1779, Colonel Henry Jackson, Capt. Thomas Hunt, hand signed payroll roster, Mass

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This is an original document dated 1779, a pay roll roster for the 8th Company in the Regiment of Foot, commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson....Captain Thomas Hunt's Company.....signed at bottom by Henry Jackson and Thomas Hunt. Document is 10x16, folds, toning, overall good condition.
Henry Jackson (bapt. October 19, 1747 – January 4, 1809) was a Continental Army officer from Boston, Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War. For most of the war he was colonel of Jackson's Additional Continental Regiment, which was redesignated the 16th Massachusetts in 1780. He commanded the last regiment of the Continental Army, the 1st American, which was disbanded in 1784. Jackson was a lifelong friend of Henry Knox, another Continental Army officer, whose business affairs he was also heavily involved in.
Thomas Hunt (1754—1808) was an American military officer who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and later served in the United States Army where he rose to the rank of colonel and served until his death.
. He was a sergeant in Captain Craft's company of Minute Men when it was activated on April 20, 1775 in the alarm which led to the Battle of Lexington and the Battle of Concord.
In May he was commissioned an ensign in Bond's Regiment and served in the Siege of Boston and fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In January 1776 he was commissioned ensign and adjutant of the 25th Continental Regiment. He was promoted to brigade major on October 20, 1776.
On February 1, 1777 he was commissioned as a captain-lieutenant in Jackson's Additional Continental Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson. He was promoted to captain on March 1, 1779. He was wounded at the Battle of Stony Point on July 16, 1779. The regiment was re-designated as the 16th Massachusetts Regiment on July 23, 1780.
He was transferred to the 9th Massachusetts Regiment on January 1, 1781 and was wounded in action for a second time at the Siege of Yorktown on October 14, 1781. He was transferred to the 3rd Massachusetts Regiment on January 1, 1783 and then served in the Jackson's Continental Regiment when it was formed in November 1783 as the only remaining unit of the Continental Army. He was discharged when the regiment was disbanded on June 20, 1784.
He was commissioned in the United States Army as a captain in the 2nd Infantry Regiment on March 4, 1791 and was one of the few survivors of St. Clair's Defeat later that year. The 2nd Infantry was re-designated as the 2nd Sub-legion in 1792. He was promoted to major on February 18, 1793 and fought with the unit at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794.
He was reassigned to the 1st Infantry on November 1, 1792 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on April 1, 1802. He was promoted to colonel and given command of the regiment on April 11, 1803 and served in that position until his death at Fort Bellefontaine in Missouri on August 18, 1808.
Colonel Hunt was originally buried at Fort Bellefontaine but his remains were eventually moved to Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery near St. Louis, Missouri.
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