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• [First] Assistant Postmaster General, since 1782 and 1789
• Second Assistant Postmaster General, since 1810 (Act of 30 April 1810; Act of 3 Mar. 1825)
  
• Senior and Junior, later First and Second.
• Third Assistant Postmaster General, since 1836 (Act of 2 July 1836)
• Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department (Act of 2 July 1836)
  
• Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, since 1891 (Act of 3 Mar. 1891)
• Deputy Postmaster General, since 1949 (Reorganization Plan of 1949)
• Assistant Postmaster General for Personnel (Act of 23 July 1953)
  

• 1782, Ordinance for regulating the Post Office
• There is a draft version which allowed two assistants, for the eastern and southern departments (link).
  
• 1796, Habersham proposal, ASP p. 17-21 (link)
• about 1820, from [D]
1. Accounts - collecting, disbursing, settling with postmasters, etc.
2. Post routes, contracts, etc.
   
• 1829, PMG McLean
1. Appointment Branch
2. Finance
3. Contracts and Transportation, Chief Clerk
• PMGs McLean and Barry recommended this position be upgraded to Asst. PMG
  
• 1830, ASP p. 254-256 (link)
  
1. Book-keepers, Solicitor's Office, Pay Office, Examiner's Office, Register's Office
2. Appointment Office, Dead Letter Office, Office of Instruction and Mail Depredations
3. Office of Mail Contracts, Office of the Chief Clerk
   
• 1835 reorganization [Amos Kendall, Autobiography, p. 342]
1. Appointment Office
2. Contract Office
3. Inspection Office
   
• 1836, PMG Report
• Contract Office
• Appointment Office
• Inspection Office
• Amos Kendall suggested four Assistant PMG's would be appropriate (283 S.doc. 362, May 9, 1836; 318 S.doc. 436, May 15, 1838).
  
• 1843 organization [Blain]
  
1. Contract Office
2. Appointment Office
3. Inspection Office
• Auditor's Office, in the Treasury Dept.
  
• 1859 organization, described [Lanman]
1. Appointment Office
2. Contract Office
3. Finance Office
• Inspection Office, Chief Clerk
  
• 1878 organization [Poore]
1. Appointment Division, Bond Division, Salary and Allowance Division, Free Delivery, Blank Agency Division
2. Contract Division, Inspection Division, Mail-Equipment Division
3. Division of Finance, Division of Postage-Stamps and Stamped Envelopes, Division of Registered Letters, Division of Dead Letters, Superintendent of Foreign Mails, Superintendent of Money-Order System
• 1949/1950 reorganization
• Bureau of Post Office Operations; renamed Bureau of Operations, effective 1 July 1957
  
• Bureau of Transportation
• Bureau of Finance
• Bureau of Facilities

• 1782, see notes on James Bryson
  
• Sep. 22, 1789, An Act for the temporary establishment of the Post-Office, 1 Stat. 70, authorizing an "assistant or clerk and deputies".
• Feb. 20, 1792, An Act to establish the Post-Office and Post Roads within the United States, 1 Stat. 232, Sec. 3, "authority to appoint an assistant, and deputy postmasters".
• Mar. 2, 1799, An Act to establish the Post-Office of the United States, 1 Stat. 733, Sec. 1, "shall appoint an assistant".
  
• Apr. 30, 1810, An Act regulating the Post-office Establishment, 2 Stat. 592, Sec. 1, "shall appoint two assistants", the "senior assistant" to act as PMG when necessary.
• Jan. 13, 1830, PMG W.T. Barry recommended a third Asst. PMG (link).
  
• July 2, 1836, An Act to change the organization of the Post Office Department, and to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts thereof, 5 Stat. 80; Sec. 20, authorizing "a third Assistant Postmaster General"; Sec. 40, the "First Assistant Postmaster General" to act as PMG when necessary.
• also, Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, 5 Stat. 80, Sec. 8.
  
• Mar. 3, 1853, An Act to establish certain Post-roads, and for other Purposes, 10 Stat 249; Sec. 5, the Assistant Postmasters General to be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
  
• June 8, 1872, An Act to revise, consolidate, and amend the Statues relating to the Post-office Department, 17 Stat. 283, "three assistant postmasters-general" appointed by the President, to be confirmed by the Senate.
• Mar. 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 908, 944 (PDF) an appropriation of salary for a Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, without further details.

• USR = The United States Register, Philadelphia, 1794 and 1795
  
• OR = Rolls (1802, 1813), Official Register (1816-1959)
• CD = Congressional Directory
• NC = National Calendar (1820-36)
• W = Watterston (1840, 1842)
• PG = Postal Guide, Oct. 1874 - 1954
  
• PGR = Postmaster General, Annual Report (1919, 1970, etc.)
• LPO = List of Post Offices (1866, 1870)
• H.doc., H.exdoc., H.misdoc., H.rp. = House of Representatives, document, executive document, miscellaneous document, report
• given with a volume number of the US Serial Set, and a document/report number

• Accessible Archives
• The Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, 1728-1800
• Readex, America's Historical Newspapers, Early American Imprints
  
• Chronicling America, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
  

• Poore's PMG list is completely correct, but his Asst. PMG list is deficient
• Lanman/Morrison, 1869/1876/1887, gives only the appointment year, and is unreliable on several points
  
• Meschter's dates are often given without reference, and some are clearly guesswork.
  

• Lists of those receiving salaries in the quarter ending Dec. 31, 1844.
• Asst. Postmaster Generals, Selah R. Hobbie, John S. Skinner, N. Miller

• Nathan K. Hall, Postmaster General
• Solomon D. Jacobs, First Assistant Postmaster General, Mail Arrangement
• Fitz Henry Warren, Second Assistant Postmaster General, Appointments
• John Marron, Third Assistant Postmaster General, Finances
• William H. Dundas, Chief Clerk, Inspection of Mail Service
• John W. Farrelly, Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, Settlement of Accounts

• Nathan K. Hall, Postmaster General
• Solomon D. Jacobs, First Assistant Postmaster General, Appointment Office
  
• Fitz Henry Warren, Second Assistant Postmaster General, Contract Office
  
• John Marron, Third Assistant Postmaster General, Finance Office
  
• William H. Dundas, Chief Clerk, Inspection Office
• John W. Farrelly, Auditor
  

• 3rd Asst. PMG, nominated and confirmed Mar. 17, 1873 [SEJ v.19 p.64,73,74], resigned May 1877
• in office, Oct. 1874 [PG]
• E.W. Barber, The Vermontville [Michigan] colony, its genesis and history, with personal sketches of the colonists, 1897, http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071381563, http://www.loc.gov/item/20007056/
• "The year 1861 was the last year of my residence in the town, an election as clerk of Eaton county in 1860, as clerk of the house of representatives in the State legislature in 1861 and 1863, the appointment as Reading Clerk of the national house of representatives in 1864, as Supervisor of Internal Revenue for Michigan and Wisconsin in 1869 and as Third Assistant Postmaster General in 1873, taking me away permanently; still it is the one place on earth that has the associations and charms of home." (p. 47, link)
• Edward W. Barber, Men and Events in Washington During and After the Civil War, Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, 1906, vol. 30, p. 212-243, http://books.google.com/books?id=ZSLiAAAAMAAJ
• Moved to Lake Wales, Florida, and died there in 1928.  http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128174503
  

• Comptroller of the General Post Office under Richard Bache, PMG, Nov. 1776 - Jan. 1782 (ref)
• Baynton described this position as "first subordinate Officer".
• Clerk of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, 1794-1797
  
• Pennsylvania State Treasurer, 1797-1801
  
• Adjutant General of Pennsylvania, 1799-1802
  

Stephen Bradley, 1642-1702, b. England; d. Guilford, CT
+ Abraham Bradley [I], 1675-1721, Guilford, CT
   + Abraham Bradley [II], 1702-1771, Guilford, CT
      + Abraham Bradley [III], 1731-1824, b. Guilford, CT; d. Verona, NY
         + Abraham Bradley, Jr. [IV], 21 Feb. 1767 - 7 May 1838, b. Litchfield, CT; d. Washington, DC
            + Joseph Habersham Bradley, 1803-1887
         + Dr. Phineas Bradley, 17 July 1769 - 28 Feb. 1845, b. Litchfield, CT; d. Washington, DC
            + William A. Bradley, 1794-1867
                     Mayor of Washington, 1834-1836
                     Postmaster of Washington, DC, 1849-1853
                     Pres. of the Bank of Washington, the Patriotic Bank, the Franklin Insurance Co.
                     Wikipedia
            + Phineas Jones Bradley, 1804-1828  -- a PO clerk
         + related? Thomas S. Bradley  -- a PO clerk

• Abraham Bradley [III], father of the two postal officials, settled in Litchfield, CT, and then, about 1790, Hanover Township, Pa., near Wilkes-Barre.  He later moved to Washington, and lived with his son Phineas Bradley.
• Abraham Bradley, Jr. [IV], studied law in Litchfield, then began practice in Wilkes-Barre, and was admitted to the bar there in 1788 (ref, ref).  On recommendation of Timothy Pickering (since 1787 the Prothonotary of Luzerne County, Pa., ref, ref), he was appointed a judge in Luzerne County on 17 Aug. 1791.  This position did not last for long, as he soon after joined the Post Office Dept. (in Philadelphia) as Postmaster General Pickering's confidential clerk.
  
• in 1794, Clerk (The United States Register, Philadelphia, for the year 1794, p. 82, and for 1795, p. 81).
• The Preface dates are Jan. 1794 and Nov. 1794.
• in 1794, 1796-1800, Clerk (The American Kalendar, or, United States Register, London, 1794-1800).
• in Nov. 1796 (Morse, American Gazetteer, 1797)
• Asst. PMG, appointed 30 Dec. 1799 [Meschter]
  
• He took office as Asst. PMG in Jan. 1800, likely on Jan. 21.  [Meschter]
• Meschter refers to "the Assistant Postmaster General's letter book", presumably in the National Archives; no reference is given.
• first appointed to the Post Office in first quarter 1800 [ASP p. 329]
• New York Gazette, Apr. 1, 1800
• Abraham Bradley, is appointed assistant postmaster general, vice Charles Burrall, resigned.
• similar, in other papers, at later dates
  
• Bradley supervised the move of the General Post Office from Philadelphia to Washington, June 1, 1800.  (newspaper notices, May 1800) [D]
  
• Bradley left Philadelphia May 27, arriving in Washington May 29 (link); also, (link), (link).
  
• PMG Habersham was in Georgia at the time (link).
  
• Asst. PMG in 1800 at the time of the move from Philadelphia to Washington [ASP Finance vol. 1, p. 813, link]
  
• Asst. PMG, in Feb. 1802 [OR 1802] [ASP Miscellaneous vol. 1, p. 305, link]
• Asst. PMG in 1804 [Evening Fire-side, Philadelphia, June 14, 1806, link]
  
• [1st] Asst. PMG, in Mar. 1813 [OR 1813]
  
• in Dec. 1822, also a bank president, which "does not in the least interfere with the public duties" [ASP Misc. v.2 p.984-985]
• Union Bank of Georgetown, appointed President Jan. 1814, re-elected 1819
  
• Bill of sale for a slave, 1825 (link)
• Senior Asst. PMG, on Mar. 10, 1829; American State Papers, no. 31 App. B, Mar. 10, 1829 [ASP p. 223-224]
• The Report of the Postmaster General, 24 Nov. 1829, levels complaints about "one of the Assistants". [ASP p. 215-217]
  
• American State Papers, no. 110, Mar. 1, 1831 [ASP p. 336]
• dismissed, on or about Sep. 28, 1829 [ASP p. 321]
• removed, on or about Sep. 14, 1829 [ASP p. 331, 333]
• news reports, Sep. 15, 1829, from the National Intelligencer
• Post Office Dept. Circular dated 15th September 1829, in the Daily National Journal, Sep. 18, 1829
• "... the functions of Abraham Bradley, Esq., as Assistant Postmaster General will cease from and after this date."
• Succeeded by Charles K. Gardner.
  
