[from clams Hooper Decemb^r 1800 Phila / a. Intindant Rec^d 10 Decemb^r 1800 En^c (67)] Intendant of Stores Office Philadelphia 5^th Dec^r 1800 Sir As early as possible, I request you will be pleased to procure, and deposit at Fort Sumner in Portland Massachusetts, the following supplies Viz; ✓ . Three reams of Rocket and potfire Paper. ✓ . Two pounds of cotton Wick ✓ . Three gallons of spirits of Wine ✓ . Four gallons of white wine Vinegar. ✓ . Six dressed sheep Skins. . . Eight hundred spunge Tacks. ✓ — One hundred copper Ladles. [undecipherable] One set of copper Powder Measures. ✓ 3 ✓ One pair of copper Scales with weights from four pounds to half an ounce. ✓ ✓ One brass Quadrant with Hunnet ✓ ✓ One Gunters Scale ✓ ✓ One calibre Compass. ✓ ✓ One coopers copper Adze and Driver ✓ ✓ One tenant Saw — Two pairs of Pinchers. ✓ ✓ One dozen of rasps assorted. ✓ ✓ One block Sheave. ✓ ✓ One laboratory or shoemakers Knife. ✓ ✓ One pair of Scissars. ✓ ✓ Five skeigns of Hamburg Line. ✓ ✓ Five skeigns of tarred Marline. ✓ ✓ Two salt or drudging Boxes ✓ One tin or copper Tunnel for Shells. ✓ One iron Kettle for kit. ✓ ✓ Two iron Ladles. ✓ ✓ Two dark and common Lanthorns ✓ ✓ One copper Kettle. ✓ ✓ One copper mealing Pan. ✓ + One brass wire sieve very fine. ✓ + One common brass wire Sieve. ✓ One gauze Sieve with leather bottom. ✓ ✓ One brass Mortar with Pestle. ✓ ✓ One eight ounce rocket Mould with Former and Drift. ✓ One potfire Mould with Former & Adrift. ✓ ✓ One bench Vice. ✓ ✓ One hand Vice. ✓ × One oil Cloth. ✓ ✓ — Five tanned Hides. ✓ ✓ Forty pounds of Rosin. ✓ ✓ One hundred pounds of Pitch. ✓ ✓ Ten pounds of Bees Wax ✓ ✓ Three pounds of Borax. ✓ ✓ Eight pounds of pewter Solder. ✓ Fine Brushes. ✓ ✓ Two pounds of brass & iron wire assorted. ✓ ✓ One hundred pounds of Junk for wads. ✓ ✓ Two gallons of olive oil. ✓ ✓ Five gallons of linseed Oil. ✓ ✓ Fifty pounds of white Lead. ✓ ✓ Four pounds of lamp Black. 6^th ✓ 30 ✓ ✓ One chest of Carpenters Tools. ✓ One quire of sand Paper and ✓ × ✓ Two coils of Rope from one and an half to three inches. I presume they may may all be obtained at Boston, or in its vicinity, if so, the Agent authorised to make the purchase, can make the deposit also, in this case two receipts must be taken for the the delivery; one of which to accompany your cash account, the other to be transmitted immediately to my Office, that the Post may be duly charged. I am Sir, Your most ob^t Servant Samuel [undecipherable: Hodgdon] Israel Whelen Esquire Purveyor.