1To George Washington from William Jackson, 31 August 1789 (Washington Papers)
On an intimation received this morning from my much respected friend General Lincoln, I presume to address Your Excellency—and to renew the wish which I had the honor to communicate to you at Philadelphia. Should I be so happy as to receive your commands—it will be my best pride and most earnest endeavor long to merit the permission of assuring Your Excellency that I am, with the most...
2William 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,...
3William Jackson to ——, 9 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States having occasion for Mitchell’s map, which hangs in one of the offices of Congress, and is supposed to be in your care, requests that you will be so good as to send it by the Servant, who delivers this note. I am Sir, Your obedient Servant ALS , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters. This letter is unaddressed, but may have been directed to Roger Alden, former...
4William Jackson to George Turner, 23 December 1789 (Washington Papers)
The communication which I now make to you though painful, is friendly, and has no other object ⟨ mutilated ⟩ your interest. I suggested to you, when in Philadelphia that your delay, in repairing to the western-terri⟨tory⟩ would as certainly excite the President’s displeasure as I was convinced it would his disappointment. Accustomed to punctuality himself, he expects to see it in...
5William Jackson to John Jay, 4 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
The letter, which accompanies this, addressed to the Vice-President of the United States by Judge Sewall, with its enclosure, having been submitted to the President of the United States, he directs me to transmit them to you, as the objects to which they refer are immediately within the department of the supreme Judiciary, and will, in the first instance, come most properly before you. The...
6William Jackson to Clement Biddle, 2 May 1790 (Washington Papers)
On Sunday, 9 May 1790, GW recorded in his diary that he was “Indisposed with a bad cold, and at home all day writing letters on private business.” His condition worsened overnight, and the next day he was confined to bed, apparently suffering from a bad case of influenza that developed into pneumonia. GW described the illness as “a severe attack of the peripneumony kind.” James Madison, who...
7To 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...
8To George Washington from William Jackson, 31 July 1790 (Washington Papers)
The subject of this address affects me too sensibly, in different relations, to admit of a personal explanation of my feelings—delicacy, duty, and the most respectful veneration towards you, Sir—propriety, personal wishes, involving the dearest affections of my heart, as it respects myself, all conspire, on this occasion, to agitate me in a manner, which precludes the possibility of explaining...
9To 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,...
10To 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...