M^r John Morgan. War Office July 30. 1795. Sir I have received your letter of the 11^th instant from Saint Simons. I have expected that you would direct the construction of the Frigate to be built at Norfolk, but your present in procuring timber for all the Frigates are indispensable. I must therefore entreat you to continue in your present employment, until the timber is all forwarded. Then you may repair to Norfolk. In the mean time what timber has been or shall be sent to that yard will be hewed and fashioned for the work, under the directions of a very able temporary naval architect M^r Fox who assisted M^r Humphreys in preparing the draughts and moulds. But as it has been determined to throw the full quantity of timber into the yards at Philadelphia, and Baltimore and afterwards to supply the other yards, among which Norfolk may be the last, so the construction of the Frigates there will principally rest under your direction. This plan I hope will be agreeable to you.