From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 10 February 1795
To the United States Senate
United States Feby 10th 1795.
Gentlemen of the Senate,
I nominate John Pickering to be District Judge of New Hampshire; vice John Sullivan, deceased, and
Benjamin Woods, to be Attorney for the United States in the District of North Carolina; vice William Hill, resigned.1
Go. Washington.
LB, DLC:GW.
The Senate confirmed these nominations on 11 Feb. (, 172).
On this date Samuel A. Otis wrote to GW’s secretary Bartholomew Dandridge, Jr.: “There is a standing order of Senate that their Secretary transmit a copy of their Records to the President of the United States, the Book in which this has been usually done is in your office. If this book may be obtained I will have the copy brought up” (DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters).
1. Benjamin Woods (d. 1808), a New Bern lawyer, was recommended for this post in letters from John Haywood to North Carolina senators Alexander Martin and Benjamin Hawkins; John Leigh (speaker of the North Carolina House) to Martin; and Thomas Blount (at the request of William R. Davie) to Edmund Randolph (all DLC:GW). He served as U.S. district attorney for North Carolina until his death.