"L'Avernier." (COPY.) "_Schedule of the Property of Admiral John Paul Jones, as stated by him to me, this 18th of July, 1792_. "1. Bank stock in the Bank of North America, at Philadelphia, six thousand dollars, with sundry dividends. "2. Loan-Office certificate left with my friend Mr. Ross, of Philadelphia, for two thousand dollars, at par, with great arrearages of interest, being for ten or twelve years. "3. Such balance as may be in the hands of my said friend John Ross, belonging to me, and sundry effects left in his care. "4. My lands in the State of Vermont. "5. Shares in the Ohio Company. "6. Shares in the Indiana Company. "7. About eighteen thousand pounds sterling due to me from Edward Bancroft, unless paid by him to Sir Robert Herries, and is then in his hands. "8. Upward of four years of my pension due from Denmark, to be asked from the Count de Bernstorf. "9. Arrearages of my pay from the Empress of Russia, and all my prize money. "10. The balance due to me by the United States of America, of sundry claims in Europe, which will appear from my papers. "This is taken from his mouth. "GOUVERNEUR MORRIS." This property was estimated as being worth about thirty thousand dollars at the date of Jones' death. APPENDIX VI. Ranger, Nantes 11_th Dec_. 1777. "Honored Sir:--I think it my duty to give you some account of my Passage from Portsmouth to this place, as this may perhaps find you at home in the Bosom of domestic happiness. I had passed the Western Islands before a Sail appeared within our Horizon from the Mast head; but this Halcyon Season was then interrupted, and changed into continued alarms Night and day till the Ranger cast Anchor here the 2d Current, this afforded me excellent opportunities of exercising the Officers and Men especially in the Night, and it is with much Pleasure that I assure you their behaviour was to my entire Satisfaction. I fell in with an Enemies Fleet of Ten Sail off Ushant, bound up Channel, but notwithstanding my best endeavours, I was unable to detach any of them from the strong Convoy under which they sailed. I fell in with and brought too a number of other Ships and Vessels none whereof proved to be British Property except two Brigantines with fruit from Malaga for London which became Prizes, the one is arrived here, the other I am told in Quiberon Bay. The Rangers sailing does not answer the general expectation, oweing in a great measure to her being too deep, very foul and over Masted, her Ballast laid too high, on account of its improper quality, for a Ship of this construction, this with the extraordinary weight of her lower Masts; occasioned her being very Crank, I am paying my whole Attention to remedy these inconveniences as much as Possible, I am shortening the lower Masts, shifting the Main Mast further aft, and mean to ballast with Lead; as that Article will store under the lower tier of Water the less