services & expences
first safe conveyance
particularly serviceable to me at this time
day I received the key
run the risque to take them without hearing from you
should their claims be satisfactory to you please signify the same
taken the liberty to enclose my account
afterwards deposited with the public ordnance instead of being returned to said owners
satisfied in my own mind as to the justness of these two gentlemen's claim to the cannon
included in the public returns of ordnance
objected to the delivery of them before your pleasure was known
stated their claims in a letter to you
india ship
informs me that they lent these cannon into the public service at the request of Gen. Sullivan in the expedition against Rhode Island in the campaign of 1778
which was not included in the above return
should I make any further discovery of stores I will do myself the honor to communicate the same
have to acquaint you that the owners of Hope Furnace have taken two 18 pound cannon from the public deposit in this town which they claim as their property
four & three pound iron cannon
discovered there is a quantity of round and unfixed grape shott
since I had the honor of addressing transmitting to you a return of public stores