George Washington Papers

From George Washington to the U.S. Senate, 27 January 1797

To the United States Senate

United States
January 27th 1797

Gentlemen of the Senate,

I nominate

Enoch Sawyer of North Carolina to be Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Plankbridge on Sawyers Creek in North Carolina.1

Frederick B. Sawyer, of North Carolina, to be Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Newbiggen Creek in North Carolina.

Levy Blount, of North Carolina to be Inspector of the Revenue for the Port of Plymouth in North Carolina.

Go: Washington

LB, DLC:GW.

On this date, Secretary of State Timothy Pickering submitted a draft of this message to GW, but it has not been found (see Pickering to GW, 27 Jan., and n.3).

The Senate read this message on this date and ordered “That it lie for consideration.” The Senate confirmed the nominations on 30 Jan., and GW signed the commissions for the appointees on 2 Feb. (see Senate Executive Journal description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America: From the commencement of the First, to the termination of the Nineteenth Congress. Vol. 1. Washington, D.C., 1828. description ends , 223–24; and JPP description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends , 350–51). For more on the nominees and their careers as revenue officers, see GW to the U.S. Senate, 2 Feb. 1795 (second letter).

1Plank Bridge was the name given in the early part of the eighteenth century to present-day Camden, North Carolina. Sawyers Creek, which rises in central Camden County, N.C., flows into Pasquotank River. The late seventeenth century saw the emergence of settlements at the mouth of the creek.

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