George Washington Papers

To George Washington from Colonel Richard Gridley, 10 April 1777

From Colonel Richard Gridley

Boston April 10, 1777.

Sir

I acknowledge your favour of the 9th of January last. By desire of Mr Guild I have inclos’d his account of Ordnance Stores Cast at Stoughtonham Furnace, & deliver’d at Boston, for the Service of the Continent;1 he desires Your Excellency will please to Order him payment; and as the Furnace is now in Blast, if your Exy wants any more Stores to be made, he will make them faithfully & as cheap as any Furnace in this State will make them. I am with Duty & Great Respect Your Excellencys Most Obedt humbl. Servt

Richd Gridley

ALS, DLC:GW.

1. This account has not been identified. Nathaniel Guild (1712–1796) of Walpole, Mass., who had served as a member of the first Massachusetts provincial congress in 1774, owned and operated an iron foundry at nearby Stoughtonham (now Sharon, Mass.), where ordnance stores were manufactured during the Revolutionary War.

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    To George Washington from Colonel Richard Gridley, 10 April 1777
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    Gridley, Richard
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    Washington, George
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    10 April 1777

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    “To George Washington from Colonel Richard Gridley, 10 April 1777,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-09-02-0111. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 9, 28 March 1777 – 10 June 1777, ed. Philander D. Chase. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999, p. 112.]

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