Person:Phebe Jackson (7)

Phebe is listed in the records of the Plainfield/Rahway/Woodbridge Quaker records. Plainfield and Rahway were then in Essex County and Woodbridge was in Middlesex County. The listing in these records spelled the last name as Jacson (without the k). (Also in this listing, and spelled without the 'k' is a brother Jeremy [possibly James] and her Uncle James with his wife Mary and their children.)

http://members.tripod.com/~PlainfieldFriends/birthreg.htm: Jacson, Phebe (19.01) Child of William & Prudence, Born: 1747.0113

http://members.tripod.com/~PlainfieldFriends/deathreg.htm

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Jackson, Phebe B: ?? , D:1812.0311, Age: ?? Buried at: Plainfield 3Mo 13 Last Residence: Essex

From Essex County New Jersey Quaker Records @ ancestry.com: Name: William Jackson Spouse's Name: Prudence

  Death Date: 11 Aug 1794
  Child: James; Phebe
  Birth Date: 12/9 Nov 1745; 13/1 Mar 1747/8
  Death Date: -; 11 Mar 1812

From Essex County New Jersey Quaker Records @ ancestry.com: Name: Phebe Jackson

  Relative: daughter of William & Prudence
  Birth Date: 13/1 Mar 1747/8
  Comment: Cert to MM in or about Anson Co, NC 7-15-1772, clear

[I have not yet determined the significance of this.]

So it appears that Phebe died 49 years old unmarried. Yet, I have found rootsweb charts that say she married David Vail in 23 Jul 1766 in Plainfield and died 5 Jun 1820 and was buried in Plainfield, NJ. It will talk more research to figure this out, but in the meantime, wanted to post what I had found.

The other day I noticed that I have two Phebe Jacksons and I believe they may be duplicates but I'm unsure; therefore, until this is resolved, I will list both women named Phebe as daughters of William Jackson and Prudence. . . There may be two different Phebe's or perhaps one of these Quaker transcriptions is wrong. Phebe is listed in the records of the Plainfield/Rahway/Woodbridge Quaker records. Plainfield and Rahway were then in Essex County and Woodbridge was in Middlesex County. The listing in these records spelled the last name as Jacson (without the k). (Also in this listing, and spelled without the 'k' is a brother Jeremy [possibly James] and her Uncle James with his wife Mary and their children.)

There is (#1) Phebe Jackson who married David Vail and (#5) Phebe who had "clearance to go to Anson Co., NC" and a Phebe (#3&4) who died in 1812. The Phebe who died in 1812 is the same Phebe who had clearance to Anson Co.

1. 1. Name: David Vail (I failed to get the URL where I got this but it was Essex Co Quaker Records at ancestry.com)

Birth Place: Somerset Co Spouse's Name: Phebe Jackson Birth Place: Woodbridge Death Date: 05 Mar 1820 Age: 73y (est birth date: 1747) Marriage Date: 23 Apr 1766 Marriage Place: Plainfield Child: William; John; Prudence; James; Daniel; David; Rebecca; Margaret; Smith; Phebe; Mary; Joseph; Margaret Birth Date: 04 Feb 1767; 04 Oct 1768; 06 Mar 1770; 29 Aug 1772; 07 Apr 1774; 07 Dec 1775; 07 May 1778; 18 Aug 1780; 05 Feb 1782; 20 Apr 1783; 17 Jan 1787; 02 Mar 1788; 18 Jan 1791 Death Date: -; -; -; -; -; -; -; -; 23 Jul 1855; -; -; -; - (Note that this David and Phebe named a first son, Wm, and a first dau, Prudence.)

But I have other records for a Phebe with the same birthyear as Phebe who m David Vail. Here are my notes on the daughter of William Jackson and Prudence Smith: Phebe is listed in the records of the Plainfield/Rahway/Woodbridge Quaker records. Plainfield and Rahway were then in Essex County and Woodbridge was in Middlesex County. The listing in these records spelled the last name as Jacson (without the k). (Also in this listing, and spelled without the 'k' is a brother, James (Jeremy) and her Uncle James with his wife Mary and their children.)

1. 2. http://members.tripod.com/!PlainfieldFriends/birthreg.htm

Jacson, Phebe (19.01) Child of William & Prudence, Born: 1747.0113

1. 3. http://members.tripod.com/!PlainfieldFriends/deathreg.htm

16.24 Jackson, Phebe B: ?? , D:1812.0311, Age: ?? Buried at: Plainfield 3Mo 13 Last Residence: Essex (This record may be for a different Phebe; note the d/o/d as 11d 3m 1812) This prob is not David Vail's wife)

1. 4. From Essex County New Jersey Quaker Records @ ancestry.com:

Name: William Jackson Spouse's Name: Prudence Death Date: 11 Aug 1794 (It is unclear to me if this is the d/o/d for Prudence or for James; but I put it as for Prudence.) Child: James; Phebe Birth Date: 12/9 Nov 1745; 13/1 Mar 1747/8 (birth dates of James & Phebe) Death Date: -; 11 Mar 1812 (-; means no d/o/d for James and the d/o/d is the same as for Phebe #3 who would not be David Vail's wife because of her date and location of death )

1. 5. From Essex County New Jersey Quaker Records @ ancestry.com:

Name: Phebe Jackson Relative: daughter of William & Prudence Birth Date: 13/1 Mar 1747/8 Comment: Cert to MM in or about Anson Co, NC 7-15-1772, clear [I have not yet determined the significance of this. Phebe's Uncle John Jackson m Sarah Doty and John shows up in Anson County, NC in the late 1750s. Could she have gone there to help the family?? I haven't yet found a Quaker MM in that area.]

RECAP:

1. 1 n/g; calc 1747 - 1820 at 73 yrs of age so d/o/b is estimated (parents not mentioned)
2. 2 13 Mar 1747 - d/o/d not given
3. 3 not given - 11 May 1812
4. 4 13 Mar 1747/48 - 11 Mar 1812 seems to have died at age 65
5. 5 13 Mar 1747/48 - d/o/d not given; was 25 yrs old and single when she went to Anson, prob with someone else going also.

So we have the wife of David Vail died in 1820 at age 73 and the other Phebe dying in 1812 at age 65. Until this puzzlement is resolved, I will show William and Prudence having two daughters name Phebe.

1.   Extracted by Alan Taplow. http:/members.tripod.com/~PlainfieldFriends/birthreg.htm. (Rahway & Plainfield Monthly Meeting Record of Births 1706 - 1888).
2.   Essex County New Jersey Quaker Records. (at ancestry.com).
3. ↑ Cox, John; New Jersey) Society of Friends. Plainfield Monthly Meeting (Plainfield; New Jersey) Society of Friends. Rahway Monthly Meeting (Rahway; and Phyllis J Selby. Rahway & Plainfield, New Jersey, Quaker meeting records. (Kokomo, Indiana: Selby Pub., 1992).