From John Adams to United States Senate

31 March 1800

Gentlemen of the Senate

United States March 31st 1800

I nominate John Brooks of Massachusetts to be a Major General in the army in the place of Henry Knox who has declined His appointment

John Adams

DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.

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