201From John Adams to United States Senate, 15 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate James Daniel of Virginia to be Inspector of the Revenue for the third Survey of the District of Virginia in the place of Mayo Carrington resigned. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
202From John Adams to United States Senate, 24 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
I nominate the Hon. Elijah Paine of Vermont to be Judge of that district in the place of Judge Hitchcock promoted Thomas Gibbons of Georgia to be judge of that district in the place of Judge Clay promoted. Turell Tufts Esqr. our consull at Surrinam to be commercial Agent at L’Orient Thomas Aborn of Rhode Island to be commercial agent at Cayenne. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
203From John Adams to United States Senate, 27 March 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Griffith John McRee Esqr. of North Carolina to be Collector for the District of Wilmington in that State, in the Place of James Read Esqr DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
204From John Adams to United States Senate, 1 January 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Arthur Sinclair to be Governor of the Territory of the United States North West of the River Ohio for another Period established by Law DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
205From John Adams to United States Senate, 26 February 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate William Maubray Esqr. of Georgia to be Collector for the Port and district of St: Marys, in the place of James Seagrove Esqr. who has resigned DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
206From John Adams to United States Senate, 27 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate James Powell of Georgia to be Collector of the District of Savannah in the place of John Habersham deceased. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
207From John Adams to United States Senate, 30 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Charles Willing Byrd Esqr: of Virginia to be Secretary of the Territory North West of the River Ohio, in the place of William Henry Harrison Esqr: who has resigned. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
208From John Adams to United States Senate, 30 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate William Vincent Hutchins to be a Lieutenant in the Navy John Strout to be a Lieutenant of the Navy Lakin Thorndike to be a Surgeon in the Navy These officers John are intended for the sloop of War The Herald at Boston, The Rank may be settled hereafter. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
209From 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...
210From John Adams to United States Senate, 16 February 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Edward Stevens of Phyladelphia to be Consul General of the United States in the Island of St Domingo. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
211From John Adams to United States Senate, 25 February 1801 (Adams Papers)
I nominate the Hon. Philip Barton Key of Maryland to be chief Judge of the fourth Circuit in the place of the Hon Charles Lee who has declined his appointment Charles Magill Esqr of the West district of Virginia to be a judge of the fourth circuit DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
212From John Adams to United States Senate, 19 February 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Richard Derby of Massachusetts to be a Captain in the Navy DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
213From John Adams to United States Senate, 5 February 1798 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Lucius Horatio Stockton of New Jersey to be the Attorney of the United States for the District of New Jersey, in the place of Abraham Ogden Esqr. deceased. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
214From John Adams to United States Senate, 24 May 1797 (Adams Papers)
It would be an affectation in me, to dissemble the pleasure I feel, on receiving this kind address. My long experience of the Wisdom, Fortitude, and Patriotism, of the Senate of the United States, enhances in my estimation, the Value of those obliging expressions of your approbation of my conduct, which are a generous reward for the past, and an affecting encouragement to constancy and...
215Memorial of Charleston Merchants to the Senate, 2 November 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Charleston, 2 Nov. 1797. They represent that by the laws of South Carolina and by practice of long standing, the wharves onto which imported goods are unladen in the city of Charleston are privately owned and the proprietors of the wharves have collected fees for the weighing of merchandise. The present collector of the port refuses to recognize the wharfholders’ agents as weighers. He...
216Memorial of Charleston Wharfholders to the Senate, 10 November 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
Charleston, 10 Nov. 1797. The owners and lessees of wharves in the city of Charleston represent that a compact among planters, merchants, and wharfholders to regulate the docking of vessels and the landing, weighing, and storage of goods in the city was codified by an act passed by the assembly of South Carolina on 12 Apr. 1768. That law specified rates for weighing merchandise, established...
217Address to the Senate, [4 March 1797] (Jefferson Papers)
Entering on the duties of the office to which I am called, I feel it incumbent on me to apologize to this honourable house for the insufficient manner in which I fear they may be discharged. At an earlier period of my life, and through some considerable portion of it, I have been a member of legislative bodies, and not altogether inattentive to the forms of their proceedings; but much time has...
218Address from Samuel Sitgreaves to the Senate, [7 February 1798] (Jefferson Papers)
The House of Representatives having agreed upon Articles in Maintenance of their Impeachment against William Blount for High Crimes & Misdemeanors, and having appointed on their Part Managers of the said Impeachment, the Managers have now the Honor to attend the Senate for the Purpose of exhibiting the said Articles MS ( DNA : RG 46, Senate Records, 5th Cong., 2d sess.); in an unknown hand;...