hope to have mounted soe soon as the mills can sawe I am forced to renew all the Batterys with three-inch Plank @ have spoke for new planks for that purpose

And the breast-work upon the wall is so moultered away that its likewise needful to make a reparaThe Officers quarters had formerly a flat roof which I finding to be chargeable to maintain @ that it could not bee kept high, [qu. dry ?] have caused a new roof to bee upon it, as tion thereof.

alsoe finding water to run through the arch of the Gate I have been forc't to put a Roof over

it,

am forc't every day by reason of the roteness of the Timber @ Boards to bee making reparations in the Soldiers quarters or my own. The ground that the Fort stands upon @ that belongs to it contains in quantity about two acres or thereabouts about which I have instead of Palisadoes put a fence of Palls which is more lasting. Tho this Fortification bee inconsiderable, yet I could wish the King had severall of them in these parts, the people growing every day more numerous @ they generaly of a turbulent disposition. In this Country there is a woman yet alive from whose Loynes there are upwards of three hundred

@ sixty persons now living The men that are here have generally lusty strong bodies At Albany there is a Fort made of pine trees fifteen foot high @ foot over with Batterys and conveniences made for men to walk about, where are nine guns, small arms for forty men four Barils of powder with great and small Shott in proportion, The Timber @ Boards being rotten were renewed this year, In my opinion it were better that fort were built up of Stone @ Lime which will not be double the charge of this years repair which yet will not last above 6 or 7 years before it will require