Person:George Jackson (176)

A good story of the Jackson Home being used as a part of the Queens (County) Freedom Trail is found here: http://www.westburyquakers.org/qt/archive/files.URR.htm. An excerpt of the article by Kathleen G Velsor, Ed.D. follows:

The Jackson Home on Flushing Creek One well-used Flushing freedom route had a stop in White Pot, in Newtown Township, at the home of George Jackson. Jackson, the son of Newtown Town Supervisor and Overseer of the Poor Jarvis Jackson, actively assisted escaping slaves. Like his father, the younger Jackson was a member of the Flushing Quaker Meeting. He met his future bride, Elizabeth Underhill -who hailed from a well known Hudson, New York, Quaker family - when she attended the Flushing Quaker Meeting School. After their marriage, George and Elizabeth Jackson settled on a parcel of land situated on Flushing Creek. They had a daughter, Hannah Jackson, born on the farm in 1847. Hannah Jackson recalled that as a young child she was not permitted to play in the family's woods above the creek. It wasn't until she was older that she learned that the woods had been a station on the Underground Railroad - runaway slaves had hidden there during the day and her parents feared she might inadvertently give away their hiding places. At night, under cover of darkness, small boats traveled down Flushing Creek to the farm where the runaways boarded. Laden with their human cargo, the boats traveled out to Flushing Bay and then slipped quietly across Long Island Sound to Westchester County.

next hh to Jarvis and Mary is George & Elizabeth: 1850 Census Newtown, Queens Co., New York George Jackson 36 M farmer NY Elisabeth Jackson 33 F NY Andrew Jackson 11 M NY Pheobe Jackson 7 F NY Hannah Jackson 5 F NY Jarvis Jackson 7/12 M NY Jacob Lunk 60 M laborer Germany John Lewis 55 M Germany Sarah Halahan 22 F Ireland

1860 Census Newtown, Queens Co., New York George Jackson 47 M W 3000 500 NY Elisabeth A. Jackson 45 F W NY Andrew Jackson 21 M W NY Phebe Jackson 17 F W NY Hannah Jackson 15 F W NY Mary E. Jackson 8 F W NY Jacob J. Mall 60 M W Laborer Germany Cath Barnes 40 F W Germany Thoms Williams 20 M W laborer NY Willm Dearman 22 M W laborer NY

1870 Census Newtown, Queens Co., New York Jackson, Geo 57 M W farmer NY Jackson, Andrew 30 M W farmer NY Jackson, Hannah 22 F W keeping house NY Jackson, Mary A. 17 F W home NY Burns, Catherine 60 F W lives with NJ Smith, Chas 37 M W farm laborer Germany Fox, John 27 M W farm laborer NY

1. ↑ Rootsweb chart of Larry Sutton: Sutton-Appleton wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi op GET db sutton-appl.
2. ↑ United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432)
   Newtown, Queens Co., New York.
3. ↑ United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
   Newtown, Queens Co., New York.
4. ↑ United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publications M593 and T132)
   Newtown, Queens Co., New York.
5.   Bunker, Mary Powell. Long Island Genealogies. (Albany, New York, United States: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1895)
   226.