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WFT, Vol II, #2005 [imported July 26, 1998] (apparently copied from
Robbins' work.)
EDWARD JACKSON
Edward, son of Joseph and Anne Jackson, was born 1741 at Rockaway, New
Jersey and died June 1807 on Freeman's Creek, Harrison County Virginia. In
1762 he married Martha Miller of New Jersey. She is buried in the Butcher
Cemetery, Lewis County, Virginia. Martha while on a visit to her
daughter's Mary Bush, took sick and died there, the streams were at flood
stage and her body could not be taken to the graveyard on the home place,
where her husband Edward was buried, near Mount Clare, Harrison County.
The name of Edward Jackson on March 13, 1776 is among the Signers of the
Article of Associates of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Pequanock,
Morris County, New Jersey, pledging themselves to support the action of
the Continental and Provincial Congress in defending the Constitution.
This was signed by one hundred and eighty persons.
On August 13, 1776 Edward Jackson enlisted for three years in the war of
the Revolution. He was a private in Capitan John Willis' Company, second
Virginia Regiment, commanded successively by Colonels Allen Spottswood and
Christian Fehringer. He was transferred to Capitan Marquis Colme's
Company August 1778. When the second Virginia Regiment was ordered to join
the army of Delaware, Edward Jackson's seventeen year old son Stephen,
joined the Revolutionary Army with Washington's forces. They both marched
to Virginia where they fought and were wounded at the Battle of Yorktown.
Edward and Stephen are both buried on the home farm in the family plot,
about one mile south of Mount Clare, in 1973 the gravestone of Edward and
his son, Stephen, was found in a field where animals had been turned into,
it was cleaned up and moved to the Seven Day Baptist Cemetery next to
Sarah Abigail (Jackson) Hughes.
As to the conflicting dates as to Edward's birth, here is one explanation
from Mary Jackson in Jane Lew, West Virginia. This was not the original
monument. Years ago my father's oldest brother Goodloe Jackson bought
this monument for Edward. He could have been mistaken about the dates.
About forty years ago I visited this graveyard, then it was fenced. At
that time I think the farm in which they were buried belonged to Henry
Bassel whose grandmother was Susan Jackson, a daughter of Stephen.
It is a family tradition that Edward Jackson "crossed the Delaware" with
General George Washington, on December 26, 1776.
About the year 1768 Edward with his wife, Martha, and three children,
Stephen, Sarah and Jemima, left New Jersey and went to Fayette County,
Pennsylvania. They went in a party composed of Edwards cousin, John
Jackson with his wife and sons, George and Edward; his sister, Elizabeth
Tompkins and her family; and his brother William, with his family. At New
Castle, Delaware they separated. Edward and John with their families,
went into Pennsylvania and the others went south into Virginia.
After the close of the war, Edward and his family left Pennsylvania and
moved into Harrison County, Virginia, where they settled on Brown's Creek.
His name as grantee appears on a deed ____. Much of this data was
collected by Lon (Alonzo) Jackson who made quite a study of the Jackson
family. Lon was a son of Minter Jackson and his first wife Mary Katherine
Fell. He died in 1892. He had a son Ernest Alonzo who was a missionary
to Brazil. He and his wife and youngest son went down in the wreck of the
Vestris, Nov. 1928.
The Minter Jackson mentioned in the foregoing, was the son of Stephen
Pomeroy Jackson, who was the son of Stephen G. (W.) Jackson, who was the
son of Edward. We assume that Edward Jackson and his son, Stephen, were
issued land warrants for Revolutionary War Services by the state of
Virginia. Most of there were patented west of the Alleghenies.
Edward Jackson's will, dated May 7 1807 and the inventory of his estate,
recorded June 29, 1807, names nine of his eleven children as legatees.
INVENTORY OF EDWARD JACKSON DECEASED June the 29th, 1807
Agreeable to a order of the Court we the undersigned after being first
Sworn, have appraised the personal Estate of Edward Jackson, Deceased of
which this is a Inventory.
D S D. C.
