War Department 24 June 1799 Sir I am anxious that the appointments of a Surgeon and Mates should take place with as little delay as possible. I have therefore to request that you would be pleased to select from the persons whose names are contained in the enclosed list a suitable person to fill the office of Surgeon and two others for those of Mate in the Regiment under your command and transmit their names that I may lay them before the President for his approbation. Should you know any person whom you wish to recommend in preference to those whose names are transmitted, you will be pleased to inform me. I am Sir Your Mo. Ob. Serv. Signed James McHenry Lieut. Coll. Rich.^d Hounnewell and the same to Lieut. Coll. Nath. Rice Names of Applicants — Place of Abode — Grade applied for — By whom Recommended Caleb Marsh — Hingham — Surgeon to Reg.^t — Gen.^l Lincoln, Col. Rice +Oliver Mann — Castine (maine) — ditto — +Seth H Rogers — Dudley — ditto — W^m B. Hall, Sam.^l W. Dana Sam.^l Morey Jun.^r — Norton — ditto — Joshua Thomas — Boston — ditto — John Warren Aaron Dexter Jonathan Learned — Oxford — ditto — Tho.^s Babbett, Salem Town, & a number of Phisicians Joseph Manning — Ipswich — ditto — Joseph Swacy, Thomas Burnham Amos Winship — Boston — ditto — J. Warren Walter Hunnewill — Watertown — ditto — Marshall Spring Luther Starnes — Newton — ditto — General Brooks +Josiah Dwight — Belchertown — ditto — Dwight Foster, D.^r Babbett [undecipherable] Benjamin Walker — Bradford — ditto — Jon.^s Allen, Medical Society of Vermont +Charles Blake — — ditto — Col.^s N. Rice. Thomas Walch — Boston — Surgeon of the Castle. John Warren — ditto — Sup.^t Med.^l Dep.^t [applicants for Surgeon Mates on the other side —] Names — Residence — Grade — By whom Recommended Joshua Frost — Springfield — Surgeon Mate — Samuel Lyman +Eben.^r Lawrence — Medford — ditto — Gen.^l Brooks Daniel Eaton — Halifax (Nova Scotia) — ditto — Stephen Rabody Josiah Sanbourn — Bangor (Maine) — ditto — Elijah Skinner, J^no Blake Samuel Carrier — Kennebeck Co. ditto — ditto — Daniel Cooney [List of Applicants / for Surgeons & Mates / + Mates from this state / Massachusetts / recd on the [undecipherable] July]