Family:Samuel Jackson and Jedidah Unknown (1)

While Samuel and his father Henry Jackson are covered well by Jacobus' book "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield", Jacobus' later work "The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley..... has more complete info that wasn't available when the first work was published. The following is from page 236 of the latter book: "Besides one child by Phebe, Samuel had by previous wives, thirteen children born between the late 1660’s or the early 1670’s and 1701, a spread of nearly thirty years, which suggests that he may have had two wives before he married Phebe. It is suspected that the mother of the younger children beginning with Henry (b. 1679) and including Abigail (b. say 1696) was named Jedidah, for both Henry and Abigail, although they lived in different towns after marriage, gave to their respective first-born daughters the unusual name of Jedidah."

1.   Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
   1:321.
2.   Jacobus, Donald Lines, Editor, and N. Grier Parke (Compiler and Publisher). The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth. (Woodstock, Vt.: N.G. Parke, 1960)
   P 236.
3. ↑ Marriage year estimated based on approx years of birth of children.