Person:Henry Jackson (113)

Henry Jackson
b.Cal 1606
d.Bet 11 Nov 1682 and 21 Jun 1686
  • HHenry JacksonCal 1606 - Bet 1682 & 1686
  • WUnknown (25563)Bef 1620 - Aft 1682
m. Bef 1640
  1. John JacksonAbt 1640 - Bef 1689
  2. Hannah JacksonEst 1642 -
  3. Samuel JacksonAbt 1645 - 1714
  4. Moses JacksonEst 1646 - 1712
  5. Joseph JacksonEst 1648 - 1681
Facts and Events
Name[1] Henry Jackson
Gender Male
Birth[1] Cal 1606
Emigration[1] 1635 On the Elizabeth & Ann.
Residence[1] 1635 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[1] Est 1639 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Marriage Bef 1640 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Unknown (25563)
Will[1] 11 Nov 1682 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
Death[1] Bet 11 Nov 1682 and 21 Jun 1686 Between date of will and date of inventory.
Estate Inventory[1] 21 Jun 1686 £1350 15s. 1d., of which £1051 10s. was real estate.
Probate[1] 22 Sep 1686 Will proved.
The Elizabeth and Ann (1635)
The Elizabeth and Ann, also known as the Eliza and Ann sailed in the spring of 1635. The passengers are found scattered amongst a number of entries in Hotten's Emigrant Ancestors.
Sailed: May? 1635 from London, England under Master Roger Clapp
Arrived: July? 1635 at Boston, Massachusetts

Passengers:
~100
Joseph Alsop - Thomas Alsop - Baker family - Gamaliell Beomont - John Birden - Grace Bulkley - Robert Carr - Sara Cartrack - Clement Chaplin - James Cobbet - Josias Cobbet - William Courser - Henry Curtis - Thomas Dane - Eaton family - Joseph Faberr - Elizabeth Fabin - Richard Goard - Amivell Hall - O. Halsey - Robert Hans - Robert Hawkins - Thomas Hedhall or Hedsall - John Holloway - Thomas Hubbard - Percy King - Henry Jackson - Robert Jefferies family - Thomas Lord family - Morecock children - Oldham children - George Orris - George Parker - Thomas Pond - Vincen Potter - William Read - William Samond - Richard Sanpson - Nicholas Sension - Robert Standy - Christopher Stanley - William Swayne - M. Swynden - Jo. Thomson - John Whitney family - Washburn family - Edmund Weston - Richard White - Andrey Whitton - Henry Wilkinson - George Wylde - John Wylie

Resources: Transcription of records from Hotten Founders of New England (NEHGR)


The following copied from "History and Genealogy of the Families of old Fairfield, Vol. 1, pg 319, 320:
"JACKSON, HENRY
Came from London aged 29 on 'Elizabeth and Ann', 1635; settled first in Watertown, Mass., where he was a lessee of fishing rights. Rem. to Fairfield, where he made an agreement with the town about the tide mill, 2 Feb. 1648 [1648/9]; and sold the mill to Thomas Morehouse, 1653.

He bought land in Fairfield, 16 June 1650, from Thomas Wheeler, Jr.

Will 11 Nov. 1682, proved 22 Sept. 1686; son Moses, house at "Poquanocke"; son Samuel already had land; gr. child Moses Jackson, land at Compo; son John; gr. child Samuel Jackson; wife; the old negro woman; sons John, Moses, and Samuel, and dau. Hannah; Maj. Nathan Gold and Mr. Josiah Harvey, overseers; portion due to Est. of my son Joseph per her father (sic) Godwin's will; five children of son Joseph. Inv. 21 June 1686.

Adm'n was granted, 13 Jan. 1718/9, to the gr. sons John and Robert Jackson, on undivided lands belonging to the Est. of Henry Jackson; distribution ordered to the legal representatives of the sons, John (eldest), Moses, Samuel, and Joseph. Distribution, dated Stratfield, 3 Jan 1730; heirs of John Jackson, viz. Moses and John Jackson, and Susanna Lyon; heirs of Moses Jackson, viz. Robert Jackson and Deborah Smith; heirs of Samuel Jackson, viz. Daniel, Jonathan, Ebenezer, and Gabriel Jackson, Hannah Jennings, Deborah Fairchild, Rachel Lyon, and Abigail; and Sarah wife of John Bartram."


References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Henry Jackson, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    4:19-22.

    ORIGIN: Unknown.
    MIGRATION: 1635 on the Elizabeth & Anne (on 13 April 1635, "Henry Jackson," aged 29, was enrolled at London as a passenger for New England on the Elizabeth & Ann [Hotten 58]).
    BIRTH: About 1606 (aged 29 on 13 April 1635 [Hotten 58]).
    DEATH: Between 11 November 1682 (date of will) and 21 June 1686 (date of inventory), and probably closer to the latter date.

  2.   Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
    Vol 1, Pgs 319, 320.