Person:Margaret Jackson (72)

Called Margaret Bright wife of Henry Bright in father's will.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Margaret Bright, in Harris, William Thaddeus, and Edward Doubleday Harris. Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Watertown. (Boston, Mass.: Unknown (Apparently Privately Published), 1869)
   p 8.

   "Here lyes Buried ye Body of Mrs. Margaret Bright. Widow to Cornet Henry Bright; Who Departed this life April ye 16th 1758 in ye 73d Year of Her Age.
   
   Henry Bright, Cornet, b. Aug. 16, 1684, eldest son of Nathaniel and Mary, and grandson of Deacon Henry, the settler, mar. Margaret, dau. of Abraham Jackson, b. 1685.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Henry Bright, in Bond, Henry, M.D., and Horatio Gates Jones. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston (1860): To which is Appended the Early History of the Town. With Illustrations, Maps and Notes. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860)
   p 110.

   Comet Henry Bright, m. Margaret Jackson, dr. of Abraham and Elizabeth (Biscoe) Jackson. [Biscoe, 9.] She d. Ap. 16, 1758, aged 73. In her Will, dated 1757, she mentions her son Silas, dr. Jemima Trowbridge, dr. Kezia Sanderson, dr. Mellicent, gr.-son Henry Bright, only son of her son Henry, son Benjamin, and appoints John Kimball, executor.