Adams Papers

From John Adams to United States Senate, 31 December 1798

December 31. 1798

Gentlemen of the Senate

I nominate the following Persons, for Officers to the Regiments directed to be raised, by a Law passed the Sixteenth day of July last.

Cavalry
Lieutenant Colonel
John Watts................................. Virginia
Majors.
Solomon Van Rensselaer........New York
John Tayloe................................ Virginia
Captains.
Richard Willing................. Pennsylvania
Benjamin Williamson........... New Jersey
Lawrence Lewis......................... Virginia
John B. Armistead...........................ditto
William Spencer...................... Maryland
Lieutenants.
Robert Gray....................... Pennsylvania
John Walback.................................. ditto
George Washington Craik......... Virginia
Laurence Washington...................... ditto
Charles F. Mercer............................ ditto
Richard Tilghman. 5th............... Maryland
Cornets.
William C. Rogers............. Pennsylvania
Alexander McComb Junr........ New York
Charles Tutt............................... Virginia
George W. P. Custis........................ ditto
Carter B. Fontaine............................ ditto
Richard Cook........................... Maryland
Infantry
Lieutenant Colonels.
Nathaniel White............ New Hampshire
Simon Elliott.................... Massachusetts
William S. Smith.................... New York
Aaron Ogden........................ New Jersey
Thomas L. Moore.............. Pennsylvania
Josias C. Hall........................... Maryland
Thomas Parker........................... Virginia
William Bentley............................... ditto
Majors.
John Walker..................... Massachusetts
Isaac Winslow.................................. ditto
John Rowe....................................... ditto
William Wilcox...................... New York
Christopher Hutton.......................... ditto
William Shute....................... New Jersey
John Adlum........................ Pennsylvania
William Henderson.......................... ditto
George Stephenson.......................... ditto
William D Beall...................... Maryland
David Hopkins................................. ditto
Simon Morgan........................... Virginia
William Campbell............................ ditto
Robert Beall.................................... ditto
James Baytop.................................. ditto
Captains.
Josiah Dunham...............New Hampshire
Nathaniel Greene............................. ditto
Robert Parker................................... ditto
Henry Tilton.................................... ditto
William Woodward.................. Vermont
Israel Elliott Trask........................... ditto
John Rogers....................... Rhode Island
George Tillinghast........................... ditto
Abraham R. Ellery........................... ditto
William Jones.................. Massachusetts
James Brown.................................... ditto
Erasmus Babbet Junr....................... ditto
Ephraim Emmery............................. ditto
John Tolman.................................... ditto
Solomon Phelps............................... ditto
Ebenezer Thatcher........................... ditto
Thomas Chandler............................. ditto
Nathaniel Thwing............................ ditto
John Burbeck................................... ditto
Nathaniel Balch Junr....................... ditto
Hall Tufts......................................... ditto
John Pynchion................................. ditto
Simeon Draper................................. ditto
John Blake....................................... ditto
Samuel Jordon................................. ditto
William Heywood............................ ditto
Caleb Aspinwall.............................. ditto
Stephen Peabody.............. Massachusetts
Thomas Philips................................ ditto
Dowe J Fondy....................... New York
James Bennett.................................. ditto
Andrew White.................................. ditto
George W. Kirkland........................ ditto
Hermanus P. Schuyler..................... ditto
Adrian Kissam................................. ditto
John W. Patterson............................ ditto
Justus B Smith................................ ditto
Jeremiah Landon.............................. ditto
Philip Church................................... ditto
Robert Hunt.......................... New Jersey
Charles Marles................................. ditto
Job Stockton.................................... ditto
Denise Foreman............................... ditto
Almarine Brookes............................ ditto
Samuel White.......................... Delaware
Samuel Bowman................ Pennsylvania
Peter Faulkner.................................. ditto
Joseph McKinney............................ ditto
James Blaine.................................... ditto
Andrew Johnston............................. ditto
Matthew Henry................................. ditto
William R. Atlee.............................. ditto
Hugh Brady...................................... ditto
William Graham.............................. ditto
David Duncan.................................. ditto
John C. Beatty......................... Maryland
Thomas Beatty Junr......................... ditto
Lloyd Beall...................................... ditto
Gerard Briscoe................................. ditto
Rezin Davidge................................. ditto
