Return of Officers Appointed to Augment the Army

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Return of the Officers who have been appointed under the Act intitled “An Act to augment the Army of the United States for other purposes” designating such Officers who have accepted their appointments and those who have declined accepting resigned their Commissions, died &c.
Lieut. General George Washington, dead Major Generals Alexander Hamilton, Inspector General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Henry Knox, declined Brigadier Generals John Brookes, declined; William Washington Jonathan Dayton, declined; William North, Adjutant General Cavalry John Watts, Lieut Colonel Commandant Majors Solomon Van Renselan; John Taylor, declined Captains Richard Willing, William Spencers Benjamin Williamson, Charles T Mercer, declined Laurence Lewis, declined; James Burn John B. Armistead, James N. Ball First Lieutenants Robert Gray; Lawrence Washington John Wallback; Charles F. Mercer, declined George Washington Craik; Richard Tilghman Second Lieutenants William C Rogers; Carter B. Fontaine Alexander McComb Junior; Richard Cook, resigned Charles Tutt, +Archibald Lee George W. F. Custis Fifth Regiment of Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Commandants

  • John Smith Majors
  • James Armstrong; + Henry M. Rutledge Captains William Dangerfield; + William Simons, declined Fleming Wooldridge; + Benjamin Fossin Trapier
  • John Kershaw; + Noah Kelsey
  • James Hartley; + Zechariah Nettles
  • Paul Thompson; + John Mitchell
  • Benjamin Easely First Lieutenants John Jameson; + Peter Williamson Charles Kilgore; + Stanmore Butler
  • John Brown; + George Clayton
  • Charles Boyle; + William W Trapier
  • William Taylor; + Pierre Gaillard, declined
  • Josias Heyward Second Lieutenants Willis Morgan; + Johnson Wellborn Elijah Johnson; + Edward Croft, declined
  • Samuel Taylor, declined; + William Darkey
  • Thomas Osborne Junr; + Francis Rogers
  • John Parker, Son of William, declined; + Charles Jones Jenkins
  • Charles Codnor Ash Sixth Regiment of Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Commandant
  • James Read Majors
  • Alexander D Moore; + William Brickell Captains William P. Anderson, resigned; William Hall
  • James Taylor; + John Williams
  • William Dickson; + John Nicholas
  • Eli Gaither; + Samuel Graves Barron
  • Edmund Smithwick; + Maurice Moore First Lieutenants Lewis Tiner; + Joseph Alexander, declined
  • Robert Troy, declined; + Carleton Walker
  • James Mackay; + Edward Jones
  • George W Davidson, declined; + Hugh Neuman, declined
  • McKenney Long; + William Martin, declined
  • Benjamin Smith Second Lieutenants Edmund P Gaines; + John Carroway
  • David T W Cook; + Abner Pasteur
  • Marcus Sharpe; + Benjamin Forsyth
  • James Morris; + Hugh Montgomery, not heard from
  • John Wilkinson; + Alexander Hunter Surgeon
