Enclosure: Nominations for Vacancies, 3 March 1791
Enclosure
Nominations for Vacancies
March 3d 1791
Nominations for Promotions and Appointments.
First Regiment.
Major David Zeigler vice Wyllys killed.
Major Richard Call vice Parker declined. Virginia.
Captains.
Thomas Doyle vice Zeigler promoted.
John Armstrong vice Mercer resigned.
John Pratt vice Heart promoted.
Lieutenants.
Cornelius Sedam vice Doyle promoted.
John Jeffers vice Frothingham killed.
Abner Pryor vice Armstrong promoted.
Asa Hartshorne vice Heart promoted.
Thomas Seayres vice Steele declined.
Ensigns. | |
Appointments | Daniel Britt Pennsylvania. |
Hamilton Armstrong ditto | |
Bartholomew Shomburg promoted from Serjeant Major | |
Bernard Gaines Virginia | |
John Wade Pennsylvania | |
Ross Bird ditto. |
Second Regiment | ||
Appointments | ||
Lieutenants Colonel Commandant | John Doughty New Jersey | |
1. Major | Lemuel | |
Trescott Massachusetts. | ||
2. Major | John | |
Burnham ditto | ||
3. Major | Jonathan | |
Heart Connecticut |
- 1 Robert Kirkwood Delaware.
- 2 Thomas Hunt Massachusetts.
- 3 John Mills ditto
- 4 John Pray ditto
- 5 Richard Brooke Roberts South Carolina.
- 6 John H. Buell Connecticut.
- 7 David Sayles Rhode Island.
- 8 Jonathan Cass New Hampshire.
- 9 Constant Freeman Massachusetts.
- 10 Patrick Phelon ditto
- 11 Thomas H. Cushing ditto
- 12 Joseph Shaylor Connecticut
Captains.
- 1 Samuel Newman Massachusetts.
- 2 Bezalael Howe New Hampshire.
- 3 Henry Sherman junr Rhode Island.
- 4 Daniel Bradley Connecticut
- 5 John Platt Delaware
- 6 William Richard Massachusetts.
- 7 Richard Surcomb Howe ditto
- 8 Richard Humphrey Greaton Massachusetts
- 9 John Higgenson ditto
- 10 Winslow Warren ditto
- 11 Russell Bissell Connecticut.
- 12 Francis Huger South Carolina.
Lieutenants.
- 1 Martin Brimmer Sohier Massachusetts.
- 2 Richard Edwards ditto
- 3 Edward Miller Connecticut
- 4 John Thomson ditto
- 5 George Tillinghast Rhode Island.
- 6 Joseph Smith Gilman New Hampshire.
- 7 Joseph Peirce junr ditto
- 8 David Cobb junr Massachusetts.
- 9 Joseph Dickinson South Carolina.
- 10 Thomas Duff Delaware
- 11 Edward Turner Massachusetts
- 12 Theodore Sedgwick 3d ditto
Ensigns.
Surgeon William Eustis Massachusetts.
Surgeons Mate Joshua Sumner Connecticut.
Surgeons Mate John F. Carmichael New Jersey.
The Battalion of Artillery. | |
Major Commandant William Ferguson vice Doughty promoted. | |
Captain Mahlon Ford vice Ferguson promoted. | |
Lieutenants | Daniel McLane vice Moor dead |
Abimael Youngs Nicholl vice Fowle dead. | |
George Ingersoll vice Ford promoted. |
Go: Washington
DS, DNA: RG 46, First Congress, 1789–1791, Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations; LB, DLC:GW.