From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 3 March 1797
To the United States Senate
United States
March 3d 1797.
Gentlemen of the Senate.
I nominate Anthony Walton White of New-Jersey to be Surveyor for the Port of New Brunswick and Inspector of the Revenue for the same.1
Go: Washington
LS, DNA: RG 46, entry 52; LB, DLC:GW.
The Senate confirmed Anthony Walton White’s nomination on this date (see
, 231–32).1. White served as surveyor at New Brunswick, N.J., until his resignation in 1802 (see Thomas Jefferson to the Senate, 10 March 1802, in , 37:52–53).