[E. Winchester] Contract with Edmund Winchester for supplying Rations to the Recruits of the 2^d Reg. of Ar. & E. at Boston made 1^st April 1799. Articles of Agreement made on the first day of April One — thousand seven hundred and ninety nine Between Jonathan Jackson Supervisor for the district of Massachusetts on behalf of the United States of the one part and Edmund Winchester of Boston in the said district of the other part — First. That he the said Edmund Winchester shall furnish and deliver all the Rations that may be required for the use of the Recruits now raising for the Second Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers in Boston aforesaid for the present time and — until otherwise ordered by the said Jackson at the rate of fifteen Cents for each Ration so furnished and delivered. Second. That the said Jonathan Jackson shall make or cause to be made to the said Edmund Winchester such advances of money on account of this agreement as shall be deemed reasonable until his account can be finally adjusted at the Treasury — Given under our hands and Seals the day and Year first above written — Edmund Winchester [seal] Jon.^s Jackson [seal] Supervisor Massachusetts Signed Sealed & Delivered in presence of Jn.^o S. Parker Natth. S Parker [Copy] Note that Jon.^s Jackson agreed (I presume) with Edmund Winchester to furnish all Quarter Master & Hospital Stores for which he was to be allowed 2½ p^r C^t Commission on the Amount — confirmed by Jon.^s Jackson letter to the Accountant dated 22 May 1799. & now on file with Ed.^m Winchester Accounts — for the 1^st Quarter of the present year —