REVERE, PAUL. Autograph letter signed ("Paul Revere") to Capt. James Byers, discussing a shipment of copper to be returned to the United States and finishing some work on some cannon for the the Navy. Boston, 29 October 1795. One page, 4to, some staining and blurring, integral leaf addressed by Revere. Rare. "Dear Sir I have put on board Capt. Taylor for Hartford 400 wt. of Copper in one cask & one small piece loose; I have sent you all the copper I have belonging to the U. States. I was forced to send you my turnings as it is uncertain when I may want them. I have finished my Howitzers and have delivered them, they weigh 169.17th neat. I have sent on my acct., I made no other charge but what was in the contract except two dollars for finishing each arms. Gen Knox last fall when in Boston told me I should be paid for them extra. My Regards to your good lady and family, I am with respect your humb. servt, Paul Revere " Following the formal conclusion of the war in 1783, Revere entered the hardware business selling imported goods as well as items fashioned at the family goldsmith shop. "Revere eventually abandoned the hardware business to concentrate on his newly established foundry (or foundries), the earliest of which was in operation in 1788. By the 1790s, Revere was supplying North End shipyards with large quantities of bolts, spikes, and nails (as well as cannon) from his foundry on Lynn and Forster Streets, opposite the Hartt shipyard. Revere supplied the bulk of the brass fittings for the U.S.S. Constitution, built at the Hartt yard in the 1790s" (Patrick M. Leehey, "Reconstructing Paul Revere " In: Paul Revere Artisan, Businessman, and Patriot, Boston, [1988]). [With:] REVERE, JOSEPH WARREN. Autograph letter signed ("Joseph W. Revere") to Hon. Stephen R. Bradley, discussing an order for Brass Cannon for the State of Vermont. Washington City, 26 March 1808. One page, 4to, browned along right margin with a few chips, some staining. "The Secretary of War has informed me that you are in want of some Brass Cannon for the State of Vermont. I am concerned with my Father in a Foundry where we have cast for the State of Massachusetts - alone, upwards of one hundred pieces, which have been acknowledged by judges, equal to any cast in this country..." It was around this time when Revere's son Joseph Warren took over more of the day-to-day operations in anticipation of the agreement to purchase his father's share of the business in 1810. (2)
REVERE, PAUL. Autograph letter signed ("Paul Revere") to Capt. James Byers, discussing a shipment of copper to be returned to the United States and finishing some work on some cannon for the the Navy. Boston, 29 October 1795. One page, 4to, some staining and blurring, integral leaf addressed by Revere. Rare. "Dear Sir I have put on board Capt. Taylor for Hartford 400 wt. of Copper in one cask & one small piece loose; I have sent you all the copper I have belonging to the U. States. I was forced to send you my turnings as it is uncertain when I may want them. I have finished my Howitzers and have delivered them, they weigh 169.17th neat. I have sent on my acct., I made no other charge but what was in the contract except two dollars for finishing each arms. Gen Knox last fall when in Boston told me I should be paid for them extra. My Regards to your good lady and family, I am with respect your humb. servt, Paul Revere " Following the formal conclusion of the war in 1783, Revere entered the hardware business selling imported goods as well as items fashioned at the family goldsmith shop. "Revere eventually abandoned the hardware business to concentrate on his newly established foundry (or foundries), the earliest of which was in operation in 1788. By the 1790s, Revere was supplying North End shipyards with large quantities of bolts, spikes, and nails (as well as cannon) from his foundry on Lynn and Forster Streets, opposite the Hartt shipyard. Revere supplied the bulk of the brass fittings for the U.S.S. Constitution, built at the Hartt yard in the 1790s" (Patrick M. Leehey, "Reconstructing Paul Revere " In: Paul Revere Artisan, Businessman, and Patriot, Boston, [1988]). [With:] REVERE, JOSEPH WARREN. Autograph letter signed ("Joseph W. Revere") to Hon. Stephen R. Bradley, discussing an order for Brass Cannon for the State of Vermont. Washington City, 26 March 1808. One page, 4to, browned along right margin with a few chips, some staining. "The Secretary of War has informed me that you are in want of some Brass Cannon for the State of Vermont. I am concerned with my Father in a Foundry where we have cast for the State of Massachusetts - alone, upwards of one hundred pieces, which have been acknowledged by judges, equal to any cast in this country..." It was around this time when Revere's son Joseph Warren took over more of the day-to-day operations in anticipation of the agreement to purchase his father's share of the business in 1810. (2)
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