United States September 29th 1789.
Officers of the Regiment of Infantry
Leiut. Colo. Commandant Josiah Harmar |
And a Brigadier General by brevet, he having been appointed such by a resolve of Congress of the 31st of July 17871 |
Majors |
John Plasgrave Wyllys |
John F. Hamtramck |
Captains |
Jonathan Heart |
David Zeigler |
William McCurdy |
John Mercer |
David Strong |
John Smith |
Joseph Ashton |
Erkuries Beatty. |
Lieutenants |
John Armstrong |
John Pratt |
Ebenezer Frothingham |
William Kersey |
Thomas Doyle |
William Peters |
Jacob Kingsbury |
Ebenezer Denny |
Ensigns |
Francis Luse |
Cornelius Ryrer Sedam |
Nathan McDowell |
|
Abner Prior |
Robert Thompson |
Asa Hartshorn |
John Jeffers |
Jacob Melcher |
Surgeon |
Richard Allison |
Mates |
John Elliot |
John Scott |
John Carmichael |
Joshua Sumner |
Officers of the battalion Artillery |
Major Commandant John Doughty |
Captains |
Henry Burbeck |
William Ferguson |
Joseph Savage |
James Bradford |
Lieutenants |
John Pierce |
Moses Porter |
William Moore |
Di[r]ck Schuyler |
Mahlon Ford |
Matthew Ernest |
Edward Spear |
Ebenezer Smith Fowle |
Surgeon’s Mate |
Nathaniel Heyward |
DS, in the writing of Tobias Lear, DNA: RG 46, First Congress, Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations;
LB, DLC:GW.
1. JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 33:440.