TRANSCRIPTION
OF THE JACKSON LEDGER FROM HCPD LIBRARY
Page 1
A Copy
of P. A. Jackson’s Notes
Anna Domino
1887
Jackson
Family
John
Jackson from Hertfordshire, England was one of the expedition of 1627 for the
relief of the Huguenots of La Rochelle and believed to be the father of Robert
Jackson, the first of the name known to have come to America. Robert Jackson left England with John
Winthrop 1630 - 31 but which John Winthrop is not known. In with the Massachusetts Bay C, he
doubtless was one of the 900 who sailed from Yarmouth on the 7th April
1630. At any rate the Coat of Arms of
his family was emblazoned with two greyhounds and a dolphin crested with a
mailed arm raising from a m[issal?], in the hand a tilting spear.
Page 2 If
we seek one reason for his coming to this country we may find many. At that time, the industry of the people was
oppressed by irregular and exorbitant taxation and untimely interferences not
in accord with the general intelligence of that period. Merchants found no protection from pirates
or robbers. Landowners were greatly
annoyed by inquiries and examinations into their titles and even the greatest
in the land were liable to be heavily fined and probably imprisoned for any malfeasance of thought or action
differing from prevailing customs.
Charles I always wanted more money to gratify his selfish tastes and he
tried to rule as autocratically as the king of France so between the demands of
the King and the oppression of all who were not Roman Catholic, those of a different
opinion had but little showing. We may
also imagine the enticement of immense
Page 3 fortune and the privilege of
worshipping God after the dictates of his own conscience held out
to say nothing of personal
entreaties from those of his friends who had made up their minds to go.
We find Robert Jackson in
1644 one of the first settlers of Hempstead, which was the first English
settlement made on the West end of Long Island, under the jurisdiction of and
by permission of the Dutch government, and he was closely associated with Rev.
Richard Denton a graduate of Cambridge and we find him leading in subscriptions
to his support. He must have been a man
of means and high standing in the colony since his name frequently appears in
the records of the town as magistrate referee etc.
After the
capture of New York by the English in 1664 he was one of the deputies from
Hempstead to the convention which met in that place (Hempstead) early the
following year. This convention
Page 4 was called to meet at Hempstead for
the purpose of framing a code of laws suitable to English people, and it is
said Robert favored as the body of the new law what was known as the "Duke’s Laws"
and that his views prevailed. His
will can be found recorded in Book A of Deeds in Queens County Clerk’s office
and is the oldest there recorded being dated May 25th 1683. This will was proved October 13, 1685 and he
therein provides for Agnes, his sons John and Samuel, his daughter, Sarah who
had married a Nathaniel Moore and provision
is also made for the child of Mrs. Martha Jackson Cole – she having died
a few years previous. The children of
Robert and Agnes Jackson so far as known were:
1. John married Hallet
2. Martha
married Cole
3. Samuel married but supposed to have died
without any issue.
4. Sarah
married Moore
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John Jackson
according to the law of primogeniture inherited most of his father’s estate,
and was one of the patentees of the town of Hempstead under the patent granted
by Gov. Dongan [or Dougan] in 1685 and the last surveyor of land included in
this grant. He was sheriff of Queens
Co. from 1691 – 1695 and was one of the largest land owners in that
county. Was a member of the Assembly
from 1693 – 1709 and also Col. of the Militia.
He was twice married – 1st to Elizabeth Hallet, a daughter of Samuel
Hallet of Hallet’s Cove and grand daughter of William Hallet of Dorsetshire,
England who moved to Greenwich, Conn.
He married second Elizabeth Seaman. [error;
see Notes]
He made his will Aug. 26, 1724 and died in 1725. He left the following children:
1. John 6. Hannah
2. James
7. Martha and
3. Sarah
Mary, twins
4. Samuel
5.
Elizabeth
Page 6 James
Jackson – son of Col. John Jackson – married Rebecca Hallet (born
Aug 31, 1675) daughter of William & granddaughter of William Hallet from
Dorsetshire England. James Jackson
seems to have been a useful citizen - for in addition to being the father of
twenty children he was a man generally looked to for advice and was chosen
together with Col. Isaac Hicks as referee in a dispute between Massachusetts
& Rhode Island relative to the boundary line between them. The Colony of Rhode Island was so well
pleased with their conduct and endeavor to reconcile the people of the two
governments that it voted each of them a Silver Tankard of L50 value with the arms of the
Colony handsomely engraved thereon.
James and Rebecca Jackson had 20 children - 18 of whom were living at
the time of their mother’s death. His
will bears
Page 7 date of Sept. 27,
1735 and he died early in October. The
will proven Oct 26, 1735 and can be found on record in New York City, in
Surrogate’s Office Libr 12, p 362 - 366 of Wills.
