1. On 26 June, John Kilty wrote GW: “I received on the 22nd instant, under cover from the Revenue Office, the Commission with which Your Excellency has been pleased to honour me, and repaired the next day to Baltimore, from whence I am just returned to make some dispositions, preparatory to the removal of my Family.

“I beg permission, Sir, to use this first moment of respite from the perusal … of the Laws &ca composing the System of internal Revenue, to offer to you Excellency the tribute of my most grateful acknowledgements for the Signal mark of Confidence and the important benefit you have conferred on me.” In closing, Kilty promised, “neither at the outset, nor at any future period, shall my diligence or zeal in the excercise of the Trust reposed in me, fall short of the anxiety I have shewn to obtain it” (ALS, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters).

2. William Simmons (c.1759–1825), a Continental army veteran, served in this office until his controversial dismissal in 1814. A printed copy of Simmons’s commission, dated 13 June, is found in The Evening Post (New York) of 11 July 1814.

3. Pierre Eric Skjöldebrand, Jr., was the younger brother of Mathias Skjöldebrand, Swedish consul at Algiers. GW nominated him to replace John Paul Jones, who was appointed consul on 1 June 1792 but died before receiving his commission (see Thomas Jefferson’s Report on Morocco and Algiers, 14 Dec. 1793, enclosed in GW’s second letter to Congress of 16 Dec. 1793). GW on 2 March had suggested to Congress the need for a consul at Algiers, but the Senate tabled the decision. The House of Representatives referred the message to a committee, which reported back the same day. The House then tabled the report and took no further action (see Journal of the Senate, description begins The Journal of the Senate including The Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate: George Washington Administration 1789–1797. Edited by Martin P. Claussen. 9 vols. Wilmington, Del., 1977. description ends 7:103; and Journal of the House, description begins The Journal of the House of Representatives: George Washington Administration 1789–1797. Edited by Martin P. Claussen. 9 vols. Wilmington, Del., 1977. description ends 7:297–99). On 3 April, GW signed Skjöldebrand’s commission (see JPP, description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends 326) and submitted a formal nomination to the Senate during the special session.

On 13 Aug., Skjöldebrand wrote David Humphreys about the appointment: “it is very flattering for me; but you will permit me to look upon it as a compliment for which I am obliged to you only, for having probably presented to the President a description too advantageous of my small talents … and being naturally persuaded that such a ministerial employment as that of the consulate of Algiers ought not to be confided to any other than an American citizen, I think I have no need to say more about it, nor to mention it to my court, without whose permission I can, in such case, undertake nothing” (ASP description begins Walter Lowrie et al., eds. American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 38 vols. Washington, D.C., Gales and Seaton, 1832–61. description ends , Foreign Relations, 1:529–30). Skjöldebrand ultimately served as American consul at Algiers from 21 June 1796 to 31 Aug. 1797.

4. George Phillips (1750–1802) was a merchant of Middletown, Conn., where the voters in 1787 elected him to represent the town in the state assembly. He held the appointment of customs collector until December 1797 and later moved to Savannah, Georgia.

5. Waterman Thomas was a merchant. He remained in office until 1799.

6. Thomas Vose (d. 1810) served as a lieutenant and then a captain in the Continental artillery during the Revolution. He owned a store in Thomaston, Maine, and remained in office until 1798.

7. William Tuck (1740–1826) of Massachusetts worked as a sea captain before the Revolution. In 1777 he represented Manchester in the Massachusetts General Court. Tuck also commanded the privateer Remington beginning in that year. He served as a justice of the peace in Manchester and continued as collector until 1803.

8. Henry Malcolm (c.1755–1831) served as a surgeon on the Columbus during the Revolution. He held the office of collector until replaced in 1814.

9. Richard Dickinson (1731–1820) of Saybrook, Conn., served as a militia captain, 1754–63. He worked on the Committee of Safety and Inspection for Saybrook in 1775 and served in the naval forces during the Revolution. He held the offices of surveyor and inspector of the revenue until 1803.

10. William Adams (1742–1795) served in the Continental army from 1775 to 1781. He lived in Hartford and became the first city clerk there in 1784. Adams continued in that office at the time of his federal appointment, but he died on 24 June, twelve days after his nomination. On 10 Dec., GW nominated Solomon Porter of Connecticut to replace Adams (Senate Executive Journal, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America: From the commencement of the First, to the termination of the Nineteenth Congress. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C., 1828. description ends 194).