From John Adams to United States Senate, 31 December 1798
December 31. 1798
Gentlemen of the Senate
I nominate the following Persons, for Officers to the Regiments directed to be raised, by a Law passed the Sixteenth day of July last.
Cavalry |
Lieutenant Colonel |
John Watts................................. Virginia |
Majors. |
Solomon Van Rensselaer........New York |
John Tayloe................................ Virginia |
Captains. |
Richard Willing................. Pennsylvania |
Benjamin Williamson........... New Jersey |
Lawrence Lewis......................... Virginia |
John B. Armistead...........................ditto |
William Spencer...................... Maryland |
Lieutenants. |
Robert Gray....................... Pennsylvania |
John Walback.................................. ditto |
George Washington Craik......... Virginia |
Laurence Washington...................... ditto |
Charles F. Mercer............................ ditto |
Richard Tilghman. 5th............... Maryland |
Cornets. |
William C. Rogers............. Pennsylvania |
Alexander McComb Junr........ New York |
Charles Tutt............................... Virginia |
George W. P. Custis........................ ditto |
Carter B. Fontaine............................ ditto |
Richard Cook........................... Maryland |
Infantry |
Lieutenant Colonels. |
Nathaniel White............ New Hampshire |
Simon Elliott.................... Massachusetts |
William S. Smith.................... New York |
Aaron Ogden........................ New Jersey |
Thomas L. Moore.............. Pennsylvania |
Josias C. Hall........................... Maryland |
Thomas Parker........................... Virginia |
William Bentley............................... ditto |
Majors. |
John Walker..................... Massachusetts |
Isaac Winslow.................................. ditto |
John Rowe....................................... ditto |
William Wilcox...................... New York |
Christopher Hutton.......................... ditto |
William Shute....................... New Jersey |
John Adlum........................ Pennsylvania |
William Henderson.......................... ditto |
George Stephenson.......................... ditto |
William D Beall...................... Maryland |
David Hopkins................................. ditto |
Simon Morgan........................... Virginia |
William Campbell............................ ditto |
Robert Beall.................................... ditto |
James Baytop.................................. ditto |
Captains. |
Josiah Dunham...............New Hampshire |
Nathaniel Greene............................. ditto |
Robert Parker................................... ditto |
Henry Tilton.................................... ditto |
William Woodward.................. Vermont |
Israel Elliott Trask........................... ditto |
John Rogers....................... Rhode Island |
George Tillinghast........................... ditto |
Abraham R. Ellery........................... ditto |
William Jones.................. Massachusetts |
James Brown.................................... ditto |
Erasmus Babbet Junr....................... ditto |
Ephraim Emmery............................. ditto |
John Tolman.................................... ditto |
Solomon Phelps............................... ditto |
Ebenezer Thatcher........................... ditto |
Thomas Chandler............................. ditto |
Nathaniel Thwing............................ ditto |
John Burbeck................................... ditto |
Nathaniel Balch Junr....................... ditto |
Hall Tufts......................................... ditto |
John Pynchion................................. ditto |
Simeon Draper................................. ditto |
John Blake....................................... ditto |
Samuel Jordon................................. ditto |
William Heywood............................ ditto |
Caleb Aspinwall.............................. ditto |
Stephen Peabody.............. Massachusetts |
Thomas Philips................................ ditto |
Dowe J Fondy....................... New York |
James Bennett.................................. ditto |
Andrew White.................................. ditto |
George W. Kirkland........................ ditto |
Hermanus P. Schuyler..................... ditto |
Adrian Kissam................................. ditto |
John W. Patterson............................ ditto |
Justus B Smith................................ ditto |
Jeremiah Landon.............................. ditto |
Philip Church................................... ditto |
Robert Hunt.......................... New Jersey |
Charles Marles................................. ditto |
Job Stockton.................................... ditto |
Denise Foreman............................... ditto |
Almarine Brookes............................ ditto |
Samuel White.......................... Delaware |
Samuel Bowman................ Pennsylvania |
Peter Faulkner.................................. ditto |
Joseph McKinney............................ ditto |
James Blaine.................................... ditto |
Andrew Johnston............................. ditto |
Matthew Henry................................. ditto |
William R. Atlee.............................. ditto |
Hugh Brady...................................... ditto |
William Graham.............................. ditto |
David Duncan.................................. ditto |
John C. Beatty......................... Maryland |
Thomas Beatty Junr......................... ditto |
Lloyd Beall...................................... ditto |
Gerard Briscoe................................. ditto |