• replaced, before Sep. 19, 1829 [Niles Register]
  
• replaced, before Sep. 30, 1829 [Official Register, as of Sep. 30, 1829]
• He was a Federalist, and was swept out after the election of Andrew Jackson.
• Senior Assistant Postmaster General, removed between 4 Mar. 1829 and 1 Oct. 1829 [404 H.doc. 170, 31 Mar. 1842]
  
• Joseph H. [Habersham] Bradley was a son of Abraham Bradley [ASP p. 333], 1802-1884 [D], 1803-1887 [grave].
• Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Bradley_Jr., with further references
  
• Larry Caldwell and Michael Buehler, Picturing a Networked Nation: Abraham Bradley’s Landmark U.S. Postal Maps.
  
• http://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/portolan-spring10-bradley-reprint.pdf
• joined the Post Office in 1792 as a clerk; Asst. PMG in 1800
• Brief bio, http://dunhamwilcox.net/ct/litchfield_b-b.htm
• Biography, http://books.google.com/books?id=BJ0sAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1052
  

• Brother of Abraham Bradley, Jr.  A medical doctor, he practiced in Middletown, CT, then ran a pharmacy in Litchfield, CT, then moved to Painted Post, NY, then moved to Wilkes-Barre, with his father and brother.
  
• Clerk in 1800 at the time of the move from Philadelphia to Washington [ASP Finance vol. 1, p. 813, link]
• arrived in Washington, 1801, from Wilkes-Barre, where the family had moved [D]
• Clerk, in 1813 [Rolls]
  
• Principal Clerk, in 1816, 1817
• promoted to Asst. PMG, Oct., 1818, after the resignation of Seth Pease (newspaper reports)
• first appointed to the Post Office in 1799; removed in Sep. 1829 [ASP p. 333]
• Like his brother, he was a Federalist, and was swept out after the election of Andrew Jackson.
• Some reports say he resigned as a result of his brother's dismissal.
• The Report of the Postmaster General, 24 Nov. 1829, levels complaints about "one of the Assistants". [ASP p. 215-217]
  
• replaced, before Sep. 30, 1829 [Official Register, as of Sep. 30, 1829]
• Phineas J. Bradley, a clerk in 1821, 1823, 1825, 1827
• Phineas Jones Bradley was the second son of Dr. Phineas Bradley; born 1804, he died in July 1828.
• Assistant Postmaster General, removed between 4 Mar. 1829 and 1 Oct. 1829 [404 H.doc. 170, 31 Mar. 1842]
• William A. [Abraham] Bradley was another son of Phineas Bradley [ASP p. 333].  In 1849-53, he was postmaster of Washington, DC, replacing Charles K. Gardner
  
• 1794-1867; portrait (link); Wikipedia
  
• Was Thomas S. Bradley related?  Clerk in 1819, 1821, 1823
• obituary, National Intelligencer, Mar. 7, 1845
• obituary, Wilkes-Barre Advocate, July 1845; copied by the National Intelligencer, July 31, 1845
  

• US Consul in St. Thomas, West Indies, nominated and confirmed, Dec. 1870 [SEJ v.17 p.553,584]
  
• Supervisor of Internal Revenue, recess appointment, nominated Dec. 6, 1875 [SEJ v.20 p.81]; confirmed Dec. 14, 1875 [SEJ v.20 p.110]
• 2nd Asst. PMG, nominated July 22, 1876 [SEJ v.20 p.289], in place of James N. Tyner, appointed PMG; confirmed July 24, 1876 [SEJ v.20 p.291]
• [SEJ v.23 p.58]
• Wikipedia

• Clerk, 1816
• Chief Clerk
• The Third Division, before creation of the office of Third Assistant Postmaster General, was led by Obadiah B. Brown and Robert Johnston.
• Wikipedia
• In 1816, in a description of the Washington, DC, churches, by the father of Abraham and Phineas Bradley, "One Baptist Church - Parson Brown.  He also is a clerk, and a very good one, in the General Post Office." (ref).
  

• Wikipedia
• Congress
  

• 2nd Asst. PMG, from Oct. 1, 1842 [OR 1843]
• Cleveland Herald, Oct. 3, 1842, "The appointment of John A. Bryan to this responsible office [Second Assistant Postmaster General] is in perfect keeping with Tylerism.  If office under Mr. Tyler be the reward for foul abuse of the Whigs and Whig principles, Mr. Bryan is truly deserving.  ...  Mr. Fuller probably did not consult the whims of Mr. Tyler in all cases, so off with his head."  (link)
• The New World, New York, June 3, 1843 (link)
• http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bryan.html
• Wikipedia
  

• Jan. 28, 1782, elected assistant to PMG Ebenezer Hazard
  
• Bryson had been a surveyor of the post office at least since Nov. 1777 (ref).  In the British and early American systems, a surveyor would visit and report on the operations of the post office, with the goal of identifying problems and making suggestions for improvements.
• Journals of the Continental Congress, 1777, IX, 860; 1778, X, 360; 1779, XV, 1203; 1780, XVII, 553
• Pennsylvania Packet, Philadelphia, Apr. 17, 1779, General Post Office notice, signed "James Bryson, Surveyor of the Post-Offices, Middle District".
• Letters of Delegates to Congress, June 19, 1780 (transcribed)
  
• Journals of the Continental Congress, Jan. 28, 1782, vol. 22, p. 60 (link)
  
• Congress proceeded to the election of a postmaster general; and, the ballots being taken, Mr. Ebenezer Hazard was elected, having been previously nominated by Mr. [Roger] Sherman: Mr. James Bryson was elected assistant or clerk to the postmaster general, having been previously nominated by Mr. [Abraham] Clark.
• Letters of Delegates to Congress, Jan. 30, 1782, John Hanson to Ebenezer Hazard and James Bryson (transcribed)
  
• Journals of the Continental Congress, Feb. 1, 1782, vol. 22, p. 66 (link)
• A letter of January 31 from Ebenezer Hazard, accepting the office of Postmaster General.  A letter of January 31, from James Bryson, accepting appointment as assistant or clerk to the Postmaster General.
• Pennsylvania Packet, Feb. 5, 1782,
  
• On the 28th ult. [Jan. 28] Congress appointed Ebenezer Hazard, esquire, post-master general, and James Bryson, esquire, assistant post-master general.  We hear that Congress have reduced postage to the peace price.
  
• The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb, 6, 1792.
  
• On the 28th ult. Congress appointed EBENEZER HAZARD, Esq; Post Master General, and JAMES BRYSON, Esq; Assistant Post Master General.  We hear that Congress have reduced postage to the peace price.
  
• Journals of the Continental Congress, Oct. 18, 1782, vol. 23, p. 669-678 (link)
  
• An Ordinance for Regulating the Post Office of the United States of America.
  
• Journals of the Continental Congress, Nov. 22, 1782, vol. 23, p. 749-750 (link)
• Journals of the Continental Congress, Dec. 18, 1782, vol. 23, p. 812-813 (link)
  
• Journals of the Continental Congress, Oct. 24, 1782, vol. 23, p. 888 (link)
• A broadside, signed James Bryson, Assistant, excerpting the Ordinance of Oct. 18.
• Published in the Pennsylvania Packet, Oct. 26, 1782.
  
• The Pennsylvania Gazette, June 4, 1783.
  
• Thursday arrived in town from the southward, James Bryson, Esquire, Assistant to the Post Master General of the United States of America.  And it is with pleasure we inform the public, that Post Offices are again established in the intermediate towns and places from Falmouth, Casco Bay, to Savanna in Georgia.
  
• Bryson was succeeded as Asst. PMG by Jonathan Burrall, who was appointed Oct. 5, 1789.
• Bryson was simultaneously Postmaster of Philadelphia, appointed Jan. 28, 1782; his successor in that role was Robert Patton, appointed Oct. 2, 1789 (ref).
  
• (identified as Assistant PMG) news reports or General Post Office announcements,
  
• in the Pennsylvania Packet, Feb. 5, 1782 (cited above); Oct. 26, 1782; Nov. 9 and 16, 1782; May 29, 1788
• in the Pennsylvania Gazette, June 4, 1783 (cited above); Sep. 15, 1784 (notice of Sep. 7, 1784); Sep. 28, 1785 (notice of Sep. 17, 1785)
  
• in the Pennsylvania Journal, Dec. 7, 1782; Jan. 11, 1783; Aug. 6, 1783; Jan. 17, 1784; Sep. 24, 1785; Dec. 12, 1787
  
• in the Pennsylvania Mercury, Sep. 22, 1786; Nov. 24, 1786
  
• in the New York Morning Post, Oct. 5, 1786
• in the New York Journal, Aug. 9, 1787
• (identified as P.M.) news reports or Philadelphia Post Office announcements,
  
• Francis White, Philadelphia Directory, 1785, p. 9, 91, 97.
  
• in the Pennsylvania Gazette, Dec. 20, 1786 (notice of Nov. 26, 1786); Jan. 10, 1787 (notice of Jan. 1, 1787); Aug. 6, 1788 (notice of July 30, 1788); Jan. 7, 1789 (notice of Dec. 30, 1788)
  
• in the Pennsylvania Journal, Jan. 28, 1786; Feb. 2, 1786; ...; Sep. 12, 1789
• in the Independent Gazette, Philadelphia, Jan. 28, 1786
  
• Robert Patton was Philadelphia postmaster from and after 5 Oct. 1789 [PMG Letter Books]
  
• (not identified either as Asst. PMG or PM)
• in the Independent Gazetteer, Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 1782
  
• Letter addressed to "James Bryson Esqr, APG, Philadelphia", June 9, 1789 (link).
• Bryson was dismissed with Ebenezer Hazard, Oct. 1789.
• Letters between Ebenezer Hazard and Jeremy Belknap, 22 Oct. 1789 (link), 29 Oct. 1789 (link).
  
• Later appearances,
  
• replaced as Prothonotary, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Jan. 1800 (Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 12, 1800)
  
• See also,
  
• The Papers of James Madison, vol. 6, p. 278, note 2, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-06-02-0085
• The Belknap Papers, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1877-1878, series 5, vol. 2 (link), vol. 3 (link).
  

• See next for Burrall family tree.
  
• In 1786, a "clerk in the Offices of the Commissioners of the five great departments" (ref).
• Was this position associated with his brother Jonathan Burrall?
• "Resolved, by ten states, That the board of treasury take Order for paying to James Burnside, Doyle Sweeny, Robert Underwood, William Simmons, Charles Burral, Charles Garvis and Thomas Benedict, who were employed as clerks in the Offices of the Commissioners of the five great departments, their salaries, from the 15 of April last, to the time when the books and papers of the respective departments were delivered over to the present Commissioners ...".  Journals of the Continental Congress, Oct. 12, 1786, vol. 31, p. 771.
  
• In Mar. 1791 Charles Burrall served as Clerk in the General Post Office in Philadelphia alongside his brother Jonathan Burrall, who was then the assistant postmaster general.  [E]
  
• In 1792, Charles Burrall became the assistant postmaster general.
• appointed Aug. 12, 1791 [Meschter]
  
• In 1793, Asst. PMG [E, 1793, p. 19]  (Evans 25585)
• but, on p. 176, Timothy Pickering, PMG; Jonathan Burrall, Asst. PMG; Robert Patton, Postmaster [of Philadelphia]
• the same error persists in 1794, and is corrected in 1796
  
• In a letter of Jan. 10, 1793, Postmaster General Pickering refers to "my assistant", plainly meaning Charles Burrall.  [PMG Letter Books, roll 2, folio 279]
  
• In a letter of 26 Apr. 1793, Pickering refers to "my Assistant Mr. Burrall".  [PMG Letter Books, roll, 2, folio 436]
• In a letter of 27 Apr. 1793, "In my absence you may address any letter to my Assistant Charles Burrall Esquire."  [PMG Letter Books, roll 2, folio 439]
• Similar, 29 Apr. 1793, where Pickering says Burrall has authority to act.  [440]
• Similar, 7 May 1793, Burrall did act, signing a contract.  [443]
• A letter of 22 July 1793 is signed "C.B. A.P.G", but there were no others like this.  [475]
  
• Pickering was absent until yyy, on a trip to Indian Country, to negotiate a treaty.  Burrall's letters of 10 Oct. 1793 to yyy are addressed from Bristol, not Philadelphia, which was in the throes of a yyy epidemic.
  
