Diaries and Memoirs
Knox, Henry, Phillip Hamilton, and Lucy Knox. The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
While the John and Abigail Adams correspondence is well known and researched, the copious letters between General Henry and Lucy Knox are as interesting. Phillip Hamilton compiled and edited a subset of the letters in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The Knox letters do not possess the same writing quality but portray the correspondents’ robust and loving relationship. The letters span the Revolutionary Era into the Early Republic.
Other Primary Sources
Life and correspondence of Henry Knox: major-general in the American Revolutionary Army / Drake, Francis S. (Francis Samuel), 1828-1885. / Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. — Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1873. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Life_and_Correspondence_of_Henry_Knox/qkRsqkHRcO0C?hl=en&gbpv=1
Henry Knox Papers II, Massachusetts Historical Society. https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0313.
Henry Knox diary, 20 November 1775 – 13 January 1776. https://www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=463&pid=15.
Henry Knox Papers, microfilm (separate from the Massachusetts Historical Society manuscript collections (P-17, 55 reels).
Henry Knox Papers, The New York Public Library Digital Collections
Henry Knox Museum, https://www.knoxmuseum.org/henryknox – A description of Knox’s expedition to move cannon from Ft. Ticonderoga to Boston in the winter of 1775-6
Henry and Lucy Knox collection, 1777-1807, University of Michigan William C. Clements Library. https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-wcl-M-123kno.
A Calendar of Henry Knox Papers. Chamberlain Collection, Boston Public Library. By the Works Progress Administration, 1939. https://archive.org/details/calendarofgenera00bost/page/n9/mode/2up.
Biographies
Brooks, Noah. Henry Knox, a soldier of the Revolution: major-general in the Continental Army, Washington’s chief of artillery, first secretary of war under the Constitution, founder of the Society of the Cincinnati, 1750-1806. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2006
Callahan, North. Henry Knox General Washington’s General. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1958.
Drake, Francis S. Life and Correspondence of Henry Knox, Major General in the American. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1873.
Drew, Bernard A. (Bernard Alger). Henry Knox and the revolutionary war trail in Western Massachusetts. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2012.
Ford, Worthington Chauncey. Henry Knox and the London book-store in Boston, 1771-1774. Boston, 1928.
Hazelgrove, William. Henry Knox’s noble train: the story of a Boston bookseller’s heroic expedition that saved the American Revolution / Guilford, CT: Prometheus Books, 2020.
Henry Knox, a Soldier of the Revolution: Major General in the Continental Army, Washington’s Chief of Artillery, First Secretary of War Under the Constitution, Founder of the Society of Cincinnati: 1750-1806. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1900.
Lonergan, Thomas J. Henry Knox: George Washington’s confidant, general of artillery, and America’s first secretary of war. Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c2003.
Puls, Mark. Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution. 1st ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Pul’s volume is recommended as the most authoritative biography and the best place to start understanding Knox’s life and legacy.
Silvey, Anita. Henry Knox: bookseller, soldier, patriot. Boston: Clarion Books, 2010.
Strum, Richard M. Henry Knox: Washington’s artilleryman. Stockton, NJ: OTTN Publishing, c2007.
Henry Knox’s Legacy
Brakeley, Sam. Skiing with Henry Knox: A Personal Journey along Vermont’s Catamount Trail, 2019.
For a review of this informative and thought-provoking book see, Backcountry Skiing and Revolutionary War General Henry Knox?