1 Yolk of Oxen 30, 1 Hand & Crooked knife 0 50, 4 sheep 6 75, 1
Spinning Wheel 2 .., 1 Yearling Heifer 4 50, 1 Do 2 50, 1 Yearling
Colt 8 50, 1 Pare of Handirons 2 50, 6 Hogs 7 20, 1 Table 1 .., 1
Plow & Irons 4 .., 1 Pare of Flatiron 1 75, 1 Log Chain 3 .., 5
Puter Plates 1 25, 1 Clevis 75, 1 Puter Quart 1 25, 1 Do 25, 1 Puter
Basin 1 .., 2 Iron Tramels 4 ..,1 Puter Dish 0 50, 1 10 Gallon Pot
and Bale 5 .., 1 Bedstead & Cord 1 50, 1 8 Do and Bale 3 50, 1 Do
Do 1 75 1, 6 Do and Bale 2 .., 1 Chest 3 .., 1 Loom & Tackling 1
Stand 1 .., Wheel 2 50, 1 Pare Tongs 0 75, 1 hand Mill 1 25, 1
Hollow Addze 1 25, 1 Grindstone 2 .., 1 Looking Glass 0 75, 1
Bee Hive 1 75,
1 Churn 0 80, 1 Ax 1 .., 1 Iron Toothed Harrow 1 75, 1 Broad Ax 1
50,
1 Set of Weavers Spools 1 75, 1 Foot Adxe 1 50, 1 Tub 0 50, 2 Old
Sythes 0 75, 1 Do 0 33, 1 Hammer 0 25, 1 Handsaw 1 50, Thomas
Bond
1 Sickle 0 50, Lewis Bond 1 Pair of Stilliards 2 50, Hezekiah
Stout 1 Curry Comb 0 20, 1 Screw Auger 0 42 $126.95, 1 Iron Pitch
Fork 0 50
I certify that the within Inventory Contains the whole of the personal
Estate of the late Edward Jackson, deceased, which has come to my hands.
Specific legacies excepted.
John Arnold
Copy Acting Executer
Will book # 1 of Edward Jackson, dec'd
Page # 413
Attest: Charles P. Furhee, Clerk
EDWARD JACKSON WILL- 1807
In the name of God Amen.
I Edward Jackson, of the County of Harrison and State of Virginia. Yeoman,
being very sick and weak in body, but of perfect mind and disposing memory
thanks be to God for his mercies calling unto mind the mortality of my
body and knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to die, do make
and ordain this my Last Will and Testament, recommending my soul unto the
hands of Almighty God who gave it. And my body I recommend unto the earth
to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the resurrection I shall
receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such
Worldly Estate as it pleased God to bless me in this life I give demise
and dispose of the same in the following manner and form. First I give
and bequeath to Martha my dearly beloved wife, the one third of the
incomes of my farm together with my mare and her side saddle, and one cow
so long as she remains my widow, but if she marries the place is to be
sold and the money to be divided in the following manner and way. I give
to my son Jacob Jackson, fifty dollars to be levied out of my estate. I
give to my son Stephen Jackson, twenty dollars to be taken out of a Note
bearing date April fifteenth 1807, which is due to me from him. also I
give to my son, William Jackson, fifty dollars to be levied out of my
estate. I have given unto my son Samuel Jackson,m all that I mean to give
him. I have also given to my two daughters Sarah Fletcher and Mary Flint,
each of them a cow and two sheep. I do also give to my three daughters,
Viz (?) to Jemima Arnild, and to Lucia and Phebe Jackson each of them one
cow and two sheep. And at the Old Lady's marriage or death at which time
the place is to be sold and the former legates paid off the remainder of
the money is to be divided equally among my daughters. And I do
constitute make and ordain my son-in-law, John Arnold and Able Bond the
sole Executors of this my Last Will and Testament, and I do hereby
utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former testaments
wills, legacies, bequeaths and executors, by me many wise before named
will and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this to be my Last Will and
Testament. In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this
the Seventh day of May one thousand eight hundred and seven, his Edward X
Jackson mark
Signed sealed pronounced and declared by the said Edward Jackson as his
Last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and in
the presence of each other have hitherto subscribed our names.
Lewis Flint
John Smith
Josep. Flint
A copy-Attese: Charles P. Furhee, Clerk Source: WEST VIRGINIA ESTATES
AND SETTLEMENTS HARRISON COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA EDWARD JACKSON WILL:
5/7/1807
Dev.: Wife, Stephen, Jacob, William, Samuel, Sons.
Sarah Fletcher, Mary Flint, Jemima Arnold, Lucia, Phebe, daughters.
Edward Jackson Will (no date)
Dev. Elizabeth, wife. Maria, Flora, Virginia, daughters
George, Alfred, sons.
Edward Jackson, Settlement 6-29-1821
George Jackson: Will: 1-26-1831
Dev.; Wife: Lucy, Sophia, Sarah Kincheloe, Catherine Williams, Prudence
Arnold, Mary Steely, daughters.
Andrew, George, William, John, sons.
John Jackson, S. B., 3-23-1826
John Jackson, Will: 9-2-1801
Dev.: Sophia, Elizabeth Reager, daughters, Elizabeth wife.
John G. Jackson: Inv. 7-18-1825
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