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Two main Top sails, Two fore sails, Two main Sails, One
Trysail, Two Top Gallant Sails, One fore Stay Sail, Two Jibs,
One main Topmast Stay Sail, One middle Stay Sail, One
lower Steering Sail, Two Top Gallant Royals, One Camboose,
and copper Boiler, Ten water casks, iron hooped, Four com-
passes, Four half minute Glasses, Four Quarter minute D^o
Two half hour D^o One Two hour D^o One marline Spike, One
wood ax, One set caulking irons, six knives and forks, 3
Tumblers, One Butter Boat, One butter dish, One Spice mor-
tar, Two cat Blocks, Four handspikes, Three pump spears
with Boxes, Three lower Pump Boxes, Two crow Barrs, One
Spun yarn Reel, One Grindstone, One Serv^g mallet, One log
line & Reel, One hand lead and line, Three scrubbing Brushes,
One Bucket, One Gun Screw, 2 Jacks, 2 Ensigns and Penant,
One Copper and one tin lamp, Two tin Kittles, One ladle,
One Gridiron, One pewter basin, One pine table, One case
with —— , One stone pan, Four Stone plates, Two decanters,
Three tea potts, 2 Stone potts, 2 chairs, 7 Bottles, One stone
dish, 1 Pewter tureen, 1 Glass, 4 Spoons.

[Stephen Steward to Council.]

Gentilmen. January the 18^th 1777.
I employed Kinsey Johns to buy Pork for me in the lower
part of Calvert County, where there is a good deal of Poark
to sell. There is now com in a Burmudain, he offers three
pounds a hundred for all poarke that is brought to him, or he
can get at any rate I should be glad to know weether it is
agreebell to you for mee to give that price I have hear now
as many mareenes as eats fiftey od pounds of meat a day
which will sun consum the provitions I have by me, and
where more can be got I dont no. If the Galley could be got
to Anaplois or else whare you want her I shall be glad you
woud order these fellows to som place where thay may be
doing somthing. I must send an expres down to Kinsey
Johns as sun as I git your answer he had ingaged a pen of
hogs of 5000 lot at the markit Price, not expecting it more
than 40/ or 45 / at most, now the Burmudain has fixt it at 60/.
If these people are alowed to carey of our flesh provitions we
shall not be able to carey on our morein business.
I am Gentillmen,
Your most Humb^l Serv^ts
Stephen Steward.
For the Honrebell Counsell
of Saftey.

C. S. C.