[265 Sep] Near Downingstown 12 Sept^r 1797 [Inch Francis] The Frigate Constellation requiring a heavy Anchor to keep her from accidents during heavy Squalls or Gusts of wind, I beg you will be pleased to inform me, whether the one of this description that I requested you to have brought round from Portsmouth on the eastward has yet arrived or if not what measures have been taken for its transfer to Baltimore. I am getting [undecipherable] Sir Near Downingstown Sept 12. 1797 [Capth Tho. Truxton] I have your letter of the 13 instant but being yet indisposed and back from the remnant of a bilious fever, I cannot be very particular in my Answer. I shall take an early opportunity to converse with the President upon your claim for extra expence during your superintendance of the building of the Frigate, and beg you not to suppose that it will be refused, if shown with propriety to be granted, or to construe the delay it seems to have experienced into a denial of justice. It is some time since I desired M^r [undecipherable] to have brought round from Portm^o to Balt^o a heavy Anchor for the Frigate Constellation. I have written him to day to know when it may be expected. p.s. Near Downingstown 11. Sept. 1797 [Inch Francis Esq] I have your letter of the 10 Inst. you will be pleased to write incessantly to the person who has the care of the Anchors destined for the Frigate at Baltimore. that