From John Adams to United States Senate, 17 April 1800
United States April 17 1800
Gentlemen of the Senate
In conformity with your request, I transmit you a return from the War office, of those officers, who have been appointed under the act, entitled an Act to augment the army of the United States & for other purposes, designating such officers, who have accepted their appointments & those who have declined accepting, resigned their commissions, died, &c.
A report from the Secretary of War, which accompanied this return, as it contains observations, which may throw some light upon the subject, I transmit with it.
John Adams
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.
Enclosure
War Department April 15th. 1800
Gentlemen of the Senate
I nominate the following List of Officers in the Army of the United States
| Cavalry. | ||
| Archibald Lee | Virginia | Second Lieutenant, vice Grimes deceased, |
| First Regiment of Artillerists & Engineers | ||
| Thomas Pinckney Jun. | South Carolina, | Lieutenant, vice Wilson resigned. |
| Second Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers. | ||
| William Hosa[. . .] | New York | Lieutenant, vice Heaton deceased |
| First Regiment of Infantry. | ||
| Samuel Clinton | Pennsylvania | Second Lieutenant vice Lawrence deceased |
| Third Regiment of Infantry. | ||
| Stephen S. Gibbs | Pennsylvania. | Second Lieutenant vice Taylor declined |
| Fourth Regiment of Infantry. | ||
| John S. Porter | Pennsylvania | Second Lieutenant, vice Dickinson deceased. |
| Samuel Davis | ditto | Surgeons Mate |
| Fifth Regiment of Infantry | ||
| John Smith | South Carolina | Lieutenant Colonel Commandant |
| James Armstrong | Georgia | Major |
| Henry M. Rutledge | South Carolina | ditto |
| John Kershaw | ditto | Captain |
| James Hartley | ditto | ditto |
| Paul Thompson | ditto | ditto |
| Fifth Regiment of Infantry | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel Commandant. | |||
| + John Smith | |||
| Majors | |||
| + | James Armstrong | + | Henry M. Rutledge |
| Captains. | |||
| William Dangerfield | + | William Simons declined | |
| Fleming Wooldridge | + | Benjamin Fossin Frasier | |
| + | John Kershaw | + | Noah Kelsey |
| + | James Hartley | + | Zechariah Nettles |
| + | Paul Thompson | + | John Mitchell |
| + | Benjamin Easely | ||
| First Lieutenants. | |||
| John Jameson | + | Peter Williamson | |
| Charles Kilgore | + | Stanmore Butler | |
| + | John Brown | + | George Clayton |
| + | Charles Boyle | + | William W. Frasier |
| + | William Taylor | + | Pierre Gaillard.—declined |
| + | Josias Heyward | ||
| Second Lieutenants. | |||
| Willis Morgan | + | Johnson Wellborn | |
| Elijah Johnson | + | Edward Croft declined | |
| + | Samuel Taylor declined | + | William Darkey |
| + | Thomas Osborne Junr. | + | Francis Rogers |
| + | John Parker, Son of William, declined | + | Charles Jones Jenkins |
| + | Charles Codnor Ash | ||
| Sixth Regiment of Infantry. | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel Commandant. | |||
| + James Read | |||
| Majors. | |||
| + | Alexander D Moore | + | William Brickell |
| Captains. | |||
| William P. Anderson resigned | + | William Hall | |
| + | James Taylor | + | John Williams |
| + | William Dickson | + | John Nicholas |
| + | Eli Gaither | + | Samuel Graves Barron |
| + | Edmund Smithwick | + | Maurice Moore |
| First Lieutenants. | |||
| Lewis Tiner | + | Joseph Alexander declined | |
| + | Robert Troy declined | + | Carleton Walker |
| + | James Mackay | + | Edward Jones |
| + | George W Davidson declined | + | Hugh Newman declined |
| + | McKenney Long | + | William Martin ditto |
| + | Benjamin Smith | ||
| Second Lieutenants. | |||
