PrC (DLC). Not recorded in SJL.

TJ may have sent this list of appointments directly to the State Department for the issuance of commissions. Previously, however, the president sent the lists to the Treasury Department with the request that Gallatin forward the nominations to the Department of State (see Memorandums to Albert Gallatin, 10 June 1802).

Governor Monroe provided TJ with the candidates for bankruptcy commissioners at NORFOLK and Governor Bloomfield provided those nominated FOR NEW JERSEY (see James Monroe to TJ, 29 June, and Joseph Bloomfield to TJ, 30 June).

FOR MASSACHUSETS: Levi Lincoln and Henry Dearborn were preparing a list of bankruptcy commissioners for TJ in late June (Lincoln to TJ, 28 June). Before TJ prepared this memorandum, he received an undated list in Dearborn’s hand, with the 14 nominees for Boston, Newburyport, and Portland, as they appear above. Dearborn also listed, between the candidates for Boston and Newburyport, five nominees—Nathan Dane, William Lee, Jacob Crowninshield, William Burley, and Isaac Story—for Salem, Marblehead, and Beverly. On the list, TJ interlined “Isaac Story” in place of “William Lee” (MS in DNA: RG 59, LAR; undated; in Dearborn’s hand, with emendation by TJ; at head of text: “Commissioners”; endorsed by TJ: “Massachusets Commrs. bkrptcy. Genl. Dearb. mr Lincoln”). The State Department issued commissions for the Boston, Newburyport, and Portland nominees on 6 July and for Burley, Crowninshield, Dane, and Story two days later. MARKWAN: that is Marquand. The commissions for THOSE OF PORTLAND were designated for the district of Maine (list of commissions in Lb in DNA: RG 59, MPTPC; National Intelligencer, 16 July 1802; Benjamin W. Labaree, Patriots and Partisans: The Merchants of Newburyport, 1764–1815 [Cambridge, Mass., 1962], 215; Vol. 37: Appendix ii, Lists 1 and 2). The State Department sent out letters with the commissions for all of the Massachusetts appointees on 12 July (Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser. description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962–, 33 vols. Sec. of State Ser., 1986–, 9 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984–, 6 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009–, 1 vol. description ends , 3:416, 432, 449). On 22 July, Samuel Brown wrote Madison, noting that “existing engagements” prevented him from accepting the commission (RC in DNA: RG 59, RD; endorsed by TJ: “declines commr. bkrptcy”). Other Massachusetts appointees informed the secretary of state that they were returning the commissions, including Carter, Crowninshield, Dane, and McLellan on 21, 22, 24 July and August 1802, respectively. Advanced age and loss of eyesight kept McLellan from accepting the appointment (RCs in DNA: RG 59, LAR, all endorsed by TJ; Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser. description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962–, 33 vols. Sec. of State Ser., 1986–, 9 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984–, 6 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009–, 1 vol. description ends , 3:412, 416, 423, 449). On 28 July, Otis informed Madison that he would like to delay his decision until Congress was in session. If he were again elected clerk of the Senate, he would request permission to hold both offices and if he could not, he would decline the commission. If he were not reelected, the commission would keep him from “being wholly out of employ” (RC in DNA: RG 59, LAR, endorsed by TJ: “Otis Saml. A. to mr Madison Comms. bkrptcy”; Tr in DLC, dated 14 July, at head of text: “Copy”; Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser. description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962–, 33 vols. Sec. of State Ser., 1986–, 9 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984–, 6 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009–, 1 vol. description ends , 3:436–7). On 27 July, Burley wrote Madison declining his commission and recommending Daniel Kilham in his place (same, 432). Dane’s name was rendered as “Danna” on TJ’s lists and in the State Department records. When Dane, a Federalist who had served in the Continental Congress, returned his commission, he expressed doubt that he was the person intended (list of commissions in Lb in DNA: RG 59, MPTPC; Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser. description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962–, 33 vols. Sec. of State Ser., 1986–, 9 vols.; Pres. Ser., 1984–, 6 vols.; Ret. Ser., 2009–, 1 vol. description ends , 3:423; Vol. 37: Appendix ii, Lists 1 and 2; Vol. 38: Appendix I). For the appointment of Joseph Story in place of Isaac Story, see TJ to Dearborn and TJ to Isaac Story, both at 5 Aug. 1802.

For the recommendation of THOMAS STUART as the U.S. attorney for Tennessee, see Andrew Jackson to TJ, 16 June.