1To John Adams from Henry Jackson, 4 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
As the common father & first Magistrate of our Country, I beg leave to make the following communications to you, beleiving that you will please to take such measures thereon as the case may require— Having been appointed under the authority of the President of the United States as Agent for building the Frigate Constitution and having executed that trust, for the public interest, I flattered...
2To Benjamin Franklin from [Henry] Jackson, 29 July 1763 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Rutgers University Library This extract of a letter and the accompanying remarks survive only in a copy headed “In a Letter from London to B. Franklin Esqr. which he sent me,” found among extensive manuscript notes on agriculture written, 1746–71, by Charles Read of Burlington, N.J., and interleaved in a copy of John Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae (3d edit., London, 1681). The writer of...
3Henry Jackson to Thomas Jefferson, 9 November 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your note covering the letter for M r Cathalan has been received, and the request it contained immediately complied with.— M r Cathalan has not yet had time to acknowledge its receipt.— From the tenor of the note it would appear to be the second time you had requested my Services—This however is the first application that has reached me.—suffer me, sir, to assure you that during my stay in...
4To James Madison from Henry Jackson, 26 April 1816 (Madison Papers)
I have yielded to the solicitations of the author of the enclosed address, to forward it to you. His reputation as a man of talents and of mechanical invention stands very high here and he is desirous of passing to the United States to render his acquisitions as extensively useful as possible. During the short interval of Buonaparte’s return, the minister of the Interior, the celebrated...
5To 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...
6To 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.”
7To 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.
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, &...
9To George Washington from Henry Jackson, 12 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
By General Orders of the 23 July my Regiment was Order’d to march on the 24th to Relieve the Post’s of Verplanks, Stoney point & Dobbs Ferry, three Companies under the command of Major Trescott was stationed at Verplanks and Stoney point, with the six remaining Companies I took Post at Dobbs’s Ferry. agreeable to your Excellency’s Instructions, I beg leave to make the follow’g Report. July...
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...
11To George Washington from Colonel Henry Jackson, 24 June 1778 (Washington Papers)
On the 22d In the Eveng I recd Orders from Genl Arnold to march the detachments under my Command and follow the Route of the Enimy—Their Rear move’d about 9 O.C. this Morg from Rechleys Town— they march’d in two divisions. the right towards Walls Mill & the Left towards Allen Town—I have in my detachments 240 Men—Colo. White is here with about 50 Light Dragoons—about two Miles in my front is 3...
12To George Washington from Henry Jackson, 3 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
This morning a Flag arrived from New York, with the inclosed Letters for your Excellency. in the Flag came up William Blake Esqr with a desire to proceed immediately to Philadelphia—as he had no other permission than the inclosed certificate from the Honbe Henry Lawrence Esqr I could not (agreeable to my instructions) permit him to Land, & therefore order’d him to return back in the Flag—he is...
13To George Washington from Henry Jackson, 2 March 1783 (Washington Papers)
Agreeable to the General Orders of the 11th Feby I march’d with my Regiment, to releive the first New York Regiment then on the Lines, & on the 14th releived Lt Colo. Van Dyke, and stationed my Regiment from right to left in the following order—one Company at Stoney & one at Verplanks point two in Govr Cortlandts House near New Bridge, one Company in the Centre between the New and Pines...
14To George Washington from Henry Jackson, 11 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
The inclosed Letter I recd Yesterday from Lt Thomas Cole of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment requesting the benefit of retire’g from service on the Provision made by Congress in their Resolve of the 7th of August last. I should not have troubled your Excellency on the subject of it, but it appears that his present situation is not from any neglect of his, but to Colo. Shepards leave’g service...
15To George Washington from Colonel Henry Jackson, 14 February 1780 (Washington Papers)
I inform’d your Excellency the situation of my Regiment with respect to the Mens Arm’s & Accoutrements & that the Soldiers claim’d them as their own have’g part of their bounty stop’d for that purpose—& they all expect to carry them home when discharged. Inclose’d is a true Copy of the Resolve of the State on that Subject, as some of my Soldiers terms of Service expire tomorrow, I wish your...
16To George Washington from Henry Jackson, 7 June 1783 (Washington Papers)
We have been informed, that the General Officers are of Opinion, the Drummers, and Fifers (instead of having Arms) should be allowed to retain their Drums, and Fifes. As the Arms, are (by Congress) bestowed on the Soldiers, as a Gratuity for their services, and the Drums, and Fifes, bear but a small proportion to them, in value; We are constrained (tho’ reluctantly) to Address your Excellency,...
17To George Washington from Colonel Henry Jackson, 1 February 1777 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor a few days sinse of receving by the hands of the Selectmen of this City, your Excellencys Letter of date, inclosing an appointment to the Command of one of the additional sixteen Regiments to be raised in the servise of the United States with my recruitg orders, accompanied with a warrant on the paymaster General for ten thousand dollars —This is the first opportunity I have...