George Washington Papers

To George Washington from James Gray, 10 January 1780

From James Gray

Albany Jan’y 10th 1780

Honored Sir

Your Orders to me of the 11th Ulto came to hand the 19th,1 on which I immediately forwarded a proper person to Co’os, in Order to have a survey taken of the Provissions at that place, and Charlestown; and orders to Mr Lyne the Issuing Commiss’y, for his Punctual compliance with your Excellency’s orders, But the exceedeing heavy snows which have fallen and block’d up the roads, puts me in fear, and doubt, that I shall not get the survey timely to forward, Or Mr Lyne to be at Head-Quarters by the 20th Instant, There shall be no delays made, by any neglect in your Excellencys Most Obedient And Verry Hble Servt

James Gray D.C.G. Issues Northern District

ALS, DLC:GW.

James Gray (1749–1822) of Epsom, N.H., served in the 1st New Hampshire regiment as a sergeant major from April to December 1775. He became a captain in the 3d New Hampshire Regiment in November 1776. He resigned from the army in June 1778. Congress appointed Gray deputy commissary general of issues for the northern department in October 1778 (see JCC, description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends 12:1023). Poor health prompted his resignation in November 1780 (see JCC, description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends 8:1059).

1. For GW’s letter to Gray of 11 Dec. 1779, see GW to Jeremiah Wadsworth, 7 Dec. 1779, n.2.

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    “To George Washington from James Gray, 10 January 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-24-02-0059. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 24, 1 January–9 March 1780, ed. Benjamin L. Huggins. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2016, p. 73.]

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