Person:John Jackson (338)

According to his grandfather's 1820 will, John was to have the use of a small farm which his grandfather owned and sufficient monies were provided to subsidize the farm if needed. The executors of his grandfather's will, were given the power to sell the small farm if a better farm could be procured according to their prudence. The new farm would also be held in trust for John and after John's death, whatever farm he was living on was to be given "unto the children which my said Grandson John Jackson shall have begotten in his lifetime in lawfull wedlock and their heirs and assigns forever . . .to be equally divided among them.

If the monies set aside to subsidize the farm had not been used, that too was to be divided among his lawful children.

1. ↑ Rootsweb chart of Lori Luke: Ulster Albany County, NY Ancestors Descendants. (http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?includedb=gemini).

   John, Lydia, Sally and Robert were all baptised on 16 Feb 1794. Her source: Baptismal and/or Marriage Transcriptions of Reformed Dutch Church(es) by Jean Worden.

2.   Bunker, Mary Powell. Long Island Genealogies. (Albany, New York, United States: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1895)
   223.