3. AD, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.

4. Hastings served as a captain throughout the American Revolution. He was appointed a captain in the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry on July 12, 1799 (Heitman, United States Army description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (Washington, 1903). description ends , I, 510).

Of the other men on the list headed “Captains,” Emery, Draper, Chandler, Thwing, Phelps, Tolman, and Babbet were appointed captains on January 8, 1799 (Executive Journal, I description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828), I. description ends , 299, 300); Ashmun was appointed a lieutenant on January 8, 1799, and a captain on March 3, 1799 (Executive Journal, I description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828), I. description ends , 300, 303, 322, 323); Mackay was appointed a lieutenant on March 3, 1799 (Executive Journal, I description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828), I. description ends , 322, 323), and although he appears on this list as a captain, he was not appointed to that rank until April 4, 1800 (Executive Journal, I description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828), I. description ends , 345, 355).

In addition to Hastings, Emery and Thwing were veterans of the American Revolution, both having served as lieutenants in that war (Heitman, United States Army description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (Washington, 1903). description ends , I, 167, 960).

5. The numbers in this column were added by H and indicate what he thought should be the relative rank of the officers in the Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry. See H to Rice, November 11, 1799.

6. At the bottom of this document H wrote: “Simeon Draper to be placed the 10th. on the list.”

7. Of the men listed under the heading of “first Lieutenant,” Rand, Cheney, Flagg, Church, Duncan, Wheelwright, and Allen were appointed lieutenants on January 8, 1799 (Executive Journal, I description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828), I. description ends , 300, 303), while Sargent (not Sergent), Childs (or Child), Gardner, and Barker were appointed in July, 1799 (Godfrey, “Provisional Army,” description begins Charles E. Godfrey, “Organization of the Provisional Army of the United States in the Anticipated War with France, 1798–1800,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography XXXVIII (1914: Reprinted, New York, 1965). Godfrey confuses the Provisional Army with the Additional Army. description ends 172–73; Heitman, United States Army description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (Washington, 1903). description ends , I, 190, 299, 446, 860). No record has been found that any of the men on this list had held military rank in United States armed forces before 1799.

8. Of the men listed under the heading of “Second Lieutenants,” Roulstone, Durant, Leverett, Hastings, Gardner, Hunt, and Spring were appointed ensigns on January 8, 1799 (Executive Journal, I description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828), I. description ends , 301, 303), and on March 3, 1799, in accordance with Section 2 of “An Act for the better organizing the Troops of the United States; and for other purposes” (1 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, I (Boston, 1845); II (Boston, 1850). description ends 749–55 [March 3, 1799]), they became second lieutenants. Gay and Hale were appointed second lieutenants on July 11, 1799 (Heitman, United States Army description begins Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 (Washington, 1903). description ends , I, 450, 480). No record has been found that any of the men on this list had held military rank in United States armed forces before 1799.