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From John Adams to United States Senate, 1 April 1800
April 1. 1800
Message of the President with Military Nominations
Benjamin Easely | Georgia | Captain | ||
Benjamin F. Trapier | South Carolina | ditto | ||
Noah Kelsey | Georgia. | ditto | ||
Zachariah Nettles | South Carolina | ditto | ||
John Mitchell | ditto | ditto | ||
John Brown | ditto | First Lieutenant | ||
Charles Boyle | ditto | ditto | ||
William Taylor Junr. | ditto | ditto | ||
Josias Heyward | ditto | ditto | ||
Peter Williamson | Georgia | ditto | ||
Stanmore Butler | South Carolina | ditto | ||
George Clayton | Georgia | ditto | ||
William W Trapier | South Carolina | ditto | ||
Thomas Osborne Junr | ditto | Second Lieutenant | ||
Charles Codnor Ash | ditto | ditto | ||
Johnson Wellborn | Georgia | ditto | ||
William Darkey | ditto | ditto | ||
Francis Rogers | South Carolina | ditto | ||
Charles Jones Jenkins | ditto | ditto | ||
Sixth Regiment of Infantry. |
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James Read | North Carolina | Lieutenant Colonel Commandant | ||
Alexander Duncan Moore | ditto | Major. | ||
William Brickell | ditto | ditto | ||
James Taylor | ditto | Captain | ||
William Dickson | ditto | ditto | ||
Eli Gaither | ditto | ditto | ||
Edmund Smithwick | ditto | ditto | ||
William Hall | ditto | ditto | ||
John Williams | ditto | ditto | ||
John Nicholas | ditto | ditto | ||
Samuel G. Barron | ditto | ditto | ||
Maurice Moore | ditto | ditto | ||
James Mackey | ditto | First Lieutenant | ||
McKinney Long | ditto | ditto | ||
Benjamin Smith | ditto | ditto | ||
Carleton Walker | ditto | ditto | ||
Edward Jones | ditto | ditto | ||
David T. W. Cook | ditto | Second Lieutenant | ||
Marcus Sharpe | ditto | ditto | ||
James Morris | North Carolina | Second Lieutenant | ||
John Wilkinson | ditto | ditto | ||
John Carroway | ditto | ditto | ||
Abner Pasteur | ditto | ditto | ||
Benjamin Forsyth | ditto | ditto | ||
Hugh Montgomery | ditto | ditto | ||
Alexander Hunter | ditto | ditto | ||
Roger Cutler | ditto | Surgeon. | ||
Seventh Regiment of Infantry. |
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William H. Blue | Virginia | Captain | vice Turner declined | |
2d Lieut. | John Heiskell | " | First Lieutenant | vice Carrington declined |
" | Jesse Dold | " | ditto | vice Morgan Paymaster |
" | Horatio Stark | " | ditto | vice Heiskell Adjutant |
" | Marquis Combs | " | ditto | vice Stark Quarter Master |
George Armistead | " | ditto | vice Godwin resigned | |
William Saunders | " | Second Lieutenant | vice Heiskell promoted | |
Bartlett Anderson | " | ditto | vice Dold promoted | |
Francis W. Cook. | " | ditto | vice Stark promoted | |
Philip Roots | " | ditto | vice Combs promoted | |
John F. Powell | " | ditto | vice Deane declined | |
Jacob Call | " | ditto | vice Armistead promoted. | |
Francis H. Peyton | " | Surgeon | ||
Thaddeus Capron | " | Surgeons Mate. | ||
James W. Wallace | " | ditto | ||
Eighth Regiment of Infantry. |
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Laurence Butler | Virginia | Major | vice Morgan declined | |
2d. Lieut. | James Tutt | " | First Lieutenant | vice Bent Paymaster |
" | Simon Owens | " | ditto | vice Tate Adjutant |
John Meredith | " | Second Lieutenant | vice Settle declined | |
John Stephens | " | ditto | vice Wills declined | |
Robert Bell | " | ditto | vice Tutt promoted | |
Uriah Blue | " | ditto | vice Owens ditto | |
Richard Taylor | " | ditto | vice Williams declined | |
Robert Little | " | ditto | vice Humphries Quarter Master | |
Edward Conrad | " | Surgeon | ||
Samuel M Griffith | " | Surgeons Mate | ||
Ninth Regiment of Infantry. |
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Richard Earle | Maryland | Captain | vice Nicholson declined | |
John Thompson | " | First Lieutenant | vice Howard declined | |
Robert Gover | " | ditto | vice Pinckney Paymaster | |
George Peter | " | Second Lieutenant | vice Hughes Adjutant | |
Joseph Bentley | " | ditto | vice Ford declined | |
Benjamin Nowland | " | ditto | vice Cooper Quarter Master | |
Robert Geddes | " | Surgeon | ||
Dardan Brown | " | Surgeons Mate | ||
Charles A Beatty | " | ditto. | ||
Tenth Regiment of Infantry. |