  • Roger Cutler Seventh Regiment Lieut Colonel Commandant William Bentley Robert Beale; James Baytop Captains Daniel Ball, resigned; William Campbell Edmund Clark; Thomas Greene John Davidson; Robert King Archibald C. Randolph; James Caldwell Bartholomew Dandridge, declined; + William K. Blues Thomas Turner, declined First Lieutenant Van Bennet; Addison Armistead John Brahan; Samuel J Winston Robert Carrington, declined; Calvin Morgan Brewer Godwin, resigned; + John Heiskell Felix Wilton; + Jesse Dold Jesse Ewell Junr; + Horatio Stark Joseph Grigsby; + Marquis Combs Robert Temple, declined; + George Armistead Second Lieutenants John Heiskell promoted during recess; Andrew M Lusk Jesse Dold promoted during recess; James Brown Horatio Stark promoted during recess; + William Saunders Marquis Combs promoted during recess; + John Crump, declined George Armistead promoted during recess; + Bartlett Anderson William Potts; + Francis W Cook Peter Lambkin; + Philip Roots Alexander Henderson, declined; + John F Powell William Deane, declined; + Jacob Call Surgeon
  • Francis H. Peyton Surgeons Mates
  • Thaddeus Capron; + James W. Wallace, resigned Eighth Regiment of Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Thomas Parker Majors Simon Morgan, declined; + Lawrence Butler; William Campbell Captains Presley Thornton; Garnet Peyton Robert Gregg; Daniel C Lane Henry Piercy; Philip Lightfoot George S. Washington; Edmund Taylor Richard Chinns; Nathaniel Henry First Lieutenants Francis Foushee, resigned; John G Brown James Duncanson; John Williams Lemuel Bent; Thomas Jameson Robert Gustin; John Campbell George Tate; + James Tutt Charles J Love; + Simon Owens Second Lieutenants James Tutt promoted during recess; Willis Wells, declined Simon Owens promoted during recess; Hugh McCallister Reuben Thornton, declined; John Crane Junr George W Humphries; + John Meredith Obadiah Clifford; + John Stephens Strother Settle; + Robert Bell John C Williams; + Uriah Blue Charles Shackleford; + Richard Taylor John T. Fitzhugh; + Robert Little Surgeon
  • Edward Conrad Surgeons Mate
  • Thomas Tiplett, resigned; + Samuel M Griffith Ninth Regiment of Infantry Lieut Colonel Commandant Josias C Hall Majors David Hopkins; William D Beall Captains John C Beatty, declined; William Nicholson Thomas Beatty; Jacob Norris Lloyd Beall; Valentine Brothers Gerard Briscoe; John W Hacket Rezin Davidge; Jonathan Hodgson Bradley Beans, declined; + Richard Earle Isaac Spencer First Lieutenants William Elliott; Henry C Neale Edward A Howard, declined; Aquila Beale Richard W. West, declines; William Savin John B Barnes; Charles Clement Ninian Pinckney; + John Thompson Levi Alexander; + Robert Gover Matthew Tilghman Second Lieutenants Alexander Cooper; Levi G Ford John Brangle, declined; Daniel Hughes Enos Noland; John Adlum Thomas Dent; Edward Ford Levi Hillary; + George Peter John Warren, declined; + Joseph Bentley William Swan; + Benjamin Nowland Surgeon
  • Robert Geddes Surgeons Mates
  • Charles H Winder, declined; + William Beatty, declined
  • Anderson Warfield; + Charles A Beatty
  • Dardon Brown Tenth Regiment of Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Thomas L Moore Majors William Henderson; George Stephenson Captains Joseph McKinney; William Graham James Blaine; David Duncan Andrew Johnson; Benjamin Gibbs Matthew Henry; James Ashman William R. Atlee, declined; + Robert Westcott Hugh Brady First Lieutenants John Sharp, dead; Thomas Swearingen Samuel B. McGaw; Cromwell Peirce Henry G. Slough; Henry Westcott, declined Samuel Fulton, declined; + Alexander McNair Josiah McElwaine, declined; + David Irving James P. Nelson, declined; + Paul Weitzell Benjamin Wallace; + David Offley Robert Lawrence; + Samuel R Franklin Nelson Wade; + William Morrow Second Lieutenants William Morrow promoted during recess; John Smith George Hamill; Robert Chambers Archibald Davis, resigned; Alexander McNair, declined John A Douglas; Thomas Lee Herman Witner, declined; + John Hay Hough K Potts; + Robert George Barde John S. Porter, declined; + Joseph Knox Surgeon
