U.S. Engineer lists: 1833, various states.

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June 18, 2000 
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Engineer lists extracted from:
Niles' Weekly Register; Fourth Series. No. 12--Vol. IX. 
Baltimore, Nov. 16, 1833 [Vol. XLV. Whole No. 1,156. Edited, 
Printed & Published by H. Niles.

UNITED STATES ENGINEERS. From the Military & Naval Magazine for 
November.

List of the U.S. Topographical Engineers, and their present 
duties:

Lieut. col. J.J. Abert, chief of the bureau.

Assistants.
Lieut, George D. Ramsay, 1st reg. artillery
Lieut. Alexander D. Mackay, 1st do.
------
Lieut. col. J. Anderson, engaged on a survey of the shores 
   of lakes Huron & Michigan.

Assistants.
Lieut. S.P. Heintzleman, 5th reg. infantry
Lieut. Benjamin Poole, 3d artillery
Lieut. A.M. Lea, 7th infantry
------
Lieut. col. J. Kearney, charged with the construction of 
   the bridge across the Potomac, at Washington city.

Assistants.
Lieut. J.M. Berrien, 5th reg.infantry
Lieut. E.M. White, 3d reg. artillery
Lieut. W. Hood, 4th reg. infantry
------
George W. Hughes, civil engineer
Lieut. col. S.H. Long, on furlough
Lieut. col. P.H. Perrault, waiting orders.
Major Hartman Bache, at Philadelphia, preparing maps and   
   reports of surverys for a rail road from Williamsport,  
   PA to Elmyra, NY and of the harbors of Plattsburg and 
   Port Kent, NY and Burlington Bay, VT.
Lieut. George W. Ward, 2d reg. artillery, assistant.
------
Captain W.G. McNeill, engaged on the survey of Throng's 
   Point, East river for the military defences of New York.

Assistants.
Lieut. George W. Whistler, 2d. reg. artillery
Lieut. Augustus Canfield, 4th do.
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Capt. James D. Graham, engaged on a survey for the military 
   defences of cape Cod and vicinity.

Assistants.
Lieut. J.F. Izard, 2d reg. infantry
Lieut. T.J. Lee 4th do. artillery
Lieut. J.N. Macomb, 4th do.do.
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Capt. William Turnbull, charged with the construction of 
   the Potomac aqueduct at Georgetown, D.C.
Lieut. M.C. Ewing, 4th reg. artillery, assistant.
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Capt. W.H. Swift, engaged in the survey of the coast.
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Lieut. W.G. Williams, 7th reg. infantry, engaged at  
   Washington in preparing maps & reports of his survey of 
   a canal route from Mobile bay, Alabama to Pensacola bay, 
   Florida.

Assistants.
Lieut. Thomas F. Drayton, 6th reg. infantry
Lieut. H.G. Sill, 1st reg artillery
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Lieut. A.J. Center, 5th reg infantry, engaged on the survey 
   of the military road from Fort Howard, Green Bay, to 
   Chicago, and from Fort Howard to Fort Crawford, Prairie 
   du Chien, Michigan*.  
------
Lieut. John Mackay, 3d reg. artillery, engaged on a survey of the 
Savannah river, Georgia.
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List of civil and assistant civil engineers, under the orders of 
the topographical bureau:

William Howard, engaged at Baltimore in preparing maps & 
   reports of a survey of a road from the vicinity of 
   Memphis to White river, in Arkansas territory, and the 
   survey of the Monongahela river.  Assisted by Charles N. 
   Hagner.
DeWitt Clinton, engaged at New York, in making a report of 
   a reconnoisance of a rail road over the southern part of 
   Vermont.
George W. Hughes, assistant to lieut. col. Kearney.
Howard Stansbury, charged with the survey of the Mad river 
   and Lake Erie railroad.
W.B. Guion, engaged on a survey of a rail road from Pearl river 
to Yazoo river, state of Mississippi.
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[*transcripionist's note: Ft.Crawford & Prairie du Chien are in 
Wisconsin]