Ambassadors' Notes are commentaries added by the original founders of the Thomas Jackson letters and are intended to add context to the transcription that proceeds them. Other comments by visitors may have been offered in Recent Research and Commentaries in the seventh panel of the homepage.

One small clue from this is that John Jackson had a father of the same name, and probably following the same trade too. Also the small divergence over dates arises from the fact that publications cover several dates on publication eg from Dec 20-Dec 24 and copies of the information just choose one date that might well differ from that that others choose