1To George Washington from Col. Henry Jackson, Capt. Thomas Turner, and Lt. Thomas Edwards, 24 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
Letter not found: from Col. Henry Jackson, Capt. Thomas Turner, and Lt. Thomas Edwards, 24 Nov. 1779 . GW wrote Jackson, Turner, and Edwards on 28 Nov.: “I was yesterday favd with yours of the 24th.”
2To George Washington from Henry Jackson, 16 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
The bearer Ensign Spencer Wood, of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment is desirous to retire from the Army, the inclosed certificate is from the Paymaster of the Regiment that he is not in debt to the Public or Regiment—I am with the highest Respect your Excellency’s most Obt Humle servt DNA : RG 93—War Department.
3From George Washington to Henry Jackson, 5 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
Captn Ludlow of the British Guards, has my permission (with his Servant) to pass the American Post at Dobbs’ ferry & proceed to Chatham—He has liberty also to return to New York the same way. Given at Head Qrs 5th Augt 1782. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
4To George Washington from Colonel Henry Jackson, 15 January 1780 (Washington Papers)
I receivd a note from Colonel Harrison this morning desireing I would State to your Excellency in writeg the complaint I yesterday made against Brig. General Stark. My principal Complaint against him is, that he has discharged a man from my Regiment who had at the time of his discha[r]ge more than twelve months to serve, and this without my knowledge altho present in Camp or a certificate from...
5From George Washington to Colonel Henry Jackson, Captain Thomas Turner, and Lieutenant Thomas Edwards, 28 November 1779 (Washington Papers)
I was yesterday favd with yours of the 24th I should have been glad if the arrangements made for the disposition of the Army this Winter, would have admitted of your Regiment’s remaining at or very near the Quarters of the Massachusetts line. But circumstances are such, that was it to be stationed upon the North River, some one of those belonging immediately to the State must be separated from...
6From George Washington to Colonel Henry Jackson, 19 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I have this day recd a representation signed by yourself and several other Gentlemen in behalf of the Officer’s and Soldier’s of the detachment under your command. I shall agreeable to your desire lay it before Congress, and inform you of their determination as soon as I am furnished with it. The three Regiments are incorporated agreeable to an arrangement which I send to Genl Sullivan by this...
7From George Washington to Henry Jackson, 8 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
Having before this Time given my Opinion that it was not the Intention of Congress by their Resolution of 23d apl that the Music should have Arms deliverd to them at being discharged—but that they should take with them their Drums & fifes—and this Determanition having been carried into Effect by the Regiments which are gone It is now too late to make any Alteration—But was not this the Case,...
8To George Washington from Colonel Henry Jackson, 16 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
I was last eveng inform’d by a freind of Capt. Jarvis’s that he had enter’d a complaint to your Excellency of my behaviour unbecoming an Officer & Gentleman —as I look on my Honor, Character, & reputation wounded in this unjust Charge, wounded in such a manner that I cannot by any means put up with—I therefore must intreat of your Excellency, that his Charge against me might be prosecuted, &...
9From George Washington to Colonel Henry Jackson, 14 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
I have considered your favor of this date with its inclosure. There does not appear to me any reason, upon which the soldiers are entitled to, or can claim the Continental fire arms at the expiration of th[e]ir times of service. The act of assembly is very plain. As an encouragement for men to bring their own arms into the army, it offers a certain bounty, and to such who do not, a lesser sum....
10To George Washington from Colonel Henry Jackson, 9 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
At a late Brigade General Court Martial of which Lt Colo: Huntington was President, Joseph Waterhouse, William Straw, & Amos Rounds, Soldiers in my Regiment were Sentence’d to suffer Death for the Crime of Desertion—Christian Myers, Phillip Wild, Jese Peirce, Nathan Barney, John Mathews, James Whitney William Harman, Peletiah Harman Nathaniel Milliken, & Joel Milliken also Soldiers in the...