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                                Fort Gains [?] Fish River
                                      Apr. 23, 1839,

Charles Gains [?] Esq.

  Dr, sir
        I take this opportunity to inform you of my doings which is according to order, we arrived here after a hard Seige, we then went to work on the block house & boom 

The Boom is completed, it is Four hundred feet long and is in a good place. The only chance there is from the lake to the mouth, at the mouth of the river there is [inserted] a Small Isle with about nine acres of land in it and would be a very good chance for a boom to stop the timber that comes down the St John the English have surveyed the ground on the opposite bank and say they shall build barracks there. I have been down to Mr Baker but did not see him as he was gone away in the woods. I have two boats there now after potatoes which will be here to night. It is 14 miles from Fort to Battery.