From John Adams to United States Senate, 10 January 1798
United States January 10. 1798
Gentlemen of the Senate.
I nominate the following Persons to be Marshals of the United States.
John Hobby for the District of Maine.
Phillip B. Bradley, for the District of Connecticut.
Thomas Lowry for the District of New Jersey
Samuel McDowell Junr for the District of Kentuckey,
each for the term of four years to commence, on the twenty eighth of January current, when their present terms will expire.
John Adams
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.