181From John Adams to United States Senate, 4 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate John Hall of Pennsylvania to be Marshal of that district, in the room of William Nicholls resigned: and David Mead Randolph, the present marshal of the district of Virginia, for the term of four years, to commence on the fifteenth instant, when his existing commission will expire. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
182From John Adams to United States Senate, 4 December 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Alfred Moore of North Carolina to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the room of the late justice Iredell, deceased. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
183From John Adams to United States Senate, 16 July 1799 (Adams Papers)
Certain matters touching the public good, requiring that the session of the Senate, for Executive business, should be continued, and that the members thereof should convene on Tuesday, the 17th day fo July, inst., you are desired to attend at the Senate Chamber, in Philadelphia, on that day, at ten o’clock in the forenoon, then and there to receive and deliberate on such communications as...
184From John Adams to United States Senate, 2 March 1799 (Adams Papers)
I inclose the copy of a letter of the 6th ult. from Governor St. Clair, and the copy of the certificate therein mentioned, of the nomination of ten persons, of whom five are to be selected to constitute the Legislative Council for the Territory Northwest of the River Ohio. I have accordingly selected, and now nominate, Jacob Burnet, James Findlay, Henry Vanderburg, Robert Oliver and David...
185From John Adams to United States Senate, 2 March 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate the following Gentlemen for Offices in the Army Infantry.— Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Rice Massachusetts Richard Hunnewell ditto Major William Jones Massachusetts. Captains Phineas Ashmun Massachusetts Joseph Peirce Junr. ditto Arthur Lithgow ditto Jonathan Andrews Rhode Island George Woodward
186From John Adams to United States Senate, 2 March 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Robert Ritchie of Pennsylvania to be the Consul of the United States for Port au Prince, in the Island of St. Domingo. DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
187From John Adams to United States Senate, 1 March 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate Joshua Head of Massachusetts to be Collector of the District of Waldoborough and Inspector of the Revenue for the Same Port in the Place of Waterman Thomas Superceeded DNA : RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
188From John Adams to United States Senate, 1 March 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate the following Gentlemen to be Officers in the Army First Regiment of Infantry— Lieutt. Jacob Kreemer Captain vice Harrison resigned... 1. June 1798. do. Daniel Bissell ditto vice Gaines... ditto... 1. January 1799. do. Charles Hyde ditto in pursuance of the Act of 16 July 1798. do. John Michael ditto ditto
189From John Adams to United States Senate, 27 February 1799 (Adams Papers)
I nominate the following Gentlemen to be Officers in the Navy Richard Marner, of New York to be a Lieutenant in the Navy Thomas Laing, of Rhode Island to be a Lieutenant in the Navy. Isaac B. Hickbourne, of South Carolina, to be a Lieutenant in the Navy. Samuel Phillips—of Rhode Island to be a Lieutenant in the Navy. William Smith of South Carolina, to be a Lieutenant in the Navy Robert...
190From John Adams to United States Senate, 25 February 1799 (Adams Papers)
The Proposition of a fresh Negotiation with France, in Consequence of Advances made by the French Government, has excited so general an Attention and so much Conversation, as to have given occasion to many manifestations of the public opinion from which it appears to me, that a new modification of the Embassy, will give more general Satisfaction to the Legislature and to the Nation and perhaps...