Now I have all the pages. Pages 2–3 are the primary letter; page 1 is the docket/wrapper; page 4 is a modern "Other Copies" separator; page 5 is an alternate copy I can use to clarify difficult passages. [Docket: Boston Decem. 22. 1796 — Capt. Nicholson — [numerical calculations in columns]] Boston Dec. 22º 1796 Sir Inclosed you have the Statement from the Clerk of our Yard of the Timber &c &c that you wrote for, I never could obtain it from before Yesterday, he had no Acct. of great Part of it on his books, but with the Assistance of Colo. Flaghorn & M^r White the Surveyor he has at length made one out. I believe it is a true Statement. I rec'd Yours of the 10^th Inst. under the Secretary of Wars frank to Gen^l Jackson, for w'd I am much Obliged. as you are at head quarters, & A Man of Observation, I shall at all times be thankfull by a line from [you]. Pray how Comes on the Jefferson Party with You. The Colo. desires to be Remembered to You we have Aplenty of live Oak now My Comp^ts to Capt. Barry, we are gett'g up our last Cants forward, our People are just Comeing in from, the Country after Thanksgiving. I expect after this they will be very busig in gett'g up the Wales, after Kidsons, and after Cants. I am Y^r Obed. Hble Serv^t. Sam Nicholson P.S. did You se our Cannon at Providence what Sort of things are they & When are we to have them, we want the Ships Guns very much the Carriage maker Can do nothing without them