Accounts of the Frigate as well as a Return
Document 1795The letter mentions receipt of form for keeping the account of the Frigate. The letter also encloses Quincy's return between December 20th 1794 and April 30th 1795, along with a memo of sundries which had been placed in the yard.
[following items appear to be an address centered on the page] Samuel Hodgdon Esquire Superintendant of the military & Naval Stores of the United States- Philadelphia [following items are written upside-down in the bottom right-hand corner] Edmund H[?] Quincy 13th May 1795- Rec’d[?] 20- 41 Portsmouth, N.H. May 13th, 1795 Sir, Your letter of April 15th enclosing a form for keeping the Accounts of the Frigate, I received by Mail- Your favor of the 16th [?] making known to me your further instructions came duely by hand- Agreeably to the forms received I now enclose you my return commencing Decr. 20 1794 & carried forward to April 30th 1795- together with a memo. of sundries which had been placed in the yard by Jacob Sheafe[?] Esqr. Naval Agent. I have also enclosed you James Hackett[?] Constructor,s Receipt for articles delivered him by me.- I am Sir, Respectfully Your most Obedt. Servant [signed] Edmund H. Quincy Samuel Hodgdon Esq.
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