Father of the American Army Artillery
Father of the American Navy

• Henry Knox was born in poverty in Boston to Irish immigrants William and Mary Campbell Knox on July 25, 1750, the seventh of ten children.

Company Rolls - Source/Monthly muster rolls of the Continental Artillery- National Archives, Microfilm Division, Washington, DC (Sept 1778- July 1779

• First Continental Artillery - 11 of 12 Companies
• Regimental Officers
  • Colonel Charles Harrison (Commander)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Edward Carrington
  • Major Christina Holmer
  • Lt. Richard Waters (Adjutant)
  • Captain Lt. Ambrose Bohannon
  • Thomas Christie (surgeon)
  • Capt. Nathaniel Burwell
  • Lt. William Stevenson
  • Capt. Lt. John Blair
  • 2nd(37), 3rd(35), 4th(31), 5th(27), 6th(30), 7th(84), 8th(59), 9th(34), 10th(29), 11th(24), 12th(25)
• Second Continental Artilery
• Regimenatal Officers
  • Colonel John Lamb (Commander)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Ebenezer Stevens
  • 1st Lt. Issao Hubbell (Adjutant)
  • L.D. Crimshier (Pay Master)
  • Sgt. Major Henry Cunningham
  • Uriah rowland (Quartermaster Sergeant)
  • J. Wassels (Drum Major)
  • Dr. Garrett Tunison (Surgeon)
  • Companies present (1st(37), 2nd(38), 4th(34), 5th(51), 6th(32), 9th (45), 11th (27))
• Third Continental Artillery
  • Colonel John Crane (Commander)
  • Lieutenant Colonel John Popkins
  • Charles Knowles (Pay Master)
  • Dr. Samuel Adams (Surgeon)
  • B.A. Upham (Surgeon's Mate)
  • Companies present ( 4th (47), 5th (23), 8th (57), 12th (40))
• Captain Noah Nicols's amd Captain Anthony Post's Companies of Artillery Artificiers (58 men total)
  • Nicols's Company
    • Captain Noah Nicols
    • Captain Nathaniel Coll
    • M.S. T. Patten
    • Lt. Bela Nicholas
  • Post's Company
    • Captain Anthony Post
    • Lt. Samuel Johnson
    • Lt. Carret Browar
• Captain Cornelius Austin's Continental Armourers (25 men total)
  • Captain Cornelius Austin
  • Superintandent John Darbin
  • Superintendent Godfrey Lowry

New York Public Library - Samuel Adams Diary

The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw - Josiah Quincy, e. Boston, 1847 by Samuel Shaw

James Thacher, Military Journal of the American Revolution, Hartford, Conn, 1862

Revolutionary War Map Collection - Manuscript - William Clements Library, University of Michigan

New Jersey Gazette for 1779

New Jersey Journal for 1779

Pennsylvania Packet for 1779

Orderly Book of the Second Continental Arrtillery, February 5, 1779-May30, 1779 in the Manuscripts Division, NY Historical Society (Training regiment) See April 16, 1779

Punishments while at Pluckemin - General Court Martials - John Lamb also had his own Regimental Court Martial according to the rolls.

• Leavlng post - 50 lashings
• Cutting down and destroying wood - confinement
• Desertion and attemptin to go to Enemy - from 100 lashings to Death
• Abusive Language - 25 lashings
• Rioting and striking - 50 lashes
• Drunkenness - 50 lashings
• Mutiny - 100 lashings to Death
• AWOL from camp and getting drunk - 50 lashings
• Drunkenness and abusive language - 39 lashes
• Drunkenness and absent from roll call - 15 lashes
• Theft - 50 lashes

Cannon Artiilery delivered to Pluckemin

• 24 pound
• 18 pound
• 12 pound
• 6 pound
• 4 pound
• 3 pound
• 8" Howitzer
• 5 1/2" Howitzer

ISome of the items received at Pluckemin between December 4, 1778 and June 15, 1779

• Bayonets - 4,282
• Bayonet Belts - 12, 030
• Bayonet Scabbards - 6,125
• Brushes and Wires - 7,365
• Cartridges - 480,771
• Cartridge Boxes - 10,327
• Drums - 92
• Drumsticks (pairs) - 409
• Fifes - 548
• Flints - 49,501
• Gun Worms - 1,298
• Gun Slings - 440
• Knapsacks - 418
• Muskets - 3,436
• Power (lbs) - 4,222 1/2
• Powder Horns - 150
• Screwdrivers - 3,241
• Swords - 324
• Sword Belts - 277