| Edmund P. Gaines | + | John Carroway | |
| + | David T. W Cook | + | Abner Pasteur |
| + | Marcus Sharpe | + | Benjamin Forsyth |
| + | James Morris | + | Hugh Montgomery not heard from |
| + | John Wilkinson | + | Alexander Hunter |
| Surgeon | |||
| + Roger Cutler | |||
| Seventh Regiment | |||
| Lieut. Colonel Commandant | |||
| William Bentley | |||
| Majors. | |||
| Robert Beale | James Baytop | ||
| Captains | |||
| Daniel Ball resigned | William Campbell | ||
| Edmund Clark | Thomas Greene | ||
| John Davidson | Robert King | ||
| Archibald C. Randolph | James Caldwell | ||
| Bartholomew Dandridge declined | + | William K. Blue | |
| Thomas Turner declined | |||
| First Lieutenants | |||
| Van Bennet | Addison Armistead | ||
| John Brahan | Samuel J. Winston | ||
| Robert Carrington declined | Calvin Morgan | ||
| Brewer Godwin resigned | + | John Heiskell | |
| Felix Wilton | + | Jesse Dold | |
| Jesse Ewell Jun | + | Horato Stark | |
| Joseph Grigsby | + | Marquis Combs | |
| Robert Temple declined | + | George Armistead | |
| Second Lieutenants | |||
| John Heiskell promoted during recess. | Andrew M Lusk | ||
| Jesse Dold ditto | James Brown | ||
| Horatio Stark ditto | + | William Saunders | |
| Marquis Combs ditto | + | John Crump declined | |
| George Armistead ditto | + | Bartlett Anderson | |
| William Potts | + | Francis W. Cook | |
| Peter Lambkin | + | Philip Roots | |
| Alexander Henderson declined | + | John F Powell | |
| William Deane ditto | + | Jacob Call | |
| Surgeon. | |||
| + Francis H. Peyton | |||
| Surgeons Mates. | |||
| + | Thaddeus Capron | + | James W. Wallace resigned |
| Eighth Regiment of Infantry. | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel Commandr. | |||
| Thomas Parker | |||
| Majors. | |||
| Simon Morgan declined | + | Laurence Butler | |
| William Campbell | |||
| Captains. | |||
| Presley Thornton | Garnet Peyton | ||
| Robert Gregg | Daniel C Lane | ||
| Henry Piercy | Philip Lightfoot | ||
| George S. Washington | Edmund Taylor | ||
| Richard Chinn | Nathaniel Henry | ||
| First Lieutenants. | |||
| Francis Foushee resigned | John G Brown | ||
| James Duncanson | John Williams | ||
| Lemuel Bent | Thomas Jameson | ||
| Robert Gustin | John Campbell | ||
| George Tate | + | James Tutt | |
| Charles J Love | + | Simon Owens | |
| Second Lieutenants. | |||
| James Tutt promoted during recess | Willis Wells declined | ||
| Simon Owens ditto | Hugh McCallister | ||
| Reuben Thornton declined | John Craine Jun. | ||
| George W. Humphries | + | John Meredith | |
| Obadiah Clifford | + | John Stephens | |
| Strother Settle declined | + | Robert Bell | |
| John C. Williams declined | + | Uriah Blue | |
| Charles Shackllford | + | Richard Taylor | |
| John T. Fitzhugh declined | + | Robert Little | |
| Surgeon | |||
| + Edward Conrad | |||
| Surgeons Mate | |||
| + | Thomas Triplett, resigned | + | Samuel M. Griffith |
| Ninth Regiment of Infantry. | |||
| Lieut Colonel Commandant | |||
| Josias C. Hall | |||
| Majors. | |||
| David Hopkins | William D Beall | ||
| Captains. | |||
| John C. Beatty declined | William Nicholson declined | ||
| Thomas Beatty | Jacob Norris | ||
| Lloyd Beall | Valentine Brothers | ||
| Gerard Briscoe | John W. Hacket | ||
| Rezin Davidge | Jonathan Hodgson | ||
| Bradley Beans declined | + | Richard Earle | |
| Isaac Spencer | |||
| First Lieutenants | |||
| William Elliott | Henry C Neale | ||
| Edward A Howard declined | Aquila Beale | ||
| Richard W. West declined | William Savin | ||
| John B Barnes | Charles Clements | ||
| Ninian Pinckney | + | John Thompson | |
| Levi Alexander | + | Robert Gover | |
| Matthew Tilghman | |||