• In 1794, Asst. PMG [ASP, p. 15-16]
  
• In 1794, Asst. PMG (The United States Register, for the year 1794, p. 82, and for 1795, p. 81).
• The Preface dates are Jan. 1794 and Nov. 1794.
  
• In 1794, 1796-1800, Asst. PMG (The American Kalendar, or, United States Register, London, 1794-1800).
• On Jan. 6, 1795, following Thomas Pickering's exit as Postmaster General, Burrall asked Pres. Washington for the appointment.  The appointment went instead to Joseph Habersham, who retained Burrall as assistant.
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-17-02-0246
• http://archive.org/stream/calendarofapplic00unit#page/19/mode/1up
• June 1795, letter as Asst. PMG (link)
• 1794, 1795, New York City Directory, Deputy Post-Master-General (link, link)
  
• Annals of Congress, vol. 8, col. 1312-1318, Mar. 26, 1798, mention of letter as Asst. PMG.
• Journal of the Senate, Mar. 26, 1798
  
• See also, letter of April 18, 1798 (link)
  
• Meschter refers to "Burrall's letter book", presumably in the National Archives; no reference is given.
• Resigned as Asst. PMG "effective about January 19, 1800", "succeeded immediately by Abraham Bradley".  He took office as Postmaster in Baltimore Jan. 28, 1800.  [Meschter]
  
• In April 1800, Burrall became the postmaster at Baltimore, and held that post until May 1816, when he was replaced by John S. Skinner.  [reference?]
• Feb. 1802 [OR]
• circa 1 Jan. 1800 [U, p. 135]
  
• New York Gazette, Apr. 1, 1800
• Abraham Bradley, is appointed assistant postmaster general, vice Charles Burrall, resigned.
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-12-02-0459
  
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-33-02-0366
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-17-02-0050
• (identified as Assistant PMG) news reports or General Post Office announcements,
• in the Providence Gazette, May 30, 1795
• in a letter, June 24, 1795 (link); Apr. 18, 1798 (link)
  
• (identified as Postmaster) news reports or Baltimore Post Office announcements,
• in the Federal Gazette, Feb. 13, 1800; May 20, 1800
• in the civil roll, 1802, PM since 1800
  
• Letter from the Assistant Post-master-general, 1798
• LCP, http://pacscl.exlibrisgroup.com:48992/F?func=direct&doc_number=000051764
• Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 24 Mar. 1801
• http://books.google.com/books?id=8uk9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA426
  
• See also, letter of complaint to Thomas Jefferson, 6 March 1814, and following
  
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0147
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0150
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0161
  
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0179
  
• http://books.google.com/books?id=eX_A2Fk3-GwC&pg=PA229
  
• http://1814.baltimoreheritage.org/postmaster-charles-burrall-to-thomas-jefferson-individuals-began-to-practice-their-insiduous-arts-to-obtain-my-office/

• from [New] Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
  
• William Burrall, 1680-1723
  + [Col.] Charles Burrall, 1720-1803
     + Charles Burrall, 1751-1820
     + Jonathan Burrall, 1759-1805
     + Ovid Burrall, 1761-1835 (postmaster of Canaan, CT, appointed 28 Oct. 1794)
  + Jonathan Burrall, 1722-1772
     + Jonathan Burrall, 1753-1834
     + Charles Burrall, 1762-1836
• Assistant to the Paymaster General during the revolution, from Oct. 1776; then, from June 1780 to June 1788 (also later?), a Commissioner of Accounts for the commissary and quartermaster's departments.
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-16-02-0266
• Journals of the Continental Congress, multiple dates; Paymaster, Sep. 1779 - Apr. 1780; Commissioner of Accounts, June 1780, nominated and confirmed, then Nov. 1780 - June 1788.
• notice of Mar. 28, 1783, Commissioners for settling the Accounts of the Commissary Department.
• Francis White, The Philadelphia Directory, 1785 (link), Commissioner for the Commissary-General's Department, in New York
  
• letter of 10 May 1786 (link)
• David Franks, The New-York Directory, 1786 (link, link), Commissary General
• The Philadelphia Gazette, June 6, 1787, Mr. Jonathan Burrall is unanimously elected by Congress a Commissioner for settling the accounts of the quarter-master's and commissary departments, having been previously nominated by Mr. Pettit.
• The Philadelphia Gazette, May 28, 1788, [On May 8, 1788] Congress proceeded to the election, and the ballots being taken, Mr. Jonathan Burrall was elected a commissioner for settling the accounts of the Quarter-Masters and commissaries departments
  
• possible references - Journals of the Continental Congress, XVIII, 1201; XXX, 239–40
  
• Mar. 24, 1786, "the following nominations were made for Commissioner to settle the accounts of the five great departments: J[onathan] Burral, ..."
• Journals of the Continental Congress, vol. 30, p. 135
• Quartermaster, Commissary, Hospital, Marine, Clothier
  
• Aug. 1789, applied to Pres. Washington for appointment as Auditor of Accounts in the Treasury Dept.
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-03-02-0336
  
• http://archive.org/stream/calendarofapplic00unit#page/20/mode/1up
  
• Oct. 5, 1789, appointed Assistant PMG by Samuel Osgood, PMG [B]
  
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-04-02-0096
• news reports, Gazette of the United States, Oct. 7, 1789; Pennsylvania Packet, Oct. 9, 1789; etc.
• historical review, with quotes from correspondence, http://books.google.com/books?id=C4EbAQAAMAAJ
  
• Mar. 1791, in office, in Philadelphia, though Samuel Osgood remained in New York [E]
  
• Left office in Feb. 1792.  The last of the Postmaster General letters signed "J.B." is dated Feb. 4, 1792; "I shall leave this Office in a short time, ...".
  
• news reports, The Mail (Philadelphia), Feb. 9, 1792
• In Mar. 1792, Mar. 1793, Cashier of the New York Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States.
• New York Branch of the Bank of the United States
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-14-02-0075
  
• Journal of the Senate, 16 Dec. 1793 (link)
• But still listed as Asst. PMG, The Philadelphia Directory and Register (city directory), 1793 (link).
  
• Cashier of the Bank of America, chartered in New York, from 1812 to 1815 (ref), then vice-president and president (ref).
  
• Later, one of the managers of the New York state lotteries.
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-13-02-0151
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-08-02-0156
  
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-20-02-0023
• Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
• b. 1753; d. 18 Nov. 1834, Goshen, NY
• In 1793, Burrall married Frances Martha Wickham, daughter of William Wickham, the largest landowner in Goshen (ref).
• Institution of the [New York State] Society of the Cincinnati, http://books.google.com/books?id=L5YLAAAAIAAJ
• obituary, http://books.google.com/books?id=c2gUAAAAYAAJ
• He had been an original member, since 1783, along with Sebastian Bauman (postmaster of New York City, died 1803), Aaron Burr, George Clinton (US Vice President), Alexander Hamilton, Richard Varick (mayor of NYC), etc.
• Wikipedia, Society of the Cincinnati
  
• portrait, http://www.loc.gov/item/2007675920/
  

• 3rd Asst. PMG, in office Oct. 1840, http://books.google.com/books?id=O2ZHAQAAIAAJ
• 2nd Asst. PMG, removed in 1841 (between Mar. 4 and July 16) [404 H.doc. 170, p. 115]

• Clerk, Mail Contracts, in 1831, 1833, 1835
• Principal Clerk, in 1837, 1839, 1841, 1843, 1845
• Chief Clerk, in 1847, 1849, 1851
• temporary Assistant PMG, in place of Fitz Henry Warren (NY Times, May 28, 1852)
• 2nd Asst. PMG, PMG Annual Report, Dec. 1852, Dec. 1859
  
• not found in SEJ
  

• PMG Creswell's former law partner, he was deeply involved with the Chorpenning case [C].
  
• 1st Asst. PMG, nominated Mar. 29, 1869, confirmed Apr. 3, 1869 [SEJ v.17 p.34,35,37,72-73]
• resigned Dec. 1869, replaced by James W. Marshall [SEJ v.17 p.292]

• Wikipedia
  
• former Speaker of the Assembly of Michigan (until Apr. 3, 1841), and former Congressman from New York, Fuller was a Whig political appointment in Mar. 1841, concurrently with John S. Skinner (3rd Asst. PMG)
  
• 2nd Asst. PMG, to Sep. 30, 1842 [OR 1843]
• Resigned, effective Oct. 1, 1842
  

• Adjutant General, US Army, 1816 [SEJ v.3 p. 50]
• Adj. gen. & col. bvt. [OR 1816]
  
• Clerk, in 1825, 1826 [H.doc, but not OR 1816-1825, so appointed late in the year]
  
• Clerk, in 1827, 1828, 1829 (to Sep. 30) [H.doc, OR 1827]
• 1st Asst. PMG, 1829 [OR 1829]
  
• 1st Asst. PMG, appointed Mar. 4, 1829 [Meschter] [ASP p.252]
• but Abraham Bradley had not been dismissed by that date
  
• [1st] Asst. PMG, replacing Abraham Bradley, before Sep. 19, 1829 [Niles Register]
• Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office, nominated and confirmed July 2, 1836 [SEJ v.4 p.569,571], to 18 Mar. 1841 [OR 1841]
• Surveyor-General of Oregon
  
• Postmaster, Washington, DC, nominated Dec. 29, 1845 [SEJ v.7 p.15], confirmed July 7, 1846 [SEJ v.7 p.115]
  
• portrait (link)
• 1849, replaced by William A. Bradley, son of Phineas Bradley and nephew of Abraham Bradley
• obituary, etc., http://bytesofhistory.org/Cemeteries/DC_Congressional/Obits/G/G_PDF/Gardner_CharlesK.pdf
• In 1819, he married Ann Eliza McLean (1799-1876); she was a daughter of John McLean, but not the PMG of the same name.  In 1843, J. McLean Gardner, their son, in a delusional state, stabbed PMG Charles A. Wickliffe, in an unprovoked attack (Alexandria Gazette, Aug. 3, 1843, and other papers).

• Clerk, in 1867, 1869, 1871, 1873; Chief of Division of Postal Stamps, 1875
• Chief of Division of Postage Stamps and Stamped Envelopes and Postal Cards
• in office, Oct. 1874 [PG]
  
• 3rd Asst. PMG, appointed June 8, 1877, effective July 1, 1877 (link)
• nominated Oct. 16, 1877 [SEJ v.21 p. 44]; confirmed Oct. 23, 1877 [SEJ v.21 p. 713]
• [SEJ v.23 p.58]
  
• obituary (link)
  

• Member of Congress, 1827-29
• 2nd Asst. PMG, appointed Mar. 4, 1829 [Meschter]
• but Phineas Bradley had not been dismissed by that date, so Meschter is just guessing about "Mar. 4" (Andrew Jackson's inauguration day)
  
• [2nd] Asst. PMG, replacing Phineas Bradley, before Oct. 31, 1829 [Niles' Register]
• see also, Niles' Register, Nov. 21, 1829, vol. 37, p. 196 (link); Dec. 5, 1829, vol. 37, p. 235 (link)
  
• 2nd Asst. PMG, took office on Nov. 16, 1829 [F] [H.doc]
• already in office Sep. 30, 1829 [OR]
  
• 1st Asst. PMG, appointed 1836 (July 2?, which was when C.K. Gardner went to Treasury)
  
• Acting PMG, 1 Oct. to 11 Oct. 1841 (also earlier?)
• From 3 Jan. 1851 to 1 Apr. 1851, served as a special agent, traveling to negotiate postal arrangements; see Annual Report of the Postmaster General, 1851.
  
• resigned, poor health, Apr. 1, 1851; Meschter has more details
• succeeded by Solomon D. Jacobs
  
• 1st Asst. PMG Report, Contract Office, Nov. 16, 1850 (link)
  
• 1st Asst. PMG, appointed Mar. 22, 1853; nominated and confirmed, Mar. 22, 1853 [SEJ v.9 p.95]
• This was the first instance of an Asst. PMG being confirmed by the Senate under the law of Mar. 3, 1853.
  
• died in office, Mar. 23, 1854; obituary, NY Times, Mar. 25, 1854
• succeeded by Horatio King.
  