  • Henry Hall, declined; + William Hurst Surgeons Mates
  • George Wilson; + James Irvine Eleventh Regiment of Infantry Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Aaron Ogden Majors William Shute; John Adlum Captains Robert Hunt, resigned; Samuel Bowman Charles Marles; Peter Faulkner Job Stockton; Walter K Cole, resigned Denise Foreman; James Read Almarine Brookes; + Samuel Erwins Samuel White First Lieutenants Samuel Erwin promoted during recess; William Carson Thomas Reading Junr, resigned; Lewis Howard Robert C Thompson; James Battel Samuel C Voorhes; + John Caldwell Walter K Cole, declined; + Samuel Owen Smith, declined George M Ogden; + Charles B Green John G MacWhorter; + William J Anderson William Potter; + Thomas Bullman Henry Betz, declined; + Henry Drake Second Lieutenants William Piatt; John Milroy Charles Read, resigned; Benjamin Worrell Thomas Bullman promoted during recess; John Montgomery Henry Drake promoted during recess; Jabez Caldwell Hethcote Johnson; + Thomas Y. How James Rhea; + Joseph Vancleve James Clayton Junr, declined; + Lawrence Mulford Surgeons
  • John Chetwood Junr Surgeons Mates
  • John Howell; + John C Wynans Twelfth Regiment of Infantry Lieut Colonel Commandant William S. Smith Majors William Willcocks; Christopher Hutton, declined; + Dowe J Fondy Captains Dowe J Fondy promoted during recess; Adrian Kissam, resigned Philip Church; John W Patterson, resigned James Bennet; Justus B Smith, not heard from George W Kirkland; Jeremiah Landon Philip Cortland; Andrew White First Lieutenants Philip S. Schuyler; James Smith Elhanan W Wheeler; Richard Baldwin, resigned Moses Forster; + William Cocks Thomas Thompson; + William Cumming David Jones, declined; + Joseph C. Cooper Robert Le Roy Livingston; + Thomas H. Williams Henry W Ludlow; + Samuel Hoffman, dismissed Nathaniel Paulding, resigned Second Lieutenants William Cocks promoted in recess; George F. Harrison, declined William Cumming promoted in recess; + Israel Loring Joseph C Cooper promoted in recess; + Joseph Herkeimer Thomas H Williams promoted in recess; + Jacob Mancius Samuel Hoffman promoted in recess; + Nathaniel Smith John Duer; + Cornelius Kipp William W Wands; + Tobias V Cuyler, resigned Prosper Brown, dead; + Walter B Vrooman Jacob le Ten Eyck Surgeon
  • Samuel Finley, resigned Surgeons Mates
  • John H. Douglas; + Samuel Davis Thirteenth Regiment of Infanty Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Timothy Taylor Majors John Ripley; Jabez Huntington, resigned Captains John Benjamin; Jonathan Root John Meigs; John Bulford Elihu Sandford; Asa Copeland Stephen Ranney; William Young Junr Samuel Blakeslee; Coleby Chew, declined First Lieutenants Samuel Waugh; William W Cheney Lemuel Harrison; Ludowick Gallup Bennet Bronson; John Eels Reuben Hurd; Waters Clark Trueman Mosely; + Nathaniel Ruggles John Knox; + John Beers Second Lieutenants Salmon Clark; Peter Richards, declined Peter N Brinsmade; Robert Hossmer,[undecipherable] Trueman Hinman; Solomon Allen Walter Smith; + Austin Ledyard, declined Joseph A Wells, declined; + Nathaniel Noyes James Gordon Junr; + Fanning Tracey Ebenezer Learned, declined; + Abijah Fenn, suspended & resigned Surgeon