Rezin Davidge................................. ditto |
Bradley Beans.......................... Maryland |
Isaac Spencer................................... ditto |
William Nicholson........................... ditto |
Jacob Norris...................................... ditto |
Presley Thornton........................ Virginia |
Robert Gregg................................... ditto |
Henry Pearcy................................... ditto |
George S. Washington..................... ditto |
Richard Chinn.................................. ditto |
Garnet Peyton.................................. ditto |
Daniel C. Lane................................. ditto |
Philip Lightfoot............................... ditto |
Edmund Taylor................................ ditto |
Daniel Ball....................................... ditto |
Edmund Clarke................................ ditto |
John Davidson................................. ditto |
Archibald Randolph......................... ditto |
Bartholomew Dandridge.................. ditto |
Thomas Turner................................ ditto |
William Campbell............................ ditto |
John Greene..................................... ditto |
Robert King..................................... ditto |
James Caldwell................................ ditto |
William Dangerfield................ Kentucky |
Fleming Woodbridge....................... ditto |
William P. Anderson.............. Tennessee |
Lieutenants. |
Francis Gardner............. New Hampshire |
Daniel M. Durell.............................. ditto |
Abel Hutchins.................................. ditto |
Sylvester G. Whipple....................... ditto |
Ephraim Whitney...................... Vermont |
Whipple Lovett.................. Rhode Island |
Robert Overing................................ ditto |
Thomas Brindley............................. ditto |
James Church................... Massachusetts |
Nathaniel Soley................................ ditto |
Jacob Allen...................................... ditto |
William A Baron............................ ditto |
Robert Duncan Junr......................... ditto |
Phineas Ashmun.............................. ditto |
Alpheus Cheney............................... ditto |
Samuel Flagg Junr........................... ditto |
John Wheelwright............................ ditto |
Isaac Rand Junior............................. ditto |
Charles Cutler.................................. ditto |
William Swan.................................. ditto |
Samuel P. Fay.................................. ditto |
Eleazer Williams.............................. ditto |
Nathaniel Kidder.............................. ditto |
Thomas Bowman............................. ditto |
Ebenezer Bradish Junr..................... ditto |
John Shepherd.................................. ditto |
Joseph Lee....................................... ditto |
David C. D. Forrest.......................... ditto |
Philip S. Schuyler................... New York |
Elhanan W. Wheeler........................ ditto |
Moses Foster.................................... ditto |
Thomas Thompson.......................... ditto |
David Jones...................................... ditto |
Robert Le Roy Livingston............... ditto |
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William B. Peters............................. ditto |
Henry W. Ludlow............................ ditto |
Thomas Reading Junr........... New Jersey |
Robert C. Thompson........................ ditto |
Samuel C. Voorhees........................ ditto |
Walter K Cole................................. ditto |
John C. MacWhorter........... New Jersey |
William Potter.................................. ditto |
Samuel Irwine.................... Pennsylvania |
Henry Betz....................................... ditto |
William Carson................................ ditto |
John Sharp....................................... ditto |
Samuel B. Magaw............................ ditto |
Henry G. Slough.............................. ditto |
Samuel Fulton.................................. ditto |
Josiah McElwaine............................ ditto |
James P. Nelson............................... ditto |
Robert Laurence.............................. ditto |
Benjamin Wallace............................ ditto |
William Elliott......................... Maryland |
Edward A Howard.......................... ditto |
Richard W. West.............................. ditto |
John B. Barnes................................. ditto |
Ninnian Pinckney............................ ditto |
Levi Alexander................................ ditto |
Matthew Tilghman.......................... ditto |
Henry C. Neale................................ ditto |
Aquila Beall..................................... ditto |
Francis Fouchee......................... Virginia |
James Duncanson............................ ditto |
Lemuel Bent.................................... ditto |
Robert Gustin................................... ditto |
George Tate..................................... ditto |
Charles J Love.................................... ditto |
John G Brown................................. ditto |
John Williams.................................. ditto |
Thomas Jameson.............................. ditto |
John Campbell................................. ditto |
John Braham.................................... ditto |
Robert Carrington............................ ditto |
Brewer Godwin Junr........................ ditto |
Robert Temple................................. ditto |
Jesse Ewell Junr......................... Virginia |
Joseph Grigsby................................ ditto |
Addison Armistead.......................... ditto |
