Commandant John D Sloat Letter 24 July 1850
Commandants Office
Navy Yard Gosport
24 July 1850
Sir,
Your letter of the 19th inst asking for a plot of the land on which the magazine stand, is received.
The deed for the land in question, a copy of which was forwarded with my letter of the 29th Ulto is to indefinite I fear, to render a correct survey of it practicable; and unless you can obtain a copy of the plat of old Fort Nelson from the War Department, I do not know from where to start. Even then I shall not know where the land lies, whether to the north, south, east, or west of the old Fort. Nor how far to go to get the “sixty on acre of land more or less”.
In order that the whole matter should be settled beyond dispute, and a correct map of the ground secured, giving the notes and boundaries thereof I again request authority to employ a legal gentleman, as well as a surveyor, as I consider it next to impossible to obtain the information required without said assistant.
I am Respectfully, Sir
your obedient servant,
John D Sloat
Commandant
Comm Joseph Smith
Chief of the Burrow of Yards & Docks
Washington
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Letters Recieved from Commandants of Navy Yards -- Norfolk
July 11 1850 - April 30 1852
Box No. 156, Entry 5