Collection

Names

• Tench Francis

  Appointed by President George Washington Feb 1795 as nation's first Purveyor of Public Supplies (Navy pursers)

• John Jay

  U.S. Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1784-1790); Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1789-1795); Governor of New York (1795-1801)

• George Washington

  General 1775-1783; President 1789-1797

• John Adams

  Vice President of the U. S., 1789-1797; President of the U. S., 1797-1801

• Ebenezer Denny

• Jeremiah Wadsworth

• Captain Thomas Truxtun

  Original senior naval officer. Fought during the American Revolution. Rose to the rank of Commodore. Commanded the USS Constellation. Sometimes spelled Truxton.

• Caleb Swan

  Clerk in Pay Office; Chief Clerk in the War Department, 1789 - ; Paymaster to the Legion of the United States, 1792; Army Paymaster General, 1796

• John Stagg

  Chief Clerk of the War Office

• Winthrop Sargent

  Revolutionary War Officer; first Secretary of the Northwest Territory; Wounded during the St. Clair Expedition; First governor of Mississippi Territory until removed from office by Thomas Jefferson.

• Benjamin Lincoln

  Secretary of War, 1781-1783. Federal Commissioner, treaty talks at Sandusky Ohio.

• William Knox

• Henry Jackson

  Naval Agent for frigate construction Boston

• Joshua Humphreys

  Influential ship builder. Six frigates include: Constitution; Congress; President, Chesapeake, Constellation, United States

• Benjamin Hawkins

  Representative of Congress in negotiating with Creeks (1785); U.S. Senator from North Carolina (1789-1795); General Superintendent of Indian Affairs South of the Ohio (1796-?)

• Josiah Fox

  Naval architect noted for design & construction of first US Navy warships

• Tench Coxe

  Political economist; delegate Cont Congress; Commissioner of the Revenue under Hamilton

• Joseph Carleton

  Acting Secretary at War, 1783 to 1785

• William Simmons

• John Pierce

  Commissioner of Army Accounts and Paymaster General 1784-1788

• Joseph Howell

  Accountant; Paymaster General; Commissioner of Army Accounts

• Colonels Rice & Hunnewell

• Samuel Hodgdon

  Major; Commissary of Military Stores (1784); Commissioner of Commissary Stores and Assistant Quartermaster (1785-1790); Quartermaster General (1791-1792); Commissary of Military Stores (1792- )

• Anthony Wayne

  Major General (1783-1795)

• Josiah Harmar

  Lieutenant Colonel (1784-1786); Brevet Brigadier General (1787)