From George Washington to the United States Senate, 10 August 1790
To the United States Senate
United States [New York]
August 10th 1790.
Gentlemen of the Senate,
I nominate John C. Jones,1 the present Collector of the port of Nanjemoy in the State of Maryland, to be Collector of the District of Cedar Point, when the Act to provide more effectually for the collection of duties &c. shall take effect.2 and
Jeremiah Jordan3 to be Surveyor of the Port of Lewellensburg in the State of Maryland.4
Go: Washington
LS, DNA: RG 46, First Congress, 1789–91, Records of Executive Proceedings, President’s Messages—Executive Nominations; LB, DLC:GW.
1. For John Courts Jones’s August 1789 appointment as collector of the customs at Nanjemoy, see Jones to GW, 1 June 1789 and notes; 2:15, 21.
2. See 145–78 [4 Aug. 1790], and 4:434–37.
3. Jeremiah Jordan (c.1733–1806) of St. Mary’s County, Md., sat in the lower house of the state legislature and held numerous local offices. During the Revolutionary War he served as a militia colonel ( 2:499–500). Michael Jenifer Stone wrote to Tobias Lear on 9 Aug. 1790 in response to a previous query: “I have enquired and can only recollect two Gentlemen who would answer the purpose of Surveyor at Llewellinsburg—Col. Jeremiah Jordan—and Charles Llewellin—of those Jordan is I believe the fitest—But I really cannot tell if either will accept—Their conditions are rather above it—But it might not be materially inconvenient to them—Jordan keeps a Store at the Spot—and I think it would be most probable that he would serve” (DLC:GW). In March 1792 GW also named Jordan inspector of the excise at Lewellensburg ( 1:104).
4. The Senate confirmed the nominations of Jones and Jordan on the same day they were presented ( 2:94).