Merchant from Newburyport, Massachusetts (1743 - 1810) who was a delegate for Massachusetts in the Continental Congress. ALS signed “J. Jackson, Supervisor, Mass'tts district,” one page both sides, 7.25 x 9, August 2, 1798. Letter to Massachusetts Governor Increase Sumner, in part: "A recruiting rendezvous has been opened in this town by direction of the Secretary of War to raise a regiment of Artilleries and Engineers for the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed me to contract for Rations, Quarter master's Supplies etc for the troops, but I am waiting for further directions—which I wrote for more than a fortnight since—before I shall make any permanent provision for the objects just mentioned…The Store I provided them with for a present rendezvous, and which is the only one as yet to be got, cannot accommodate at this season more than half a dozen at a time, and has no place to cook in. Besides the officers are very desirous as they collect recruits to pass them out of the town as fast as possible, where ill habits and perhaps diseases may be acquired, and to place them upon some island in the harbor, where they would be more secure from desertion." In fine condition.Format: ALS