Person:Benjamin Jackson (19)

Jackson Ledger @ HCPD: "Benjamin removed from Morris County, NJ to Ohio in 1814."

O. B. Robbins book: "Benjamin owned the old Homestead up to 1814, when he sold it and removed to Ohio, where he died June 6, 1842 (and is buried in Cemetery near Bellville, Ohio; grave marked with a tall monument) aged 90 years and 3 months.. He left seven children, six of who were living at the time of his death. Benjamin served as a sergeant with New Jersey troops. His application for a pension was executed June 13, 1833 at which time he was living in Morris Township, Knox County, Ohio, having moved there....He later removed to Bellville, Richland County, where his son Benjamin Jr. lived."

See "Historical Stories" in Table of Contents, this site, for an article that give a lot more detail about Benjamin. This is a retelling of his removing from NJ and traveling with his extended family and the Allens in covered wagons, over the mountains to Knox County, Ohio. There is a second article in "Introduction to Virgil Allen's Papers" that is a history of Benjamin's life and times, including his church life and his application for pension.

OBR quotes his daughter Phebe's obit on pg 59: "Mrs. Vennum's parents were of old Puritan stock, honest, hardworking pioneers; her father being engaged in both coopering and farming."

Colonial Ancestors: "He was a Revolutionary soldier."

Copied from the 1897 SAR Application #10337 of his gr-grandson Albert Judson Jackson:
"He [Benjamin] resided at the time in Morris County, in the State of New Jersey. The applicant remembers, when a child about five years of age, being at the residence of this Ancestor, on his farm located on the highway at a place called 'Half-way', between the city of Mount Vernon in the State of Ohio, and the Village of Fredericktown, in the same State. The Ancestor's wife Abigail, was alive at the time; and my parents were visiting with them. We remained with the family of my Ancestor, over night. I distinctly remember that during the evening we were there, my great-grandfather related to my parents and others present, incidents that he recalled as happening while the war was in progress, and especially concerning the movements of the Colonial forces."

Old maps and O. B. Robbins spell Belleville with an e in the middle, newer maps leave out that e.

1. ↑ National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
   Application #10237 of Albert Judson Jackson.
2. ↑ National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
   #95042 Application for Daniel Webster Jackson.
3.   Jackson, P. A. Jackson Ledger. (1887)
   10, 11.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 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)
   14,20, 49-52.

   Oscar Burton Robbins' book, pg 20 says "He and his wife Abigal are buried in the old cemetery at Bellville. The inscription on his monument reads 'Benjamin Jackson died June 6, 1842, aged 91 years, 3 months.' Hers reads "Abigal wife of Benjamin Jackson died Nov 1st, 1843, aged 88 years, 10 months, 25 days.'

5.   Pension Application
   S.4430 Benjamin Jackson.