Autograph Letter Signed

List of Officer Appointments Submitted for Approval; Troops Mobilized Against Insurrection

Submits the list of officer appointments proposed by General Pinckney for North Carolina, asks that they be approved as quickly as possible. Notes that some have already been appointed, and other vacancies need to be filled because of resignations, etc; asks that the main officers of each regiment be decided upon first. Notes that 5 companies of regulars are being dispatched "to the scene of insurrection," with volunteer companies standing in reserve.

1799

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War Department

Cited in Adams to McHenry, 03/29/1799 and McHenry to Hamilton, 03/21/1799.

Cited document sent from the War Office

John Adams

James McHenry

War Department

Military appointments

officers

commissions

company

alteration

pay master

army

resignations

list of persons proposed for military appointments from Major General Pinckney

if the names should be approved of that it may be returned as soon as convenient, with authority to announce to the persons therein named their appointments and to make alterations therein should any intermediary information or circumstances appear to render the same proper

It would facilitate the completion of the armory lists to be authorized to select fit persons

as these officers under the new organization may be the pay master

None are also vacancies in the army, in consequence of more acceptances resignations are daily occurring

on looking over the list enclosed, I find that some of these persons named in it have been appointed as mentioned in General Pinckney's letter

I have issued orders to draw five companies

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