From John Adams to United States Senate

19 February 1799

Gentlemen of the Senate

Feb. 19. 1799

I nominate Richard Derby of Massachusetts to be a Captain in the Navy

John Adams

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

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