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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
ning and resighting. Governor Ellis, under date of January 29th, wrote to Tryon & Co.: Do you propose to do the work of altering in North Carolina? I am not willing to send our guns out of the State at the present juncture. In reply, Tryon & Co. said they could only do the work to advantage in Philadelphia, but that the Governor need send only 2,000, 3,000, or 5,000 guns at a time, and when these were finished and forwarded more could be sent to Philadelphia. George W. Grice, of Portsmouth, Va., offered to alter the flint-and-steel muskets to percussion for $1.45. The Merchants' Shot-Tower Company, of Baltimore, offered to furnish soft pig lead at $5.75 per 100 pounds. A. Hitchcock, late master armorer at the United States arsenal at Watervleit, N. Y., made an estimate for gun-carriages and equipments for batteries, also infantry equipments, pistols, lead, caps, camp-kettles, 500,000 minie balls, 6,000 altered muskets, etc., the whole amounting to $125,000. Hitchcock als
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.12 (search)
ning and resighting. Governor Ellis, under date of January 29th, wrote to Tryon & Co.: Do you propose to do the work of altering in North Carolina? I am not willing to send our guns out of the State at the present juncture. In reply, Tryon & Co. said they could only do the work to advantage in Philadelphia, but that the Governor need send only 2,000, 3,000, or 5,000 guns at a time, and when these were finished and forwarded more could be sent to Philadelphia. George W. Grice, of Portsmouth, Va., offered to alter the flint-and-steel muskets to percussion for $1.45. The Merchants' Shot-Tower Company, of Baltimore, offered to furnish soft pig lead at $5.75 per 100 pounds. A. Hitchcock, late master armorer at the United States arsenal at Watervleit, N. Y., made an estimate for gun-carriages and equipments for batteries, also infantry equipments, pistols, lead, caps, camp-kettles, 500,000 minie balls, 6,000 altered muskets, etc., the whole amounting to $125,000. Hitchcock als