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Robert Westcott | Pennsylvania | Captain | vice Atlee declined | |
Alexander McNair | " | First Lieutenant | vice Nelson declined | |
David Irwing | " | ditto | vice Westcott declined | |
Paul Weitzell | " | ditto | vice Sharp Paymaster | |
David Offley | " | ditto | vice Irwing Adjutant | |
Samuel R. Franklin | " | ditto | vice Offley Quarter Master | |
2d. Lieut. | William Morrow | " | ditto | vice Franklin Paymaster |
John Hay | " | Second Lieutenant | vice Porter declined | |
Robert George Barde | " | ditto | vice Witner declined | |
Joseph Knox | " | ditto | vice Morrow promoted | |
William Hurst | " | Surgeon | ||
George Wilson | " | Surgeons Mate | ||
James Irwine | " | ditto | ||
Eleventh Regiment of Infantry. |
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1 Lieutt. | Samuel Erwin | Pennsylvania | Captain | vice Hunt resigned |
John Caldwell | Delaware | First Lieutenant | vice Ogden Quart. Mastr | |
Charles B Green | New Jersey | ditto | vice McWhorter Paymaster | |
William J. Anderson | " | ditto | vice Potter Adjutant | |
2d. Lieut. | Thomas Bullman | " | ditto | vice Reading resigned |
" | Henry Drake | " | ditto | vice Erwin promoted. |
Thomas Y. How | " | Second Lieutenant | vice Bullman promoted | |
Joseph Vancleve | " | ditto | vice Read resigned | |
Laurence Mulford | " | ditto | vice Drake promoted | |
John Chetwood | " | Surgeon | ||
John Howell | " | Surgeons Mate | ||
John C. Wynans | " | " | ||
Twelfth Regiment of Infantry. |
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Captain | Dowe J. Fondy | New York | Major | vice Hutton declined |
2d. Lieut. | William Cocks | " | First Lieutenant | vice Paulding declined |
" | William Cumming | " | ditto | vice Smith Paymaster |
" | Joseph C. Cooper | " | ditto | vice Jones declined |
" | Thomas H. Williams | " | ditto | vice Cocks Adjutant |
Israel Loring | " | Second Lieutenant | vice Cocks promoted | |
Joseph Herkeimer | " | ditto | vice Harrison declined | |
Jacob Mancius | " | ditto | vice Cumming promoted | |
Nathaniel Smith | " | ditto | vice Cooper ditto | |
Cornelius Kip | " | ditto | vice Hoffman promoted | |
Tobias V. Cuyler | " | ditto | vice Williams promoted | |
Walter B. Vrooman | " | ditto | vice Brown deceased | |
John H. Douglas | " | Surgeons Mate | ||
Samuel Davis | " | ditto | ||
Thirteenth Regiment of Infantry |
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Nathaniel Ruggles | Connecticut | First Lieutenant | vice Mosely Paymaster | |
John Beers | " | ditto | vice Clark Adjutant | |
Nathaniel Noyes | " | Second Lieutenant | vice Wells declined | |
Fanning Tracey | " | ditto | vice Learned declined | |
Joseph Trowbridge | " | Surgeon | ||
Timothy Pierce | " | Surgeons Mate | ||
John Orton Junr | " | ditto | ||
Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry |
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Samuel Mackay | Massachusetts | Captain | vice Pierce declined | |
John Hastings | " | ditto | vice Lithgow ditto | |
Henry Sargent | " | First Lieutenant | vice Beale declined | |
Francis Barker | " | ditto | vice Soley declined | |
William Gardner | " | ditto | vice Ashman declined | |
Rufus Child | " | ditto | vice Duncan Paymaster | |
Peyton Gay | " | Second Lieutent. | vice Bates declined | |
Thomas Hale | " | ditto | vice Ingraham resigned | |
Charles Blake | " | Surgeon | ||
Fifteenth Regiment of Infantry |
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Eli Forbes | Massachusetts | Captain | vice Philips declined | |
Thomas Stevens | " | First Lieutt: | vice Swan Paymaster | |
Augustus Hunt | " | ditto | vice Cutler Quarter Mr. | |
Nathan Parks | " | Second Lieut. | vice Hall declined. | |
Oliver Mann | " | Surgeon | ||
Jonathan White | " | Surgeons Mate | ||
Ebenezer Laurence | " | ditto | ||
Sixteenth Regiment of Infantry. |
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Rufus Graves | New Hampshire | Lieut Col. Commandant | ||
Cornelius Lynde | Vermont | Major | ||
Israel W Kelly | New Hampshire | First Lieutt. | vice Gardner declined | |
Thaddeus Kendall | " | ditto | vice Hutchins ditto | |
Marmaduke Wait | Vermont | ditto | vice Whitney ditto | |
Benjamin F Starke | New Hampshire | Second Lieut. | vice Green ditto |
John Adams
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.