• Wikipedia

• 1st Asst. PMG, appointed Jan. 23, 1851 (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Jan. 25, 1851, link)
• Washington, Jan. 23, 1851, Solomon D. Jacobs, of Tennessee, has been appointed first Assistant Postmaster General, vice Hobbie resigned.
  
• It was reported in the newspapers that Solomon D. Jacobs (First Assistant PMG) and Fitz Henry Warren (Second Assistant PMG) exchanged positions, Nov. 15, 1851.
• removed from office before Mar. 22, 1853 [SEJ v.9 p.95], succeeded by Selah R. Hobbie.

• Accountant, Third Division, in 1835 (from May 8, to July 2, 1836)
• Chief Clerk, July 14-31, 1836
  
• 2nd Asst. PMG, from 1836 (July 2?, which was when C.K. Gardner went to Treasury) to 1841 (between Mar. 4 and July 16) [404 H.doc. 170, p. 115]
  

• 1st Asst. PMG, nominated Mar. 6, 1861; confirmed Mar. 8, 1861 [SEJ v.11 p. 291-292]
• resigned, end of July, 1862 (NY Times, Aug. 1, 1862)
• Negotiated postal treaties, 1867; see the Annual Report of the Postmaster General for 1867.
  
• American Philatelist, Apr. 1992, p. 331-335

• Clerk, in 1839 (from Mar. 15), 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1853
• 1851, Superintendent of the General Post Office Building, July 1 - Nov. 15
  
• 1853, Disbursing Clerk and Superintendent of the Post Office Building
  
• [Vexler] Superintendent of Foreign Mail Service, 1850
• [Smith] head of the Bureau of Foreign Mails
  
• 1st Asst. PMG, appt. 28 Mar. 1854, after death of Hobbie
  
• nominated, Mar. 27, 1854 [SEJ v.9 p.270]
• confirmed, Mar. 28, 1854 [SEJ v.9 p.271]
• took office Mar. 30, 1854 [H.doc]
• 1st Asst. PMG, PMG Annual Report, Dec. 1859, Dec. 1860
  
• acting PMG, in office Apr. 14, 1860 [SJ v.51 p.407]
• PMG, nominated Feb. 1, 1861 [SEJ v.11 p.256], confirmed Feb. 12, 1861 [SEJ v.11 p.271,272]

• 3rd Asst. PMG, nominated, Apr. 16, 1869 [SEJ v.17 p.192,196] to replace A.N. Zevely
  
• reported from committee without recommendation, Apr. 20, 1869 [SEJ v.17 p.230]
  
• no confirmation vote was taken, so he did not take office
  
• Post Office dept., July 1869 to Oct. 1874
• from the Official Register,
• 1861, 1863, 1865, in the list of Special Agents
• 1867, not listed
  
• 1869, in the list of Special Agents
• 1871, in the list of Special Agents, as Assistant Superintendent of postal railway service, one of seven
  
• 1873, in the list of Special Agents, as Superintendent of railway mail service, one of eight
  
• 1875, 1877, not found
  
• a boyhood friend of US Grant, later on Grant's staff during the Civil War, in charge of the mail system
• Military Mail Service, 1861-65, http://books.google.com/books?id=O1mocUG0tTgC
  
• A.H. Markland papers, 1861-1908, http://lccn.loc.gov/mm79031401
• short biography, http://books.google.com/books?id=uzQwCmvFeD0C
  

• Chief Clerk, Appointment Office; first appointed 27 May 1867 [1987 S.exdoc.42, 1882]
• 1870, Chief Clerk, Appointment Office [LPO]
• 1874, Chief Clerk, Appointment Office [Blue Book]
• James H. Marr, appt. interim 1st Asst. PMG, 7 Jul. 1874, while James W. Marshall was PMG [Poore]
• Oct. 1874, Chief Clerk, Office of the 1st Asst. PMG [PG]
  

• Clerk, Pay Office, in 1830 (from May 17), 1831, 1832; Appointments Office, in 1833, 1834, 1835 [OR, H.doc]
  
• Chief Clerk, in 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845, 1846 [OR, CD, W]
• 3rd Asst. PMG, appointed 1846
  
• died, March 1859 [SEJ v.11 p.73]

• 1st Asst. PMG, in office Sep. 30, 1869 [OR], appointed Dec. 1, 1869 [Poore], nominated Dec. 5, 1869 [SEJ v.17 p.292,308,313], confirmed Dec. 21, 1869 [SEJ v.17 p.326-327]
  
• PMG, July 7 to Aug. 31, 1874 (without being nominated, see the Postmasters General file)
  
• 1st Asst. PMG, appointed Aug. 24, 1874 [Poore], nominated Dec. 15, 1874, confirmed Dec. 17, 1874 [SEJ v.19 p.429,431,438-439,441], in office Oct. 1, 1874 [PG] (from Virginia)
  
• Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service, until 1880
  
• Wikipedia

• 2nd Asst. PMG, nominated Mar. 8, 1861, confirmed Mar. 13, 1861 [SEJ v.11 p.292-294,303]
• PMG Annual Report, Dec. 1861, Dec. 1862, Dec. 1864, Nov. 1865, Nov. 1866, Nov. 1867, Dec. 1868
  
• removed from office Mar. 1869, in favor of Giles A. Smith [SEJ v.17 p.19]

• 2nd Asst, PMG, appointed Mar. 4, 1845 [Lanman], immediately upon the 29th Congress's initial special session.
• Nominated as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Dec. 29, 1845 [SEJ v.7 p. 21]; confirmed Jan. 3, 1846 [SEJ v.9 p.24-25].
• 1857-1859, Treasury Dept., 1st Comptroller [OR]
  
• Wikipedia
• Congress
• papers, LOC, http://lccn.loc.gov/mm78032524
• http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/William_Medill
  

• 2nd Asst. PMG, took office in Nov. 1844; in office, Feb. 10, 1845
• moved to 3rd Asst. PMG, concurrently with removal of John S. Skinner, and appointment of William Medill as 2nd Asst. PMG
  
• official usage as 3rd Asst. PMG, for the Inspection Office, July 31, 1845, http://philamercury.com/covers.php?id=20918
• Referred to as "Dr. Miller" in several news reports, he was a physician in Columbus, Ohio, and part-owner of a Whig newspaper.
  
• Referred to as "the brother-in-law of President Tyler" in several news reports, he was married to one of Letitia Christian Tyler's sisters.
• Mary Christian, m. Dr. Nathaniel Massie Miller, 1798-1870, b. Virginia, M.D. 1818, Univ. of Pennsylvania
• His successor was reported, in Dec. 1845, to be Gideon Welles, of Connecticut, but this did not happen.  (link)
  

• "a clerk in the post-office" in Oct. 1804 [Evening Fire-side, Philadelphia, June 14, 1806, link]
• Described as "a clerk in the general post-office" in June 1806 (Aurora General Advertiser, Philadelphia, June 6, 1806).
  
• Surveyor of Public Lands, 1807 [SEJ v.2 p.50], [SEJ v.2 p. 54]
• 2nd Asst. PMG, appointed in late July 1810 (newspaper notices)
• copied from the National Intelligencer, earliest seen is July 31, 1810
  
• [2nd] Asst. PMG, in Mar. 1813 [OR 1813]
  
• resigned, Oct. 1, 1818 (newspaper notices)
• City of Washington Gazette, Oct. 2, 1818
  
• papers, Western Reserve Historical Society, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OCLWHi1832
• apparently nothing of postal interest
• short biography, http://www.suffield-library.org/localhistory/pease.htm
• http://books.google.com/books?id=0FVJAAAAMAAJ
  
• Seth Pease's sister Mindwell Pease married Gideon Granger in 1790.
  
• http://books.google.com/books?id=0FVJAAAAMAAJ
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-01-02-0181
• http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154791990
• http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10821318/mindwell-granger
• There was a mail contractor named Levi Pease.  Were they related?
  

• 1st Asst. PMG, nominated Dec. 23, 1862 [SEJ v.13 p.21], confirmed Jan. 14, 1863 [SEJ v.13 p.29]
• appointed Jan. 9, 1863 [Poore]
• acting PMG, Sep. 27, 30, 1864 (ref)
  
• PMG, July 25, 1866, to Mar. 4, 1869
• Wikipedia
  

• Chief Clerk to the 2nd Asst. PMG, 1869  [http://www.colorado.gov/pacific/archives/john-long-routt]
• not confirmed by OR
  
• US Marshall for Southern District of Illinois, appointed Mar. 1870
  
• 2nd Asst. PMG, appt. Oct. 12, 1871 [Poore] (Alexandria Gazette, Oct. 13, 1871; Boston Journal, Oct. 13, 1871)
  
• nominated Dec. 11, 1871 [SEJ v.18 p.142,144], confirmed Dec. 12, 1871 [SEJ v.18 p.148]
• in office, Oct. 1874 [PG] (Jno. L. Routt)
  
• in office until Mar. 4, 1875, succeeded by James N. Tyner
  
• Wikipedia  (no mention of the Post Office)

• 1814, Purser, US Navy [SEJ, 25 Mar. 1814, v.2 p.514, 515]
  
• in 1819-29, editor of The American Farmer, Baltimore
• in 1816-37 (or 1839), postmaster of Baltimore [SEJ, 2 July 1836, v.4, p.568, 571]
  
• nominated as 3rd Asst. PMG, concurrently with Philo C. Fuller in 1841
• in office, Mar. 4, 1844, http://books.google.com/books?id=O2ZHAQAAIAAJ
• removed from office in Mar. 1845 (reported Mar. 25, 1845, New York Herald; Mar. 28, 1845, National Intelligencer)
  
• in 1845-47, editor of the Monthly Journal of Agriculture, New York
• lengthy and detailed obituary, by Ben: Perley Poore, July 1854 (link).
• see also, http://libx.bsu.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/ConspectusH/id/650
• Wikipedia

• Clerk, in 1853, 1855, 1857, 1859; Principal Clerk, in 1861, 1863, 1864 (Appointment Office); Chief Clerk in 1865
• acting 1st Asst. PMG, Aug. 10, 1860 (ref)
  
• acting 1st Asst. PMG, Feb. 8, 1861 [SJ v.61 p.901]
• acting PMG, Sep. 26, 1862 [SJ v.61 p.901]
• 1st Asst. PMG, nominated and confirmed, July 28, 1866 [SEJ v.14 p.1172-1173]
  
• removed from office in Mar. 1869, replaced by George Earle
• The first news reports were that George V. Lawrence, of Pennsylvania, would replace Skinner.

• rose to Major General in the Civil War
  
• 2nd Asst. PMG, nominated Mar. 24, 1869 [SEJ v.17 p.19,22,31], confirmed Mar. 26, 1869 [SEJ v.17 p.32-33]
• resigned, ill health, effective Oct. 15, 1871, replaced by John L. Routt  (Boston Journal, Oct. 13, 1871)
• Wikipedia

• 3rd Asst. PMG, in office by Sep. 1869 [OR], nominated Jan. 10, 1870 [SEJ v.17 p.331,334,336], confirmed Jan. 24, 1870 [SEJ v.17 p.348]

• Appointed Special Agent, 7 Mar. 1861
  
• Official Register, 1861-66, in the list of Special Agents
  
• Congress, 1869-75
  
• 2nd Asst. PMG, nominated and confirmed, Feb. 26, 1875, to be effective Mar. 4, 1875 [SEJ v.19 p.531,532]
• in office, Apr. 1875 [PG]
• PMG, nominated July 11, 1876; confirmed July 12, 1876 [SEJ v.20 p.279-280]; in office until Mar. 12, 1877 [SEJ v.21 p.3,7]
  
• 1st Asst. PMG, nominated Mar. 16, 1877 [SEJ v.21 p.17], confirmed Mar. 16, 1877 [SEJ v.21 p.908]
  
• 1901, Asst. Attorney General for the Post Office Department [OR 1901 v.1 p.1084] [OR 1901 v.2 p.4]
• 1903, under investigation, removed from office
• http://books.google.com/books?id=WFg0AAAAMAAJ
  
• http://books.google.com/books?id=nJMZAAAAYAAJ
  
• Wikipedia
• Congress
  

• His appointment was reported in the newspapers (Daily National Intelligencer, Oct. 30, 1843).  He took office mid-Nov. 1843, was still in office in March 1844, and out of office by Nov. 1844.  Previously Surveyor of the Customs at the Port of Philadelphia, appointed April 1841, effective July 1, 1841 [SEJ v.5 p.385].  He was turned down by the Senate for a different position in April 1842 [SEJ v.6 p.56].
  

