On this day 250 years ago in Dumfries, Virginia, William Grayson wrote to George Washington that the gun, “colours drums &” ordered by Washington for the Prince William County Independent Company had arrived from Philadelphia.

Source: “To George Washington from William Grayson, 8 February 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-10-02-0190. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 10, 21 March 1774 – 15 June 1775, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, p. 259.]