Person:John Jackson (340)

John's children were listed as nieces and nephews of Samuel Jackson in the June 1832 administration papers of Samuel's estate. Frank Jackson's records lists John's birth and death dates as ca 1765 - ca 1830. Frank has also contributed all the following notes about John:

John Jackson is described by Henry Reed Stiles :" Mr. Jackson is described by those who knew him, as a large man of coarse features and florid complexion, loud spoken, energetic in his movements, and an ardent politician. His domestic relations were notoriously unhappy; and he was always involved in petty law difficulties, owing to his reluctance to pay his debts, without being obliged, as he feliciitously expressed it ‘to take a receipt, according to law, on the back of a constable’s execution.’ " (Stiles , Civil, Political...p. 178)

John Jackson was a native of Jerusalem, Queens Co., LI whence he removed with his brothers Samuel and Treadwell, to the village of Brooklyn, shortly after the close of the Revolution "where “they soon purchased large estates...". (Samuel never married and Tredwell died in 1799.) About 1791 John purchased the Remsen Estate-30 acres of land and 35 acres of ponds for $17,000. In 23 Feb 1801 he sold 40 acres of it to the US government for $40,000 and later sold lots on the remaining land to immigrants from Ireland on a spot called Vinegar Hill. A John Jackson, probably this one, is listed in the 1800 US Census as head of household with two males between 26 and 45 and 2 ten years and younger; also two females between 10 and 16 and one between 26 and 45; also one as "other" free person and 4 slaves. The Brooklyn City Directory lists him as living near the Jamaica toll road between 1802 and 1826. He may have had a commerical interest in the road.

(Henry Reed Stiles, Account of the Internment of the Remains of American patriots who Perished on Board the British Prison Ships During the American Revolution. Privately Printed: NY. 1865. A rare book housed in the New York State Library in Albany, NY)

John Jackson, merchant, is listed in the 1802/03 Brooklyn City Directory, as living 1 and 1/2 miles from the ferry. He is listed in the 1822-26 Brooklyn City Directories as living near the Jamaica toll gate. He is not listed in 1829.

Letters of Administration were filed for a John Jackson, possibly this one, in Kings County, NY on 14 July 1828. (Liber 3:104. Bonds Liber 1:21) A will was filed for a John E. Jackson in Kings County on 29 May 1832 and probated 8 October 1832 and recorded in Libers 4 page 193 and 5 page 170. Unfortunately all the bound volumes of letters of administration in Kings County before 1900 have gone missing.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Frank M. Jackson research and family records, "Ancestors of Frank M. Jackson".
2.   Bunker, Mary Powell. Long Island Genealogies. (Albany, New York, United States: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1895)
   223 223.
3.   The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
   Jul 1912, pg 211.
4. ↑ based on mother's death info