• 2nd Asst. PMG, appointed 1849
  
• resigned, effective May 25, 1852.
• Wikipedia
  

• The list by Stets [U, p. ii] records the appointment of Wetmore as Asst. PMG on 29 Mar. 1792, and his replacement by Charles Burrall on 14 Sep. 1792, though we think the dates are a bit off.  In any case, this is the only philatelic publication we have found that mentions Wetmore in this role.
  

• Wetmore served for about one year in the Revolutionary War as a private, enlisted Jan. 1778 and discharged 13 Mar. 1779, in the company commanded by his uncle Capt. Joseph Walker (link, link).  [US Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, at National Archives and Fold3.com.  Connecticut 9th Regiment.  Monthly pay rolls for Aug. 1778 to Apr. 1779 (£2 per month).  Monthly muster rolls for Nov. 1778 to Feb./Mar. 1779.]
• In May 1785, Prosper Wetmore was employed as "first clerk in the General Post Office in the City of New York" (link).
• He does not appear in the 1786 New York Directory.
• A notice in The Daily Advertiser, New York, 1 Nov. 1787 [Readex AHN], reads
• To the Public.  The Subscriber begs leave to acquaint the public, that he intends opening a Singing School, on Tuesday evening the 6th inst. at No. 8, Gold-street, near the Baptist Meeting House.  Those persons who wish to become Scholars, are requested to leave their names with Mr. Moses Rogers, Queen-street; Mr. Wetmore, at the Post-office, or Mr. Harsin, Broad-way, with whom subscription papers are left.  Miles Hitchcock.
• The same notice appeared 3 Nov. 1787, and 5 Nov. 1787, but now reading "Mr. Wetmore, at No. 6, Mill-street".  We did not find any earlier or later versions.
  
• In June 1790, in New York, Prosper Wetmore sold tickets for the Massachusetts State Lottery (ref).
• The Gazette of the United States, Philadelphia, 6 Nov. 1790 (link), through 1 Dec. 1790 (link), engaged Wetmore as its New York agent.  The Gazette had been published in New York through Oct. 1790, afterward in Philadelphia.
• "Subscribers in the City and State of New-York -- and to the Eastward as far as Boston, will please to pay their arrearages to Mr. P. Wetmore, at the Post-Office, New-York -- who will also receive subscriptions for the Gazette."
• In Jan. 1791, the Gazette changed to another agent, "the charge of the papers proving inconvenient to Mr. Wetmore, at the Post-Office". (link).
  
• In Feb. 1792, "The subscribers for the Gazette, in the City and State of New-York, or to the Eastward of said State, are requested to pay any arrearage which may be due from them respectively, to Messrs. Prosper Wetmore & Brothers, No. 9, Burling-Slip, New York."  The text varied somewhat, and continued until (at least) 30 May 1792 (link).
  
• The Connecticut Journal, New Haven, 11 May 1791 [Readex AHN], ran an announcement dated New York, May 2, 1791,
  
• Prosper, Robert & Victory Wetmore, Under the Firm of P. Wetmore & Brothers, Have this day opened, a dry good, grocery and commission Store, at No. 11, Burling-Slip, New York, where they have for sale, a general and fashionable assortment of Spring Goods, of the latest importations.  Likewise, a variety of articles on the Grocery Line, Wholesale & retail.
  Their Store being in a central situation, and contiguous to the East River, is extremely well adapted to the Commission business, which they intend to follow in its various branches, and hope by their attention and assiduity to the interest of their employers, to merit the approbation and support of their friends and the public, which on this occasion they solicit.
  N.B.  Public Securities and Country Produce received in payment.
• From various papers [all Readex AHN],
  
• This announcement ran through June 1791.  Later advertisements, Sep-Nov. 1791, gave the address 9, Burling-Slip, between Queen and Water Streets.  In Feb.-Mar. 1792, they were offering rum, molasses and sugar, from the West Indies.  The address remained the same until May 1793, when they moved to 160, Water Street, at the corner of Beekman Slip, which was the same location as Wetmore's father-in-law Malcom McEuen (link).  They next moved to 85, Wall Street, on Jones's Wharf, in May 1794; this address is also given as 85, Jones's Wharf.  That location was abruptly advertised "To be Let" beginning 4 Feb. 1795, though the business remained active there through Apr. 1795.  On 30 April 1795 appeared the announcement "P. Wetmore & Brothers Have removed to John-Street No. 53, formerly Golden-Hill Street, where they have for sale ...".  Advertising largely disappeared after 18 May 1795, though this could just be a feature of the papers available for search.  The address 199 Water Street, corner Beekman Slip, appears 20 Oct. 1795; and 53 John St. on 23 Nov. 1795, 25 Dec. 1795, 4 Jan. 1796.
  
• In a letter of 22 Sep. 1791, Samuel Osgood, PMG until 19 Aug. 1791, recommended Wetmore to Timothy Pickering, his successor as PMG (link).
• In a letter of 23 Oct. 1791, Sebastian Bauman, the Postmaster of New York, recommended Wetmore to Timothy Pickering (link).
• Bauman had been appointed by Pickering, effective 5 Oct. 1789 [PMG Letterbooks, 3 Oct. 1789].
• "Prosper Whetmore" is listed by Watterston as Assistant PMG, appointed 9 Feb. 1792 (link).  We have seen no other non-philatelic accumulated list of Assistant PMG's that mentions him, nor can we confirm this date.
• The Senate was in session 24 Oct. 1791 to 8 May 1792, so this was not a recess appointment.  It does not appear to have been a Senate-confirmed appointment, despite some news reports.
  
• The Federal Gazette, Philadelphia, 10 Mar. 1792, "Appointment, Prosper Wetmore, Esq., Assistant Postmaster-General, in the place of Jonathan Burrall, Esq., resigned."  [Readex]
• The Gazette of the United States, same date (link).
• The Mail, or Claypoole's Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, 12 March 1792, Presidential appointments, with the advice and consent of the Senate, "Prosper Wetmore, esq., Assistant Postmaster-General, in the place of Jonathan Burrall, esq., resigned."  [Readex]
• The military appointments in this article appear in the Senate Executive Journal (6 Mar. 1792, v.1 p. 101-102,105), but the final part about Wetmore does not.  Pres. Washington had sent the nominations of commissioned officers to the Senate on 6 Mar. 1792 (link).  The presidential papers make no mention of Prosper Wetmore, though his cousins Hezekiah and William occasionally appear.
  
• The Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, 14 March 1792, "Prosper Wetmore, esq., Assistant Postmaster General, in the place of Jonathan Burrel, esq., resigned."  [Accessible Archives]
  
• Same list of military appointments, followed by this announcement.
  
• Copied by The New-York Journal, 17 Mar. 1792, and more distant papers, as late as 9 Apr. 1792 [Readex AHN].
  
• The Diary or Loudon's Register, New York, 14 March 1792, "The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, has appointed Prosper Wetmore, Esq., Assistant Post-Master General, in the place of Jonathan Burrell, Esq., resigned."  [Readex AHN]
• The Maryland Journal, Baltimore, 16 March 1792, "Prosper Wetmore, esq., is appointed Assistant Postmaster-General, in the place of Jonathan Burrall, esq., resigned."  [Readex AHN]
• Also in the Annapolis (MD) Gazette, 22 Mar. 1792.
  
• The New-York Magazine, or, Literary Repository, Mar. 1792, vol. 3, p. 191, "Prosper Wetmore, Esq., of New-York, is appointed Assistant-Postmaster-General, vice Jonathan Burrell, Esq., resigned."  (link)
  
• This is followed by "The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, has made the following appointments and promotions: [all military]".   The implication of the ordering is that Wetmore's appointment was not sent to the Senate.
• The magazine appeared after 21 Mar. 1792, based on its contents.
• The New-York Directory, and Register, for the Year 1792, p. 174 (link).  [NYPL; Readex, America's Historical Imprints]
  
• "General-Post-Office.  Post-master-general, Timothy Pickering, 2000 dollars.  Deputy do., Prosper Wetmore, 1000 do."
• In the following edition, Charles Burrall is the deputy (1794, link).
• Wetmore witnessed a document signed 17 Mar. 1792 by PMG Timothy Pickering, with proposals for exchange of mail with Canada.  [PMG Letter Books, roll 1, folio 442-444]
  
• Letter from Charles Burrall to David Russell, a mail contractor, 29 Mar. 1792.  "Sir, your letter of the 20th Inst. [20 Mar. 1792] to Mr. [Jonathan] Burrall has been received.  Mr. Burrall has resigned the Office of Asst. Postmr. Genl. & Mr. Prosper Wetmore has been appointed in his place. ..."  [PMG Letter Books, roll 1, folio 437]
  
• noted in Collectors Club Philatelist, May-June 1992, vol. 71, no. 3, p. 224.
• This is the source of the appointment date given by Stets.
  
• Windham (Connecticut) Herald, 31 Mar. 1792, "Prosper Wetmore, Esq., is appointed Assistant Postmaster-General, in the place of Jonathan Burrall, Esq., resigned."  [Readex]
• Letter from Charles Burrall to Sebastian Bauman, postmaster at New York, 13 Apr. 1792.  "I wrote you yesterday by order of Col. Pickering, desiring you to send the balance of your accounts by Mr. Wetmore.  If this reached you before the departure of Mr. Wetmore please to retain in your hands 375 Dollars for the purpose of paying Mr. De Hart for the conveyance of the Mail to Albany for the last quarter."  [PMG Letter Books, roll 1, folio 454]
• On 17 May, "Your letter in reply to mine of the 4th instant, ...", indicating that Wetmore was by then in Philadelphia.  [folio 478]
• Wetmore wrote letters on behalf of Pickering from 10 May to 31 May, and 30 June through 9 Aug. 1792, while Pickering was traveling, all initialed "P.W." in the ledger copy.  [PMG Letter Books, roll 1, folio 473, etc.]
• Letter of the Postmaster General, 27 Aug. 1792, "Your letter of the 16th to which this is an answer is directed to Jonathan Burrall A.P.M.G.  You will recollect that Prosper Wetmore is now the assistant."  [PMG Letter Books, roll 2, folio 84]
• The last entry in the letter books signed "P.W." is dated 13 Sep. 1792.  [PMG Letter Books, roll 2, folio 110]
• This is the source of the date given by Stets for the appointment of Charles Burrall on 14 Sep. 1792.
  
• On 11 Oct. 1792, Charles Burrall arranged payment to Isaac Trowbridge, a mail contractor (New York to Hartford), from the account of Sebastian Bauman, postmaster of New York, with Prosper Wetmore & Brothers as intermediary.  This was done at the request of Trowbridge.  [PMG Letter Books, roll 2, folio 155]
• It is not stated here, but Wetmore must have returned to New York.  This is the last mention of him.
  
