Henry Jackson (Continental Army general)

October 19, 1747 – January 4, 1809) was a Continental Army officer from Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, during the American Revolutionary War.

Jackson was a lifelong friend of Henry Knox, another Continental Army officer, whose business affairs he was also heavily involved in.

He received a brevet promotion to brigadier general on September 30, 1783 and led Continental forces into New York City on the heels of the British evacuation in November.

Jackson was retained as commander the 1st American Regiment, which was the only infantry unit still active after the dissolution of the Continental Army in November.

[1][2][3] He later served as a major general in the Massachusetts militia from 1792 until 1796 and was the agent supervising the building of the frigate USS Constitution at Boston in 1797.