Bradley Beans.......................... Maryland
Isaac Spencer................................... ditto
William Nicholson........................... ditto
Jacob Norris...................................... ditto
Presley Thornton........................ Virginia
Robert Gregg................................... ditto
Henry Pearcy................................... ditto
George S. Washington..................... ditto
Richard Chinn.................................. ditto
Garnet Peyton.................................. ditto
Daniel C. Lane................................. ditto
Philip Lightfoot............................... ditto
Edmund Taylor................................ ditto
Daniel Ball....................................... ditto
Edmund Clarke................................ ditto
John Davidson................................. ditto
Archibald Randolph......................... ditto
Bartholomew Dandridge.................. ditto
Thomas Turner................................ ditto
William Campbell............................ ditto
John Greene..................................... ditto
Robert King..................................... ditto
James Caldwell................................ ditto
William Dangerfield................ Kentucky
Fleming Woodbridge....................... ditto
William P. Anderson.............. Tennessee
Lieutenants.
Francis Gardner............. New Hampshire
Daniel M. Durell.............................. ditto
Abel Hutchins.................................. ditto
Sylvester G. Whipple....................... ditto
Ephraim Whitney...................... Vermont
Whipple Lovett.................. Rhode Island
Robert Overing................................ ditto
Thomas Brindley............................. ditto
James Church................... Massachusetts
Nathaniel Soley................................ ditto
Jacob Allen...................................... ditto
William A Baron............................ ditto
Robert Duncan Junr......................... ditto
Phineas Ashmun.............................. ditto
Alpheus Cheney............................... ditto
Samuel Flagg Junr........................... ditto
John Wheelwright............................ ditto
Isaac Rand Junior............................. ditto
Charles Cutler.................................. ditto
William Swan.................................. ditto
Samuel P. Fay.................................. ditto
Eleazer Williams.............................. ditto
Nathaniel Kidder.............................. ditto
Thomas Bowman............................. ditto
Ebenezer Bradish Junr..................... ditto
John Shepherd.................................. ditto
Joseph Lee....................................... ditto
David C. D. Forrest.......................... ditto
Philip S. Schuyler................... New York
Elhanan W. Wheeler........................ ditto
Moses Foster.................................... ditto
Thomas Thompson.......................... ditto
David Jones...................................... ditto
Robert Le Roy Livingston............... ditto
<Matthew> Nathaniel Paulding.......................... ditto
William B. Peters............................. ditto
Henry W. Ludlow............................ ditto
Thomas Reading Junr........... New Jersey
Robert C. Thompson........................ ditto
Samuel C. Voorhees........................ ditto
Walter K Cole................................. ditto
John C. MacWhorter........... New Jersey
William Potter.................................. ditto
Samuel Irwine.................... Pennsylvania
Henry Betz....................................... ditto
William Carson................................ ditto
John Sharp....................................... ditto
Samuel B. Magaw............................ ditto
Henry G. Slough.............................. ditto
Samuel Fulton.................................. ditto
Josiah McElwaine............................ ditto
James P. Nelson............................... ditto
Robert Laurence.............................. ditto
Benjamin Wallace............................ ditto
William Elliott......................... Maryland
Edward A Howard.......................... ditto
Richard W. West.............................. ditto
John B. Barnes................................. ditto
Ninnian Pinckney............................ ditto
Levi Alexander................................ ditto
Matthew Tilghman.......................... ditto
Henry C. Neale................................ ditto
Aquila Beall..................................... ditto
Francis Fouchee......................... Virginia
James Duncanson............................ ditto
Lemuel Bent.................................... ditto
Robert Gustin................................... ditto
George Tate..................................... ditto
Charles J Love.................................... ditto
John G Brown................................. ditto
John Williams.................................. ditto
Thomas Jameson.............................. ditto
John Campbell................................. ditto
John Braham.................................... ditto
Robert Carrington............................ ditto
Brewer Godwin Junr........................ ditto
Robert Temple................................. ditto
Jesse Ewell Junr......................... Virginia
Joseph Grigsby................................ ditto
Addison Armistead.......................... ditto
Samuel J. Winston........................... ditto