The children were:
1. Thomas Jackson
Born Dec 4, 1694
whose son Thos. it is thought settled in Eastern
Virginia.
2. Mary Jackson (married Townsend)
Born Nov. 20, 1695
3. Sarah Jackson Born Dec. 11, 1697
4. Rebecca Jackson (married Seamen)
Born Feb. 20, 1699
5. John Jackson
Born March 9, 1701
6. Charity
(married Dingly)
Born Feb. 26, 1702
7. Elizabeth Jackson (married Field)
Born
March 20, 1703
8. James Jackson
Born June 4, 1704
9. William Jackson
Born July 6, 1705
(died 10 months old)
10. Hannah Jackson
Born Aug. 5, 1706
(married Henry Hicks)
11. William Jackson (2)
Born Oct. 4, 1707
Page 8 12.
Martha Jackson
Born Jan 26, 1709
13. Joseph
Jackson Born Feb 9, 1710
[see pg 9]
14. Richard
Jackson
Born
March 20, 1711
15. Phebe
Jackson (married Randell)
Born May 3, 1712
16. Robert
Jackson Born May 15, 1713
17. Jemima
Jackson (married Hicks)
Born Nov. 25, 1714
18. Samuel
Jackson
Born
July 21, 1716
19.
Stephen Jackson
Born Aug. 17, 1717
20.
Benjamin Jackson
Born July 26, 1719
[Below
this list on page 8 is a drawing; repeated twice. It looks like it may be the crest of Jackson family as described
on the first page.]
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Joseph Jackson (No. 13 from James) (born Feb 9, 1710) Moved at an early day to Morris Co., N. J. –
probably when about 21 years old and before the Indians had left. Gentleman Wm. N____ds conveyed to Joseph
Jackson on Sept 17, 1759, a tract of 162 6/10 acres of land lying on the West
Bank of Rockaway River and near the village of Rockaway on which he lived until
his death in 1769. He acquired other
property of great value. Joseph &
Ann Jackson had eleven children:
1. James
Jackson Died at 21
years.
2. William
Jackson
finally settled
in Tenn. prior to the Revolution &
raised nineteen out of 26 children.
3. Elizabeth
Jackson married James Tompkins and
removed to Virginia
4. Mary Jackson
died about 16.
Page 10 5.
Stephen Jackson [1]
died in
infancy
6. Capt.
Stephen Jackson (2)
7. Anna
Jackson
Born Aug. 9,
1746, married
(1st) Robert Ayres (2) Josiah Beaman.
8. Edward
Jackson
Born 1741 married
Martha Miller and removed with Stephen,
Samuel and Jemima to Fayette Co. Pa. and thence to
Harrison Co, Va. [see pg 12]
9. Phebe
Jackson died at Rockaway
10.
Benjamin Jackson Born March 5, 1752
Removed to Ohio & died there in June 6,
1842. Went to Ohio 1814.
11. Daniel
Jackson who died in Ohio – aged 84.
Ann
Jackson, widow of Joseph Jackson, survived him and married (2) Deacon Garrigus
& died about 1793. She was sort of
small stature but very bright and full of energy.
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11 Benjamin Jackson b. 1752 [s/o Jos & Ann] Bellville, Ohio (Richland County)
He married Aug. 20, 1774 Abigail Mitchell. Their Children:
1. Zeba
Jackson Born Feb. 2,
1777
Died in Ohio
2. Isaac
Jackson
Born Jan. 15,
1779 Died in King County, O[hio?]
3.
Elizabeth Jackson Born Feb 14,
1782
& married Job
Allen.
One of Elizabeth Jackson’s sons, Isaac Allen, was
minister to Hong Kong, China.
4. Phebe Jackson Born June 23, 1784; died 1889 at the age of 104, 11 months,
26 days
at Union Grove Township,
Whiteside Co., Illinois
1st married Isaac Lewis; 2nd married John Vennum
5. David
Jackson
Born Sept 30, 1786 &
was living in Columbia, Ind. a few years ago.
Page 12 Edward Jackson (No. 4) [s/o of Jos
& Ann] married Martha Miller. It is
thought that not only his wife and three children accompanied him but that his
cousins - John (and his sons Geo. W. and Edward) and probably his sister Elizabeth
& brother William, all left New Jersey together. They probably made the trip to New Castle, Del. together. After that it seems Edward and family – John
( son of John 1701) & family traveled westward & William and family and
Elizabeth Thompkins & family came South.
