52921From George Washington to Robert Jackson, 26 May 1757 (Washington Papers)
The following is a list of necessaries wanted for the public works at this place. I must beg the favour of you to send them up by the first waggon, if they are not already sent by the direction of Capt. Mercer. vizt 2 Barrels of 4d. Nails 2 Bar. of Span. Brown 1 ditto Flooring Brads 2 do spanish whiting 1 do 4d. Brads 1 do white-Lead 60 pairs of small HL Hinges 6 lb. Lampblack 40 ditto large...
52922From George Washington to Robert Jackson, 2 August 1755 (Washington Papers)
I must acknowledge you had great reason to be terrified with the first accts that was given of our unhappy defeat, and I must own, I was not a little surprisd to find that Governour Innis was the means of alarming the Country with a report of that so extraordinary nature , without having any better confirmation of the truth, than the story of an affrighted Waggeners Story —Its true, we have...
52923From George Washington to William Jackson, 26 December 1791 (Washington Papers)
At the sametime that I acknowledge the receipt of your letter, notifying me of your intention to enter upon a professional pursuit —and, during the ensuing term propose yourself for admittance as a practitioner of law in the Supreme Court of the State of Pennsylvania—I beg you to be persuaded that my best wishes will accompany you in that, or in any other walk into which your interest or...
52924John Adams to William Jackson, 20 October 1781 (Adams Papers)
Your Letter, Sir, of the 26 Ult. I received last night, and should have been astonished at its date and Contents if I had not seen yours to Mr. De Neufville, of the same date, which he received three days before. I had ever taken Mr. Gillon, for a Man of Honour, drawn insensibly into difficulties by a Train of Disappointments: but I cannot reconcile his Conduct upon this occasion.—But it is to...
52925From Thomas Jefferson to William Jackson, 15 September 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your letters of the 7th. and 9th. instant, and shall use their contents in due time & place for the benefit of our country. as you seem sufficiently apprised that the person of the Marquis Yrujo is under the safeguard of the nation, & secured by it’s honor against all violation, I need add nothing on that head. on another however I may be permitted to add that if the...
52926From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson, 6 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS and transcript: National Archives; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received and answer’d two of your Expresses Yesterday Morning, and in the Evening I recd. a third Letter from you, all dated the 2d Inst. In this last you tell me, “that I must be sensible I cannot have the Disposal of the Money, as it was obtained without either my Knowledge or Concurrence by Col. Lawrens,...
52927From George Washington to William Jackson, 25 August 1795 (Washington Papers)
I have been favored with your letter of yesterday, and thank you sincerely for the obliging offer therein contained. My stay here will be short; and the weight of business is pretty well got through. I am not less sensible, however, of your kindness on that account. To the close attention I have paid to it, since my arrival, you must attribute my seclusion from company; except at the hours...
52928From George Washington to William Jackson, 5 February 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your Lre of the 27th of January is received. In answer to that part of your lre of the 15 January, which respects the appointment of a Brigadier for the State of Connecticut I am to observe that when the Secretary at War was at Verplanks point last fall it was agreed to be the best plan for future Promotions to divide the Continent into districts and when a Vacancy happened for a General...
52929From Benjamin Walker to William Jackson, 4 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
Captain Segond formerly of Pulawski’s Legion complains of being unjustly arranged by Colo. Armand—as a reference to Colonel Armand he informs the Commr in Chief that he understood that Captain Segond resigned last winter & reced a gratification from Congress for his Services previous to his going to France. The General wishes to be informed if this is true or if Capt. Segond did not go out on...
52930From George Washington to William Jackson, 1 November 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your letter reached me yesterday, and informed me of your intention to embark next Week for Europe. Wishing, from the esteem I entertain for your character, to render you every Service in my power—I could not avoid troubling you with the two inclosed Letters—tho’ your Acquaintance in France made it almost unnecessary. You will please to accept my thanks for your obliging offers—and my wishes...
52931From Thomas Jefferson to William Jackson, 18 February 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3d. inst. has been duly recieved. I percieve in it that friendship which I ever found in your character, & which honors every character in which it is found. I feel myself indebted also for the justice you do me as to opinions which others, with less candour, have imputed to me. I have recieved many letters stating to me, in the spirit of prophecy, caricatures which the...
52932From George Washington to William Jackson, 14 October 1791 (Washington Papers)
With pleasure I received your letter of the 9th, and am obliged by the communications therein contained. 1 have written regularly to Mr Lear once a week, some times oftener, on business; but can do little more than drop him or you a line by this Post, as the unexpected discovery that the 24th, instead of the 31st instt is the day appointed for the meeting of Congress, obliges me to bestow...
52933From Thomas Jefferson to William Jackson, 11 June 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter on public business which I took the liberty of troubling you with to Mr. Pinckney was intended to go by the packet. Touching therefore on a particular subject, I mentioned that I should avoid saying more through that channel of conveyance. Hearing you were about to go, I detained the letter and sent it to you. The expression, by this change of channel, would convey to Mr. Pinckney...
52934Constitutional Convention. Nomination of William Jackson as Secretary of the Constitutional Convention, 25 May 1787 (Hamilton Papers)
Philadelphia, May 25, 1787. On this date Hamilton nominated Major William Jackson as secretary of the Constitutional Convention. Gaillard Hunt and James Brown Scott, eds., The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Which Framed the Constitution of the United States of America. Reported by James Madison (New York, 1920), 18. Of the many editions of Madison’s notes of debates in the...
