From John Adams to United States Senate, 2 January 1801
United States Jan 2 1801.
Gentlemen of the Senate
I nominate John Stuart Kerr Esqr. a native of Philadelphia, now resident in the Phillippine Islands to be Consul of the United States for the city and island of Manilla in the dominion of the king of Spain
John Adams
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.