Enclosure: [List of Cavalry Officers], [10 May 1799]
[Enclosure]3
Cavalry
| John Watts | Colonel | Virginia |
| Solomon Van Rensselaer | Major | New York |
| John Taylor | ditto | Virginia |
| James Taylor | Captain | |
| James V. Ball | ditto | |
| Richard Willing | ditto | Pennsylvania |
| Benjamin Williamson | ditto | New Jersey |
| John B. Armistead | ditto | Virginia |
| William Spencer | ditto | Maryland |
| James Burn | ditto | South Carolina |
| John Webb | Lieutenant | |
| Stephen G. Simmons | ditto | |
| William Tharp | ditto | |
| Robert Gray | ditto | Pennsylvania |
| John Walbach | ditto | ditto |
| George Washington Craik | ditto | Virginia |
| Laurence Washington | ditto | ditto |
| Richard Tilghman | ditto | Maryland |
| William C. Rogers | 2. Lieut. | Pennsylvania |
| Alexander McComb Junr. | ditto | New York |
| Charles Tutt | ditto | Virginia |
| George W. P. Custus | ditto | ditto |
| Carter B. Fontaine | ditto | ditto |
| Richard Cooke | ditto | Maryland |
3. Copy, Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress.
In the Hamilton Papers, Library of Congress, is a second list of cavalry officers. This list, which is entitled “Officers of the Cavalry,” gives the dates on which the officers accepted their commissions.

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