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Jackson was born on March 9, 1759, in Cumberland, England, of English and Scotch parentage. Left an orphan in early youth, he was brought to South Carolina, where he grew up under the guardianship of Owen Roberts.
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Jackson was born on March 9, 1759, in Cumberland, England, of English and Scotch parentage. Left an orphan in early youth, he was brought to South Carolina, where he grew up under the guardianship of Owen Roberts.
At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, Jackson obtained a subaltern's commission in Gadsden's regiment and in 1778 took part, as a lieutenant, in the abortive expedition against St. Augustine, Florida. On the arrival of Major-General Benjamin Lincoln to take command of the Southern Department, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney recommended Jackson as an aide and a proper person to smooth the contacts between the New Englander and the southern military organizations. As Lincoln's aide, Jackson's staff rank became that of major, the title by which he was ever afterwards known. He was under fire at Tullifiny Bridge, at Stono Ferry, and at Savannah, and made the last reckless sortie during the siege of Charleston, with the force under Laurens and Henderson. He accompanied John Laurens to France, as secretary, on the mission of 1781 and in the resultant difficulties made hurried journeys from France to Holland and to Spain which amounted to a total of 2, 300 miles in a few weeks. Jackson was entrusted with the shipment of the supplies for the Continental Army obtained by Laurens' activities and in the accomplishment of this task came into conflict with Commodore Alexander Gillon and Benjamin Franklin, to the second of whom he afterwards apologized. On his return to the United States in February 1782, he was taken into the War Department by General Lincoln, then secretary at war, and served as assistant secretary for two years. During that time he helped settle the mutinous outbreak of the Pennsylvania troops in June 1783. He resigned from the department in October of that year to embark upon a mercantile venture to Europe, the success of which brought a congratulatory letter from Lincoln with a warning against losing his profits through careless generosity. When the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787, Jackson applied to Washington for the position of secretary and was nominated therefor by Alexander Hamilton; his only competitor was William Temple Franklin. At the close of the Convention the records were burnt by its order, except the journal of proceedings and the yea and nay votes. These, in Jackson's handwriting, are the only official surviving papers and are both disappointing and exasperating because of their paucity and defects. The tradition that Jackson kept a daily private record has not been substantiated as yet by the discovery of such a document, and students of the Constitutional Convention have been severe in their strictures on the secretary's laxity; but in the absence of knowledge of the supplemental value of the records officially destroyed, these strictures lose some force. Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1788, Jackson in the following year was an unsuccessful candidate for the office of secretary of the United States Senate against Samuel Allyne Otis. Washington then appointed him one of his personal secretaries and, as such, Jackson in full uniform attended the President when he delivered his first message to Congress. He accompanied Washington on tours through the Eastern and Southern States and resigned his secretaryship in December 1791. The President's letter, accepting the resignation, shows high personal regard and liking for the Major, to whom he offered, a year later, the position of adjutant-general of the United States Army. This was declined, and Jackson formed a business partnership with William Bingham. In August 1795, when Secretary Dandridge was unexpectedly called from Philadelphia, Jackson volunteered his services to the President and one of Washington's last official acts was to appoint the Major United States surveyor of customs at Philadelphia, a post which he held until he fell victim to Jefferson's sweep of Federalists from the government service. Jackson then edited for a time the Political & Commercial Register of Philadelphia. He was secretary of the Society of the Cincinnati for a period of twenty-eight years before his death, and in 1818-1819 he was delegated by the surviving officers of the old Continental Army to obtain for them an equitable adjustment of their promised half pay. This was the last of his public activities. Jackson died on December 18, 1828, and was buried in Christ Church cemetery, Philadelphia. Jackson published An Oration, to Commemorate the Independence of the United States (1786), Eulogium on the Character of General Washington (1800), and Documents Relative to the Claim of Surviving Officers of the Revolutionary Army of the United States, For an Equitable Settlement of the Half Pay for Life (1818), all of which contain valuable historical material.
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He was secretary of the Society of the Cincinnati for a period of twenty-eight years before his death, and in 1818-19 he was delegated by the surviving officers of the old Continental Army to obtain for them an equitable adjustment of their promised half pay.
Jackson married, November 11, 1795, Elizabeth Willing of Philadelphia, daughter of Thomas Willing, president of the Bank of North America.