Author: Henry Knox
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Copy written in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp, at Elizabethtown, present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey. Appoints Knox and Gouverneur Morris to meet with British commissioners to discuss prisoners of war and civilians in custody. Empowers them to negotiate release, exchange and better treatment of prisoners of war, and to take measures to liberate citizens not captured under arms (emphasized in original). Also authorizes them to settle accounts for prisoner maintenance; mentions Convention of Saratoga, an agreement about handling of British prisoners after the Battle of Saratoga. They were authorized to seek a system, a cartel, to handle treatment, release and exchange of all future captured soldiers and civilians. Also empowers them to seek agreement on naval prisoners of war. Confers General Sir Henry Clinton's powers on his appointees, General William Dalrymple and Andrew Elliot, in a form letter similar in wording to the letter in which General George Washington confers his powers on Knox and Morris. Clinton also appoints British Naval Commander Robert Digby to assist in the exchange of captured sailors. Morris and Knox conclude, ...the object of the enemy was merely to regain their captive soldiers, without any regard to the sums already due or which might become due for their subsistence... For related documents, see GLC02437.01393, .01395 and .09309.
Minutes of the Proceedings of the Commissioners, 31 March - 21 April 1782
Author: Henry Knox
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Copy written in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp, at Elizabethtown, present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey. Appoints Knox and Gouverneur Morris to meet with British commissioners to discuss prisoners of war and civilians in custody. Empowers them to negotiate release, exchange and better treatment of prisoners of war, and to take measures to liberate citizens not captured under arms (emphasized in original). Also authorizes them to settle accounts for prisoner maintenance; mentions Convention of Saratoga, an agreement about handling of British prisoners after the Battle of Saratoga. They were authorized to seek a system, a cartel, to handle treatment, release and exchange of all future captured soldiers and civilians. Also empowers them to seek agreement on naval prisoners of war. Confers General Sir Henry Clinton's powers on his appointees, General William Dalrymple and Andrew Elliot, in a form letter similar in wording to the letter in which General George Washington confers his powers on Knox and Morris. Clinton also appoints British Naval Commander Robert Digby to assist in the exchange of captured sailors. Morris and Knox conclude, ...the object of the enemy was merely to regain their captive soldiers, without any regard to the sums already due or which might become due for their subsistence... For related documents, see GLC02437.01393, .01395 and .09309.
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Languages : en
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Copy written in the hand of Samuel Shaw, Henry Knox's aide-de-camp, at Elizabethtown, present-day Elizabeth, New Jersey. Appoints Knox and Gouverneur Morris to meet with British commissioners to discuss prisoners of war and civilians in custody. Empowers them to negotiate release, exchange and better treatment of prisoners of war, and to take measures to liberate citizens not captured under arms (emphasized in original). Also authorizes them to settle accounts for prisoner maintenance; mentions Convention of Saratoga, an agreement about handling of British prisoners after the Battle of Saratoga. They were authorized to seek a system, a cartel, to handle treatment, release and exchange of all future captured soldiers and civilians. Also empowers them to seek agreement on naval prisoners of war. Confers General Sir Henry Clinton's powers on his appointees, General William Dalrymple and Andrew Elliot, in a form letter similar in wording to the letter in which General George Washington confers his powers on Knox and Morris. Clinton also appoints British Naval Commander Robert Digby to assist in the exchange of captured sailors. Morris and Knox conclude, ...the object of the enemy was merely to regain their captive soldiers, without any regard to the sums already due or which might become due for their subsistence... For related documents, see GLC02437.01393, .01395 and .09309.
Patriots, Redcoats, and Loyalists
Author: Peter S. Onuf
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Proceedings Before the Permanent Court of Arbitration
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Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Languages : en
Pages : 494
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The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784
Author: Robert Morris
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822933527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Although Robert Morris (1734-1806), "the Financier of the American Revolution," was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, a powerful committee chairman in the Continental Congress, an important figure in Pennsylvania politics, and perhaps the most prominent businessman of his day, he is today least known of the great national leaders of the Revolutionary era.This oversight is being rectified by this definitive publication project that transcribes and carefully annotates the Office of Finance diary, correspondence, and other official papers written by Morris during his administration as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822933527
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Although Robert Morris (1734-1806), "the Financier of the American Revolution," was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, a powerful committee chairman in the Continental Congress, an important figure in Pennsylvania politics, and perhaps the most prominent businessman of his day, he is today least known of the great national leaders of the Revolutionary era.This oversight is being rectified by this definitive publication project that transcribes and carefully annotates the Office of Finance diary, correspondence, and other official papers written by Morris during his administration as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784.
New Jersey History
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
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Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Author: Großbritannien
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Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Leacraft, W. - Pyttis
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Aachen - East Twinsey
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
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North Atlantic Coast Fisheries
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Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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