From John Adams to United States Senate, 2 March 1799
March 2. 1799
Gentlemen of the Senate
I nominate the following Gentlemen for Offices in the Army
| Infantry.— | ||
| Lieutenant Colonel | ||
| Nathan Rice | Massachusetts | |
| Richard Hunnewell | ditto | |
| Major | ||
| William Jones | Massachusetts. | |
| Captains | ||
| Phineas Ashmun | Massachusetts | |
| Joseph Peirce Junr. | ditto | |
| Arthur Lithgow | ditto | |
| Jonathan Andrews | Rhode Island | |
| George Woodward | Vermont | |
| Philip Cortland | New York | |
| Walter K. Cole | New Jersey | |
| James Read | Pennsylvania | |
| Benjamin Gibbs Junr. | ditto | |
| James Ashman | ditto | |
| Valentine Brothers | Maryland | |
| John W. Hacket | ditto | |
| Jonathan Hodgson | ditto | |
| Nathaniel Henry | Virginia | |
| Lieutenants | ||
| Samuel Mackey | Massachusetts | |
| Benjamin Beale Junr. | ditto | |
| Charles P. Phelps | ditto | |
| Edmund Soper | ditto | |
| Daniel Bissell | Vermont | |
| Isaac Putnam | Vermont | |
| James Smith | New York | |
| Richard Baldwin | ditto | |
| George M. Ogden | New Jersey | |
| Thomas Swearingen | Pennsylvania | |
| Cromwell Pierce | ditto | |
| Henry Westcott | ditto | |
| Nelson Wade | ditto | |
| Lewis Howard | ditto | |
| James Battel | Delaware | |
| William Savin | Maryland | |
| Charles Clemments | ditto | |
| Van Bennet | Virginia | |
| Felix Wilton | ditto | |
| Ensigns | ||
| Seth Bannister | Massachusetts | |
| Samuel Winter Church | ditto | |
| Christopher Whipple | Rhode Island | |
| John W. Brownson | Vermont | |
| William Morrow | Pennsylvania | |
| Jabez Caldwell | Delaware | |
| John Adlum | Maryland | |
| Edward Ford | ditto | |
| Charles McCallister | Virginia | |
| John Heiskell | ditto | |
| Marcus Combs | ditto | |
| Willis Wells Junr | ditto | |
| Cavalry | ||
| Captains | ||
| Charles F Mercer | Virginia | vice Laurence Lewis declined |
| James Burn | South Carolina | |
John Adams
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.

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