Bob Wilson <wilso127(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 14:01:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bob Wilson
Subject: Seven John Jacksons through Eight Generations, all in the Same Family Line?
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CC: Greg Flemming ,
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Marguerite Jackson Sullivan ,
Helen Jackson-Smith ,
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John McNeal Wilson
Folks -
I've brewed together the various data that "Eliz", "Al",
"Patrick" and "Lorine", and some others have sent to me from Rootsweb
mailing list and digest sources, just during this past week, and have come up with the
following "scenario". Please, any of you, throw darts at what you see here and
tell me where I need to concentrate to "genealogically prove" any of what remain
as "possibly foolish assumptions."
Bob Wilson
(THIS IS AN OFF-THE-RECORD, SUGGESTED, VERY SPECULATIVE, INCOMPLETE AND ONLY A TENTATIVE
"JOHN JACKSON" DESCENDANCY FROM 178? to the END OF THE 20th CENTURY)
I understand that one of the volumes of "The New Loyalist Index" by Paul J.
Bunnell, mentions and documents the migration of the family of John and Rachel Jackson to
Canada in the late 18th Century.
Jackson was a farmer and clockmaker of London Grove, Chester County, PA, (a few miles west
of the SE Pennsylvania/ NW Delaware border) and the couple went with other Pennsylvania
Loyalist Quakers to a site in New Brunswick, Canada, after the Continentals had defeated
the British on American soil in 1781.
I speculate that I might be a direct descendant of John and Rachel Jackson. I know they
had several children, including at least one male whose name was John Jackson, born in
Canada.. This younger John and his Canadian-born wife may have been among those folks
whose families, the generation before, had fled the Colonies. In about 1813, some
descendants of these families decided to migrate BACK to the now-United States. I believe
that that this Canadian-born Jackson couple re-settled in Pennsylvania, perhaps even back
at London Grove in Chester County, PA..
There, or somewhere else in Pennsylvania in 1815, this family greeted a son named John C.
Jackson,. the same man, who as a 40-year-old farmer or laborer, married the widow Ann
Redmond Nolan in Lake Forest, Lake County, IL in October.1855.
In 1859, they welcomed a son, my grandfather, John Charles Jackson.. The family remained
in Lake Forest through the 1860's and 1870's, but in 1880, were censused in
Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan.
John Charles was censused as a 20-year-old sailor. Between 1880 and 1889, he made his way
first to Baltimore, Maryland, where he was in the employ of men involved in the rough and
tough Chesapeake Bay "oyster wars" of 1880's.
For whatever reason, John Charles next appears in New Windsor, NY, as an insurance man
and a real estate broker, and has married my grandmother, Elizabeth Cavanaugh there, in
1889.. In the mid-1890's, they became parents of another John Jackson, who died in
infancy. My mother, Margaret Jackson, is born to them in May, 1903. In 1906, another,
posthumously named John Jackson, is stillborn, with a twin sister.
John Charles dies in Newburgh in June, 1925. He will eventually have been the father of
five, the grandfather of eight, the greatgrandfather of 14, and the greatgreatgrandfather
of too many to count, including one named John E. Jackson, also a twin, who lives on,
today.
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