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JACKSON, Edward William

JACKSON, Edward William[1]

Male 1741 - 1807  (66 years)

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  • Name JACKSON, Edward William 
    Birth 1741  Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    _UID 0BD271CA972CB34D9FFF744D1E55FA5A0108 
    Death Jun 1807  Red Stone, Harrison Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Mount Clare, W. VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • home farm 1 mile south of
    Person ID I37255  Garys-Tree
    Last Modified 28 Jan 2009 

    Father JACKSON, General Joseph Sr.,   b. 9 Feb 1709/10, Flushing, Queens County, Long Island, Colonial New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1769, Rockaway, Morris County, Colonial New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 58 years) 
    Mother ROBINSON, Mary Anna - 3rd wife -   d. 1794, Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 1737 
    Family ID F13523  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family MILLER, Martha   bur. Lewis County, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Living
     2. JACKSON, Stephen G.,   b. 31 Jul 1764, Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aug 1847, Jane Lew, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
     3. JACKSON, Sarah Abigail,   b. 1765, Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jul 1842, Harrison County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
     4. JACKSON, Jemima,   b. 1767, Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1828 (Age 61 years)
     5. JACKSON, Benjamin,   b. 27 Jun 1770, Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. JACKSON, Jacob,   b. 7 Sep 1772, Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. JACKSON, William,   b. 16 Mar 1777, Fayette County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1857, Warren, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     8. JACKSON, Samuel,   b. 7 Nov 1783
     9. JACKSON, Lucindia,   b. 13 Jul 1787   d. 20 May 1853 (Age 65 years)
     10. JACKSON, Mary,   b. 8 Jul 1790   d. 27 May 1853 (Age 62 years)
     11. JACKSON, Phebe,   b. 19 Jul 1793
    Family ID F13529  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Feb 2024 

  • Notes 


    • 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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      Revolutionary Soldier - Virginia Continental Line
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  • Sources 
    1. [S960] Imported GEDCOM file fr Ken Erd Mar 2006.


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