Original Six Frigates of USN question

Good evening, Hoping someone here can help me out with something I have been unable to find out. Ian Toll's Six Frigates states that President Washington was given a list of ten possible names for the frigates. Washington apparently just circled the first five without much thought. Chesapeake was named later and not on the list. Anyone know what the other five names on the list were? I have heard that Hancock was one of them, but I don't have a great source for that, more just hearsay. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
The Life of Timothy Pickering by Charles Upham and Octavius Pickering (Timothy's son), first published in 1867, gives this list, in this order (bolding is mine, to denote chosen names):

United States
Constitution
Constellation

Perseverance
President
Defender
Protector
Congress
Fortitude
Liberty

The same book states on the next page:

Before any of the vessels were completed, the President communicated to Congress that peace had taken place with Algiers, and, after much debate, it was decided to finish three of the frigates, and dispose of the perishable materials of the others. The ships building at Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore were selected; the President gave them, respectively, the names at the head of Colonel Pickering's list, in the order in which he placed them.

Thus, your source seems to be slightly mistaken: The bit about Washington just picking the first names on the list is true only of the first three which Congress decided to keep building after the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796. Presumably "President" and "Congress" (and "Chesapeake"), which were completed later, were named more purposefully.

Edit: Which perhaps suggests that if the peace with the Barbary states had been signed late enough for construction on all the ships to finish (or nearly finish), there would be a "Perseverance" and "Defender," but no "Congress" or "Chesapeake." We'd still have "President," but that name might not be given to the same exact ship it was historically.

(Source for those interested)
 
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Saphroneth

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Somehow I think "the Defender-Leopard" affair would be more prone to comedy. "What do you mean? Why did he have to defend a leopard?"
 

Saphroneth

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That, as everyone knows, is what Jagular do. The secret is not to look up.
Sadly there was no HMS Jaguar at the time.

That said, it would actually be possible to have the President-President affair, as the British had HMS President at the same time as the US had the super-frigate President.
 
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