Return of intrenching tools &c. embarked on the expeditions under Brigad.r Gen.l Arnold, Major General Phillips, & Col. DeVoit to Virginia [DD.S.]
1781
MSS L2001F517 (no. 1-2)
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Title
Return of intrenching tools &c. embarked on the expeditions under Brigad.r Gen.l Arnold, Major General Phillips, & Col. DeVoit to Virginia [DD.S.]
Variant Title
Return of intrenching tools in possession of the engineers at York Town in Virginia on the 23rd August 1781
Published
New York (N.Y.) 1781
Description
2 items ; 32 cm. (no. 1) ; 23 cm. (no. 2)
Call Number
MSS L2001F517 (no. 1-2)
Note
In an unidentified hand; possibly retained copies
Number 1 includes no mention of place or date; no. 2 is dated New York, 27 December 1781
A 10-column list showing how many spades, shovels, picks, grindstones, chizels, squares, planes, bolts, pitch barrels, etc. were sent to each of the units commanded by Arnold, Phillips, and DeVoit.
Note at the bottom of the inventory (no. 1): In consequence of an application from Lieut. Stratton commanding engineer in Virginia in the month of February, 220 felling axes, 28 broad axes, 144 hatchets & a quantity of carpenters tools of all kinds were sent. It is necessary to remark that the tools sent ... were in consequence of a requisition made by Genl. Phillips; when Capt. Mercer commanding engineer received the order ... he reported that the quantity already sent ... was sufficient.
Apparently prepared under orders from Sir Henry Clinton, perhaps in an effort to prove that he had provided sufficient tools to enable Cornwallis to build the necessary trenches for the Yorktown siege.
De Lancey became Adjutant General of the British Army in May, 1781 -- see Mark M. Boatner. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, p. 326.
James Stratton appears in the Army list for 1781 as achieving the rank of lieutenant in the Corps of engineers on 20 July 1781
Col. de Voit commanded one of the two Anspach battalions under Cornwallis at Yorktown
Watermark: no. 1: Britannia with countermark: T. Budgen (similar to but not exact matches of Gravell, Foreign watermarks, 115-119) ; no. 2: J. Whatman (Gravell, Foreign watermarks, 759)
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Number 1 includes no mention of place or date; no. 2 is dated New York, 27 December 1781
A 10-column list showing how many spades, shovels, picks, grindstones, chizels, squares, planes, bolts, pitch barrels, etc. were sent to each of the units commanded by Arnold, Phillips, and DeVoit.
Note at the bottom of the inventory (no. 1): In consequence of an application from Lieut. Stratton commanding engineer in Virginia in the month of February, 220 felling axes, 28 broad axes, 144 hatchets & a quantity of carpenters tools of all kinds were sent. It is necessary to remark that the tools sent ... were in consequence of a requisition made by Genl. Phillips; when Capt. Mercer commanding engineer received the order ... he reported that the quantity already sent ... was sufficient.
Apparently prepared under orders from Sir Henry Clinton, perhaps in an effort to prove that he had provided sufficient tools to enable Cornwallis to build the necessary trenches for the Yorktown siege.
De Lancey became Adjutant General of the British Army in May, 1781 -- see Mark M. Boatner. Encyclopedia of the American Revolution, p. 326.
James Stratton appears in the Army list for 1781 as achieving the rank of lieutenant in the Corps of engineers on 20 July 1781
Col. de Voit commanded one of the two Anspach battalions under Cornwallis at Yorktown
Watermark: no. 1: Britannia with countermark: T. Budgen (similar to but not exact matches of Gravell, Foreign watermarks, 115-119) ; no. 2: J. Whatman (Gravell, Foreign watermarks, 759)
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