Scope and Contents Encloses an application [not present] by Matthew Fontaine Maury, Jr., that his name may be put on the register for appointments-at-large to West Point; he is the grandson of James Maury, who was taken prisoner during the Revolution; James Maury also served on the Ville de Paris and helped the Count de Grasse distinguish between Englishmen and Americans; james Maury had a contract with the government to sell tobacco to the prisoners at Charleston, at great expense to himself; James Maury was...