Person:Rebecca Jackson (42)

Ashe County was cut from Wilkes in 1799. The family had not moved from where they were in Wilkes County, but the new county of Ashe encompassed where they lived. It is said that Rebecca died 4 weeks after the birth of her son Asa in Dec 1801, therefore it is an easy assumption that she died as a result of complications of childbirth.

The following quote provided by Chris Fairchild 26 Aug 2008: According to Jean Fairchild Gilmore's book, Early Fairchilds in America, under the Abiud Fairchild family, page 114-116, it says: "In 1795 Abiud is again in Wilkes County, N.C. where he appears on that county's tax list. In 1801, his wife Rebecca is supposed to have died. There is some confusion as to Rebecca's surname. For this writer, the DAR application #502690 where the applicant has put Johnson, crossed it out and entered Jackson, the name of Jackson is acceptable. There is also the argument for the surname Jackson in that one term of Abiud's enlistment of three months in the American Revolution in North Carolina was that he was under the command of Capt. William Jackson, whose daughter he could have married. There is no doubt a second marriage was to a woman whose name may have been Johnson, causing the Jackson/Johnson confusion" .

A study has been made of ALL mentions of a William Jackson in the Wilkes County area from 1786 to abt 1794. That study is provided here for your consideration. It should be read to learn how and why I have determined that Rebecca who married Abiud Fairchild is William's daughter. http://www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com/pages/conflictingWilliamJacksonTwo.htm

Quote from the final paragraph of that study: "This leaves the question of Rebecca Jackson who married Abiud Fairchild. There is no proof that the Pennsylvania William, who was captured in Charleston, was even in Wilkes county. That leaves open the probability that Rebecca's father was William #1, #2 and #7. This does appear logical given the fact of Rebecca's husband Abuid serving with William as per his pension application. Also Abuid's sister Abigail married James Jackson, William's cousin. (Recent DNA testing proves the relationship between James and William.) Rebecca's daughter Phoebe married James Albert Sewell, a son of Mary Gardiner Tompkins, a step-daughter of William's sister Elizabeth Jackson Tompkins. William Jackson and his sister Elizabeth Jackson Tompkins traveled together from New Jersey to North Carolina per the Jackson Ledger. These families are all interrelated and it is an easy assumption that Rebecca belongs to this group of folks and is not the daughter of an unrelated Jackson.

1. ↑ United States. 1800 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M32)
   Morgan, Ashe Co., North Carolina.
2.   Research paper of Steve Burkart, P. O. Box 6, Salem, KY Oct 1990.