[Addressed to: Colonel Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r. Philadelphia] [Endorsement top right: May 7. 1795 / Col. Hodgdon / [undecipherable]] [Endorsement bottom left: Letter from Samuel Shore / Gosport Navy Yard / May 7. 1795] [Number: 22] [Stamp: Received / State Dep't / N.P.O. 4/1890] Gosport. 7. May 1795. Your letter dated the 4^th April was duly handed by last nights post. In perusing of which I [undecipherable] you may find[undecipherable] have been much [undecipherable] is laying with the [first?] of your letter. I have in future taken monthly [balances?] to your, now as occasion to the forms enclos'd to me in your letter of the 6^th [undecipherable]. Your observations respecting the [Length?] [undecipherable] now also be observ'd, your [undecipherable] gotten into [view?] at the [opinion?] of the [month?] — the amount of [One?] Timber [hundreds?] [your?] which has [undecipherable] in the [figure?] in the [part?] of September was [given?] by [sending?] [instance?] [that?] is done by adding [sizes?] now [large?] together then [multiplying?] to [Primitive?] by the [number?] of [feet?], then divide by [?] the remainder of which [multiply?] it by the number of Pieces over the [Commander?] will be the number of feet Superficial and Superficials [measurement?] quite the [?]. This is the way in which the [Surveying?] was [determined?] and the [remainder?] [of?] — [undecipherable] not me to be [seen?] to the [99?] [pieces?] of [Timber?] [deferred?] [last?] long [done?] of to [make?] [furnished?] about the First of [September?] and if [not?], you may find no more than 606 [feet?] [undecipherable] agreeable to the [President?] [Ordinance?] in Superficial [measurement?] 1400 —. [Say?] that you were not [mention?] this information was [sure?] that your [distinction?] far from [given?] [place?], say only [reduce?] to observe the [matter?] in which such [lumber?] is [brought?] in the [undecipherable] — [going?] over the account of [many?] [undecipherable] [Do?] the [changes?], those to have [hundreds?] of [pounds?] [probably?] [ably?] should have [specified?] it, the [last?] [undecipherable] The [time?] as the [forming?] — the [500?]. To [bills?] were in [number?] and [not?] [irregular?] when [built?] by the [house?] [agent?] [undecipherable] The [Naval?] [Work?] [wrongs?] [continual?] [undecipherable] is [settled?] by a [proper?] person appointed for [this?] [burning?] — the [bounds?] of [mean?] before they are [let?] to the [Navy?] [year?] are continually weighed and sometimes not, if their [bills?] mention the [weight?] [believes?] the same in my [Books?] if not they remain blank M^r [Kennedy?] [undecipherable] these need a [set?] to see times to be had in [Norfolk?], when if [not?] a supply to the [Naval?] one when [Bundles?] are not to be [procured?], they had [me?] in to [learn?] 2 [Bundles?] to [?], just as they can get it within a [year?] or greater [quantity?]. This is the reason why [Boardman?] [mentioned?] in [your?] [instance?] and [Badness?] is a little — in [respect?] to [Timber?] [Board?] [undecipherable] [these?] by his measures as [clear?] as [number?] and [built?] [undecipherable] not designated under the proper [lead?] — Found from the accounts of and [procured?] them in [undecipherable] as easily as [to happen?] — the [High?] [undecipherable] Capt [undecipherable] of Philadelphia arrived here a few days since with lumber from [undecipherable] [Simon's?] Jno [undecipherable] Sir [undecipherable] Not Rec^d D.H.[undecipherable] — Samuel Shore