15. AD, George Washington Papers, Library of Congress.

In this list of recommendations for Army appointments, those recommended have not been identified. Whenever possible, however, the individuals making the recommendations have been identified.

16. Mordecai Hale, a veteran of the American Revolution, was a resident of Westchester County and a member of the New York Assembly in 1796 and 1797.

17. Henry Glen, a resident of Schenectady, New York, was a member of the New York Assembly in 1786 and 1787 and a member of the House of Representatives from 1793 to 1801.

18. David Brooks was a resident of Dutchess County and a Federalist. He served as a member of the New York Assembly in 1794, 1795, and 1796. From November 24, 1795, to June 4, 1807, he was a county judge.

19. John E. Van Allen (Alen), a resident of Rensselaer County, served as a Federalist member of the House of Representatives from 1793 to 1799.

20. James Cochran, who had been H’s law clerk, was admitted to practice before the New York Supreme Court on October 20, 1790 (MS Minutes of the New York Supreme Court, 1790 [Hall of Records, New York City]). He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1797 to 1799.

21. Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, a veteran of the American Revolution, was a resident of Rensselaer County and a Republican. He served in the New York Assembly in the 1788–1789 session and was a member of the House of Representatives from 1789 to 1791. In 1798 he became president of the Bank of Albany.

22. John Robinson was an Albany merchant.

23. John Tayler, a resident of Albany County, served in the New York Assembly from 1777 to 1779, from 1780 to 1781, and in 1786 and 1787. From February 7, 1797, to January, 1803, he was a county judge for Albany County.

24. Abraham Van Vechten, a resident of Albany, had been assistant attorney general for the Fifth District of New York from February, 1796, to February, 1797. In 1798 he was elected to the state Senate as a Federalist.

25. Henry Wynkoop was a resident of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He served in the Continental Congress from 1783 to 1789 and was a member of the House of Representatives from 1789 to 1791.

26. Jacob Morris, a resident of the town of Butternuts, Otsego County, and a Federalist, had served in the New York Assembly from 1792 to 1793 and from 1795 to 1796. In 1798 he was elected to the state Senate.

27. Philip Van Cortlandt was brevetted a brigadier general at the end of the American Revolution. He was a member of the New York Assembly from 1788 to 1790 and a member of the state Senate from 1791 to 1793. In 1793 he was elected as a Republican to the House of Representatives and served until 1809.

28. Stephen Lush was a member of the New York Assembly from 1792 to 1793.

29. Samuel Stringer was an Albany physician.

30. Theodore Sedgwick.

31. Edward Livingston, the youngest brother of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, was a Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1795 to 1801.

32. Tunis Wortman was a Republican lawyer in New York City.

33. Ezekiel Gilbert, a resident of Columbia County and a Federalist, served as a member of the New York Assembly from 1789 to 1790. From 1795 to 1797 he was a member of the House of Representatives.

34. John Williams, a resident of Washington County, was a veteran of the American Revolution. He served in the New York Senate from 1777 to 1778 and from 1782 to 1785 and in the state Assembly in 1781 and 1782. From 1795 to 1799 he was a member of the House of Representatives. Although he was originally a Republican, he frequently voted with the Federalists in Congress.

35. Aquila Giles, a resident of Kings County, served in the New York Assembly from 1788 to 1793. From May, 1792, to March, 1801, he was United States marshal for the District of New York.

36. Philip L. Hoffman, a resident of Columbia County, was a member of the New York Assembly in 1795. From 1791 to 1800 he was surrogate of Columbia County.

37. Thomas Cooper was a New York City lawyer.

38. William North.

39. Egbert Benson, a Federalist from Dutchess County, became New York’s first attorney general in 1777. He served in the state Assembly from 1777 to 1781 and again in 1788. He was a member of the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1788, a member of the House of Representatives from 1789 to 1793, and an associate justice of the New York Supreme Court from 11794 to 1801.

40. Joseph Law was a resident of Columbia County, New York.

41. John Laurance, a veteran of the American Revolution, was one of H’s closest friends. Laurance was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1787 and served in the New York Senate from 1788 to 1790. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1789 to 1793. In May, 1794, he accepted the appointment as United States judge for the District of New York, and he held this position until 1796, when he was elected to the United States Senate as the successor to Rufus King. He remained in the Senate until his resignation in August, 1800.

42. John Morton, a New York City merchant, was the publisher of The [New York] Daily Advertiser from January, 1796, to July 10, 1798.

43. John J. U. Rivardi, a native of France and a resident of Pennsylvania, was a major in the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.

44. James Bruff, a resident of Maryland and a veteran of the American Revolution, was a captain in the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.

45. Abner Prior, a resident of New York and a veteran of the American Revolution, was captain in the First Regiment of Infantry.

46. William S. Smith.

47. Nathaniel Ogden, a resident of Albany County, was a member of the New York Assembly from 1796 to 1798.

48. David McCarty, a resident of Albany County, was a member of the New York Assembly in 1792.

49. Lewis Bryan was a resident of Albany County.

50. This is a reference to either Abraham or Daniel J. Van Antwerp, residents of Watervliet in Albany County.

51. Morris, a Federalist who lived in Westchester County, was a former chief justice of the New York Supreme Court. From 1778 to 1780 he was a member of the New York Senate, and from 1792 to 1793 he was supervisor of the revenue for the District of New York.

52. During the American Revolution, Hugh Hughes was assistant quartermaster general of the Army.

53. Richard Valentine Morris, a resident of Westchester County, was commissioned a captain in the United States Navy on June 7, 1798 (Executive Journal, I description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate (Washington, 1828), I. description ends , 280).

