From Thomas Jefferson to the Supervisors of the Excise, 4 March 1791
To the Supervisors of the Excise
Philadelphia March 4. 1791.
Sir
The President of the United States desiring to avail the public of your services as Supervisor for the District of I have now the honor of enclosing you the Commission, and of expressing to you the sentiments of perfect esteem with which I am Sir &c.
Th: Jefferson
FC (DNA: RG 59, PCC No. 120); at head of text: “(Circular).” Not recorded in SJL or SJPL. A form of the enclosed commission with a list of the supervisors and their districts attached is in DLC: Washington Papers, with a note by Remsen, who drew the form and the list, that commissions were issued 4 Mch. 1791 to the following: Joshua Wentworth for New Hampshire; Nathaniel Gorham for Massachusetts; John S. Dexter for Rhode Island; John Chester for Connecticut; Noah Smith for Vermont; William S. Smith for New York; Aaron Dunham for New Jersey; George Clymer for Pennsylvania; Henry Latimer for Delaware; George Gale for Maryland; Edward Carrington for Virginia; William Polk for North Carolina; Daniel Stevens for South Carolina; and John Mathews for Georgia (Tr also in DNA: ML/179). These nominations were presented at the convened session of the Senate on 4 Mch. 1791 and were confirmed the same day (i, 80–2).