There is mention of land being transferred from _________ to Ed Jackson
in 1791. Children of Edward and Martha
Miller Jackson:
1. Jemina,
Born 1762 married John Arnold. She died in Harrison Co 1828 [see pg 15]
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13 2. Stephen
Jackson
Born July 31, 1764 married
Elizabeth Pomeroy [see pg 18]
3. Samuel
Jackson
Born married Smith [see pgs 21 & 27]
4. Benjamin
Jackson Got a fall early in life from
which he died
5. Phebe
Jackson
married Stout [see pg 22]
6. Mary
(Polly) Jackson twice married
1st Lewis Flint, after his
death she married Geo [large question mark by his first name] Bush. They lived
on the waters of Freeman’s Creek
above the Jackson Mill. Went west started
to Miami Valley.
Page 14 Edward Jackson’s wife died whilst on a
visit to Mrs. Polly Bush & as there were no bridges at that early date and
Hacker’s Creek and other streams were so much swollen by rain that they could
not cross. We have good reason to
believe that part of the flyleaf in the Bible from which other names were gotten
contained possibly the names of other children. We think it possible there was a Lucy who married a Flesher and
Sallie who may have married a Flesher or Hughes or she may have been twice
married. There is a family of Flesher’s
who claim to trace to a Jackson woman related to Edward Jackson and they think
a daughter of Edward. There was
possibly a William or Jacob but it requires better evidence to positively
substantiate.
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15 1. Jemima Jackson [first d/o
Edward & Martha] Born 1762 [in the original document, but someone later has
changed it to 1767] married John Arnold Barbour Co., W. VA
Their Children – Ten Probably - John,
George, James & Simon.
[Jemima
&] John Arnold’s Children:
1. Benjamin
Arnold Born ? was twice married
1st a Miss Wamsley
Married 2nd Jane Jackson, d/o Ben
& granddaughter of Samuel, son of
Edward Jackson [see page 21 for correction]
Married 3rd [time; had] Children 2
Margurite Arnold Born Married
Dehew
4.
Mary Arnold Born Aug.
10, 1810 d/o Jemima Jackson married
Knotts;
Res. Minora, Calhoun, W. Va.
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16
Their Children:
1. Jemima Knotts b. Sept 18, 1829
married Lynch
Res[sidence] Altizer, Calhoun Co.,
W.V.
2.
Absalom Knotts
b Dec. 4,
1830; Res Grantsville, Calhoun Co, W.Va.
3.
Wm. Knotts
b. Dec 19,
1833
4.
Rufus Knotts
b. April
11, 1836
5.
Elizabeth Jane Knotts b Nov 11,
1838 Married Chenoweth
2. Isaac [other handwriting lined
through Isaac and inserted] James
Arnold
Married Theresa Board. They had five children:
1. Benjamin Arnold
2.
John Arnold -- went to Texas
3. Miranda Arnold -- (Married)
4. Almeda Arnold -- married Price
5. Kiturah
Arnold
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3. Elizabeth Arnold
married John Welch, Elizabeth Died 17, Oct. 1828
John
Welch d. 8 March 1880
1. Pamelia Welch b. July 15, 1821 married
Stump
Res
Osbornes Mills, Roane Co., W.Va.
1.
Irwin C. Stump
b. Sept 25,
1840
Res. San Francisco, Calif.
2.
Melissa J. Stump b. June 13,
1842
3.
Laverna C. Stump b. June 27,
1844
4.
Charles E. Stump
b. July 29,
1845
5.
Mary E. Stump
b. Aug 20,
18??
6.
Louisa M. Stump b. Dec 18,
1854
7.
Flora E. Stump
b April 5,
1862
Stephen
Jackson [s/o Edward & Martha] b.
July 31, 1764 Near Dover; d.
1847 New Jersey, Married
Elizabeth Pomeroy
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18 Stephen married Elizabeth
Pomeroy on Feb. 14, 1787. She died
April 1852 at grandmother Hannah [Bailey] Jackson’s in Jane Lew.
She passed away without a long illness. She and her husband are resting on a farm
owned at present by cousin Ida Bassel Fleming and very near the home of
Grandfather Benjamin Bassel.
Grandmother Elizabeth’s brother settled the city of Pomeroy, O[hio].
She was a kind, good woman and
small in stature. She was once captured
by the Indians in New Jersey. Stephen
Jackson, shrewd & a fearless Indian fighter and at the early age of 17 was
on his way to join his father with Washington’s forces. He was present at the battle of Yorktown and
wounded before he was 18 years old.
Edward Jackson and two sons, Stephen and Samuel were [pg torn] in
the battle of Yorktown. [corner of
pg torn] both Stephen and his father
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19 were wounded there. Stephen Jackson was also in the War of
1812. I heard this from the lips of
Hon. Wm. Currence Carper, the husband
of Aunt Martha Bassel White. Steve saw
service in this war along with an uncle of
Wm. C. Carper. My grandfather
Jackson remembers his Grandmother wanting Steve to apply for a pension but he
said "dam it" he fought for his country.
