Text of the document apparently in a hand other than Jackson's. "Received of Catain Adams Bailey his order in my favour and John Peirce [i.e., Pierce] Esquire Pay Master General to the American Army for the full amount of one months pay of his grade to be appropriated to the establishment of a fund agreeable to the institution of the Society of the Cincinnati On verso: Col. H. Jacksons receipt for a months pay for the Cincinnati The Society's institution included the requirement that each member contribute one month's pay to the general fund of his state society -- see Minor Myers. Liberty without Anarchy (1983), p. 25. Captain Adams Bailey was an orginal member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati; Jackson was its first treasurer. John Pierce was an original member of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati. A John Peirce, not the Pay Master General, was an original member of the Massachusetts Society. Gift of Dr. Adams Bailey, the great-great grandson of the original member.