[Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically.] Pittsburg 13 July 1791 Sir, You will please to furnish [undecipherable] to the Boats under Major [undecipherable] the following Articles immediately, viz: Six Oars. Six [undecipherable] Knives. Six Hammers. Twenty pounds of ten penny Nails Fifty weight of white Oak suitable for helves, or have axes, or axes if you have it to [undecipherable] Twenty pounds of [undecipherable] & Twelve Buckets to Water the [undecipherable] That you will please to pay Special attention to the manner in which the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the Boats — the Boats must be quite closed, fixed with the [undecipherable] Boards & firmly nailed — boards [undecipherable] be nailed to the timbers of the Boats, you will at last, all [undecipherable] — expense in fitting the Boats is no object — the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] is very [undecipherable]; in case of [undecipherable] of some of the Boats, the expense has no [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with the disappointment & injury that would arise to the [undecipherable]. Let every thing be done that [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] to form a [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] — I shall write Major [undecipherable] immediately, and apprise him that what I have required shall be done. Your most Obedient Servant. [signature: Samuel [undecipherable]] [marginalia: Boats [undecipherable] to be made [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] Stern [undecipherable] / to be well [undecipherable] as in use / [undecipherable] — New Boats.]