Enclosure: John Spour’s Receipt, 28 May 1757

Enclosure

John Spour’s Receipt

Fort Loudoun May 28th 1757.

Receiv’d of Colo. George Washington out of the Publick Stores at Winchester the following Particulars viz.—100 Barrls Gunpowder. 3 Tons of Lead. 100, 6 lb. Shott. and 12000 Musket-Flints to be deliver’d to Edward Shippen Esqr. at Lancaster for His Majesty’s Use, agreeable to Orders from Jno. Stanwix Esqr. Colo. Commandant of the first Battalion of the Royal American Regiment &ca.1 Witness my hand.

John Spour

D, PHi: Gratz Collection; DS, DLC:GW; LB, PPAmP: Edward Shippen Papers; LB, DLC:GW. The copy of John Spour’s receipt (Gratz Collection) enclosed in the letter to Shippen, which is printed here, and the copy of the receipt retained by GW (DLC:GW) are both in GW’s hand. GW’s copy is signed by John Spour with his mark and by Sgt. Maj. John Hamilton as a witness; Shippen’s copy has the names of Hamilton and Thomas Bishop, GW’s servant, as witnesses.

1. Shippen wrote Stanwix on 3 June 1757 that Spour had brought these stores to Lancaster in nine wagons. See also Stanwix to GW, 23 May, and GW to Stanwix, 28 May 1757.

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Title: Enclosure: John Spour’s Receipt, 28 May 1757
Author: Spour, John
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: 28 May 1757

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Cite as: “Enclosure: John Spour’s Receipt, 28 May 1757,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-04-02-0095-0002. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 4, 9 November 1756 – 24 October 1757, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984, pp. 167–168.]