200 feet 1 1/2 inch copper bolts for breast hooks than d^o 1 1/4 d^o for floor Leaders dead wood, and stern and knees 850 d^o 1 1/4 d^o for above stove, keel scarfs rudder and sides 1350 feet 7/8 inch for butt & bilge bolts 1 pair composition braces and pintles for rudder 6 composition doublet plates 12000 feet of lead water for bottom 3500 feet cedar, 1 inch, and of half inch 30000 feet boards and scantling 3000 locust trunnells, 18 inch, 24 inch, & 30 inches long I think it will take 23 or on two months to cut the timber of live oak and red cedar, calculating 22 working days in a month, for one ship. Joshua Humphreys [Joshua Humphreys Estimate] General Knox presents his compliments to Mr Humphreys and will be much obliged to him to have him as early as possible, if convenient to day, to match the letter with an estimate of the quantity of timber and plank necessary to build a ship of forty four guns distinguishing ing the tons of timber from the plank and the probable cost of each article. — May 8. 1794