Adams Papers

From John Adams to United States Senate, 28 May 1798

United States. May 28 1798.

Gentlemen of the Senate,

I nominate the persons herein after named for appointments in the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.—

Lieutenant Colonel Commandant.

John Doughty New Jersey

Majors

1. Benjamin Brooks. Maryland

2. Adam Hoops. New Jersey.

3. Daniel Jackson. Massachusetts.

Captains

1. Decius Wadsworth Connecticutt

2. William Macrea Virginia

<2. Decius Wadsworth Connecticut>

3. Samuel Eddins Virginia

4. Francis Kinlock Huger South Carolina

5. Amos Stoddard Massachusetts

6 Lemuel Gates. Massachusetts.

7 James Read Pennsylvania

8 Callender Irvine ditto

9 James Stille New Jersey.

10 <William> Walter Livingston Cochran New York

11 John Bishop Virginia

12 John Henry Pennsylvania.

Lieutenants

1. Theodore Memminger Pennsylvania.

2 William Steele ditto

3. Francis Gibson ditto

4. Alexander D. Pope Virginia

5 John W. Livingston New York

6. John Hancock Virginia

7. George W. Carmichael Pennsylvania.

8 Samuel Dickinson Maryland

9. Philip Stewart New Jersey.

10. William L. Cooper New York.

11. William Deveaux Georgia.

12. Patrick Cunningham Harris North Carolina

13. Joseph Yates New York.

14. George Washington Duncan Massachusetts

15. Toppan Webster New Hampshire

16. James White South Carolina

17. James B. Manÿ Delaware

18. John Knight Maryland

19 John Fergus Junr North Carolina

20. Nathaniel Leonard Vermont

21. John Leybourn Georgia

22 Solomon Mears Connecticut

23 Charles Wolstoncraft Pennsylvania

24 Robert Weir Osburn ditto.

Surgeon

James Scanlan Maryland.

Surgeon’s Mates.

1. Thomas Tillinghast. Rhode Island

2. Nathaniel Dwight. Connecticut.

3. Burr Harrison. Kentucky

John Adams

DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.

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