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From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 28 May 1796

To the United States Senate

United States May 28th 1796

Gentlemen of the Senate.

I nominate Simeon De Witt, of New York, to be Surveyor General.1

Go: Washington

LS, DNA: RG 46, entry 52; copy, DLC:GW.

1Simeon DeWitt (1756–1834), who had served as geographer of the Continental army, was at this time surveyor general of New York.

The Senate received this nomination on this date and consented on 30 May (Senate Executive Journal, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America: From the commencement of the First, to the termination of the Nineteenth Congress. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C., 1828. description ends 212–13). DeWitt declined the appointment (see Timothy Pickering to GW, 27 June, n.2, and GW to Pickering, 1 July; see also GW to John Marshall, 15 July).

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