Jn^o Jackson Esq^r November 13^th 1800 Boston Sir I have received your letter of the 3^d Inst. accompanied by your accounts for expenditures on account of the Fortifications in September last; which will be placed under examination so soon as the hurry occasioned by the unfortunate event of Saturday last, (which you will no doubt hear of before this reaches you) shall in some measure have subsided — Very fortunately the papers of my office, have been, very generally saved — those of the Secretary of War however have as generally been destroyed — Sam^l &c. W.S.