From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 17 May 1796

To the United States Senate

United States 17th May 1796

Gentlemen of the Senate.

An unexpected circumstance having obliged Jeremiah Wadsworth, to decline his appointment of Commissioner to hold a treaty with the Cohnawaga Indians, stiling themselves the Seven Nations of Canada; I now nominate Abraham Ogden Commissioner to hold the said Treaty.1

It having become necessary to remove Sylvanus Walker, Inspector of the Revenue for the third Survey in the district of South Carolina, I also nominate William Benson to succeed the said Sylvanus Walker in said Office.2

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LS, DNA: RG 46, entry 52; copy, DLC:GW.

The Senate ordered that these nominations “lie for consideration” on this date and approved them on 18 May (Senate Executive Journal, description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America: From the commencement of the First, to the termination of the Nineteenth Congress. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C., 1828. description ends 208).

1. See James McHenry to GW, 2 May, and the notes to that document.

2. See Oliver Wolcott, Jr., to GW, 14 May.

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Title: From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 17 May 1796
Author: Washington, George
Recipient: United States Senate
Date: 17 May 1796

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Cite as: “From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 17 May 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0111. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 20, 1 April–21 September 1796, ed. David R. Hoth and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, pp. 156–157.]

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