• Fleets Pocket Almanac For the Year of our Lord 1793, To which is annexed The Massachusetts Register, Boston, p. 63, "Prosper Wetmore, Assistant, at Philadelphia, 1000 Dollars." [ECCO]
  
• Gaine's New-York Pocket Almanack, for the year 1793, "Post-Office.  Timothy Pickering, Esq., Postmaster-Gen.  Prosper Wetmore, Assistant.  Charles Burrall, Clerk."  [ECCO]
• same, 1794 [Readex]
  
• Not located in the National Archives Founders Online.
• The National Archives reported in 2013, "No nomination papers are known to exist for the 2nd through 5th Congresses (1791–1799) or the 8th Congress (1803–1805). The nomination papers of the 1st Congress (1789–1791) have not been microfilmed."  (ref)
• The New York City Directory (ref), Wikipedia
  
• 1786 -- Wetmore, not listed (link)
  
• Bauman, S., grocer, 62 Broadway (link)
  
• Hazard, Ebenezer, esq., 55 Broadway (link)
  
• 1787 -- Wetmore, not listed
• Bauman, S., 62, corner Crown-street and Broad-way
  
• Hazard, Ebenezer, postmaster-general, 29, Broad-way
  
• Osgood, Samuel, esq., 6, Cherry-street
• M'Ewen, Malcolm, plummer, &c, 160 Water-street, corner Beekman-slip
  
• 1788, none published
  
• 1789 -- Wetmore, not listed (but see the New-York Society Library, below)
  
• M'Euen, Malcom, plumber and pewterer, corner Water st. and Beekman-slip (link)
• [He died 1803, falling off a scaffold at this address.]
• Bauman, Sebastian, grocer, 62, Broad-way
  
• 1790 -- Wetmore, not listed
  
• M'Euen, Malcolm, plumber and pewterer, corner Water st. and Beekman-slip (link)
  
• 1791 -- Wetmore, Prosper, merchant, 5 Golden-hill st.; Wetmore, Prosper, and brothers, merchants, 9 Burling-slip (link)
  
• M'Ewen, Malcolm, plumber and pewterer, 160 Water st. (link)
• Golden Hill st. became John st., between William and Pearl
• 1792 -- Wetmore, Prosper, merchant, 5 Golden-hill st.; Wetmore, Prosper, and brothers, merchants, 9 Burling-slip (link)
  
• M'Ewen, Malcom, plumber and pewterer, 160 Water st. (link)
• 1793 -- Wetmore, Prosper, merchant, 5 Golden-hill st.; Wetmore, Prosper, and brothers, merchants, 160 Water st. (link)
• M'Ewen, Malcom and Duncan, plumbers and pewterers, 160 Water st. (link)
  
• 1794 -- Wetmore, Prosper, merchant, 53 John st.; Wetmore, Prosper, and brothers, merchants, 15 Wall st. (link)
• Newspaper advertisements from May 1794 to Jan. 1795 gave the address 85 Wall Street, on Jones's Wharf, or 85 Jones's Wharf.  The store was abruptly advertised "To be Let" on 4 Feb. 1795.
• On 30 April 1795 first appeared the announcement "P. Wetmore & Brothers have removed to John-Street No. 53, formerly Golden-Hill Street, where they have for sale ...".  However, the previous address continued to be advertised through 9 May 1795.
• History of John Street, New York (ref)
• Member of the Chamber of Commerce, elected 4 Feb. 1794 (ref)
  
• 1795 -- Wetmore, Prosper, merchant, 53 John st.; Wetmore, Prosper, and brothers, merchants, 53 John st. (link, link)
  
• 1796 -- Wetmore, Prosper, and co., merchants, 53 John st. (link)
• Newspaper advertisement on 14 Nov. 1796, "at their Store, on Jackson's Wharf, near the Fly Market".  The last advert. at this address is 9 Jan. 1797.
  
• 1797 -- not listed (link)
• Hawley, Daniel, shipmaster, 53 John-street (link)
• Hawley was appointed Consul to Havana, 1797-1799 (ref).
  
• 1798 -- not listed (link)
  
• 1799 -- Wetmore, widow, boarding-house, 79 Beekman (link)
• M'Ewen and Son, Malcolm, plumbers, 199 Water (link)
  
• 1800 -- Wetmore, widow, boarding-house, 16 Beekman (link)
• 1801 -- Wetmore, Mrs., boarding-house, 16 Beekman (link)
• Wetmore, W.W., grocer, corner Coenties-slip and Water [William Walker Wetmore]
• Previously located in Catskill Landing, NY.
  
• 1802 -- Wetmore, Robert W., boardinghouse, 146 Water (link) [Robert William Wetmore]
• Wetmore, Mrs., boardinghouse, 16 Beekman
• Wetmore, W.W., grocer, corner Coenties-slip and Water st.
  
• 1803 -- Wetmore, Robert W., boardinghouse, 146 Water (link)
  
• Wetmore, W.W., grocer, corner Coenties-slip and Water
• 1804 -- Wetmore, Mrs., 3 Broad (link)
  
• Wetmore, W.W., grocer, corner Coenties-slip and Water
• 1805 -- Wetmore, W.W., grocer, corner Coenties-slip and Water (link)
  
• 1806 -- Wetmore, W.W., earthenware store, corner Coenties-slip and Water (link)
  
• 1807 -- Wetmore, W.W., auctioneer, 109 Water (link)
  
• continued as Wetmore & Jackson
  
• 1808 -- Wetmore, W.W., auctioneer, 77 Warren (link) [later years omitted]
• M'Euen, D., plumber, 10 Beekman-slip (link)
  
• 1809 -- Wetmore, Amelia, boardinghouse, 278 Pearl (link) [widow of Robert William Wetmore]
• 1810 -- Wetmore, Amelia, boarding h 246 Pearl (link)
  
• Prosper Wetmore & Brothers
• The brothers were three of the 12 children of Rev. Izrahiah Wetmore, of Stratford, Connecticut (1727-1798):  Prosper (1762 - 1798?), Robert William (1764 - 1808?), and Victory (1767 - 1817) (ref, ref).
• The references cited here are mostly incorrect or incomplete; we have tried to verify the dates from other sources, with limited success.  Prosper had certainly died by April 1798, possibly so in 1796.  Robert William had certainly died by 1813, as indicated by a probate court advertisement.
• There was a yellow-fever epidemic in 1798; could that have been the cause of death?
• The partnership was formed in 1788, and opened a store in New York in May 1791; advertisements in the New York papers continued into Jan. 1797.  There was a second store at Stratford, Conn., which was announced to move to Newfield in Nov. 1793, though it actually closed in Nov. 1794 when Victory moved to New York, and a store and wharf in Bridgeport (ref, ref).  They ran ships to the West Indies, and sold the goods on return; they were also accused of evading duties on imported rum (ref).
• Victory Wetmore had been selling lottery tickets in 1790-91 (advertisements in the Connecticut Journal, New Haven).
  
• A notice in the Bridgeport, CT, American Telegraphe, 6 Jan. 1796, reads,
• Newfield, January 6.  A large Ship belonging to Messrs. P. Wetmore and Brothers, from the West Indies, bound to New-York, was cast away at Chatham [Cape Cod], on the 8th ultimo [8 Dec. 1795], and went to pieces.  Thirty-seven hogsheads of Molasses, a part of the cargo, and some of the rigging saved.  No lives lost.  [Readex AHN]
• At this time, the partnership also operated in Newfield, CT.
  
• Bankruptcy petition to the State of Connecticut, April 1798.  [Readex Early American Imprints, Evans 35017; original at the American Antiquarian Society]
  
• To the honourable General Assembly of the state of Connecticut, to be holden at Hartford, in said state, on the second Thursday of May next.  The Petition of Robert William Wetmore, and Victory Wetmore, of Stratford, in the County of Fairfield, late partners in trade with Prosper Wetmore, late of the City, County and state of New-York, deceased. ...
• The Public Records of the State of Connecticut, vol. 9, 1797-1799.  May 1798, p. 217-218, (link), p. 227 (link).
  
• In mid-June 1798, advertisements were placed in the New York papers,
  
• Whereas the subscribers were by the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Connecticut, at their session in May last, appointed Trustees for the creditors of Robert William Wetmore, and Victory Wetmore, surviving partners of Prosper Wetmore, under the firm of Prosper Wetmore and Brothers; ... . 
  
• Notices in Nov. 1800 by the trustees declared the debts due the firm uncollectable, and the remaining properties unsaleable.
• Victory Wetmore maintained a store in Stratford, 1801 (ref).
  
• See also, Lewis G. Knapp, Stratford and the Sea, Charleston : Arcadia, 2002 (link).
  
• Some family and business records are at Yale Univ. (link), notably a ledger and journal from 1794-1799 (link) [not yet inspected].
• A letter of 7 Apr. 1800 is at Harvard Univ. (link, link), describing payment from the estate of P. Wetmore & Brothers.
  
• Stratford, Connecticut, postmasters
  
• Appointment dates -- Robert Walker (16 Feb. 1790), Victory Wetmore (20 Mar. 1793), David Brooks (18 Dec. 1803), Isaac J. Booth (7 Aug. 1841), David Brooks (28 Jan. 1843), John D. Gilbert (16 Sep. 1857), ...  (link).
• For Walker and Wetmore, these are the dates of first returns received, for which Brooks is 1 Apr. 1804 [Post Office Records].
• See also, (ref, ref, ref).
  
• Appointment dates -- Robert Walker (before 5 Apr. 1786), Victory Wetmore (12 June 1792),  David Brooks (12 Dec. 1803), Isaac J. Booth (7 Aug. 1841), David Brooks (28 Jan. 1843), John D. Gilbert (16 Sep. 1857), ...  (link).
• These dates from the USPS.
• Appointment dates -- Robert Walker (by Apr. 1786, from financial data; resigned 30 June 1792), Victory Wetmore (30 June 1792), David Brooks (12 Dec. 1803, from date of postmaster's bond)
  
• These dates from Robert J. Stets, Postmasters & Postoffices of the United States 1782-1811, 1994, p. 101, extracted from the Postmaster General's Letter Books.
• "Robert Walker Free", 8 May 1789, http://www.philamercury.com/covers.php?id=13421
• By the PMG Circular of 18 June 1792, Robert Walker was still Postmaster of Stratford.  [PMG Letter Books, roll 2, folio 19-25]
• Letter of 7 Aug. 1792, to Robert Walker, "Sir, In consequence of your resignation communicated in your letter to the Postmaster General of the 30th ult. [30 June or July 1792] I inclose to you, your Bonds given to Samuel Osgood & Timothy Pickering, Esquires.  Mr. Victory Wetmore being appointed your successor, you will please to deliver to him such papers as have been received appertaining to the office.  I am dear Sir, P.W.".  [PMG Letter Books, roll 2, folio 59]
  
• Victory Wetmore's commission was sent from the General Post Office in Aug. 1792.  [PMG Letter Books, roll 1, folio 530]
• The Spectator (NY), 4 Jan. 1804,
  
• We are informed that the Post-Master General "believing that the public interest will be promoted by the appointment of a new Post-master, in Stratford," (Con.) has graciously removed V. Wetmore, Esq. from the office in that town.  We have not yet learnt, who has been "required," by the "public interest," to fill his station.
  
• Robert Walker was a brother of Phebe (Walker) Wetmore, wife of Rev. Izrahiah Wetmore and mother of Prosper and Victory Wetmore.  David Brooks, 1772-1860, was a son of John Brooks (1739-1788).  Prosper and Victory Wetmore's sister Sarah Selene Wetmore (1757-1813) was married to Abijah Brooks (1752-1839), brother of John Brooks.
• Robert Walker was the town clerk of Stratford, an elected position, 21 Dec. 1789 - 17 Dec. 1804 (link).  In the 1750's his father (also Robert Walker) had been instrumental in removing the minister of the Congregational church in Stratford, and replacing him with Rev. Izrahiah Wetmore (link).
• The Stratford Post Office receipts for the quarter 5 Oct. 1789 to 5 Jan. 1790 were $3.15, of which the postmaster retained $0.91 (ref).  For the year 5 Oct. 1790 to 5 Oct. 1791, $30.00 receipts, $7.50 retained (ref).  The 4th quarter of 1794 brought in $33.00 (roughly) [V].
  
• Prosper Wetmore was a subscriber to The American Museum, a monthly literary and political magazine published from 1787 to 1792, 1787 (link), 1788 (link, link), 1789 (link, link).
  
• Prosper Wetmore, borrowing activity at the New-York Society Library, 1789-1791 (link).  He was a member in 1793.
• Wetmore was an original member of the New York Friendly Club, actually a serious literary discussion group, started in 1793.  It was in this context that we learn of his smuggling (rum-running) activities, all from the diary of Elihu Hubbard Smith in 1795.
  
