[Endorsement: War Office 7 June 1797 / To Tench Francis] Sir War Office June 7.^th 1797 The Secretary of War desires me to request of you a Valuation of the Live Oak Timber deposited at Mud Fort and also what remains in Georgia belonging to the Public, which Valuation I apprehend he means to lay before Congress — I am Sir with respect &a Josiah Fox On the 1.^st February 1797. By Col^d [undecipherable] Account given to us there was at the Island of Ossabaw the following Live Oak Timber at John Morells Landing 99 pieces — 3075 ft Solid " Bryen Merretts " 637 ... — 8364 " " — Peter Morrells " 267 ..... 7636 .... 19110 feet part had been since brought away and delivered at the Fort & on Claymers Dock say about 1000 ft — — — 10,000 valued @ 3/5 foot Solid — 3.643 Now at Ossabaw about — chiefly large Timber but small being brought off } At the Fort — 1256[undecipherable] In Claymers dock — 1800 14761 Solid feet — valued at 7/6 p^r ft — 14761 18,404 [dollars] N.B. There are two Sloops gone to Ossabaw for Wood — —— June the 8.^th 1797 [undecipherable signature] Tench Francis Esq.^r Purveyor —