  • Joseph Trowbridge Surgeons Mates
  • Timothy Pierce; + John Orton Junr; + John Spalding, declined Fourteenth Regiment of Infantry Lieutenants Col Commandant Nathan Rice Majors John Walker; Isaac Winslow Captains William Jones, declined; John Burbeck, declined Erasmus Babbet Junr; Simeon Draper Ephraim Emmery; Phineas Ashman John Tolman; Joseph Peirce Junr, declined Solomon Phelps; Arthur Lithgow, declined Ebenezer Thatcher, declined; + Samuel Mackay Thomas Chandler, resigned; + John Hastings Nathaniel Thwing First Lieutenants James Church; John Wheelwright Nathanial Soley, declined; Isaac Rand Junr Jacob Allen; Benjamin Beale Junr, declined William A Baron, declined; + Henry Sargent Robert Duncan Junr; + Francis Barker Phineas Ashman, declined; + William Gardner Alpheus Cheney; + Rufus Childs Samuel Flagg Junr, resigned Second Lieutenants Thomas Heald, declined; William Leverett Moses M Bates, declined; John Roulstone Charles Hunt; Thomas Durant James Gardner; Samuel W Church, resigned Marshall Spring, resigned; + Peyton Gay Daniel Hastings; + Thomas Hale Duncan Ingraham, resigned; + Charles Leonard, declined Surgeon
  • Charles Blake Surgeon’s Mates
  • Luther Stearns, declined; + Josiah Dwight, declined Fifteenth Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Richard Hunnewell Majors John Rowe; William Jones Captains James Brown; William Heywood Nathaniel Balch Jr; Caleb Aspinwall Hall Tufts; Stephen Peabody John Pynchon; Thomas Philips, declined John Blake; + Eli Forbes Samuel Jordan First Lieutenants Charles Cutler; Joseph Lee, declined William Sevan; David C D Forrest Samuel P Fay; Charles P Phelps, declined Eleazar Williams, declined; Edmund Soper Nathaniel Kidder; + Thomas Stevens Thomas Bowman, declined; + Augustus Hunt Ebenezer Bradish Jr; + Daniel Morse, declined John Shepherd, declined Second Lieutenants Abijah Harrington; Willard Fales Jonathan Nichol; Warren Hall, declined Daniel Bell; James D Wheaton John Page Junr; Seth Bannister David Fales; + Nathan Parks Franklin Tinkham Surgeon
  • Oliver Mann Surgeons Mates
  • Jonathan White; + Ebenezer Lawrence Sixteenth Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Rufus Graves Majors
  • Timothy Darling, resigned; + Cornelius Lynde Captains Josiah Dunham; John Rogers, declined Nathaniel Greene; George Tillinghast Robert Parker; Abraham R Ellery Henry Tilton; Jonathan Andrews William Woodward; George Woodward Israel Elliott Trask First Lieutenants Francis Gardner, declined; Thomas Brindley Daniel M Durell; Daniel Bissell Abel Hutchins, declined; Isaac Putnam Sylvester G Whipple; + Israel W Kelly Ephraim Whitney, declined; + Thaddeus Kendall Whipple Lovett; + Marmaduke Wait Robert Overing Second Lieutenants Arthur Rogers, declined; Ozeas Danforth Moses Sweet; William E Green, declined Israel Bartlett; Christopher Whipple Samuel Parker; John W Brownson Jesse Lull; + Benjamin F Starke Cary Clarke Note. The Officers in the foregoing Return having the Mark + affixed opposite to their names are those which were appointed by the President during the recess of the Senate; those where the contrary is not expressed are now in service.
    James McHenry Secy of War War Department April 15th 1800

