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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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361 | Ward, Artemas | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward … | 1776-06-30 | ...therefore gave them an order for fifty two |Barrels powder, (the quantity they say they lent... |
362 | Jefferson, Thomas | Notes of Witnesses’ Testimony concerning the Canadian … | ≈1776-07-01 | ...St. John’s. He brought but about 5. barrels of powder at first and no cartridge paper.... | |
363 | Schuyler, Philip | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Philip … | ≈1776-07-12 | ...but of pork not more than six hundred Barrels, and fresh Beef extremely difficult to be... |
364 | Tillinghast, Daniel | Washington, George | To George Washington from Daniel Tillinghast, 17 July … | 1776-07-17 | ...invoice of this date says that the chest and barrel that he sent to New London contained 14,... |
365 | Washington, George | Ward, Artemas | From George Washington to Major General Artemas Ward … | 1776-07-19 | ...forward with all convenient speed, five Hundred Barrels to be stored at Norwich in Connecticut... |
366 | Ward, Artemas | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward … | 1776-07-22 | furnished them with eight Barrels powder, two thousand pounds of musquet ball, and two... |
367 | Schuyler, Philip | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Philip … | 1776-07-24 | ...will take one hundred Carriages, each carrying four Barrels of pork or Flour (and they can... |
368 | Washington, George | General Orders, 26 July 1776 | 1776-07-26 | ...that he must stop his Business if his Barrels are not return’d. The General therefore... | |
369 | Ward, Joseph | Adams, John | To John Adams from Joseph Ward, 28 July 1776 | 1776-07-28 | ...) and was taken; She had seventeen hundred Barrels of Beef and Pork and four hundred Casks... |
370 | Cooke, Nicholas | Washington, George | To George Washington from Nicholas Cooke, 29 July 1776 | 1776-07-29 | ..., each Cask equal in Size to a Beef half Barrel 5000 Pigs of Lead, a considerable Quantity of... |
371 | Ward, Artemas | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward, 4 … | 1776-08-04 | ...seventh of July to “forward from three to four hundred Barrels of powder to Norwich,” |
372 | Washington, George | Cooke, Nicholas | From George Washington to Nicholas Cooke, 5 August 1776 | 1776-08-05 | ...Ball 1000 Stand of Arms, with Bayonets—1 Barrel Flints & 193 whole Barrells of Gun powder—... |
373 | Washington, George | Hancock, John | From George Washington to John Hancock, 7 August 1776 | 1776-08-07 | ...craft and Before Night got out Twelve Hundred Barrels of powder. I procured a guard of... |
374 | Ward, Artemas | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Artemas Ward … | 1776-08-12 | ...day I have forwarded one hundred Barrels of powder for Norwich, there to be deposited... |
375 | Jefferson, Thomas | Jefferson’s Outline of Argument Concerning … | 1776-08-12 | ...from (a whaler I believe) that there was 200 barrels of powder cannon &c. at [New] ...barrels... | |
376 | Schuyler, Philip | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Philip … | 1776-08-16 | ...Stanwix, shows that on 13 Aug. there were “180 Barrels of Pork[,] 226 Barrels of Flour & 23... |
377 | Heath, William | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General William Heath … | 1776-08-18 | —We shall recover some Swivel Guns, Gun Barrels, Shot &c. out of the Wreck |
378 | Heath, William | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General William Heath … | 1776-08-20 | and Apron, Two Cutlasses, Two Gun Barrels, One Crow bar and 4 Gapp[l]in[g]... |
379 | Livingston, William | Washington, George | To George Washington from Brigadier General William … | 1776-08-21 | ...eat up all the Cattle and are now killing & barrelling up all the Horses they meet with.barrelled |
380 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 22 August 1776 | 1776-08-22 | .... by the side of them. We have spaird 700 Barrels of powder to N.Y. We have 600 left... |
381 | Jefferson, Thomas | Pendleton, Edmund | From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, 26 August … | 1776-08-26 | ...pounds, a sheep for ten dollars. They were barreling up all the horse flesh they could get.... |
382 | Schuyler, Philip | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Philip … | 1776-09-08 | barrels of pork, 226 barrels of flour, 23 head of cattle, and 467 soldiers... |
383 | Jay, John | Morris, Robert | From John Jay to Robert Morris, 15 September 1776 | 1776-09-15 | ...s. is now selling 56 to 60 s. per barrel and no quantity on hand, sensible of the consequence... |
384 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 21 September 1776 | 1776-09-21 | ...thousand fears for your Health. How is poor Mr. Barrel, is he gone, or does he yet live? |
385 | Adams, Abigail | Adams, John | Abigail Adams to John Adams, 23 September 1776 | 1776-09-23 | Poor Barrel I see by the paper is dead. So is... |
386 | Washington, George | Livingston, Robert R. | From George Washington to Robert R. Livingston, 20 … | 1776-10-20 | ...every engine at work to send down every barrel you can procure, towards the army always... |
387 | Harrison, Robert Hanson | Hancock, John | Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison to John … | 1776-10-25 | ...removed he was obliged to leave 80 or 90 barrels of provisions of all Kinds for want of Wagons... |
388 | Washington, George | General Orders, 27 October 1776 | 1776-10-27 | ...wagons under Sickles’s care and found on them a barrel of leaf tobacco and a barrel of rum... | |
389 | Greene, Nathanael | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Nathanael … | 1776-10-27 | ...General Mifling by Eight Wagons for the Continiltan Armey—3 Barrels of Cannon Powder[,] 9 Half |
390 | Greene, Nathanael | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Nathanael … | 1776-11-05 | ...’s ferry there is Eight or nine hundred Barrels brought from the other side. I have... |