From John Adams to United States Senate, 2 March 1801
United States March 2d 1801.
Gentlemen of the Senate
I nominate the Hon. Frederick Frelinghausen Es. of N. Jersey to be Attorney of the U.S. for that district in the place of Lucius Horatio Stockton who has resigned that office
John Adams
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.