201From John Adams to United States Senate, 2 March 1799 (Adams Papers)
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
202From John Adams to United States Senate, 8 December 1800 (Adams Papers)
I nominate the folowing gentlemen to the respective offices affixed to their names Henry Hammond Consul of the United States for the port of Cape Francois David Hopkins Marshall for the District of Maryland John Marshall a Commissioner in the room of Timothy Pickering under the 1st Section of the “Act for an amicable settlement of limits, with the State of Georgia William Clark Chief Justice...
203From John Adams to United States Senate, 23 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I receive, with the most respectful and affectionate sentiments, in this impressive address, the obliging expressions of your regard for the loss our country has sustained in the death of her most esteemed, beloved, and admired citizen. In the multitude of my thoughts and recollections on this melancholy event, you will permit me only to say, that I have seen him in the days of adversity, in...
204From John Adams to United States Senate, 10 February 1799 (Adams Papers)
I transmit to you a document which seems to be intended to be a compliance with a condition mentioned at the conclusion of my message to congress of the twenty first of June last. Always disposed and ready to embrace every plausible appearance of probability of preserving or restoring tranquility I nominate William Vans Murray our minister President at the Hague to be minister plenipotentiary...
205From John Adams to United States Senate, 7 July 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate P. Fletcher———of Massachusetts, to be first Lieutenant of the Frigate Constitution, to fill the place of Mr. Prebble who is absent—this Gentleman has merits, services and talents to be a Captain in the Navy, and I should nominate him as such, but the absence of Mr. Prebble renders it necessary, that his place should be filled; as soon as he returns, he may take his station and Mr....
206From John Adams to United States Senate, 11 December 1800 (Adams Papers)
I nominate, for confirmation, the following Gentlemen, who have been provisionally appointed, during the recess of the Senate in 1800— William Bainbridge, of Pennsa} Hugh G. Campbell, of S. Carolina} Promoted from Masters Commandants, To be Captains in the Navy. Benjamin Hillar of Massachusetts—Promoted from Lieutenant, To be a Master Commandant. John S K Cox, of Massachusetts, promoted from...
207From John Adams to United States Senate, 4 December 1797 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Samuel Williams our Consul at Hamburgh to be Consul of the United States at London in the Place of Joshua Johnson resigned. Thomas Crafts of Massachusetts to be Consul of the United States at Bourdeaux in the Republic of France in the place of Joseph Fenwick, dismissed. Richard Yates of Maryland, to be Consul of the United States at Aux Cayes in the Island of St. Domingo in the...
208From John Adams to United States Senate, 5 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate the Gentlemen in the inclosed List to the offices placed against their Names, excepting William Nichols who has resigned the Office of Marshall of Pennsylvania Commissions issued in the recess of the Senate Isaac Parker, Marshal for the District of Maine—5 March ‘99 William Nichols, Marshal for the District of Pennsylvania 26 June James Winchester, Judge of the District of Maryland...
209From John Adams to United States Senate, 24 June 1797 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Robert Hamilton to be Marshall of the District of Delaware in the room of Allan McLane resigned. Sylvanus Bourne, of Massachusetts to be Consul General of the United States, in the Batavian Republic. John Beeldemaker to be Consul of the United States for Rotterdam John Baptiste Sartori to be Consul of the United States at Rome. Job Wall of Rhode Island to be Consul of the United...
210From John Adams to United States Senate, 6 December 1797 (Adams Papers)
Isaac Smith Esqr, who was appointed with the Advice and consent of the Senate to hold a Treaty with the Seneka nation of Indians, to superintend the purchase of a parcel of their Land, under a Right of pre-emption, derived from the State of Massachusetts and situated within the State of New York, having declined that service, Jeremiah Wadsworth Esqr was appointed during your recess, to hold a...