Portsmouth New Hamp^e Jan^y 5. 1796 Sir Inclosed you will receive my Return for the month of December 1795. also James Hackett Constructor's receipts for articles delivered him as p^r return. I am Sir Respectfully Ob^t Servant Edmund H. Quincy [signature flourish] [Address panel:] Samuel Hodgdon Esq^r Superintendant of the military and the Naval stores of the United States [Docket, top right of cover, rotated: Quincy's Letter / Jan^y 5. 1796] [Enclosure exterior docket, rotated: Quincy's [return?] for / [undecipherable] N^o 5.— / [undecipherable] / E^r January [15?]. 1796] Return of Edmund H. Quincy Clerk of the Yard at Portsmouth New Hampshire | On hand p^r last Return also Of whom Received and To whom Delivered Since | [undecipherable: 2 hogsheads of?] | # [undecipherable: Sticks?] | N^o of White oak knees | Inches of [undecipherable] knees | Rough head Timbers | Rough sound [undecipherable] | Rough [undecipherable] | Fire [undecipherable] [undecipherable] | Main Yard | Fore top Yard | Main top Yard | [undecipherable] top Yard | Main top gall Yard | [undecipherable] boom main | Main top gallant | [undecipherable] | Main Staff | Jib boom | Ensign Staff | Jack Staff | Main top gall mast | Main Yard | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Late 1795 Nov^r — On hand | " | " | 8 | 48½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Decem^r 14 — Received of Jac^t Sheafe Esq | 2 | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | | " — of James Hill | " | 10 | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | | Total received December 1795 | 2 | 10 | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | | Delivered — To James Hackett | 2 | 10 | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | " | | On hand December 31^st 1795. | " | " | 8 | 48½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | [Signed:] Edmund H. Q[uincy]