Thomas fitzpatrick of South Carolina had been recommended by Thomas Sumter, Sr., Wade Hampton, and Pierce Butler. TJ appointed him register in place of Edward Turner in November 1804 (Vol. 40:250, 722, 723; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States … to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1828, 3 vols. description ends , 1:472).

Gabriel benson was described in a 21 Nov. 1803 letter by South Carolina congressmen Wade Hampton, John B. Earle, Thomas Moore, Levi Casey, William Butler, and Richard Winn as “a young man of great integrity, and private worth.” He previously served as a revenue collector in the supervisor’s department and now sought public employment in Louisiana (RC to unidentified recipient in DNA: RG 59, LAR, endorsed by TJ: “Benson Gabriel for emploimt in Louisiana”; ASP description begins American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1832-61, 38 vols. description ends , Miscellaneous, 1:287; Biog. Dir. Cong. description begins Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-1989, Washington, D.C., 1989 description ends ).