WASHINGTON, George. Letter signed ("G: o Washington") to Colonel Henry Jackson (1747-1809) in Boston; Headquarters, Morristown, New Jersey, 19 February 1777. 1 full page, 8vo, integral address leaf WITH FREE FRANK: "On public service." Text in the hand of aide Tench Tilghman, recipent's docket. Seal hole, blank portion of address leaf torn and discreetly mended, even age toning.
WASHINGTON, George. Letter signed ("G: o Washington") to Colonel Henry Jackson (1747-1809) in Boston; Headquarters, Morristown, New Jersey, 19 February 1777. 1 full page, 8vo, integral address leaf WITH FREE FRANK: "On public service." Text in the hand of aide Tench Tilghman, recipent's docket. Seal hole, blank portion of address leaf torn and discreetly mended, even age toning. IN THE MIDST OF THE TERRIBLE WINTER OF 1777, WASHINGTON DISBURSES FUNDS FOR BOUNTIES FOR A NEW MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT. Bounties for enlistment became a necessary tool of the American army, and as the war continued, volunteers became more difficult to sign up. This crisis was exacerbated by the tendency of state governments to set their bounties at different levels, depending on the state's treasury. Early on, "Washington realized that the bounty system was a necessary evil" (Boatner, 843). Overly generous state bounties drained recruits from the Continental Army and encouraged desertions and bounty jumpers. Here, Washington forwards a sizeable sum, intended to pay enlistment bounties for a new "additional" Massachusetts regiment, to be commanded by Jackson. "Sir: I received your favor returning a Warrant for 10,000. Dollars which was not fully executed. I now inclose it to you with my signature. As money is upon its way to the Treasury at Boston, you will have an Opportunity of drawing the amount; and I hope to hear that the Legislature of your State will put it in your power, to proceed in recruiting your Regiment, upon the terms that they offer to the Regiments allotted to them by Congress...." Jackson's regiment was designated the 16th Massachusetts and he commanded it in action at Newport and the Springfield Raid; it was one of the units that marched into liberated New York on November 25, 1783. Published (from a retained draft) in Papers , ed. Fitzpatrick, 7:165-166; and noted in Papers , Revolutionary War Series, 8:308fn.
WASHINGTON, George. Letter signed ("G: o Washington") to Colonel Henry Jackson (1747-1809) in Boston; Headquarters, Morristown, New Jersey, 19 February 1777. 1 full page, 8vo, integral address leaf WITH FREE FRANK: "On public service." Text in the hand of aide Tench Tilghman, recipent's docket. Seal hole, blank portion of address leaf torn and discreetly mended, even age toning.
WASHINGTON, George. Letter signed ("G: o Washington") to Colonel Henry Jackson (1747-1809) in Boston; Headquarters, Morristown, New Jersey, 19 February 1777. 1 full page, 8vo, integral address leaf WITH FREE FRANK: "On public service." Text in the hand of aide Tench Tilghman, recipent's docket. Seal hole, blank portion of address leaf torn and discreetly mended, even age toning. IN THE MIDST OF THE TERRIBLE WINTER OF 1777, WASHINGTON DISBURSES FUNDS FOR BOUNTIES FOR A NEW MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT. Bounties for enlistment became a necessary tool of the American army, and as the war continued, volunteers became more difficult to sign up. This crisis was exacerbated by the tendency of state governments to set their bounties at different levels, depending on the state's treasury. Early on, "Washington realized that the bounty system was a necessary evil" (Boatner, 843). Overly generous state bounties drained recruits from the Continental Army and encouraged desertions and bounty jumpers. Here, Washington forwards a sizeable sum, intended to pay enlistment bounties for a new "additional" Massachusetts regiment, to be commanded by Jackson. "Sir: I received your favor returning a Warrant for 10,000. Dollars which was not fully executed. I now inclose it to you with my signature. As money is upon its way to the Treasury at Boston, you will have an Opportunity of drawing the amount; and I hope to hear that the Legislature of your State will put it in your power, to proceed in recruiting your Regiment, upon the terms that they offer to the Regiments allotted to them by Congress...." Jackson's regiment was designated the 16th Massachusetts and he commanded it in action at Newport and the Springfield Raid; it was one of the units that marched into liberated New York on November 25, 1783. Published (from a retained draft) in Papers , ed. Fitzpatrick, 7:165-166; and noted in Papers , Revolutionary War Series, 8:308fn.
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