52935From George Washington to William Jackson, 8 July 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favor of 5th Instant, inclosing the Resolution of Congress of the 12th of May—The failure of this Resolution by an earlier Opportunity has been truly unlucky—the misfortune will be remedied in the best manner I am able to do it. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
52936From George Washington to William Jackson, 2 March 1782 (Washington Papers)
The enclosed petition in behalf of Ezekiel Addams, an orphan, whose Parents both died in the public Service, in my opinion merits attention—Being convinced of the truth of the Facts set forth in the sd Petition, from Genl Moultrie’s Certificate & other enquiries that have been made, I cannot help recommending that measures may be taken for furnishing at the public expence a support for the...
52937From George Washington to William Jackson, 29 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
Your several Letters of the 8, 15 and 22 Instant have been received and shall be replyed to by the next conveyance. The inclosed for Major Genl Greene and Colonel Humpton you will please to forward to their respective addresses. I am &c. DLC : Papers of George Washington.
52938From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson, 16 October 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I received yours of Sept. 26. from Corunna. The Conduct of Gillon tho’ it provokes does not surprise me. I have not yet the second Letter you promise me, but in the mean time have wrote to Mr Jay & have obtain’d a Letter from M. le Comte de Vergennes to the French Ambassador at Madrid, requesting them to assist you in what they can, for securing the...
52939From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson: Two Letters, 5 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
(I) ALS and transcript: National Archives; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress; (II) ALS and transcript: National Archives; AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I have this Instant received your Letter of the 2d. urging the Delivery of the Money. I must be Short in my Reply, as your Express waits. Col. Laurens indeed obtained a Promise of Ten Millions to be raised by a Loan in...
52940From George Washington to William Jackson, 3 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have received your two Letters of the 23d & 28th Ulto with their enclosures, and have caused the amendment of the Ordinance respecting the Post Office to be made public agreeably to your request. By the last Post I have received Letters from Major Holmer, Capt. Williams, & Capt. Kirkwood respecting their derangement: Copies of which I enclose: and have informed those Gentlemen, that it was...
52941John Adams to William Jackson, 14 November 1781 (Adams Papers)
Last night I had the Honour of your Favour of 26 of October and congratulate you on your Arrival at Bilbao and your agreable Prospect of a Passage to America. I thank you sir, for your kind Attention to my Son, and wish you to take him home with you. Mr. Guardoqui will be so good as to furnish Charles with Stores, and draw upon me. What can be done with the Continental Property I know not,...
52942From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson, 9 June 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress I receiv’d your Letter of the 31st past, relating to the Term of Bills to be drawn on me from Amsterdam. I enter’d into the Engagement with Mr Laurens for the Payment of those Bills, on the Promise that they were to be made payable at Six Months sight. Mr Neuville senr. who was here with Mr Laurens about that time, made no Objection to the Term that I...
52943From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson, 10 July 1781 (Franklin Papers)
AL (draft) and copy: Library of Congress Last Night I received your 4th Letter on the Same Subject. You are anxious to carry the Money with you, because it will re-animate the Credit of America. My Situation & long Acquaintance with Affairs relating to the public Credit enables me, I think, to judge better than you can do, who are a Novice in them, what Employment of it will most conduce to...
52944From George Washington to William Jackson, 12 January 1783 (Washington Papers)
I have duly received your Letter of the 10th with its several enclosures. I am pleased to learn that all the Cloathing on hand was to be forwarded last week, I hope no accident has intervened to prevent it; and that the number of shirts will be augmented so as to give every Man two including those lately sent on—this, from the encouragement which had been given, I have assured the Army will be...
52945John Adams to William Jackson, 1 December 1781 (Adams Papers)
Last night I received yours of the 12 Novr. and am very sorry to find, that you were not likely to sail as you expected. My dear Mrs. Adams has heard that Charles is coming home in Gillon and has a Thousand Anxieties about him which will increase every Moment untill his Arrival, but when We trust ourselves to Winds and Waves We must be patient under their Caprices. I thank you for the good...
52946From Benjamin Franklin to William Jackson, 28 June 1781 (Franklin Papers)
LS : National Archives; copy: Library of Congress; transcript: National Archives Since my Acceptance of your Bills I have applied to the Ministers for more Money to discharge the other Engagements I enter’d into for Payment of the Congress Bills drawn on Holland and Spain. I find so much Difficulty and even Impossibility of obtaining it at this Time, that I am under the absolute Necessity of...
52947From Alexander Hamilton to William Jackson, 26 August 1800 (Hamilton Papers)
Never was there a more ungenerous persecution of any man than of myself.—Not only the worst constructions are put upon my conduct as a public man but it seems my birth is the subject of the most humiliating criticism. On this point as on most others which concern me, there is much mistake—though I am pained by the consciousness that it is not free from blemish. I think it proper to confide to...
52948From John Adams to Isaac LeBaron, 8 June 1798 (Adams Papers)
This Address from the most ancient Settlement in New England, where, in the earlier Part of my Life, I passed so much of my time, and with so much Satisfaction; gives me great Pleasure. I trust, We all still wish success to the French, in the Establishment of a Constitution of Government founded on the broad Basis of equal Laws and political happiness. But the system for enacting and executing...
52949From Thomas Jefferson to William Jackson, 1 March 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Majr. Jackson and his thanks for the pamphlet inclosed yesterday. he had heard it delivered with great satisfaction, and shall with equal pleasure go again over it’s contents. to much of it’s truths he has himself been a witness, and it is a gratifying exercise to his mind, to recognize them as retraced by so good a pencil. RC ( CtY : William Jackson...
52950From Alexander Hamilton to Major William Jackson, [19 June 1783] (Hamilton Papers)
Information having been received, that a detachment of about Eighty mutineers are on their way from Lancaster to this place, you will please to proceed to meet them and to endeavour by every prudent method to engage them to return to the post they have left. You will inform them of the orders that have been given permitting them to remain in service ’till their accounts shall have been...