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
Go: Washington
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 (
208).1. See James McHenry to GW, 2 May, and the notes to that document.