brigadier General Knox writes to his brother: We have no news, but are alarm'd at the rapid depreciation of the paper currency... the State of Pennsylvania, has pass'd an act to strike old and new out of circulation after the first of next month, and in lieu thereof to emit 500,000 currency of that state upon some certain funds. Instructs William, who handled many of his business affairs: This state of the money will point out to you most forcibly the necessity of obtaining the sums due to me...

Download or read book Henry Knox to John Bryant Regarding Payments to the Armory in Springfield Massachusetts 5 June 1787 written by Henry Knox and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses payments related to the armory in Springfield, Massachusetts. Instructs Bryant to provide Jeremiah Wadsworth with a receipt of payment and to make two duplicates of the receipt. Also sends a list (not included) of items from the armory at Springfield, Massachusetts that Congress ordered to be sold. Directs Bryant to make yourself acquainted with the value of these articles and for the price they could be sold at Springfield or Hartford. Written from the War Office.

Download or read book James Freeman to Henry Knox about Freeman s Pay 24 December 1781 written by James Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mentions he is aware that Congress has decided to make good the depreciation of pay, to such officers as have not been under the patronage of any particular State, and have diverted the auditors to Liquidate their accounts, and give them a certificate of the amount of pay due. Has applied to the auditors, but they inform him they have no business with him. Asks if Knox has any advice as to how to receive some or all of his pay: he is entirely dependent upon Strangers for even the common necessaries of life, and hopes this will induce Knox to reply as early as is convenient, without neglecting Business of greater importance.

Download or read book Henry Knox to William Bingham on the Payment of Bank Notes 4 June 1797 written by Henry Knox and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses financial business and the payment of bank notes.

Download or read book Henry Knox to Samuel Hodgdon Requesting Information on a Payment 25 May 1795 written by Henry Knox and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asks Hodgdon to notify him concerning any information regarding a payment so he (Knox) can make preparations to go to Boston.