From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 28 May 1796
To the United States Senate
United States May 28th 1796
Gentlemen of the Senate.
I nominate Simeon De Witt, of New York, to be Surveyor General.1
Go: Washington
LS, DNA: RG 46, entry 52; copy, DLC:GW.
1. Simeon DeWitt (1756–1834), who had served as geographer of the Continental army, was at this time surveyor general of New York.
The Senate received this nomination on this date and consented on 30 May (Timothy Pickering to GW, 27 June, n.2, and GW to Pickering, 1 July; see also GW to John Marshall, 15 July).
212–13). DeWitt declined the appointment (see