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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01191-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 26 September 1781
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- Invoice of Ordnance & Stores Shipp'd on board Sundry Vessels at Elk Landing.
- Place Written
- Head of Elk, Maryland
- Pagination
- 9 p. :
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
The first six pages in Knox's hand enumerate military stores for use in the siege of Yorktown embarked on fifty-three ships at Head of Elk, Maryland. The names of the ships and captains are recorded with marginal annotations, dated 26 September 1781 in the hand of Samuel Shaw, regarding non arrival of some ships. The "Ranger" in noted as presumed lost. The last three pages in the hand of Samuel Shaw are separated from the first six; the two parts are marked with the reference code VII-75 and VII -76, respectively.
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