Promotions & Appointments in the Regiments of Artillerists & Engineers
Document 1798A draft of a document listing promotions and appointments to the First and Second Regiments of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.
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Insp.
Generals
List of persons
recommended
for appoint.
=ments, and
appointed
for the New Army
&c —
Promotions and appointments in the Regiments of Artillerists and Engineers in the service of the United States y. 6/21
First Regiment —
[28 Dec 1798]
[Alex Hamilton]
Major Henry Burbeck L.t Col Commandant. vice Harisford una of insps Washington 9 May 1798
Captain Mahlon Ford Major vice Burbeck promoted d°
Lieutenant Percy Pope Captain N.C. vice [undecipherable] Wilmington N. Carolina 24 April at
d° Ebenezer Massey ditto vice Shond promoted 1 May 1798
d° John McClellan ditto No. vice Price dead 22 July —
d° Nehemiah Freeman ditto C vice Mitchell d° 6 do —
Lt Hampsh Abel Hutchins ditto vice Pope promoted
4 South Cara States Artillery
[strikethrough: Savannah] [strikethrough: Nath Hutton] do Lt. [undecipherable] do vice Batt resigned
[strikethrough: [undecipherable]] ditto G vice Grumpt d°
5 Newyork William Yates ditto acc McClellan promoted
[strikethrough: Baltimore] James P. Heath ditto vice Beerman ditto
[strikethrough: [undecipherable]] [undecipherable] ditto vice [undecipherable] d°
[undecipherable] D [undecipherable] Walworth ditto
Second Regiment.
3. Vermont [strikethrough: y] Leonard Williams Lieutenant vice Dickinson declined
# South Carolina [strikethrough: David Evans junr] ditto vice Yates ditto
# North Carolina Robert Heaton ditto
[strikethrough: New York] [strikethrough: [undecipherable]]
Sergeant
1 Pennsylvania James House d°.
John M. D. Lawrence N.Y. declines
+ L[undecipherable] Williams Vermont
+ [undecipherable]
+ Robert Heaton junr propd Richd N. York
+ good Draughtsman + mathematician. W. B. Lawson
+ [Intended for Cavalry. A Cap.t] James House to be remembered
George Waterhouse Massachusetts
+ Benjamin Gibbs of Pennsylvania
Type
Draft Document
Description
A draft of a document listing promotions and appointments to the First and Second Regiments of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.
Date
12/28/1798
Author
Recipient
Repository
Collection
Document number
1798122800301
Page start
1
Notable persons
James McHenry
Alexander Hamilton