Type

Document Signed

Description

Return of the Officers who have been appointed under the act, entitled "An act to augment the Army of the United States, and for other purposes" designating such officers who have accepted their appointments and those who have declined accepting, resigned their commissions, died, etc.

Date

04/15/1800

Sent from

War Department

Document number

1800041500201

Page start

4

Note

Enclosed in Adams to US Senate, 04/17/1800.

Notable persons

James McHenry
John Adams
militia
officers
Senate
Alexander Hamilton
George Washington
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Henry Knox
John Beorkes
William Washington
Jonathan Dayton
William North
John Watts
Solomon Van Renselan
John Taylor
Richard Willing
Benjamin Williamson
William Spencer
Charles Mercer
Laurence Lewis
John Armistrad
James Ball
Robert Gray
John Wallback
Laurence Washington
Richard Telgloman
William Rogers
Alexander McComb
Caster Fontaine
Richard Cook
Richibald Lee
Charles Tutt
George Flouster
James Armstrong
Henry Rutledge
William Dangerfield
Fleming Wooldridge
John Fleeshaw
James Hartley
Paul Thompson
Benjamin Easely
William Simons
Benjamin Teasier
Noah
Zechariah Nettles
John Mitchell
John Jameson
Charles Kelgore
John Brown
Charles Boyle
William Taylor
Josias Hoeyward
Peter Williamson
Starman Butter
George Clayton
William Teasier
Pierre Gaillard
Willis Morgan
Elijah Johnson
Samuel Taylor
Thomas Osborne
John Pasker
William Darkey
Francis Rogers
Charles Jones Jenkins
William Anderson
William Dickson
Eli Garthee
Edmund Smithwick
William Hall
John Williams
John Nicholas
Samuel Graves
Maurice More
Lewis Tiner
Roberty Teory
James Mackay
George Davidson
Benjamin Smith
Joseph Alexander
Carleton Walker
Edward Jones
Hugh Newman
William Martin
Edmund Gaines
David Cook
Marcus Sharpe
James Morris
John Wilkenson
John Carroway
Benjamin Forsyth
Hugh Montgomery
Alexander Hunter
Roger Culler
surgeon
Robert Beale
Daniel Ball
Edmund Calrk
John Davidson
Archibald Randolph
Thomas Turner
William Campbell
Thomas Greene
Robert King
James Caldwell
William Blues
Van Bennet
John Brahan
Robert Carrington
Brewer Godwin
Jesse Ewill
Joseph Gregory
Robert Temple
Addison Armistead
SSamuel Winston
Calvin Morgan
Jesse Dold
Marquis Combs
William Reid
George Armistead
Alexander Henderson
William Deane
Thaddeus Capron
Andrew McLark
James Brown
William Saunders
Francis Cook
Philip Roots
John Powell
Jacob CAll
Francis Peyton
James Wallace
Presley Thornton
Robert Gregg
Simon Morgan
William Campbell
Richard Chinn
Daniel Lane
Philip Lightfoot
Edmund Taylor
Nathaniel Henry
Francis Foushee
James Duncanson
Lemuel Bent
Robert Gustin
George Tate
Charles Love
John Brown
John Williams
Thomas Jameson
John Campbell
James Tutt
Simon Owens
John Stephens
Robert Bell
Robert Little
Richard Taylor
Hugh McCallister
Willis Wells
John Fitzhugh
Obadiah
John Beatty
Thomas Beatty
Lloy6d Beall
Gerard Briscoe
Bradley Beans
Isaac Spencer
William Beall
David Hopkins
Jacob Norris
William Nicholson
Valentine Brothers
John Hacket
Jonathan Hodgson
Richard Earle
William Elliott
Richard Weal
John Barnes
Ninian Pinckney
Lear Alexander
Henry Neale
Charles Clements
John Thompson
Robert Govers
Alexander Cooper
John Brangle
Thomas Dent
Levi
Edward Ford
Charles Winder
William Henderson
George Stephenson
Joseph McKinney
James Blaine
Andrew Johnson
Matthew Henry
William Atlee
Hugh Bradge
William Graham
David Duncan
Benjamin Gibbs
James Ashman
Robert Westcotts
John Sharp
Samuel Magars
Henry Slough
Samuel Fulton
Josiah McElwaine
James Nelson
Benjamin Wallace
Robert Laurence
Nelson Wade
Thomas Swearinger
Cromwell Pierce
Henry Westcott
David Irving
Paul Whitzell
David Offley
Samuel Franklin
William Norrord William Morrow
George Hamill
ARchibald Davis
John Douglas
Hugh Potts
John Porter
John Smith
Robert Chambers
Alexander McNair
Thomas Lee
Joseph Knox
George Wilson
William Shute
John Adlum
Robert Hunt
Charles Narles
Job Stockton
Denise Fouman
Samuel White
Samuel Bowman
Peter Faulkner
Walter Cole
James Read
Samuel Erwin
Thomas Reading
Robert Thompson
Walter Cole
George Ogden
William Carson
James Battel
John Caldwell
Samuel Owen Smith
William Anderson
Thomas Bullman
William Piatt
Charles Read
Henry Drake
James Rhea
James Clayton
John Milcox
John Montgomery
Jabez Caldwell
Joseph Vancleve
Laurence Milford
John Howell

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