• Prosper Wetmore, who was a partner with his brothers in a wine molasses and meat business, was discovered to be a petty smuggler.  The club members treated him with extreme coolness when he attended the November and December meetings in 1795 with Richard Alsop [of Middletown, CT, 1761-1815, formerly in business with relatives of Prosper's]; subsequently, he received a letter written for the club by [Elihu Hubbard] Smith "pointing out the terms on which we must, in future, associate with him."  That was the last of Prosper Wetmore. (ref)
• When the early member Prosper Wetmore became entangled in shady business transactions in the winter of 1795, the club voted to revoke his membership.  His continued presence, they determined, was itself inimical to the openness and sincerity they desired.  When, "much to our regret," he attended the meeting on 19 December of that year, "[c]onversation was heavy -- & the evening on the whole unpleasant." (Bryan Waterman, Republic of Intellect, The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2007, p. 35)
• [6 Sep. 1795] P. Wetmore has always been distinguished by his want of punctuality in attending; so that we have, several times, been on the point of dropping him. (p. 45)  [editor's footnote] Prosper Wetmore was a black sheep of the Wetmore family, merchants who had Middletown, Connecticut and New York connections.  He was a smuggler, a relative (cousin or second cousin) of William Johnson, and also a friend of Richard Alsop. (p. 46)  [19 Dec. 1795] Evening, at Club - at Woolsey's - Present, the Woolseys - H. & W. Johnson, Dunlap, myself - Alsop & Gahn visitors - & much to our regret, Wetmore.  Conversation was heavy - & the evening, on the whole, unpleasant.  No small part of this may fairly be ascribed to Wetmore's presence.  It is a long time since he has met with us; &, in the mean while, he has been discovered to be guilty of some conduct, which made us all wish that he would never frequent our little circle again.  Of this, however, no one wished to speak; & this general contest of feelings generated a general embarrassment, & heaviness.  The explanation of this is, that Wetmore, & his brothers, with whom he is in partnership, in trade, have been discovered to have been guilt of smuggling, in several instances, & for very paltry savings.  The dereliction of principles which conduct of this kind involves, has changed his character, in all our eyes, & makes him no longer an agreable [sic], or fit, associate for us. (p. 107)  [26 Dec. 1795] We then, after a slight discussion of it, proceeded to discuss & determine on the conduct we ought to pursue, in respect to Prosper Wetmore.  This conversation was interrupted, by the entrance of Wetmore himself, accompanied by Alsop.  It now took a general turn; the politics of the day were discoursed of very largely.  Wetmore felt himself ill at ease - for he could not avoid observing a marked coolness in our conduct towards him.  After this, he stayed but a short while; & Alsop & he departed, together. The discussion was, now, renewed; & it was, ultimately, determined - that we should, collectively, address a letter to him - stating the reasons of our estrangement to him - & pointing out the terms on which we must in future, associate with him; & Dunlap & myself were desired to prepare the letter. (p. 116)  (James Cronin, ed., The Diary of Elihu Hubbard Smith (1771-1798), Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1973.)

• Clerk, in 1834 (from Dec. 19), 1835, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844 (class 3), 1845, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855, 1856 [OR]
  
• Disbursing Clerk and Superintendent of the Post Office Building, in 1855, 1857 [OR]
  
• 3rd Asst. PMG, nominated and confirmed, Mar. 5, 1859 [SEJ v.11 p.73,75,76]
• in office Apr. 14, 1860 [SJ v.51 p.407]
• PMG Annual Report, Nov. 1866, Dec, 1868
  
• Apr. 16, 1869, "To the Senate of the United States: I nominate A. H. Markland to be Third Assistant Postmaster-General, vice A. A. Zeverly, to be removed.  U. S. Grant."  [SEJ v.17 p.192]
  
• Jan. 1870, suspended [SEJ v.17 p.331]
• Brief biography, by his son, http://books.google.com/books?id=2NERAAAAYAAJ
  

• first appointed 28 July 1868 [1987 S.exdoc.42, 1882]
• previously Chief Clerk of the P.O. Dept. [OR 1865-67], and Clerk [OR 1853-63]

• first appointed 1 July 1864 [1987 S.exdoc.42, 1882]; the system began public operations 1 Nov. 1864
• previously Clerk in the Sixth Auditor's office [OR 1855], and Principal Clerk of the Finance Office [OR 1861, 1863]
• afterward, US Consul, Hamilton, Ontario [OR 1893, 1895]
  
• Bequest of Dr. Charles F. Macdonald, Aug. 1913 (link); see also, P.S. (journal), 1985, no. 26, p. 56.

• Charles K. Gardner, July 2, 1836 [SEJ v.4 p.569,571], until Mar. 18, 1841 [OR 1841]
• previously, Asst. PMG
  
• later, Postmaster, Washington, DC; nominated Dec. 29, 1845 [SEJ v.7 p.15]
• Elisha Whittlesey, Mar. 19, 1841 (recess appointment) [OR 1841]
  
• nominated June 17, 1841; confirmed June 29, 1841 [SEJ v.5 p. 386, v.5 p. 396]
• OR, 1849-1855, Treasury Dept., First Comptroller
  
• Matthew S. [St. Clair] Clarke, Dec. 19, 1843
• nominated Dec. 18, 1843 [SEJ v.6 p.197]
• confirmed when?
• OR, 1823-1843, Clerk of the House of Representatives; he was one of the compilers of the series American State Papers.
  
• Peter G. [Grayson] Washington, Mar. 26, 1845 (recess appointment)
  
• nominated Dec. 29, 1845; confirmed Mar. 24, 1846 [SEJ v.7 p.21, v.7 p.57]
  
• at Treasury since May 1816
• OR, 1817-1821, Clerk, office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury
  
• OR, 1823-1827, Clerk, office of the Secretary of the Treasury
  
• OR, 1829-1835, Chief Clerk, Treasurer's Office
• OR, 1837-1843, Chief Clerk, Auditor [of the Treasury] for the Post Office Department
• since July 3, 1836
• OR, 1845-1849, Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department
• OR, 1853-1855, Asst. Secretary of the Treasury; in office, 4 Mar. 1853 to 12 Mar. 1857
  
• The revenue cutter Washington was named for him in 1837 (Wikipedia).
• He was one of the two founding editors of the United States Postal Guide and Official Advertiser, 1850-52 (link).
• His father, Lund Washington, was a distant cousin of Pres. George Washington (link).
  
• John W. [Wilson] Farrelly, Nov. 5, 1849
• OR, 1851
  
• William F. Phillips, Apr. 7, 1853 (Sixth Auditor)
• OR, 1853-1857
  
• Thomas M. Tate, Oct. 1, 1857 (recess appointment)
• nominated Jan. 18, 1858; confirmed Feb. 3, 1858 [SEJ v.10 p.293-294, v.10 p.301]
• OR, 1859
• PMG Annual Report, Dec. 1857, Dec. 1858, Dec. 1859, Dec. 1860
  
• Green Adams, Apr. 17, 1861 (recess appointment)
  
• nominated July 8, 1861; confirmed July 15 [SEJ v.11 p.376, v.11 p.445]
• OR, 1861
• PMG Annual Report, Dec. 1861, Dec. 1862, Dec. 1863
  
• Elijah Sells, Oct. 26, 1864 (recess appointment)
• nominated Dec. 12, 1864; confirmed Jan. 12, 1865 [SEJ v.14 p.16, v.14 p.83]
• PMG Annual Report, Dec. 1864
  
• Isaac N. [Newton] Arnold, Apr. 29, 1865
• PMG Annual Report, Nov. 1865
  
• Hugh J. [Johnston] Anderson, Sep. 26, 1866
• PMG Annual Report, Nov. 1866, Nov. 1867, Dec. 1868
  
• John J. Martin, Apr. 19, 1869
• also noted as Jacob J. Martin, Oct. 1874 - Apr. 1875 [PG]
  
• C.C. [Charles Christopher] Sheets, Mar. 11, 1875
• Jacob M. [Milton] McGrew, July 1, 1875
• in office, July 1875 [PG]
  
• previously, Chief Clerk, in 1865, 1867, 1869, 1871, 1873, 1874, 1875 [PG, Jan., Apr. 1875]
  
• first appointed to Treasury, 13 Sep. 1862
• PMG Annual Report, Nov. 1865, Acting Auditor briefly in Oct. 1865
  
• Jacob H. [Hart] Ela, appointed June 3, 1881, until his death in 1884
• had been appointed Fifth Auditor, Jan. 1, 1872; or, 19 Dec. 1871
  
• etc.
• Transferred to the Bureau of Accounts, Post Office Dept., by the Budget and Accounting Act, 10 June 1921, 42 Stat. 24.
  

• When this office was first listed in the Official Register (1837) there were 35 clerks who had been with the General Post Office in 1835, including Gardner.  Only one, Peter G. Washington, had come from Treasury.  The remaining 13 1837 Auditor's clerks do not appear in the 1835 register.
• See also, 404 H.doc. 170, 31 Mar. 1842, p. 114.  List of 14 clerks transferred on 5 July 1836.
  
• For the organization of the office, see Robert Mayo, The Treasury Department and its Various Fiscal Bureaus, 1847, p. 161-191 (link).

• Thomas Johnson, Jr., appointed June 24, 1795; took office July 17, 1795
• died Nov. 3, 1795 (The Herald, New York, Nov. 25, 1795, via Readex/NewsBank)
  
• Christopher Richmond, appointed Nov. 11, 1795, took office Jan. 1, 1796
• died April or May 1796
• Owen Donlevy, acting, following death of Christopher Richmond [U, p. 107]
  
• Lund Washington, appointed May 26, 1796; took office Oct. 1, 1796
• offered the position, May 11, 1796 (link)
  
• dismissed for non-payment of debts, Jan. 29, 1799
• A distant relative of George Washington.  Peter G. Washington was his son.
  
• Thomas Munroe, appointed Jan. 30, 1799; appointed Jan. 24, 1799 [U, p. 107]
  
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0247
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-37-02-0492
  
• Dunlop v. Munroe, US Supreme Court, 1812 (link)
• On his replacement, the Daily National Intelligencer protested, Apr. 30, 1829 (image)
  
• Dr. William Jones, appointed April 29, 1829; took office July 1, 1829
• Nominated and confirmed July 2, 1836 [SEJ v.4 p.567-568,570-571] under the new postal law of July 2, 1836.
• James S. Gunnell, appointed Mar. 23, 1839 (recess appointment)
  
• nominated Jan. 24, 1840 [SEJ v.5 p.253], confirmed Feb. 10, 1840 [SEJ v.5 p.256]
• until July 14, 1841 [OR 1843]
  
• William Jones
• nominated June 22, 1841 [SEJ v.5 p.392], confirmed July 10, 1841 [SEJ v.5 p.403]
• took office July 15, 1841 [OR 1843], until Mar. 31, 1845 [OR 1845]
  
• Charles K. Gardner
• took office Apr. 1, 1845 [OR 1845]
  
• nominated Dec. 29, 1845 [SEJ v.7 p.15], confirmed July 7, 1846 [SEJ v.7 p.115]
  
• portrait (link)
• William A. Bradley, appointed June 28, 1849 (recess appointment)
  
• nominated Jan. 16, 1850 [SEJ v.8 p.125], confirmed Aug. 28, 1850 [SEJ v.8 p.224]
• until May 31, 1853 [OR 1853]
  
• son of Phineas Bradley and nephew of Abraham Bradley
• president, Patriotic Bank
  
• mayor of Washington
• mail contractor, lines south from Washington
• Wikipedia
  
• James G. Berrett, appointed May 27, 1853 (recess appointment)
  
• took office May 31, 1853 [OR 1853]
• nominated Dec. 8, 1853 [SEJ v.9 p.180], confirmed Feb. 23, 1854 [SEJ v.9 p.247-248]
  
• until Feb. 23, 1858 [SEJ v.10 p.323]
• William Jones
  
• nominated Feb. 25, 1858 [SEJ v.10 p.323], confirmed Mar. 30, 1858 [SEJ v.10 p.355]
• until May 15, 1861 [OR 1861]
  
• Lewis Clephane, appointed May 10, 1861 (recess appointment)
• took office May 16, 1861 [OR 1861]
  
• nominated July 10, 1861 [SEJ v.11 p.395], confirmed July 16, 1861 [SEJ v.10 p.465-468]
• until Mar. 31, 1863 [OR 1863]
• Sayles J. [Jenks] Bowen, appointed Mar. 16, 1863 (recess appointment)
  
• took office Apr. 1, 1863 [OR 1863]
  
• nominated Feb. 19, 1864 [SEJ v.13 p.410], confirmed Mar. 8, 1864 [SEJ v.13 p.439]
• until July 31, 1868 [OR 1869]
  
• Charles M. [Madison] Alexander
  
• nominated July 25, 1868 [SEJ v.16 p.362,383], confirmed July 27, 1868 [SEJ v.16 p.385]
• took office Aug. 1, 1868, until May 17, 1869 [OR 1869]
  
• suspended under an act of Congress approved Apr. 5, 1869 [SEJ v.17 p.282]
• James M. Edmunds, appointed May 12, 1869 (recess appointment)
  
• took office May 18, 1869 [OR 1869]
  
• nominated Dec. 6, 1869 [SEJ v.17 p.282]; confirmed Jan. 24, 1870 [SEJ v.17 p.348]
• renominated Jan. 6, 1874, as his term was to end Jan. 24, 1874; confirmed Jan. 8, 1874 [SEJ v.19 p.201,205,210]
• died in office, Dec. 14, 1879 (Wikipedia)
  
• Daniel B. Ainger
  
• nominated Jan. 7, 1880, confirmed Jan. 8, 1880 [SEJ v.22 p. 154,162]
  
• etc.