54. Philip Schuyler, H’s father-in-law.

55. Peter Silvester (Sylvester), a Federalist from Columbia County, served in the New York Assembly in 1788 and in the state Senate from 1796 to 1800. From 1789 to 1793 he was a member of the House of Representatives.

56. Nicholas Low, a Federalist merchant in New York City, was a member of the state Assembly from 1788 to 1789. He had been director of the Bank of New York, the New York branch of the Bank of the United States, and the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.

57. During the American Revolution, Seth Warner of New Hampshire held the rank of colonel and commanded his own regiment.

58. Cooper was a resident of Fishkill, Dutchess County.

59. Samuel A. Barker of Connecticut held the rank of brigade major at the close of the American Revolution.

60. Whitmore was rector of St. George’s Church, the first English church in Albany.

61. Joseph C. Yates was mayor of Schenectady.

62. Michael Myers, a Federalist politician from Herkimer County, was a member of the New York Assembly from 1789 to 1793 and a member of the state Senate from 1794 to 1801.

63. John Jay was governor of New York.

64. John H. Wendell, a veteran of the American Revolution and a resident of Albany County, served in the New York Assembly from 1796 to 1798.

65. Stephen Van Rensselaer, Elizabeth Hamilton’s brother-in-law, was a Federalist from Albany County. He was a member of the New York Assembly from 1789 to 1790 and a member of the state Senate from 1791 to 1795. From 1795 to 1801 he was lieutenant governor of New York.

66. Vail, a resident of Rensselaer County, served in the New York Assembly in 1792 and in the state Senate from 1796 to 1801.

67. During the American Revolution, Hunt had been an ensign in Jackson’s Additional Continental Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson of Massachusetts.

68. Abraham Van Horne served in the New York Assembly from 1777 to 1781 and again in 1786. From 1781 to 1784 he was sheriff of Montgomery County.

69. Arthur Breese, a resident of Herkimer County, was a member of the New York Assembly from 1796 to 1797.

70. Jonas Platt represented Herkimer County in the New York Assembly in 1796 and was county clerk from 1791 to 1798. Oneida County was formed from Herkimer County in 1798, and Platt was clerk of the new county from 1798 to 1802. Although an Antifederalist in the early seventeen-nineties, he was elected to the House of Representatives as a Federalist in 1799, and he served in that position until 1801.

71. Cuyler, who had been deputy commissary general of purchases from 1777 to 1782, was an Albany merchant. He was a member of the New York Assembly in the 1777–1778 session.

72. James Gordon, a veteran of the American Revolution and a Federalist, was a resident of Albany County. He was a member of the New York Assembly from 1777 to 1781, in 1784, from 1786 to 1788, and from 1789 to 1790.

73. Peter Schoonhoven was a resident of Dutchess County.

74. Nathaniel Chipman was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1784 and 1785. In 1789 he was appointed chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, and from 1791 to 1793 he was United States judge for the District of Vermont. In 1796 he again became chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. In 1797 he was elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Isaac Tichenor, and he served in that capacity until 1803.

75. Samuel Jones, Jr., was a New York City lawyer and second son of Samuel Jones, the first comptroller of New York State.

76. This is presumably a reference to the Reverend Charles Backus, minister of the Congregational Church in Somers, Connecticut.

77. Jonathan Trumbull was a Federalist from Connecticut. He served in the House of Representatives from 1789 to 1795, when he was elected to the United States Senate. In 1796 he resigned from the Senate to become lieutenant governor of Connecticut, and from 1797 to 1809 he was governor.

78. Daniel McCormick, a New York City merchant, was a close friend of George Clinton. He was a director of the Bank of New York from 1784 to 1799.

79. William Cochran was a New York City resident.

80. Isaac Gouverneur and Peter Kemble were partners in a New York City mercantile firm.

81. This is a reference to Charles R. or George Webster, Albany printers.

82. William Van Ingen, a resident of Schenectady, New York, was Henry Glen’s son-in-law.

83. Harrison Gray Otis, a Boston lawyer, was a Federalist member of the House of Representatives from 1797 to 1801.

84. Josiah Ogden Hoffman, a Federalist, was the attorney general of New York from 1795 to 1802.

85. Matthew Clarkson.

86. John Keating, Jr., a resident of Lansingburg, Rensselaer County, New York.

87. Joseph White, a resident of Cherry Valley, was a member of the New York Senate from 1796 to 1799. In 1800 he became judge of Otsego County.

88. James Dole was sheriff of Rensselaer County from 1798 to 1800.

89. Wood, a resident of Suffolk County, served in the New York Assembly from 1796 to 1798 and again in 1800.

90. Seth Phelps was judge of Onondaga County from 1794 to 1804.

91. John Richardson of Onondaga County was a member of the New York Assembly from 1798 to 1799.

92. Edward Paine of Onondaga County was a member of the New York Assembly from 1798 to 1799.

93. Hammond, a New York City merchant, had been director of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.

94. During the American Revolution, Moses Hazen commanded the Second Canadian Regiment. After the war he settled in Vermont.

95. Samuel B. Berry was a resident of Albany County.

96. Sidney Berry represented Albany County in the New York Assembly in 1791. In 1791 Saratoga County was formed out of Albany County, and Berry represented Saratoga County in the Assembly from 1792 to 1793. From 1791 to 1794 he was surrogate of Saratoga County.

97. William Shepard (Shepherd), a resident of Westfield, Massachusetts, and a Federalist, was a veteran of the American Revolution. He was a member of the Massachusetts lower house in 1785 and 1786. In 1786 he became major general of the militia for Hampshire County, and in that capacity he successfully defended the Springfield Arsenal against Daniel Shays and Shays’s supporters in 1786. From 1797 to 1803 he was a member of the House of Representatives.

98. Henry Beekman Livingston, brother of Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, was a veteran of the American Revolution.