| Second Lieutenants. | |||
| Alexander Cooper | Levi G Ford | ||
| John Brangle declined | Daniel Hughes | ||
| Enos Noland | John Adlum | ||
| Thomas Dent | Edward Ford declined | ||
| Levi Hillary | + | George Peter | |
| John Warren declined | + | Joseph Bentley | |
| William Swan | + | Benjamin Nowland | |
| Surgeon. | |||
| + Robert Geddes | |||
| Surgeon’s Mates. | |||
| + | Charles H Winder declined | + | William Beatty declined |
| + | Anderson Warfield declined | + | Charles A Beatty |
| + | Dardan Brown | ||
| Tenth Regiment of Infantry. | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel Commandant | |||
| Thomas L. Moore | |||
| Majors. | |||
| William Henderson | George Stephenson | ||
| Captains: | |||
| Joseph McKinney | William Graham | ||
| James Blaine | David Duncan | ||
| Andrew Johnson | Benjamin Gibbs | ||
| Matthew Henry | James Ashman | ||
| William R. Atlee declined | + | Robert Westcott | |
| Hugh Brady | |||
| First Lieutenants. | |||
| John Sharp dead | Thomas Swearingen | ||
| Samuel B Magaw | Cromwell Peirce | ||
| Henry G. Slough | Henry Westcott | ||
| Samuel Fulton declined | + | Alexander McNair | |
| Josiah McElwaine declined | + | David Irving | |
| James P. Nelson declined | + | Paul Weitzell | |
| Benjamin Wallace | + | David Offley | |
| Robert Laurence | + | Samuel R Franklin | |
| Nelson Wade | + | William Morrow | |
| Second Lieutenants. | |||
| William Morrow promoted during recess | John Smith | ||
| George Hamill | Robert Chambers | ||
| Archibald Davis resigned | Alexander McNair declined | ||
| John A Douglas | Thomas Lee | ||
| Herman Witner declined | + | John Hay | |
| Hugh H Potts | + | Robert George Barde | |
| John S. Porter declined | + | Joseph Knox | |
| Surgeon | |||
| + Henry Hall declined | |||
| + William Hurst | |||
| Surgeons Mates. | |||
| + | George Wilson | + | James Irvine |
| Eleventh Regiment of Infantry. | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel Commandant | |||
| Aaron Ogden | |||
| Majors. | |||
| William Shute | John Adlum | ||
| Captains | |||
| Robert Hunt resigned | Samuel Bowman | ||
| Charles Marles | Peter Faulkner | ||
| Job Stockton | Walter K Cole resigned | ||
| Denise Foreman | James Read | ||
| Almarine Brookes | + | Samuel Erwin | |
| Samuel White | |||
| First Lieutenants. | |||
| Samuel Erwin promoted during recess | William Carson | ||
| Thomas Reading Jun declined | Lewis Howard | ||
| Robert C. Thompson | James Battel | ||
| Samuel C. Voorhes | + | John Caldwell | |
| Walter K Cole declined | + | Samuel Owen Smith declined | |
| George M Ogden | + | Charles B Green | |
| John G. Macwhorter | + | William J Anderson | |
| William Potter | + | Thomas Bullman | |
| Henry Betz declined | + | Henry Drake | |
| Second Lieutenants. | |||
| William Piatt | John Milroy | ||
| Charles Read resigned | Benjamin Worrell | ||
| Thomas Bullman promoted during recess | John Montgomery | ||
| Henry Drake ditto | Jabez Caldwell | ||
| Hethcote Johnson | + | Thomas Y. How | |
| James Rhea | + | Joseph Vancleve | |
| James Clayton Jun declined | + | Laurence Mulford | |
| Surgeon | |||
| + John Chetwood Jun | |||
| Surgeons Mates | |||
| + | John Howell | + | John C. Wynans |
| Twelfth Regiment of Infantry. | |||
| Lieut Colonel Commandant | |||
| William S. Smith | |||
| Majors. | |||
| William Willcocks Christopher Hutton declined Dowe J Fondy | |||
| Captains. | |||
| Dowe J Fondy promoted during recess | Andrian Hissam resigned | ||
| Philip Church | John W Patterson resigned | ||
| James Bennet | Justus B Smith not heard from | ||
| George W Kirkland | Jeremiah Landon | ||
| Philip Cortland | Andrew White | ||
| First Lieutenants | |||