Samuel J. Winston........................... ditto |
Calvin Morgan................................. ditto |
John Jameson........................... Kentucky |
Charles Kilgoar................................ ditto |
Lewis Tiner............................ Tennessee |
Ensigns. |
Arthur Rogers............... New Hampshire |
Moses Sweet.................................... ditto |
Israel Bartlet.................................... ditto |
Samuel Parker.................................. ditto |
Jesse Lull.................................. Vermont |
Daniel Baker.................................... ditto |
Cary Clarke........................ Rhode Island |
Ozias Danforth................................. ditto |
William E. Greene........................... ditto |
Thomas Heald.................. Massachusetts |
Abijah Harrington............................ ditto |
Moses M. Bates............................... ditto |
Charles Hunt.................................... ditto |
James Gardner................................. ditto |
Marshall Spring............................... ditto |
Daniel Hastings................................ ditto |
Duncan Ingraham (tertius.......... ditto |
William Leverett.............................. ditto |
John Roulstone................................ ditto |
Jonathan Nicholls............................ ditto |
Daniel Bell....................................... ditto |
John Page Junr................................. ditto |
Thomas Durant................................ ditto |
David Fales Junr.............. Massachusetts |
Franklin Tinkham............................ ditto |
Willard Fales.................................... ditto |
Warren Hall..................................... ditto |
James D Wheaton........................... ditto |
John Duer............................... New York |
William W. Wands.......................... ditto |
Prosper Brown................................. ditto |
William Cummings.......................... ditto |
William Coxe................................... ditto |
George F. Harrison.......................... ditto |
Samuel Hoffman.............................. ditto |
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Thomas W. Williams....................... ditto |
Jacob C. Ten Eyck........................... ditto |
William Pratt........................ New Jersey |
Thomas Bullman................................ ditto |
Charles Read.................................... ditto |
Henry Drake.................................... ditto |
Hetchcote Johnston.......................... ditto |
James Rhea...................................... ditto |
James Clayton Junr.................. Delaware |
John Milroy........................ Pennsylvania |
Benjamin Worrell............................ ditto |
John Montgomery............................ ditto |
George Hammell.............................. ditto |
Archibald Davis............................... ditto |
John A Douglas.............................. ditto |
Herman Witner................................ ditto |
Hugh H. Potts.................................. ditto |
John S. Porter................................... ditto |
John Smith......................... Pennsylvania |
Robert Chambers............................. ditto |
Alexander McNair........................... ditto |
Thomas Lee..................................... ditto |
Alexander Cooper.................... Maryland |
John Brangle.................................... ditto |
Enos Noland.................................... ditto |
Thomas Dent.................................... ditto |
Levi Hillary...................................... ditto |
John Warren..................................... ditto |
William Swan.................................. ditto |
Levi G. Ford.................................... ditto |
Daniel Hughes................................. ditto |
Reuben Thornton....................... Virginia |
James Tutt Junr................................ ditto |
Obadiah Clifford.............................. ditto |
Simon Owens................................... ditto |
George W. Humphries..................... ditto |
John Crane Junior............................ ditto |
Strother Settle.................................. ditto |
John C. Williams............................. ditto |
Charles Shackleford......................... ditto |
John T. Fitzhugh.............................. ditto |
Andrew M Lusk.............................. ditto |
James Brown.................................... ditto |
Gerard Roberts................................. ditto |
William Potts................................... ditto |
Alexander Henderson...................... ditto |
George Armistead............................ ditto |
William Dean................................... ditto |
Horatio Stark.................................... ditto |
Peter Lamkin.................................... ditto |
Jesse Dold........................................ ditto |
Willis Morgan.......................... Kentucky |
Elijah Johnson......................... Kentucky |
Edmund P. Gaines.................. Tennessee |
A want of Materials alone has prevented a complete Nomination for the whole of the Troops directed to be raised. Care will be taken that this necessary Postponement, Shall in no manner affect the relative Rank of the officers to be yet appointed. Nor is it intended that the order of nomination in this List shall have any Influence in the Ultimate Settlement of the Rank of these officers. They will only be directed to Obey in the order in which they here stand, untill an Ulteriour Arrangement shall be made
John Adams.
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.