Jackson announces the death of his father to Knox

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Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Description

Letter, mentions death of father; asks for military appointment.

Date

04/11/1790

Author

Henry Jackson

Recipient

Henry Knox

Sent from

Boston

Repository

Pierpont Morgan Library

Collection

Henry Knox Papers. [Microfilm]

Document number

1790041140001

Page start

1

Notable persons

Henry Knox
Henry Jackson
Nicholas Bower
Joseph [Jackson]
General Lincoln

Notable locations

Boston
Brookline

Notable items

very distressed family
left the interest & income of the whole of his property both real and personal to the support of my mother during her life
after her death has order'd his estate to be sold & divided into five equal parts to be paid to each of his children or their representatives
conclude to keep house
thought for my interest and honor
military life
regiment raised
and the president thinks it proper to give it to another
disappointment loss and embarrassment that I sustained by my appointment to the regiment
entitles me to ome consideration
claim equal if not before any other person
establishment of the troops is augmented
prefer that appointment to a command
Brigadier General
provided military rank is annexed to it
not anxious to be a soldier at my time of life
uncertainty of my being able to obtain an appointment in any other line
civil appointment
after my mother's death
business on equal terms with mankind in general
this may be a fault
act for me as you think best
resigned and died in full faith of perfect happiness in the world of spirits
great consolation to my honored mother & to his mother & to his children & friends around him
my aged mother is very much afflicted and cannot reconcile the separation they having lived together fifty eight years last month
very little apart during that period
observe what you say respecting the additional troops to be raised
whether you shall put my claim for a regiment amid others
believe it will not be for my interest under the prospect of lsong my father
by the draft of my father
my brother in Brookline
I rec'd by the post yesterday at half past one o'clock my honored father departed this life