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7 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Discharge of Francis Lovett with note by Shaw on verso]

Certifying Lovett's discharge from the "Company of Artillery Artificers."

GLC02437.00904

7 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Discharge of Michael Joiner with note by Shaw on verso]

Written at a Park of Artillery. Certifies the discharge of Michael Joiner from Artillery Artifice.

GLC02437.00905

9 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Discharge of Patrick When with note by Samuel Shaw on verso]

Certifiying the discharge of Patrick When, an Artillery artificer.

GLC02437.00908

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of John Dalton, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Dalton, of Phildelphia, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Dalton enlisted 14 February 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00912

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of Samuel Adams, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Adams, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Adams enlisted 18 February 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00913

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of John Adams, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Adams, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Adams enlisted 8 February 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00914

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of James Steel, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Steel, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Steel enlisted 10 February 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00915

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of Josiah Jenkins, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Jenkins, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Jenkins enlisted 19 February 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00916

22 March 1780

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of James Dawdle, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Dawdle, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Dawdle enlisted 12 April 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00917

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of Thomas Engle, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Engle, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Engle enlisted 18 March 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00918

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of John Diddy, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Diddy, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Diddy enlisted 21 March 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00919

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of Andrew Clark, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Clark, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Clark enlisted 3 March 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00920

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of James Bruce, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Bruce, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Bruce enlisted 26 April 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00921

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of Richard Ellis, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Ellis, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Ellis enlisted 3 March 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00922

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of Adam Burger, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Burger, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Burger enlisted 20 February 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00923

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of William Austin, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Austin, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Austin enlisted 14 April 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00924

22 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of Francis Miller, an artillery artificer]

Captain Patten recommends Miller, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Miller enlisted 27 May 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00926

24 March 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Recommendation for the discharge of Mr. Engle, master blacksmith for the artillery artificers]

Captain Patten recommends Engle, of Reading, Pennsylvania, for an honorable discharge. Notes that Engle enlisted 15 February 1777. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.00927

29 May 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Document signed

Title: [Certificate of discharge for David Cawood]

Attests that Captain Cawood has served as an artificer for three years.

GLC02437.09554

6 July 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certificate regarding Lieutenant John Tharp's pay]

Captain Patten certifies that Tharp, from Morris County, New Jersey, enlisted 27 November 1776. Lists Tharp's promotions. Directed to Brigadier General Henry Knox.

GLC02437.01020

23 July 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Captain Patten reports that he took silver away from a man making [cups?] for Knox because the man could not finish, and "made such bad work." Mentions the numbers of mortar carriages, wagons, and other large artillery and transports pieces at his location (possibly New Windsor, New York). Admits that the work he has been assigned may take up to seven weeks to complete. Complains that he has received only four days rum since the artillery park left his location. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide.

GLC02437.01076

31 July 1781

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Patten, Captain of Artillery Artificers, reports details of work completed at New Windsor, including the building of wagon carriages, wooden bottoms (for artillery) and mortar carriages. Writes, "My Men are Very unease for want of Money, and more Unease about the men are absent and never been sent for, they think if they go that they never will be sent for, and say they Have as good write [sic] to be absent as others- whitch makes me thinks they will desert soon if something is Not done, about the Matter of geting the Deserters in that Belongs to the Company..."

GLC02437.01103

29 January 1782

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Manuscript document signed

Title: 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

29 January 1782

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Manuscript document signed

Title: 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

29 January 1782

Patten, Thomas (fl. 1777-1785)

Autograph document signed

Title: Return of the men commissioned officers and privates of my company that are absent belonging to the State of Connecticut

Lists names, occupation, term of time in service, state and town where the officers and privates are from, and deserters. Lists men from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.

GLC02437.10499

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