From John Adams to United States Senate, 8 February 1798
United States Feb. 8. 1798.
Gentlemen of the Senate
I nominate Return Jonathan Meigs Junior, of Mariettta Esqr to be one of the Judges of the Territory of the United States, Northwest of the River Ohio, in the place of George Turner Esqr resigned.
John Adams
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.