• This data is from the Senate Executive Journal, the Official Register, and Madison Davis, A History of the [Washington] City Post-Office, Records of the Columbia Historical Society, 1903, vol. 6, p. 143-213 (link).  Davis has additional biographical information; he was formerly Chief Clerk to the 3rd Asst PMG.
  
• There were also D.C. post offices in Alexandria (from 1772, transferred to Virginia in 1846), Georgetown (from before 1776, to 1877), College Hill (1822 - Dec. 31, 1841), Tennallytown (1846 - 1894), Anacostia (1849 - 1855, 1856 - 1858), Alexandria Ferry (1856 - 1858), Oak Grove (1856 - 1861; 1861, renamed to Brightwood, continuing to 1901), Uniontown (1865 - 1868; 1869, renamed to Anacostia, continuing to 1900), Benning (1874 - 1903), etc.  For more information, see http://www.dcstampclub.org/postal_history_project.htm or Jim Forte's Post Office list, http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=DC
  

• A new position under the 1949 Reorganization Plan.
• to 2011, http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/deputy-postmasters-general.pdf
  
• Vincent C. Burke, Kentucky
  
• previously, 1st Asst PMG
• nominated 12 Oct. 1949 SEJ v.91 p.1502; confirmed 18 Oct. 1949 SEJ v.91 p.1543
• 21 Oct. 1949 [PGR 1970]
• OR 1950, 1951, 1952
• GM 1950, 1951, 1952
• Charles R. Hook, Jr., Ohio
  
• nominated 22 Jan. 1953 SEJ v.95 p.75; confirmed 29 Jan. 1953 SEJ v.95 p.119
• 20 Jan. 1953 [PGR 1970]
• OR 1953, 1954, 1955
• GM 1953, 1954, 1955
• Maurice H. Stans, Illinois
• recess appointment, 1 Oct. 1955 [PGR 1970]
• nominated 12 Jan. 1956 SEJ v.98 p.99; confirmed 16 Apr. 1956 SEJ v.98 p.499
• OR 1956, 1957
• GM 1956, 1957
• Edson O. Sessions, Illinois
• recess appointment, 19 Sep. 1957 [PGR 1970]
• nominated 13 Jan. 1958 SEJ v.100 p. 296; confirmed 23 Jan. 1958 SEJ v.100 p.362
• OR 1958, 1959
• GM 1958, 1959
• John M. McKibbin, Pennsylvania
• 23 Oct. 1959 [PGR 1970]
• GM 1960
• H.W. Brawley, Virginia
• 25 Jan. 1961 [PGR 1970]
• GM 1961, 1962
• (vacancy)
• GM 1963
• Sidney W. Bishop, California
  
• 3 July 1963 [PGR 1970]
• Frederick C. Belen, Virginia
• 28 Feb. 1964 [PGR 1970]
• GM 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968
• E.T. [Elmer Theodore] Klassen, Massachusetts / New York
• b. 1908, former President and COO of American Can Company
• nominated 31 Jan. 1969 [SEJ v.111 p.150]; confirmed 7 Feb. 1969 [SEJ v.111 p.169]
• 7 Feb. 1969 [PGR 1970]
• GM 1969, 1970

• Kildroy P. Aldrich
• GM 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942
• Jesse M. Donaldson
• GM 1943, 1944, 1945 (1st)
• later, PMG
  
• James J. Doran
• GM 1945 (2nd), 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949
• Clifton C. Garner
• GM 1950, 1951, 1952
• David H. Stephens, Pennsylvania
• 6 Feb. 1953 [PGR 1970]
• GM 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960
• Henry B. Montague, New York
• 14 Feb. 1961 [PGR 1970]
• GM 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968
• William J. Cotter, Virginia
• 7 Apr. 1969 [PGR 1970]
• GM 1969, 1970

• Jesse M. Donaldson, Jr., Illinois, Asst Chief Post Office Inspector; OR 1951, 1952
• Jesse M. Donaldson, Jr., Illinois, Asst Postal Inspector in Charge, Kansas City, Missouri; OR 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959

• The Dept. of Justice assigned an Assistant Attorney General with responsibility for the Post Office Dept.; the position was listed with both departments in the Official Register until 1921.
• The position of General Counsel in the Post Office Dept. was created by the Act of 31 July 1956.
• Thomas A. Spence, Maryland, appt. 20 Mar. 1873
• PG, 1875
  
• Alfred A. Freeman, Tennessee, appt. 1 May 1877
  
• OR 1881, 1883
  
• Edwin E. Bryant, Vermont, appt. 31 Mar. 1885
  
• OR 1885, 1887
  
• John L. Thomas, Missouri, appt. 27 May 1893
  
• OR 1893, 1895
  
• James N. Tyner, Indiana, appt. 21 Mar. 1889; appt. 6 May 1897
  
• OR 1889, 1891, 1897, 1899, 1901
• Charles H. Robb, Vermont, appt. 27 Apr. 1903
  
• OR 1903
• Russell P. Goodwin, Illinois, appt. 16 May 1904
  
• OR 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911
  
• William H. Lamar
• OR (Asst AG) 1913
• OR (Solicitor) 1915, 1917, 1919
• John H. Edwards
  
• OR 1921
• Horace J. Donnelly, D.C.
  
• OR 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932
• Assistant to the Solicitor, OR 1933
• Karl A. Crowley, Texas
  
• OR 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937
  
• GM 1935, 1936, 1937
• (vacancy), OR 1938
• Vincent M. Miles, Arkansas
  
• OR 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946
  
• GM 1938 (10 Oct. 1938), 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946
• Frank J. Delany, Illinois
  
• OR 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950
  
• GM 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950
• Roy C. Frank, Minnesota
  
• OR 1951, 1952
• GM 1951, 1952
• Associate Solicitor, GM 1949
• Ross Rixley, Oklahoma
  
• OR 1953
• GM 1953
• Abe McGregor Goff, Idaho
  
• OR (Solicitor) 1954, 1955, 1956; (General Counsel) 1957
• GM (Solicitor) 1954, 1955, 1956; (General Counsel) 1957
• recess appointment
  
• nominated 14 Jan. 1957 SEJ v.99 p.4; confirmed 4 Feb. 1957 SEJ v.99 p.275
• Herbert B. Warburton, Delaware
  
• OR 1958 (Acting), 1959
  
• GM 1958, 1959, 1960
• nominated 17 Mar. 1958 SEJ v.100 p.543; confirmed 22 May 1958 SEJ v.100 p.745
• Louis J. Doyle
  
• GM 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965
• Timothy J. May
  
• GM 1966, 1967, 1968
• David A. Nelson
  
• GM 1969, 1970

• William E. Cochran, Pennsylvania
• OR 1905, 1907
• previously, Chief Post-Office Inspector, OR 1899, 1901, 1903
• John A. Holmes
• OR 1909, 1911
• James A. Edgerton
• OR 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919
• Thomas L. Degnan, Pennsylvania
• OR 1921, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928
• previously, Chief Clerk, Division of Purchasing Agent; OR 1919
• Robert S. Regar, Pennsylvania
• OR 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932
• nominated 11 June 1929 SEJ v.68 p.165; confirmed 13 June 1929 SEJ v.68 p.173-174
• Harrison Parkman, Kansas
• OR 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951
• GM 1935 - 1951
• appointed, term expiring 15 June 1937; nominated 8 June 1933 SEJ v.74 p.148; confirmed 10 June 1933 SEJ v.74 p.172
• appointed, term expiring 15 June 1941; nominated 10 May 1937 SEJ v.78 p.325; confirmed 12 May 1937 SEJ v.78 p.329-330
• appointed, term expiring 15 June 1945; nominated 22 Apr. 1941 SEJ v.83 p.176; confirmed 29 Apr. 1941 SEJ v.83 p.194
• appointed, term expiring 15 June 1949; nominated 17 Apr. 1945 SEJ v.87 p.201; confirmed 19 Apr. 1945 SEJ v.87 p.219
• reappointed; nominated 18 May 1949 SEJ v.91 p.1099; confirmed 1 June 1949 SEJ v.91 p.1164
• William J. Kindsfather, D.C., Office of the Purchasing Agent
• OR 1952; GM 1952
• William J. Kindsfather, D.C., in Bureau of Facilities
• OR 1953
• <office not listed in OR 1954, 1955>

• nominated as a group 10 Feb. 1950 SEJ v.92 p.173; confirmed 28 July 1950 SEJ v.92 p.602-603
• J.H. Allen, Florida
• Daniel W. Bell, D.C.
• Morris L. Ernst, New York; confirmed 21 Sep. 1950 SEJ v.92 p.730 (see also p. 745)
• Frank M. Folsom, New York
• Alfred E. Lyon, New York
• Robert L. Thornton, Texas
• Charles A. Ward, Minnesota
• nominated as a group 24 June 1953 SEJ v.95 p.528-529; confirmed July 8, 1953 SEJ v.95 p.580
• Consuelo Northrop Bailey, Virginia
• Richard Berlin, New York
• John Coleman, Michigan
• Richard J. Gray, Ohio
• Roland Jones, Jr., South Dakota
• Curtis McGraw, New Jersey
• Charles White, Ohio
• J.H.S. Ellis, New York;
  
• recess appointment
• nominated 11 Jan. 1954 SEJ v.96 p.5; confirmed 23 Feb. 1954 SEJ v.96 p.184
• Jack Rohe Howard, New York
• recess appointment
• nominated 9 Jan. 1956 SEJ v.98 p.91; confirmed 18 Jan. 1956 SEJ v.98 p.276
• Ormond E. Hunt, Michigan
• nominated 20 June 1958 SEJ v.100 p.812; confirmed 2 July 1958 SEJ v.100 p.842
• For complete lists of the Board members, see GM 1954-55 to 1968-69 (except 1961-62).

• USPS, CSAC webpage
  
• Wikipedia
• For complete lists of the Committee members, see GM 1957-58 to 1968-69.

• reference from The Development of Rates of Postage, by A. D. Smith
• SLACK, STANLEY I. (Curator of the Postal Museum). A Brief History of the Postal Service. Omaha (undated).
• reference from The American Postal Service, by Louis Melius
• Notice.  In a pamphlet giving a brief history of the postal service, compiled by Mr. Stanley I. Slack during the administration of Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith from which a few general facts are taken relating to our early postal history, appears a statement that use had been made of the following works—Journal[112] kept by Hugh Finlay, 1773-74, Brooklyn, 1867. Joyce “History of the British Post Office; The Early History of the Colonial Post Office by Mary E. Wooley; Leech and Nicholson’s History of the Post Office Department, Washington, 1879, and the contributions of the Postal History of the United States by C. W. Ernst of Boston in Vols. XX, 1895, and XXI, 1896; Journal of the Postal Union.” As none of these authorities have been consulted in the publication of this work, or access had to any of them for such purpose, this explanation is made so that if anything from the above mentioned publications appears herein, drawn from Mr. Slack’s pamphlet, the necessary acknowledgment might hereby be made and due credit given.