1To George Washington from William Jackson, 20 August 1786 (Washington Papers)
It was not till last evening I discovered that a packet, which I had done myself the honor to address to you by a private conveyance, had been forgotten by the person to whom it was entrusted. To prevent a similar accident, and to avoid any farther delay, I take the liberty to forward the enclosed pamphlets (which are transmitted at the request of our State Society) by post. Unable to decline,...
2To George Washington from William Jackson, 12 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with the receipt of Your Excellency’s letter of the 5th instant. The Officers who have been arranged to the first Pennsylvania regiment are ordered to repair to Charlestown in consequence of your intention to continue that corps in the southern Department. As the Powers vested by Congress in the Secretary at War do not comprehend the business of Exchange—I beg leave to...
3To George Washington from William Jackson, 4 April 1794 (Washington Papers)
France, at this moment, exhibits such scenes as the pencil of Salvator Rosa would have been well employed to delineate—abounding in light and shade, which is at once splendid and awful. To use the language of a living Artist, and One fonder of gilding than Salvator, France is, in truth, “an armed Nation.” Her exertions and firmness seem well proportioned to the resistance, which her situation...
4To Alexander Hamilton from William Jackson, [7–10 May 1790] (Hamilton Papers)
The President of the United states authorises the Secretary of the Treasury to engage Edward Carrington Esquire to visit Cape Henry and to make a selection of the spot for the purpose of the Cession within mentioned (with permission to take with him one or two seafaring persons) & to make the parties a resonable allowance for expence and trouble, out of the Monies appropriated towards erecting...
5To George Washington from William Jackson, 18 December 1782 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency’s letter of the 11th instant, addressed to the Secretary at War—The Muster rolls for the month of October are received—and the several letters, brought by the Express, have been delivered. General Lincoln purposed waiting on the Commissioners as he passed through Trenton on his way to Head Quarters—his conversation with those...
6To George Washington from William Jackson, 15 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am honored with your Excellency’s letters of the 3rd and 8 instant—The Post did not arrive until this morning. I shall address Congress on the subject of additional subsistence money to be allowed the Officers of the Cavalry in consideration of their keeping more servants without arms than those of the Infantry—until their decision is had, which I am persuaded will be conformable to the...
7To George Washington from William Jackson, 2 August 1782 (Washington Papers)
In General Lincoln’s absence I do myself the honor to transmit Your Excellency an establishment adopted by Congress for the Adjutant General’s department. I have the honor to be, with profound respect, Your Excellency’s most obedient, humble servant DLC : Papers of George Washington.
8To Alexander Hamilton from William Jackson, 31 July 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
Your letter to Mr. Monroe, which I received under cover on Saturday last, was delivered to him on that day—he said he should not leave Philadelphia until thursday, and gave me to understand that he would write to you. It appears to me that your publication must go on, as Mr. M did not seem willing to grant the certificate, and I confess I should be unwilling to recommend any compromise short...
9William Jackson to Clement Biddle, 7 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
The letter for Mr Holker, which encloses one for the Person, applying to be Steward of the Household, is, by the Presidents desire, committed to your care for conveyance. Be so good as to give it an early transmission. I shall take the liberty to write to you on my own account within a few days. The President and Mrs Washington are in perfect good health. I am, very respectfully, Dear Sir,...
10To George Washington from William Jackson, 13 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
In the absence of the Secretary at War I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Your Excellency’s letters of the 4th, 5th and 9th instant— & the muster returns. The Clothier General informs me that he has about three thousand frocks ready and would be able to complete the whole in three weeks were he furnished with money to pay the Workmen. I have represented to Mr Morris your...
11To Thomas Jefferson from William Jackson, 29 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Georgetown, 29 Mch. 1791. The enclosed papers “from the Secretary of the Western territory” were received by the President last evening. “His engagements with the Commissioners not permitting him to peruse them during his stay here, he commands me to transmit them to you for your consideration, and he requests, if you should think it necessary, that they may be reported on.” RC ( DNA : RG 59,...
12To John Adams from William Jackson, 12 August 1781 (Adams Papers)
Could I have supposed that Your Excellency would have returned to Amsterdam before the Ship sailed, I should certainly have done myself the honor and agreeable satisfaction of waiting upon you before I left this Country—but this pleasure is denied me—and I am scarce allowed time by Mr. Thaxter’s immediate departure to bid Your Excellency farewell in this abrupt manner —but I lean with...
13To John Adams from William Jackson, 10 May 1781 (Adams Papers)
Commodore Gillon has applied to me by letter requesting that I would furnish Captain Joyner with bills of exchange on Paris for Twenty thousand Guilders which sum he says is required to pay the ship accounts of the South Carolina frigate, and is necessary to fit her for sea. As this sum appears to be requisite for the purposes mentioned in Commodore Gillon’s letter to me, I have to request...
14To George Washington from William Jackson, 7 November 1783 (Washington Papers)
I am honored, my dear General, with your very flattering, and highly esteemed letter, enclosing one for the Marquis de la Fayette, and another for Doctor Franklin. Words will not do justice to my sense of the favor, which your goodness has conferred—An earnest endeavor to merit the opinion you have been pleased to express—and the grateful sentiments of an obliged mind are the best returns and...
15To Alexander Hamilton from William Jackson, 7 August 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
I have informed Mr. Dawson, who called on me yesterday, on the part of Mr. Monroe, that, as you had expressly told Mr. M in one of your letters, that you thought the motives of his conduct towards you had been “malignant and dishonorable,” I had advised you against throwing the affair into a more formal challenge, it resting, in my opinion, with Mr. Monroe either to submit to, or to resent...
