Copy of Mr. McHenrys letter to Gov. Jackson of Georgia respecting the defence of that State &c received Sept 20th War department September 12. 1798 Sir You will be pleased to consider yourself as Field Officer in Command and of the several recruiting parties within the State [inserted, written above:] of Massachussetts [end insert] and will do all things appartaining to that service agreeably to the particular and regulations herewith transmitted. As soon as you are noticed that the convicts have been removed from Castle Island, you will examine it and report in fulness to receive the recruits and for a general rendezvous for which use it is contemplated and for a place of Arms. The following Officers of the second Regiment of Artillerists and Engineers are employed on the recruiting service when your [undecipherable] Capt. Ames Stoddard at Portland _ Capt. Samuel Gates at Boston and L. George Washington Duncan Marblehead. As the fifteenth and sixteenth articles of the regulations are intended to have application only upon an extensive [undecipherable] of recruiting they are to be considered in the present state of things as inapplicable and not entitling the Commandant & to any extra allowances other than the actual expence they are at for stationey and portage of letters to be certified as required. Your Command, as yet, is to be considered merely as a recruiting station and not intitle you to the extra Rations - granted by the fourth section of the act of the 3.d March 1797 to an Officer commanding a spearate fort. I am Sir the signed James MHenry

Major Danl. Jackson Copy War department Trenton 11th September 1798 Sir I have received your Letter of the 17th June ultimo together with the several Papers enclosed. The derangement occasioned by the sudden removal of the Public Offices from Philadelphia, in consequence of the fatal epidemic, which rages in that devoted City, have rendered it impossible for me to observe that punctuality in Business which I wish to do. This is the Reason why you have not received my Answer before. The adoption of a Constitution which is no doubt, not calculated to promote the Interests and happiness of the Citizens of Gerogia, is a subject of much congratulation. And I am confident that with respect to the western Lands, which have heretofore been the subject of so much Altercation and disquiet. The Federal Government whenever it is neccessary will take up the Business on fair, just and honorable terms; and with dis[undecipherable] not less amicable and conciliatory than thou I with pleasure see, expected in your Letter. There however are affairs on which I can only speak as an Individual. The vigorous Measures pursued by the States of Georgia and South Carolina, to prevent the refugees from Port au Prince from intruding themselves into these States, are people of a vigilant and active Exectutive.