| Philip S. Schuyler | James Smith | ||
| Elhanan W. Wheeler | Richard Baldwin resigned | ||
| Moses Forster | + | William Cocks | |
| Thomas Thompson | + | William Cumming | |
| David Jones declined | + | Joseph C. Cooper | |
| Robert Le Roy Livingston | + | Thomas H. Williams | |
| Henry W Ludlow | + | Samuel Hoffman dismissed | |
| Nathaniel Paulding | |||
| Second Lieutenants | |||
| William Cocks promoted in recess | George F Harrison declined | ||
| William Cumming ditto | + | Israel Loring | |
| Joseph C. Cooper ditto | + | Joseph Herkeimer | |
| Thomas H Williams ditto | + | Jacob Mancius | |
| Samuel Hoffman ditto | + | Nathaniel Smith | |
| John Duer | + | Cornelius Kip | |
| William W. Wands | + | Tobias V. Cuyler resigned | |
| Prosper Brown dead | + | Walter B Vrooman | |
| Jacob C Ten Eyck | |||
| Surgeon | |||
| + Samuel Finley resigned | |||
| S. Mates | |||
| + | John H. Douglas | + | Samuel Davis |
| Thirteenth Regiment of Infantry | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel Commandant. | |||
| Timothy Taylor | |||
| Majors | |||
| John Ripley | Jabez Huntington resigned | ||
| Captains | |||
| John Benjamin | Jonathan Root | ||
| John Meigs | John Bulford | ||
| Elihu Sandford | Asa Copeland | ||
| Stephen Ranney | William Young Jun | ||
| Samuel Blakeslee | Coleby Chew declined | ||
| First Lieutenants: | |||
| Samuel Waugh | William W Cheney | ||
| Lemuel Harrison | Ludowick Gallup | ||
| Bennet Bronson | John Eels | ||
| Reuben Hurd | Waters Clark | ||
| Trueman Mosely | + | Nathaniel Ruggles | |
| John Knox | + | John Beers | |
| Second Lieutenants. | |||
| Salmon Clark | Peter Richards declined | ||
| Peter N Brinsmade | Robert Hosmer, struck off the list, not being heard of | ||
| Trueman Hinman | Solomon Allen | ||
| Walter Smith | + | Austin Ledyard declined | |
| Joseph A Wells declined | + | Nathaniel Noyes | |
| James Gordon Jun | + | Fanning Tracey | |
| Ebenezer Learned declined | + | Abijah Fenn suspended& resigned | |
| Surgeon | |||
| + Joseph Trowbridge | |||
| Surgeons Mates. | |||
| + | Timothy Pierce | + | John Orton Jun |
| + | John Spaulding declined | ||
| Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry | |||
| Lieutenant Col. Commandant | |||
| Nathan Rice | |||
| Majors. | |||
| John Walker | Isaac Winslow | ||
| Captains | |||
| William Jones declined | John Burbeck declined | ||
| Erasmus Babbet Jun | Simeon Draper | ||
| Ephraim Emmery | Phineas Ashman | ||
| John Tolman | Joseph Peirce Jun. declined | ||
| Solomon Phelps | Arthur Lithgow declined | ||
| Ebenezer Thatcher declined | + | Samuel Mackay | |
| Thomas Chandler resigned | + | John Hastings | |
| Nathaniel Thwing | |||
| First Lieutenants. | |||
| James Church | John Wheelwright | ||
| Nathaniel Soley declined | Isaac Rand Jun | ||
| Jacob Allen | Benjamin Beale Jun declined | ||
| William A Baron declined | + | Henry Sargent | |
| Robert Duncan Jun | + | Francis Barker | |
| Phineas Ashman declined | + | William Gardner | |
| Alpheus Cheney | + | Rufus Child | |
| Samuel Flagg Jun. resigned | |||
| Second Lieutenants. | |||
| Thomas Heald declined | William Leverett | ||
| Moses M Bates ditto | John Roulstone | ||
| Charles Hunt | Thomas Durant | ||
| James Gardner | Samuel W Church resigned | ||
| Marshall Spring resigned | + | Peyton Gay | |
| Daniel Hastings | + | Thomas Hale | |
| Duncan Ingraham resigned | + | Charles Leonard declined | |
| Surgeon | |||
| + Charles Blake | |||
| Surgeon’s Mates | |||
| + | Luther Stearns declined | + | Josiah Dwight declined |
| Fifteenth Regiment. | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel Commandant. | |||
| Richard Hunnewell. | |||
| Majors | |||
| John Rowe | William Jones | ||
