giving the timbers the best possible shifts but when the 3 Futtocks are shortened more than two feet it will be necessary to shorten the 2 Futtocks in proportion to regulate the Scaraphs — and I have no doubt but you will approve of this method — The short [undecipherable]s that are to be of Cedar, are also inserted on the same statement — It is thought advisable to run the second Futtocks 42 and 43 to the Airports instead of letting the 3 Futtocks on the heads of the second Futtocks comes nearest to those Airports therefore second Futtocks will lengthen 22 and second Futtocks 43 will lengthen 29 [M^r John Foster Williams Sir Boston] War Office Nov 16^th 1795 I recieve to day your letter of the 4^th with respectable recommendations for your appointment to the command of one of the federal Frigates. The testimony of the Gentlemen who recommend you would, I am persuaded have great weight with the President, were there any vacancy: but Cap^t Barry whom you supposed to be dead, is recovering, after a very dangerous illness —