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George Jackson fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1764-1780.

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R17632-0-5-E, MG21-Add.MSS.-9344

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Date(s):

1764-1780.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

7 p. transcripts.

Language of material:

English

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Four letters, 1764, 1774, to George Jackson (1725-1822) from William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) and two, n.d. and 1780, from John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718-1792), first lord of the Admiralty. The chief topics are the memorial of Sir John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont (1711-1770), petitioning for the grant of Prince Edward Island, 1764, and convoys going to Quebec, 1774-1780. Transcripts, 7 pages. (For further material on Egmont's petition, see also Add. MSS. 35914).

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Jackson, George, 1725-1822

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Jackson, George, 1725-1822 : Judge Advocate of the fleet.

Sir George Jackson, bart. (afterwards Duckett) (1725-1822) was born 24 October 1725. He was the eldest surviving son of George Jackson of Richmond, Yorkshire, by Hannah, seventh daughter of William Ward of Guisborough. He entered the navy office, ca. 1743, and became secretary to the Navy Board in 1758, judge advocate for the fleet in 1766, and second secretary to the Admiralty Board, 1766-1782. He served in the courts-martial of Keppel and Palliser in 1779. He was M.P. for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, 1786-1788, and for Colchester, 1788-1789 and 1790-1796. On 21 June 1791, he was created a baronet.

In 1797 he assumed the name of Duckett by royal licence, in accordance with the will of Thomas Duckett, uncle of his second wife, Grace, daughter of Gwyn Goldstone of Goldstone, Shropshire, by whom he had one son, George Duckett, the second baronet. He died on 15 December 1822. Captain Cook, the navigator, who as a boy had been in the service of Jackson's sister, named Port Jackson in New South Wales and Point Jackson in New Zealand in his honour.

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Documents created in: England

Custodial history:

Although many of Sir George Jackson Duckett's papers found their way to Hinchinbrook, in the possession of the Earl of Sandwich, the British Library acquired some of them in 1832. In 1915, the National Archives of Canada transcribed from that collection a few selections (Add. MSS. 9344, ff. 3-7v, 29-33v, 77-78v, 114-115) that related to Canada.

Location of originals note:

Originals with the British Library, London, England.
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Great Britain. Navy - History, 1764-1780 William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham, 1764, 1774

Great Britain - Officials and employees, 1764-1780 John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, n.d., 1780

Prince Edward Island - History, 1764, [1764-1780] John Perceval, Second Earl of Egmont, [n.d. or 1780]

Memorials, [1774-1780] Great Britain. Firsts Lords of the Admiralty, n.d., 1780

John Perceval, Second Earl of Egmont - Memorial, [1774-1780]

Grants, [1764-1780]

Ships - Québec, [1774-1780]

Naval convoys, [1774-1780]
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MG21-Add.MSS.-9344
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