Person:Jedidah Unknown (5)

While the name of the wife of Samuel Jackson is not known from any documented source, Jacobus has speculated that her given name was Jedidah^[1], and suggested that she may have been a daughter or niece of Jedidah (Skidmore) Higby.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, 1930-1932)
   1:321.

   ‘Jackson, Samuel, … Married (1) ---------. We may suspect that her name was Jedidah, for both her son Henry and dau. Abigail conferred this uncommon name on their respective eldest daus. Thomas Skidmore had a dau. named Jedidah, who m. Edward Higbee, and was of the proper age to be mother or aunt of Samuel Jackson’s wife.’

2. ↑ Before approx year of remarriage of her husband.
3. ↑ Birth year estimated based on estimated marriage year and estimated birth years (1679 to 1696) of the children that may have been hers (see quote on her husband's page).