Person:Micah Jackson (1)

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Micah Jackson
b.Cal 22 Mar 1768
m. 7 Feb 1768
  1. Micah JacksonCal 1768 - 1859
  2. Jane JacksonAbt 1770 - 1798
  3. Almy Jackson1773 - 1832
  1. Parmenus JacksonAbt 1793 - 1835
  2. Richard Jackson1794 - 1845
  3. Elizabeth Jackson1801 - 1844
  4. John JacksonEst 1805 -
Facts and Events
Name Micah Jackson
Gender Male
Birth[1] Cal 22 Mar 1768
Marriage to Elizabeth Jackson
Death[1][2] 24 Nov 1859 Oyster Bay, Queens (now Nassau) Co., New York, United States
Burial[1][2][4] Jackson Family Graveyard, Wantagh, Nassau, New York, United States

Mary Powell Bunker's book has that Micah was born 1778. The calculated birth dates from his age at death on the Jackson Cemetery, Wantagh site is 22 Mar 1768. Since Micah is mentioned in his grandfather's 1770 will, he had to be born in 1768 and not 1778.

Richard Jackson, Sr. left a will dated Feb 28, 1770 and proved Mar 10, 1784. It names wife Jane, sons Richard and Jacob, grandsons Richard Jackson Seaman, son of his daughter Jane. and Micah Jackson, son of said son Richard, and granddaughter Charity, daughter of his daughter Mary.<vr> In a codicil dated Feb 10, 1783 he names grandson Jacob Jackson Seaman, son of his daughter Jane.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wantagh American Revolution Bicentennial Committee. Wantagh Honors Its Forebears Project (Wantagh, New York). Cemeteries of old Wantagh.

    Aged 91 yrs, 8 mths, 4 dy

  2. 2.0 2.1 The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
    Vol XXVI, April 1893; pgs 79-80.
  3.   Bunker, Mary Powell. Long Island Genealogies. (Albany, New York, United States: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1895)
    222, 223.
  4. Find A Grave
    Memorial# 62202642.