From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 27 January 1797
To the United States Senate
United States
January 27th 1797
Gentlemen of the Senate,
I nominate
Enoch Sawyer of North Carolina to be Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Plankbridge on Sawyers Creek in North Carolina.1
Frederick B. Sawyer, of North Carolina, to be Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Newbiggen Creek in North Carolina.
Levy Blount, of North Carolina to be Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Plymouth in North Carolina.
Go: Washington
LB, DLC:GW.
On this date, Secretary of State Timothy Pickering submitted a draft of this message to GW, but it has not been found (see Pickering to GW, 27 Jan., and n.3).
The Senate read this message on this date and ordered “That it lie for consideration.” The Senate confirmed the nominations on 30 Jan., and GW signed the commissions for the appointees on 2 Feb. (see , 223–24; and , 350–51). For more on the nominees and their careers as revenue officers, see GW to the U.S. Senate, 2 Feb. 1795 (second letter).
1. Plank Bridge was the name given in the early part of the eighteenth century to present-day Camden, North Carolina. Sawyers Creek, which rises in central Camden County, N.C., flows into Pasquotank River. The late seventeenth century saw the emergence of settlements at the mouth of the creek.