Person:George Jackman (3)

1735 birth date from Randall Mitton. MA vital records show same day but 1737. Often referred to as George Jackman, junior.

1819 from GenealogyBank.com, Concord Observer, 25 January 1819: George Jackman, Esq. This gentleman is now living in Boscawen, in this State - he is upwards of 90 years of age. He was one of the first settlers in town: was first commissioned as a Justice of the Peace, at an early age, in the reign of King George II of England; was a Justice of the Peace during the reign of George III till the United States became independent of Great-Britain; and has been in commission as a Justice of the Peace under the Government of New-Hampshire, ever since the adoption of a constitution as a State. We are informed, that he was also Town Clerk of Boscawen, from its first organization as a town, till within the last 12 or 15 years. His long life has been uniformly regular, and his character respectable; and in all his publick duties, as a magistrate of the county, and an officer of the town, his conduct has been judicious and faithful.

1821 from GenealogyBank.com, Concord Observer, 29 December 1821: Memoir of George Jackman, Esq. George Jackman, Esq. of Boscawen, New Hampshire, (9 miles north of this place) was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, Oct 28, old style, or Nov 8, new style, 1735 - and was one of the first settlers in the town of Boscawen. In 1760, in the reign of George II at the age of 25 yars, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace by his Excellency Benning Wentworth, then Governor of the Colony of New Hampshire, and sworn into office by Hunking Wentworth, Esq., Secretary of the Colony, and Wyseman Clagett, Esq.: and was continued in office under all successive changes of government, till 1818, being 58 years. He was chosen Town Clerk, June 18, 1760, it being the first meeting after incorporation of the town; and was continued to be elected annually 36 years, till March 2, 1796 - was then superseded 2 years, but re-chosen in March 1798 and 1799 - making 38 years. He was elected clerk of the original proprietors of the town in 1764, and still continues to keep records and do the business of the office, being 58 years the ensuing spring. He was 22 years Selectman - was a Delegate to the State Convention for the forming of the first Constitution - was a Representative for the town 3 different years in the General Court - and has been a regular professor of religion 45 years. He is now in his 87th year, in good health, and remarkably active for a man of his age.

According to New Hampshire Family Records by William Copely: On Nov. 4, 1788 I, [George Jackman] was legally married to Mrs. Mary Thompson, a second wife. Mary, wife of George died 29 September, 1813 at age 75.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Coffin, Charles Carleton. The History of Boscawen and Webster : from 1733 to 1878. (Concord, NH: Republican Press Assocation, 1878)
   Page 557.

   George, Esq., b. in Newbury, 28 Oct., 1735; m. 1st, Martha Webster; 2d. ______ Thompson; elected first town-clerk, 1760.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Latter Day Saints. FamilySearch Ancestral File FGR, M171. (12 June, 1999).
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Randall D. Mitton. Ancestors of Randall D. Mitton, B-M1. (16 Jan, 2000. http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/rmitton).