On this day 250 years ago in Dumfries, Virginia William Grayson wrote to Col. George Washington:

The gentlemen of the company return their thanks to you for your kind offer, and will be much oblig’d to you, to write to Philada for forty muskets with bayonets, Cartouch boxes, or Pouches, and slings, to be made in such a manner, as you shall think proper to direct; I have not sent the subscription paper, but think I can venture to assure you, that the gunsmith who undertakes the business, will be paid on demand, as the subscribers are jointly & severally responsible for the whole, among whom there are a number of respectable gentlemen

Grayson would become Washington’s aide-de-camp during the War, rise to the rank of Colonel, be elected as a United States Senator from Virginia, and free his slaves in his will.

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