Person:William Jackson (313)

William and his wife Susan Day Halsey Jackson became members of the Presbyterian Church at Rockaway, NJ in 1818. Info found in the book "A Brief History of the Church at Rockaway, New Jersey" 1833 available at ancestry.com

Edmund D. Halsey; "History of Morris County" Pgs 331-363 found at http://www.gti.net/rocktwp/Rockaway.html : William Jackson was ordained at the church in 1824; he died in 1872.

OBR: "William and Susan lived at Rockaway until 1837 when they removed to East Avon, NY, where they lived until April 1849, when they removed to Brooklyn City, NY."

Lloyd Jackson Notes: He was an iron manufacturer.

Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, pg 125: http://books.google.com/books?id=TrbNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP8&dq=Proceedings+of+the+New+Jersey+Historical+Society+second+series+1890-1891&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false Letter dated February 22, 1859, from William Jackson, giving an account of Iron Enterprises in Morris and Passaic Counties: "The first bar of round and square iron ever rolled in this country was done by Col. Joseph Jackson and myself in the old rolling mill at Paterson then owned by Samuel and Roswell Colt in the year 1820, under our contract to furnish the United States government with a certain quantity of rolled, round and hammered iron at the Navy Yard at Brooklyn, New York, in which we succeeded to the entire satisfaction of the government. Our experiments at rolling round and square iron induced us to build the rolling mill at Rockaway in 1820 and 22. During the time of our rolling iron in Paterson, Messrs. Blackwell and McFarlan were the owners of the Dover rolling mill and forge built by Israel Canfield & Co. Seeing our success they proceeded to alter and rebuild their rolling mill for rolling all kinds of iron, which they completed about the same time we finished our rolling mill in Nov. 1822 and from thence sprang into being the various Rolling mills of the day."

From Cheryl Chatfield Thompson: 1810 extant letter to Susan Day Halsey; 1821 built rolling mill; 1824 built forge and mill at Clinton, NJ; bef 1832 inherited much of father's estate -- kept on iron working and farming; 1833 sold business due to shifting policies of state gov't; 1837 from Rockaway, NJ to East Avon, NY; 1849 moved to Brooklyn, NY.

OBR, pg 18 has that William died 18 October 1872 in Brooklyn, NY. The transcription of the cemetery at Rockaway has that he died 18 Sept 1872.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Lloyd Jackson, Notes from HCPD transcribed by Jerry Gross: available from Table of Contents.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
   18.
3.   Crayon, J. Percy. Rockaway records of Morris County, N.J., families: cemetery records, church history, military records, local history, genealogies of old families, nearly 20,000 data. (Rockaway, N.J.: Rockaway Pub. Co., 1902).
4.   Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
   16, 18, 19.
5.   Jackson, P. A. Jackson Ledger. (1887)
   83.
6.   DAR Application found at Ancestry.com
   DAR ID# 42012 Susan Jackson Hannahs.