Settling the Rank of Sundry Officers
Document 1799Rice lists the officers of his regiment--captains, first lieutenants, and second lieutenants--in the rank order that he believes is appropriate. He willingly defers if Hamilton does not agree.
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Autograph Document
Description
Rice lists the officers of his regiment--captains, first lieutenants, and second lieutenants--in the rank order that he believes is appropriate. He willingly defers if Hamilton does not agree.
Date
10/25/1799
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Oxford
Collection
Document number
1799102560000
Note
Enclosure: Proposed arrangement of the officers in the 14th Regiment.
Cited in Hamilton to Rice, 11/11/1799.
Notable persons
Alexander Hamilton
Nathan Rice
the President [Adams]
Phelps has commanded a company of artillery in the militia
Mr. Ames
Captain Mackay...served in the British army as a subaltern
Captains: John Hastings
Ephraim Emery
Simeon Draper
Thomas Chandler
Phineas Ashmun
Nathaniel Twing
Solomon Phelps
John Tolman
Erasmus Babbit
Samuel Mackay
First Lieutenant: Isaac Rand
Alpheus Chaney
Samuel Flagg
James Church
Robert Duncan
Henry Sergent
John Wheelwright
Jacob Allen: Rufus Childs
William Gardner
Francis Barker
Second Lieutenants: John Roulstone
Thomas Durant
William Leverett
Daniel Hastings
James Gardner
Charles Hunt
Marshall Spring
Payton Gay
Thomas Hale
Notable locations
Oxford
Notable items
claims of the officers of my regiment
grade of captains
rank of field officers
propensity to game
poverty
our revolutionary war
recruiting