Children of Stephen and Elizabeth
[Pomeroy] Jackson
1. Martha (Aunt Patty) Jackson b. Feb 19, 1788 married John Thompson
2. Stephen Pomeroy Jackson
b. Jan 1789 married Hannah
Bailey
daughter of Minter and Nancy Norris Bailey
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20 3. Susan Jackson b. Feb 14, 1790 married Benjamin Bassel
B. Bassel born Feb
16, 1785 died Mch. 14, 18??
4.
Mary Jackson b. 1792 married a Tyson. They lived on Elk – near Fairfield but from there moved to Ohio. It seems that Mr. Tyson was a peddler – with
only his one horse wagon and effects and Mary was told if she married Tyson she
would be cut off as one of the heirs of the family. Owing to this circumstance Mary & her descendants are today
unknown to the relatives.
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21 Samuel Jackson, Son of Edward
& Martha Jackson born married
1st a Smith
2nd Lane
Their
children:
1. Edward Jackson ) went to
) Red River
2. George Jackson ) & west
Nothing
more known of Edward & George
3. Hezekiah Jackson married & left no
children
4. Sallie (Sarah)
Jackson 1827 married Wm. Woodford, left children
5. Benjamin Jackson married Isabelle Stallman
6. Daniel Jackson Big Sandy, Left children
7. Ellen Jackson [note on side adds] Elenor
married Read, Barbour County 1831 Jefferson
Read
8. Jane Jackson married Benjamin Arnold a
cousin
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22 Mary “Polly” Jackson Daughter
of Edward & Martha Jackson
married 1st Lewis Flint of English
birth
2nd
time Geo ? Bush. They lived on the head
waters of Freeman’s Creek above
Jackson’s
Mill. They went West starting for the Miami Valley.
It is believed Edward
Jackson had other children as follows:
Sallie married Flesher and/or Hughes, Lucy married Flesher,
possibly a William & Jacob.
Phebe
Jackson – Daughter of Edward & Martha Miller married James Stout. Phebe Jackson – Died April 10, 1827. Their children:
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23 1. Mortimer Stout
2. Nathan J. Stout
3. Edward J. Stout
4. Irene Stout married McDonald
5. Daniel Stout married Emaline Booth –
Daughter of Hustin [Booth] & Ingaby
Thompson
& grand daughter of John & Martha Jackson Thompson
Martha
Jackson (Aunt Patty) [d/o Stephen & Elizabeth] Born Feb 19, 1788 Married John Thompson (1807) Their Children:
1.
Ingaby Thompson
Born 1808
married Hustin Booth
2. Stephen Jackson Thompson Born 1810
Residence St. John, Putnam County State of Ohio
Page 24 3. William W.
Thompson Born July 1812
he
married 1st Susan Tomlin of Fauquier Co., Va – daughter of Stephen and
Sarah
Norris Tomlin. This Sarah Norris a
sister of [my] great grandmother
Hannah
[Bailey] Jackson’s mother who was Nancy Norris of Fauquier Co. Va.
Wm. W. Thompson twice married; [had] children [Note at side] See page 82
Dr. Brown Thompson,
Spencer, W. Va.
Mattie
Sue Thompson married a Addison Smith, Spencer, W. Va.
Dr. Blackmore Thompson, Winfield, W.
Va.
Stephen Black - See letter
to father from Telle Thompson Allebach
Elizabeth Cummings
Jackson Born 1721 --
Died 1825
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25 4. Thos. Albert Thompson;
Born June 20, 1815
Married Sarah Ann Stout
Born Sept 20, 1820
Residence
near Philippi, W. Va. They have one
daughter:
1. Rebecca Jane
Thompson
b 24 April 1839
Married George
L. Stalnaker; They live 1890 with Thomas Thompson
Their
Children:
1. Albert A. Stalnaker Born July 10, 1867
2. Sarah Ann Stalnaker Born July 23, 1868
3. Narretta Stalnaker Born April 20, 1870
4. Rosetta Stalnaker
Born June
9, 1878
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26 5. Hannah Stalnaker
Born April
2, 1882
5. Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of Martha Jackson Thompson, Married Garrett Johnson.
They
lived near Philippi, W. Va. and left children
Rev. Napoleon Johnson
(1
above) Ingaby Thompson Married Hustin Booth
See Loyd Stout about
their children
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27 Children of Samuel Jackson This was a son of Edward & Martha
Miller.
Sallie
Jackson – Married Wm. Woodford. Their
Children:
John Wesley Woodford, Philippi, W. Va.
Benjamin Jackson who made his home for
several years with his cousin Stephen P. Jackson. Married Isabelle [Elizabeth] Stallman.
Their children:
1.
Edward Jackson Born July 25, 1840 Married Susan Johnson. They reside Big Springs, Calhoun Co., W. Va.
Their children:
1. Wm. Hamilton Jackson Born 26, Feb. 1867