| Captains | |||
| James Brown | William Heywood | ||
| Nathaniel Balch Jr. | Caleb Aspinwall | ||
| Hall Tufts | Stephen Peabody | ||
| John Pynchon | Thomas Philips declined | ||
| John Blake | + | Eli Forbes | |
| Samuel Jordan | |||
| First Lieutenants. | |||
| Charles Cutler | Joseph Lee declined | ||
| William Swan | David C D Forrest | ||
| Samuel P Fay | Charles P. Phelps declined | ||
| Eleazer Williams declined | Edmund Soper | ||
| Nathaniel Kidder | + | Thomas Stevens | |
| Thomas Bowman declined | + | Augustus Hunt | |
| Ebenezer Bradish Jr. | + | Daniel Morse declined | |
| John Shepherd declined | |||
| Second Lieutenants | |||
| Abijah Harrington | Willard Fales | ||
| Jonathan Nichols | Warren Hall declined | ||
| Daniel Bell | James D Wheaton | ||
| John Page Jun | Seth Bannister | ||
| David Fales | + | Nathan Parks | |
| Franklin Tinkham | |||
| Surgeon | |||
| + Oliver Mann | |||
| Surgeons Mates. | |||
| + | Jonathan White | + | Ebenezer Laurence |
| Sixteenth Regiment | |||
| Lieutenant Colonel Commandant | |||
| + Rufus Graves. | |||
| Majors. | |||
| + | Timothy Darling resigned | + | Cornelius Lynde. |
| Captains. | |||
| Josiah Dunham | John Rogers declined | ||
| Nathaniel Green | George Tillinghast | ||
| Robert Parker | Abraham R Ellery | ||
| Henry Tilton | Jonathan Andrews | ||
| William Woodward | George Woodward | ||
| Israel Elliott Trask | |||
| First Lieutenants | |||
| Francis Gardner declined | Thomas Brindley | ||
| Daniel M Durell | Daniel Bissell | ||
| Abel Hutchins declined | Isaac Putnam | ||
| Sylvester G. Whipple | + | Israel W Kelly | |
| Ephraim Whitney declined | + | Thaddeus Kendall | |
| Whipple Lovett | + | Marmaduke Wait | |
| Robert Overing | |||
| Second Lieutenants. | |||
| Arthur Rogers declined | Ozeas Danforth | ||
| Moses Sweat | William E Green | ||
| Israel Bartlett | Christopher Whipple | ||
| Samuel Parker | John W Brownson | ||
| Jesse Lull | + | Benjamin F. Starke | |
| Cary Clarke | |||
| Surgeon | |||
| + Oliver Mann | |||
| Surgeons Mates. | |||
| + | Jonathan White | + | Ebenezer Laurence |
Note. The Officers in the foregoing return having the Mark + affixed opposite to their names are those which were appointed by the President during the recess of the Senate: those, where the contrary is not expressed are now in service.
James McHenry
Secy. of war
Return of the Officers who have been appointed under the Act intitled “An Act to augment the Army of the United States and for other purposes” designating such Officers who have accepted their appointments and those who have declined accepting, resigned their Commissions, died &c.
| Lieut. General | |||
| George Washington...dead! | |||
| Major Generals | |||
| Alexander Hamilton...Inspector General | |||
| Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | |||
| Henry Knox declined | |||
| Brigadier Generals. | |||
| John Brookes declined | William Washington | ||
| Jonathan Dayton declined | William North, Adjutant General | ||
| Cavalry. | |||
| John Watts..Lieut Colonel Commandant | |||
| Majors. | |||
| Solomon Van Renselaer | John Tayloe declined | ||
| Captains | |||
| Richard Willing | William Spencer | ||
| Benjamin Williamson | Charles F Mercer declined | ||
| Laurence Lewis declined | James Burn | ||
| John B. Armistead | James N. Ball | ||
| First Lieutenants. | |||
| Robert Gray | Laurence Washington | ||
| John Wallback | Charles F. Mercer declined | ||
| George Washington Craik | Richard Tilghman | ||
| Second Lieutenants. | |||
| William C Rogers | Carter B. Fontaine | ||
| Alexander McComb Jun | Richard Cook resigned | ||
| Charles Tutt | + | Archibald Lee | |
| George W. P. Custis | |||