Enclosure: [List of Cavalry Officers], [10 May 1799]
[Enclosure]3
Cavalry
John Watts | Colonel | Virginia |
Solomon Van Rensselaer | Major | New York |
John Taylor | ditto | Virginia |
James Taylor | Captain | |
James V. Ball | ditto | |
Richard Willing | ditto | Pennsylvania |
Benjamin Williamson | ditto | New Jersey |
John B. Armistead | ditto | Virginia |
William Spencer | ditto | Maryland |
James Burn | ditto | South Carolina |
John Webb | Lieutenant | |
Stephen G. Simmons | ditto | |
William Tharp | ditto | |
Robert Gray | ditto | Pennsylvania |
John Walbach | ditto | ditto |
George Washington Craik | ditto | Virginia |
Laurence Washington | ditto | ditto |
Richard Tilghman | ditto | Maryland |
William C. Rogers | 2. Lieut. | Pennsylvania |
Alexander McComb Junr. | ditto | New York |
Charles Tutt | ditto | Virginia |
George W. P. Custus | ditto | ditto |
Carter B. Fontaine | ditto | ditto |
Richard Cooke | ditto | Maryland |
3. Copy, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
In the Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress, is a second list of cavalry officers. This list, which is entitled “Officers of the Cavalry,” gives the dates on which the officers accepted their commissions.