Person:Obadiah Jackson (3)

The 1820 Will of Obadiah's father, John, says that Obadiah has no children as of that date.

A quote from http://www.antonnews.com/oysterbayenterprisepilot/2005/12/09/news/malcolm.html :

"Very little is known of John Jackson except that he was a Quaker and a fourth generation decendant of Robert Jackson, one of the original settlers of Hempstead. He was married twice, first to Charity Tredwell in 1756, and following her death to Margaret Wright Townsend. By his first marriage he had four children and by his second five more, the third being his son Obadiah.

"Like his father, Obadiah was a farmer and like his father, he was married twice, first to Elizabeth Wright, who died shortly afterward. Then in 1804, he married Rachel Underhill. Obadiah's son William's daughter Phoebe Jackson married James Malcolm who served as Town Assessor and was a director of the Oyster Bay bank. Their sons William and James A. Malcolm deeded the land to James A. Malcolm Jr. It was acquired by the county on April 2, 1974."

Obadiah was raised as a Quaker and judging by the way their marriage date is recorded, both Obadiah and Rachel were probably married as Quakers.

1. ↑ Rootsweb chart of Jim Rubbins: The Descendants of Capt. John Seaman. (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:704735).
2. ↑ Register of Members, Jericho Monthly Meeting, Long Island, NY. (http://dunhamwilcox.net/ny/jericho_ny_quakers.htm).
3.   Bunker, Mary Powell. Long Island Genealogies. (Albany, New York, United States: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1895)
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