Person:Jacob Jackson (25)

From the Book, Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte:

" Long before the War of Independence the Jacksons were old settlers in Long Island, New York.

"Jacob S. Jackson married Mariam Searing, and was the first of the name to settle in the County of Prince Edward.  He landed at the mouth of a small stream, and there his wife vowed she would travel no further.

"Here I shall live and die," she (Mariam) said; and she kept her word. This was shortly after the Revolutionary War.

"Being blessed with grown-up sons and daughters, life in the bush was softened and labors were lightened for Jacob Jackson, who lived nearly a quarter of a century at West Lake. He saw his grandchildren grow up and settle around him, and he died at the ripe old age of nearly four score years. His wife died in 1825 at the old age of eighty-seven. Many of their descendants are to be found settled in Hallowell township in prosperous circumstances and happy surroundings."

1.   Email from Linda Peling Alessio. (Rlaless@aol.com).
2.   Morley, William F. E. Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte: Including Geneaologies of Old Families and Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens. (Toronto: Rolph and Clark Limited, [1904?])
   Pages 452 and 453.