Brief guide to manuscripts collections| William L. Clements Library The University of Michigan George Wray Papers |
George Wray's name first appears in 1772, when he was clerk of stores for the Royal Artillery, stationed at New York. In December, 1775, he became commissary, issuing and receiving all stores for the artillery. When the British left Boston in 1774 Wray went to Halifax and then to Rhode Island. In December, 1779, he was sent to Charleston and remained there until it was evacuated in December, 1782. He returned to New York City and resigned his commission. His papers reveal nothing of his life again until 1793, when he gave a deed to John Wray, presumably his son. The deed shows that he was settled in Westfield, Washington County, New York, on the 'Artillery Patent' which had been divided into lots in 1765.
Papers of George Wray, commissary of the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
The papers consist of 500 orders to issue ordnance, signed by Major Petter Traille, commanding the Royal Artillery in America; an equal number of receipts for the supplies issued; receipts for goods delivered into the regimental storehouse; correspondence with merchants and officers regarding supplies; 50 muster rolls of artillery companies; returns of artificers, laborers, and Negroes employed by the regiment; an orderly book, May 16, 1780-March 3, 1781; a journal of stores received at Charleston, March 31, 1780-June 1, 1781; Wray's trigonometry exercise book, 1784; and a survey of Wray property holdings in 1848.
Purchased, 1933 and 1936
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