Enclosure: [Recommendations for Army Appointments], [8 December 1798]

[Enclosure]13

Lieutenant Colonels
	1	[1]	Caleb Gibbs		Boston
	78	[1]	John Walker		Woburn
	76	[1]	Richard Honeywell		Castine [should be, Hunewell]
Majors
	4	[2]	Christopher Marshall		Boston
	5	[1]	Isaac Winslow	[C]	Boston
	12	[1]	William Sheppard Jun~	(son of General Shepherd)14 [would not as his Father says accept a captaincy therefore out of the question]
	39	[1]	John Rowe	[DK]	Boston
	40	[1]	William Jones	[C]	Concord
	47		James Brown	[DK]	[C]
	55	[1]	John Lillie		Milton
	17	[3]	George Ulmer
	79	[1]	Ephraim Emory	[C]	[Haverhill] will accept captaincy
Lt & Adjutant Col
	31	[3]	Jacob Welsh		Lunenberg
	102	[3]	Ralph Bowles
	122	[1]	John Hobby		Portlandt
	136		Benjamin Shaw	[DK]	Newbury Port
	143	[1]	John Blake	[C]	[Orrington in Maine]
Captains
	150	[1]	Stephen Peabody	[S]	Penobscot
	26	[1]	John Burbeck		Boston
	19	[3]	Samuel Treat		ditto
	13	[3]	Ebenezer Kent
	16	[1]	[Samuel] Jordan		Biddeford
	17	[1]	Phineas Ashmen	[S]	Blanford
	21	[2]	John Pyncher		Salem
	28	[1]	Eliaza Williams	[S]	Springfield
	29	[2]	John Cooper		Boston
	33	[1]	[Hall] Tufts	[S]	Medford
	24	[1]	Nathaniel Thwing		Boston

	43		Samuel Greene	[DK S]	Boston 2
	44		Levy Meade	[DK S]	Lexington 2
	46		Jonas Bridge	[DK S]	ditto 2
	48		John Radford	[DK S]	Woburn 1 - 2
	56	[2]	Samuel Fowles	[S]	Watertown 1 - 2
	60	[2]	Augustus Hunt	[S]	Boston Qr 1 - 2
	93	[1]	David C D Forest		[of Sullivan in Maine S]
	101		John Tolman	[DK]	Needham
	104	[1]	Eramus Babbit Jun		[Sturbridge, in the County of] Worcester
	105		Ebenezer Thatcher	[DK]	Lancaster
	112	[1]	John Shepherd [an Englishman naturalized ab 4 years]		Waldoboro
	114		William Henshaw	[DK]	New Bedford
	115	[1]	Robert Duncan Jun~	[S]
	116		James Cunningham	[DK]	Lunenberg
	120	[1]	William Williams [if a hatter]		Boston
	123	[1]	Isaac Rand Jun	[S]
	138 [1] Thomas Bowman [(if of ye County of)] Lincoln [in Maine]
	139	[1]	Thomas Chandler		Worster
	140	[1]	Nathaniel Balch		Boston
	144		Eli Forbes	[DK]
	145	[1]	Thomas Philips		Castine
Subalterns
	9	[1]	James Church		Springfield [S]
	14	[3]	Joseph H Dwight		Belcher Town
	10	[1]	John Page Jun~	[E]	Salem
	11	[1]	Charles Hunt	[E]	Watertown
[E]	22		Jonathan Nichols	[DK]
	30	[1]	John Wheelright		Boston
	35		Seth Smith Junr	[DK]	Norton 2
	38		William Swan	[DK]
[E]	40		Abijah Harrington	[DK]	Lexington
	49	[1]	Caleb Aspinwall		Portland
	54	[1]	William Leverett	[E]	Boston
	57	[1]	William A Barron		Cambrige
	72		Ward Eaton, Haverill	[DK]
[E]	81		Daniel Hastings		New Town
	83	[1]	Nathaniel Soley		Charlestown
[E]	85		Moses M Bates		Springfield
[E]	86		Thomas Durant	[DK]	New Town
	58	[1]	James M Wheaton	[E]	Maine
	90	[1]	Willard Tayles	[E]	Maine
[E]	91		Jacob Ulmer	[DK]	Maine
	92		James Austin	[DK]	Boston Qr

[E]	95		Marshall Spring	[DK]	Weston
	96		Thomas Held	[DK]	Concord
[E]	99		Daniel Bell	[DK]	Boston Qr.
	100	[1]	Charles Cutler		do
[E]	103		Duncan Ingraham Tertius	[DK]	Green Wale farm Poughkeepsie
	107		Rufus Childs	[DK]	Stockbrige
	108		Alpheus Cheny	[DK]	do
	134		Samuel P. Fay	[DK]	Concord
[E]	138		James Gardner	[DK]	Boston
	141	[3]	Thomas W Hooper		Neubury Port
	145	[1]	Nathaniel Kidder		Belfast
	146	[1]	Joseph Lee		Castine Qr
	146	[1]	Warren Hall	[E]	Castine Qr

[additions by B G and others
1	John Roulstone of Boston E
1	Solomon Phelps of Westfield for Captain
1	William Heywood of Winslow in Maine for do.
1	Jacob Allen jn of Sturbridge in Worcester Cty. S
1	Simion Draper of Brookfield for Captain
1	Samuel Flagg jn of Worcester for a lieutency.]

13. AD, with insertions in the handwriting of Benjamin Goodhue, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. The material in brackets in this document is in Goodhue’s handwriting.

In this list, as well as in similar lists, of recommendations for Army appointments, those recommended have not been identified.

14. William Shepherd.

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Source Project: Hamilton Papers
Title: Enclosure: [Recommendations for Army Appointments], [8 December 1798]
Authors: Foster, Dwight
Goodhue, Benjamin
Hamilton, Alexander
Otis, Harrison Gray
Parker, Isaac
Sewall, Samuel
Recipient: Hamilton, Alexander
Date: 8 December 1798

Reference

Cite as: “Enclosure: [Recommendations for Army Appointments], [8 December 1798],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-22-02-0177-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 22, July 1798 – March 1799, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975, pp. 317–319.]