I received your Favor of the 23d Instant, and duly observe the Contents,¹ I can truly assert I have wrote three or four Letters concerning Building Boats for the State, & your not receiving them can by no means be considered as a fault of mine, you must well know it was my intention to have more than One Boat Built, indeed your instructions of Writing given into the Governor & Council, expressly specified, that you will Build One or more Boats on such terms as is therein requistioned² &c so that the Second Boat you had on the Stocks doubtless is considered as Building for the State, and doubt not you will prosecute the designs under that Idea as I have got a Man ready to begin the Sails & Rigging. As to the Brig, on more mature consideration it is thought most proper to alter her Breadth of Beam to Twenty Two feet & her Hole & feet only so that you will be pleased to pay due attention to this Alteration, anything you may Occasion for, in my power, to forward this necessary Business you may freely Command and shall expect to see or hear from you soon on the Subject, the Bearer Mr. William Roan comes down to your place with One of the Country Transport Boats which requires some repairs, such as are necesssary I s[h]ould be much Obliged if youll please to have done, or otherwise part give him what assistance you can, and advise him in what manner he can most speedily execute his Business I am [&c]