From John Adams to United States Senate, 2 March 1799
March 2. 1799
Gentlemen of the Senate
I nominate the following Gentlemen for Offices in the Army
Infantry.— | ||
Lieutenant Colonel | ||
Nathan Rice | Massachusetts | |
Richard Hunnewell | ditto | |
Major | ||
William Jones | Massachusetts. | |
Captains | ||
Phineas Ashmun | Massachusetts | |
Joseph Peirce Junr. | ditto | |
Arthur Lithgow | ditto | |
Jonathan Andrews | Rhode Island | |
George Woodward | Vermont | |
Philip Cortland | New York | |
Walter K. Cole | New Jersey | |
James Read | Pennsylvania | |
Benjamin Gibbs Junr. | ditto | |
James Ashman | ditto | |
Valentine Brothers | Maryland | |
John W. Hacket | ditto | |
Jonathan Hodgson | ditto | |
Nathaniel Henry | Virginia | |
Lieutenants | ||
Samuel Mackey | Massachusetts | |
Benjamin Beale Junr. | ditto | |
Charles P. Phelps | ditto | |
Edmund Soper | ditto | |
Daniel Bissell | Vermont | |
Isaac Putnam | Vermont | |
James Smith | New York | |
Richard Baldwin | ditto | |
George M. Ogden | New Jersey | |
Thomas Swearingen | Pennsylvania | |
Cromwell Pierce | ditto | |
Henry Westcott | ditto | |
Nelson Wade | ditto | |
Lewis Howard | ditto | |
James Battel | Delaware | |
William Savin | Maryland | |
Charles Clemments | ditto | |
Van Bennet | Virginia | |
Felix Wilton | ditto | |
Ensigns | ||
Seth Bannister | Massachusetts | |
Samuel Winter Church | ditto | |
Christopher Whipple | Rhode Island | |
John W. Brownson | Vermont | |
William Morrow | Pennsylvania | |
Jabez Caldwell | Delaware | |
John Adlum | Maryland | |
Edward Ford | ditto | |
Charles McCallister | Virginia | |
John Heiskell | ditto | |
Marcus Combs | ditto | |
Willis Wells Junr | ditto | |
Cavalry | ||
Captains | ||
Charles F Mercer | Virginia | vice Laurence Lewis declined |
James Burn | South Carolina |
John Adams
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.