United States [New York]
Gentleman of the Senate,June 2nd 1790.
The Troops at present in service consisting of one regiment of Infantry and one Battalion of artillery were apportioned by the acts of the former Congress on the States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; and as the Officers of said troops are in actual service, I nominate them, as in the list hereunto annexed, according to their ranks respectively, for appointments under the act for regulating the military establishment of the United States, passed the 30th of April 1790.1 And as the said act requires an additional number of officers for one battalion of Infantry, I nominate, under the head of “New-Appointments” in the annexed list, the officers for the same from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia; it being proposed to raise the said battalion in those States.
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Infantry |
Officers in Service |
Rank |
Names |
State |
Lieutenant colonel commandant. |
 |
Josiah Hermer. |
|
Brigadier General by brevet 31 July 1787 Pennsylvania |
Majors |
John Palsgrave Wyllys |
Connecticut |
|
John F. Hamtramck |
New York |
Captains |
1 David Zeigler |
Pennsylvania |
|
2 Jonathan Heart |
Connecticut |
|
|
3 David Strong |
ditto |
|
4 William McCurdy |
Pennsylvania |
|
5 John Mercer |
New Jersey |
|
6 John Smith |
New York |
|
7 Joseph Ashton |
Pennsylvania |
|
8 Erkuries Beatty |
ditto |
Lieutenants |
1 Thomas Doyle |
Pennsylvania |
|
2 John Armstrong |
ditto |
|
3 Ebenezer Frothingham |
Connecticut |
|
4 John Pratt |
ditto |
|
5 William Kersey |
New Jersey |
|
6 William Peters |
New York |
|
7 Jacob Kingsbury |
Connecticut |
|
8 Ebenezer Denny |
Pennsylvania |
Ensigns |
1 Cornelius R. Sedam |
New Jersey |
|
2 Nathan McDowell |
Pennsylvania |
|
3 John Jeffers |
Connecticut |
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4 Abner Pryor |
New York |
|
5 Asa Hartshorne |
Connecticut |
|
6 Robert Thomson |
Pennsylvania |
|
7 Jacob Melcher |
ditto |
|
8 John Morgan |
New Jersey—Vice Francis |
|
|
Luce resigned 1st May 1790. |
Surgeon |
Richard Allison |
Pennsylvania |
Mates |
John Elliott |
New York |
|
John M. Scott |
New Jersey |
New Appointments |
Major |
Alexander Parker |
Virginia |
 |
|
Maryland |
|
North Carolina |
officers who served in the late war |
Georgia |
Virginia |
Georgia |
North Carolina |
Maryland |
|
Virginia |
|
ditto |
|
ditto |
|
|
Captains |
1 Alexander Trueman |
|
2 Joseph Monfort |
|
3 Michael Rudolph |
|
4 Ballard Smith |
Lieutenants |
1 Thomas Martin |
|
2 Thomas Pasteur |
|
3 Mark McPherson |
|
4 John Steel |
Ensigns |
1 Richard Archer |
|
2 Thomson Seayres |
[Ensigns] |
3 Ezekiel Polke |
North Carolina |
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4 James Clay |
Georgia |
Artillery |
Officers in Service |
Major Commandant |
John Doughty |
New Jersey |
Captains |
1 William Ferguson |
Pennsylvania |
|
2 James Bradford |
New York |
|
|
3 Henry Burbeck |
Massachusetts |
|
4 Joseph Savage |
ditto |
Lieutenants |
1 Mahlon Ford |
New Jersey |
|
2 Derick Schuyler |
New York |
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3 John Pierce |
Massachusetts |
|
4 Moses Porter |
ditto |
|
5 William Moor |
ditto |
|
6 Mathew Ernest |
New York |
|
7 Ebenezer Smith Fowle |
Massachusetts |
|
8 Edward Spear |
Pennsylvania |
Surgeons |
Nathan Hayward |
Massachusetts |
Mate |
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LS, DNA: RG 46, First Congress, 1789–91, Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations;
LB, DLC:GW.
1. For the Military Establishment Act, signed into law by GW on 30 April 1790, see DHFC, description begins Linda Grant De Pauw et al., eds. Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791. 20 vols. to date. Baltimore, 1972–. description ends 5:1274–1301. GW’s letter and list of nominees were presented to the Senate on 2 June and confirmed the next day (DHFC, description begins Linda Grant De Pauw et al., eds. Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791. 20 vols. to date. Baltimore, 1972–. description ends 2:71–74).