George Taylor, Jr., to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr., 27 October 1795
George Taylor, Jr., to Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr.
27. Octr 1795
G. Taylor Jr. presents his compliments to Mr Dandridge—and informs him that previous to the President’s departure for Virginia vizt on the 7. Sept. last there were remaining in the office signed by the President 9. Commissions for officers employed in the collection of the Revenue and 8 for officers of the revenue Cutters—of which number there have been issued agreeably to orders from the Secretary of the Treasury as follows
| Joseph Aborn of Rhode Island | Inspector | Port of Patuxet |
| do | Surveyor | do |
| John Grayson of So. Caro. | Inspector | Port of Beaufort |
| do | Collector | Dist. of Beaufort |
| Moses Kempton of N. Jersey | Collector | Dist. Burlington |
| do | Inspector | do |
| David William Scott of Virga | Inspector | Port of Dumfries |
| do | Collector | do |
| Jas Benjamin Maxwell of Georgia | Surveyor | Port of Savannah |
| Samuel Odiorn of N. Hampshire | 2d Mate of a Cutter1— | |
making in the whole 9 of the former & one of the latter. and that the commission now enclosed will complete the number requested in a letter from the Secy of the Treasury of the 26. inst.2
Mr Randolph has this moment left a press copy of a private letter which he wrote to the President on the 12. July last on the subject of the Treaty in order to have some of the passages which are faintly taken, retraced from the record which he supposed was in the office—but as that is not the case he supposed that the original might be procured for that purpose from Mr D. and requested G.T. to apply for it.3
AL, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB, DNA: RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. The letter-book copy lacks the final paragraph, which appears in the AL as a postscript.
1. David Wilson (not William) Scott (1766–1827) was the brother of the former collector at Dumfries, Va., Richard Marshall Scott, who wrote to GW in his resignation letter of 16 Oct. that his brother had “transacted the business of this Office for Six years past” and was “well qualified to Conduct it in future” (DLC:GW). David Scott resigned the post in 1797 and became a merchant at Alexandria, Virginia.
James Benjamin Maxwell (1765–1805) was elected in 1794 to represent Bryan County in the Georgia House (Georgia Gazette [Savannah], 16 Oct. 1794). He again served in the Georgia House, 1802–4. Maxwell resigned the post as surveyor at Savannah in 1796.
Samuel Odiorne, who was commissioned as third mate of the coast guard cutter Scammel in 1792, served as second mate from 1796 to 1798. The appointments of the collectors were submitted to the U.S. Senate with GW’s letter of 10 December.
2. In his letter to Timothy Pickering of 26 Oct., Treasury Secretary Oliver Wolcott, Jr., requested that commissions be prepared for Scott, Maxwell, and Odiorne (DLC:GW).
3. The original of Edmund Randolph’s letter to GW of 12 July is now in the records of the State Department.