16To Alexander Hamilton from William Jackson, 11 August 1797 (Hamilton Papers)
I have received your letter, without date, enclosing the copies of Mr. Monroes two last letters to you, which I have delivered to Mr. Jones —to whom I have shewn your letter. He is surprised that you should not have received a packet containing some interesting documents, among others Folwell’s testimony, which he forwarded to you under the Comptroller’s frank. I am no less surprised that you...
17To Thomas Jefferson from William Jackson, 9 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed papers, which I stated to you in my letter of the 7th instant had been dropped in the street, having been restored to me by Mr. Deane, by whom they were found—I have believed it proper, to guard against any failure in the transmission of my first packet to forward these papers also—and, as they are attested before the Chief Justice, I request that they may be considered as the...
18To George Washington from William Jackson, 22 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have been honored with Your Excellency’s letter of the 12th instant. The Clothier informs me that twenty two thousand shirts have been sent on to camp—I find by the return of the main-army for the last month that there will be a deficiency of about fifteen hundred shirts to complete the Issue which Your Excellency proposes should be made. I have reported this deficiency to Mr Morris—and the...
19To George Washington from William Jackson, 5 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
In the absence of General Lincoln I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Excellency’s letter of the 2nd instant—The memorial from the Surgeons mates will be laid before Congress on monday—Orders have been given for the release of the british prisoners at Rutland—They shall be immediately repeated. On the information of Baron Steuben, that the resolve of Congress of the 12th of May...
20To Thomas Jefferson from William Jackson, 3 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Should the spirit, by which this letter is dictated, be duly accredited the result anxiously wished by the Writer, a degree of public utility, may be realised, and the Person to whom it is addressed will not deem it an intrusion. Actuated by the purest public motives, and influenced by no other personal consideration than that of reflecting on the personal kindness and approbation, which, at...
21To George Washington from William Jackson, 24 October 1785 (Washington Papers)
In obedience to an order of the Pennsylvania State Society of the Cincinnati, I do myself the honor to transmit Two hundred and fifty diplomas for your Excellency’s signature. Availing ourselves of General Knox’s presence in Philadelphia—we presumed to request that he would countersign the diplomas before they were sent to you—and, in order to secure the safe transmission of them, Captain...
22To George Washington from William Jackson, 18 June 1782 (Washington Papers)
Doctor Cleland Surgeon to the 33rd British regiment has obtained General Weedon’s permission to pass by land to Your Excellency’s Head Quarters with Mrs Cleland two servants, a carriage, and four horses—His presence it seems is no longer necessary with the British prisoners, as the Hospital to which he belonged has been broke up. I have intimated to him that I do not suppose he will be...
23To George Washington from William Jackson, 6 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I had the honor to address Your Excellency on the 28th ultimo. I beg leave to inform you that the territory in dispute between Pennsylvania and Connecticut has been decreed by the Judges to Pennsylvania—and the decree is placed among the records of Congress. The enclosed copy of a letter from the Clothier General specifies the state of the clothing destined for the Northern Army—every possible...
24To George Washington from William Jackson, 26 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
I do myself the honor to enclose to your Excellency a late resolve of Congress. The Clothier informs me that he has written to you on the subject of the blankets which have lately arrived. I have the honor to be, with the most perfect esteem and respect Your Excellency’s obedient servant DLC : Papers of George Washington.
25To Alexander Hamilton from William Jackson, 13 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Richmond, April 13, 1791. Encloses list of proposed inspectors of revenue for Virginia. Asks Hamilton to “suspend issueing the commissions” until Edward Carrington indicates “the determinations of the gentlemen who are appointed Inspectors.” LC , George Washington Papers, Library of Congress. Jackson, who had served as a major under Benjamin Lincoln during the American Revolution, had been...
26To George Washington from William Jackson, 19 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
Amidst the important cares which engage his attention, will my dear General permit the respectful intrusion of a private request on his goodness? it is the result of an implicit confidence in that goodness, dictated by necessity and declared with candor. Having resolved to refer my wishes entirely to the graciousness of Your Excellency’s disposition towards me, and to the knowledge which...
27William Jackson to John Adams, 30 November 1781 (Adams Papers)
The last post brought me your Excellency’s letter of the 14. I hope Doctor Franklin will be fully in sentiment with you respecting the disposition of the Continental property, and I am happy in anticipating the pleasing close, which may still attend this hitherto unfortunate business. Previous to the receipt of your last letter I had drawn upon Messrs. de Neufville & Son for a sum of money to...
28To Alexander Hamilton from William Jackson, 25 April 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
Wilmington [ North Carolina ] April 25, 1791. States that the President thinks that Joseph McDowell, Sr., “is perhaps, in all regards, the most proper person to be appointed Inspector of the survey No. 5” in North Carolina and that Captain William Cooke should be appointed captain of the revenue cutter at Wilmington. ALS , The Huntington Library, San Marino, California; LC , George Washington...
29To George Washington from William Jackson, 22 February 1797 (Washington Papers)
With a sense of gratitude, which words can but feebly express, I transmit to you the just account of an obligation, infinitely endeared by the manner, in which it was conferred, and the delicacy with which it has been mentioned. Renewing to you the assurance of an inviolable attachment, I am Sir, Your much obliged, faithful, and affectionate Servant ALS , DLC:GW . A lawyer in Philadelphia,...
30To Thomas Jefferson from William Jackson, 7 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Considerations paramount to all others, the love of my country, and a sense of personal honour, which no change of fortune or circumstance can ever efface or diminish, have decided me, on the present occasion, to address you. The accompanying document refers to the most interesting objects that can engage my attention—and, for the moment, these objects banish every other remembrance. Mr....