Benjamin Stoddert was the first United States Secretary of the Navy from 1 May 1798 to 31 March 1801.
Quincy Aug. 18.1798 Sir Inclosed is a Letter from Mr Rutledge at Newport and recommendations from a great Number of respectable Inhabitants of Charleston in favour of George Cross to…
Quincy Aug 23d 1798 Sir Inclosed are letters from John Jones, Samuel Rankin, Thomas Laing & recommendations of the last which I transmit to you that they may appear on…
Quincy August 29. 1798 Sir Inclosed are Recommendations of John Cruft to be a Lieutenant in the Navy. He was mate of the ship, in which I returned from Europe…
Quincy Sept. 3d [ , Start insertion, 17 , End, ]‘98 Sir I have received your favor of the 27th of Aug. & return the commission for Captain George Cross…
Quincy Sept. 10 1798 Sir I have received your favor of the 1st of this month and thank you for the paper No. 1 which exhibits a view of the…
Quincy Sept 28th 1798 Dear Sir Inclosed is a letter from Elijah Brewer petitioning for a first lieutenancy in the navy and recommendation from Col Wadsworth and two other respectable…
Quincy Oct 2d [ , Start insertion, 17 , End, ]98 Dear Sir I have received your favor of Sept. 27 & with pleasure agree to your plan of a…
Quincy Oct 17th 1798 Sir I have signed and inclosed to Col Pickering the authority to act in your absence in the Navy office as you inclosed it to me…
Quincy April 10th [ , Start insertion, 1799 , End, ] Sir Capt. Samuel Parker yesterday brought me the inclosed letters from Gen. Knox and Mr. Daniel Davis. Capt. Parker…
Quincy April 22d 1799 Sir I return you the correspondence, between Truxton & Desfourneaux, inclosed in yours of the 11th. which I received on the 20th. I wish all the…
Quincy May 19th 1799 Sir I thank you for your favor of the 13th & the copies of Murrays letters, with the perusal of which, I have been highly delighted.…
Quincy May 21st 1799 Sir I last night received yours of the 15th & have read your letter to Capt. Nicholson, inclosed in it which as I acquiesce in it…
Quincy May 27th 1799 Sir, I enclose you some papers from Mr. Bradford Marshall of this district & a letter from some French officers prisoners at Wiscassett. I pray your…
Quincy May 31st 1799 Sir Inclosed is a recommendation from Col. Leonard, lately a member of congress of his nephew Charles Leonard to be an officer of marines. The family…
Quincy June 2d 1799 Sir, I received last night yours of the 28th. On the 21st I wrote you approving of Talbot to command the Constitution, and shall think the…
Quincy June 12th 1799 Sir Inclosed are recommendations of Henry Jackson Knox to be a lieutenant in the Navy & a petition for liberty to Capt. Brown to take some…
Quincy June 28th 1799 Sir I have read with pleasure your favor of the 19th. I yesterday sent to the post office your letter to Capt Talman, of whose intelligence,…
Quincy July 3d 1799 Sir Capt Nicholson having a desire to converse with the Secretary of the Navy, concerning several subjects, relative to the public service, some of which he…
Quincy July 10th [ , Start insertion, 1799 , End, ] Sir I have received your two favors of the 3d. The constitution shall not be delayed by me. If…
Quincy July 22d 1799 Sir Inclosed is a recommendation from the Mayor & Alderman of New Haven of David Phipps Esqr to be a Captain in the navy. We shall…
Quincy Aug 16th 1799 Sir Inclosed is a request of Dr Amos Windship to be a surgeon in one of our vessels of war. I was in the year 1779…
Quincy Aug 23d 1799 Sir My thoughts and feelings are exactly in union with yours, expressed in your favor of the 17th. I would propose that our envoys be landed…
Quincy Aug 28th 1799 Sir I have signed the commission for Joseph Whitmore, to be sailing master in the navy & have sent it in your letter to him, as…
Quincy Sept 4th 1799 Sir I have received your kind letter of the 29th. of August, & I thank you for the friendly sentiments expressed in it, in your private…