Calvin Morgan................................. ditto
John Jameson........................... Kentucky
Charles Kilgoar................................ ditto
Lewis Tiner............................ Tennessee
Ensigns.
Arthur Rogers............... New Hampshire
Moses Sweet.................................... ditto
Israel Bartlet.................................... ditto
Samuel Parker.................................. ditto
Jesse Lull.................................. Vermont
Daniel Baker.................................... ditto
Cary Clarke........................ Rhode Island
Ozias Danforth................................. ditto
William E. Greene........................... ditto
Thomas Heald.................. Massachusetts
Abijah Harrington............................ ditto
Moses M. Bates............................... ditto
Charles Hunt.................................... ditto
James Gardner................................. ditto
Marshall Spring............................... ditto
Daniel Hastings................................ ditto
Duncan Ingraham (tertius.......... ditto
William Leverett.............................. ditto
John Roulstone................................ ditto
Jonathan Nicholls............................ ditto
Daniel Bell....................................... ditto
John Page Junr................................. ditto
Thomas Durant................................ ditto
David Fales Junr.............. Massachusetts
Franklin Tinkham............................ ditto
Willard Fales.................................... ditto
Warren Hall..................................... ditto
James D Wheaton........................... ditto
John Duer............................... New York
William W. Wands.......................... ditto
Prosper Brown................................. ditto
William Cummings.......................... ditto
William Coxe................................... ditto
George F. Harrison.......................... ditto
Samuel Hoffman.............................. ditto
<John> Joseph C Cooper............................. ditto
Thomas W. Williams....................... ditto
Jacob C. Ten Eyck........................... ditto
William Pratt........................ New Jersey
Thomas Bullman................................ ditto
Charles Read.................................... ditto
Henry Drake.................................... ditto
Hetchcote Johnston.......................... ditto
James Rhea...................................... ditto
James Clayton Junr.................. Delaware
John Milroy........................ Pennsylvania
Benjamin Worrell............................ ditto
John Montgomery............................ ditto
George Hammell.............................. ditto
Archibald Davis............................... ditto
John A Douglas.............................. ditto
Herman Witner................................ ditto
Hugh H. Potts.................................. ditto
John S. Porter................................... ditto
John Smith......................... Pennsylvania
Robert Chambers............................. ditto
Alexander McNair........................... ditto
Thomas Lee..................................... ditto
Alexander Cooper.................... Maryland
John Brangle.................................... ditto
Enos Noland.................................... ditto
Thomas Dent.................................... ditto
Levi Hillary...................................... ditto
John Warren..................................... ditto
William Swan.................................. ditto
Levi G. Ford.................................... ditto
Daniel Hughes................................. ditto
Reuben Thornton....................... Virginia
James Tutt Junr................................ ditto
Obadiah Clifford.............................. ditto
Simon Owens................................... ditto
George W. Humphries..................... ditto
John Crane Junior............................ ditto
Strother Settle.................................. ditto
John C. Williams............................. ditto
Charles Shackleford......................... ditto
John T. Fitzhugh.............................. ditto
Andrew M Lusk.............................. ditto
James Brown.................................... ditto
Gerard Roberts................................. ditto
William Potts................................... ditto
Alexander Henderson...................... ditto
George Armistead............................ ditto
William Dean................................... ditto
Horatio Stark.................................... ditto
Peter Lamkin.................................... ditto
Jesse Dold........................................ ditto
Willis Morgan.......................... Kentucky
Elijah Johnson......................... Kentucky
Edmund P. Gaines.................. Tennessee

A want of Materials alone has prevented a complete Nomination for the whole of the Troops directed to be raised. Care will be taken that this necessary Postponement, Shall in no manner affect the relative Rank of the officers to be yet appointed. Nor is it intended that the order of nomination in this List shall have any Influence in the Ultimate Settlement of the Rank of these officers. They will only be directed to Obey in the order in which they here stand, untill an Ulteriour Arrangement shall be made

John Adams.

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

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