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JAMES JACKMAN (c. 1618–1694)
James Jackman was born about 1618. He died on 30 December 1694 in Newbury. [1]
Noyes says that Jame's wife was named Joanna. [2]
On 1 March 1651 a committee reported on transactions in freeholder rights in Newbury and noted that James Jackman had purchased his from Giles Abbots. [3, 93]
James took the oath of loyalty at the September 1653 court in Ipswich. [4, 1: 306]
James was on the trial jury at the September 1653 and March 1657 quarterly courts in Ipswich. [4, 1: 289; 2: 11] He was on the grand jury at the September 1678 court in Ipswich. [4, 7: 82]
On 24 September 1655 James Jackman and Joane Jackman witnessed that Henry Fay of Newbury gave his estate to his brother's children and asked Robert Long and James Jackman to look after until they came. The March 1656 court at Ipswich appointed Robert and James administrators of Henry's estate. [4, 1: 407, 420]
In the conflict in the Newbury church between Reverend Thomas Parker, and Mr. Edward Woodman, James supported Parker. [5, 116]
On 26 March 1661 James Jackman of Newbury was freed from military training on the condition he pay six shillings a year for the company's use. [4, 2: 279][6]
James Jackman, Sr., age 60, took the oath of allegiance in Newbury in 1678. [3, 182]
James was a tythingman in 1680, 1681, 1683, and 1684. [3, 117–9] He was chosen a fence viewer on 22 March 1685/6. [3, 116]
A 1688 tax census for Newbury says that James Jackman, Sr. and James Jackman, Jr. owned two houses, six acres of plowland, nine acres of meadow, two acres of pasture, and had two horses, four oxen, four cows, three three-year-old cattle, two two-year-old cattle, two one-year-old cattle, 15 sheep and five hogs. [3, 203]
Children of James Jackman:
i. Mary Jackman was born in 1644 in Newbury. [1]
ii. Sarah Jackman was born "about" 18 January 1647 in Newbury. [1] She married Joseph Palmer on 1 March 1664 in Newbury. [1]
iii. Esther Jackman was born on 12 September 1651 in Newbury. She married Joseph Muzzey on 9 February 1670 in Newbury. Joseph died on 30 December 1680 in Newbury. [1] She probably married second Samuel French.
iv. James Jackman was born on 22 June 1655 in Newbury. He married Rachel Noyes.
v. Joanna Jackman was born 14 June 1657 in Newbury. [1]
vi. Richard Jackman was born on 6 or 15 February 1659 in Newbury. [1] He married Elizabeth Plumer on 26 June 1682 in Newbury. [1]
Richard Jackman, age 19, took the oath of allegiance in Newbury in 1678. [3, 181]
Endnotes:
1. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, vol. 1, vol. 2 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1911).
JACKMAN 1: 241 Hester, d. James, Sept. 12, 1651. |
2: 252 Esther, and Joseph Muzzy, Feb. 9, 1670. 2: 624 James, sr., Dec. 30, 1694. MUZZY 2: 670 Joseph, Dec. 30, 1680. |
2. James Atkins Noyes, "Noyes Pedigree," New England Historical and Genealogical Registers 53 (1899): 35–43.
3. John J. Currier, History of Newbury, Mass., 1635–1902 (Boston : Damrell & Upham, 1902).
4. George Francis Dow, ed., and Harriet S. Tapley, trans., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols., digitized books, Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (http://salem.lib.virginia.edu).
5. Joshua Coffin, Facts and Documents Concerning the Formation of the First Church in Newbury ... with a Copy of the Church Records (n.p.: handwritten, 1861), digitized as "Church Records 1634–1735," Newbury Mass. First Church, Congressional Library and Archives (https://www.congregationallibrary.org : accessed 26 November 1023).
6. "Great Migration 1634–1635, M–P," digitized book, AmericanAncestors.org, originally published as: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634–1635, Volume V, M–P (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007), 477.
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