Adams Papers

From John Adams to United States Senate, 12 December 1798

Decr. 12. 1798

Gentlemen of the Senate

I nominate John Faulcon of North Carolina to be a Commissioner under the Act for the Valuation of Land and Dwelling Houses and the Enumeration of slaves for the third Division of that state in the Room of Joseph John Williams who has declined his Appointment

William Peck to be Marshall for the District of Rhode Island

Charles Burnham Cockran to be Marshall for the District of South Carolina, and

Jacob Graybell to be Marshall of the District of Maryland.

John Adams

DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.

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