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CAPTAIN TIMOTHY JACKMAN (1729–1795), son of Timothy Jackman and Hannah Chute

MARY THURSTON (1732–1767), daughter of Jonathan Thurston and Lydia Spofford

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Captain Timothy Jackman, the son of Timothy and Hannah (Chute) Jackman, was on 13 July 1729 in Newbury. [1, 1: 244] He died on 8 July 1795, age 66, in Newbury. [1, 2: 625] Timothy Jackman of Rowley married first Mary Thurston of Rowley on 2 April 1751 in Newbury. [1, 2: 255][2, 321] He married second Hannah Jackman on 10 February 1768 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts. [3, 248] Hannah, the wife of Captain Timothy Jackman, died on 7 October 1778 of a "languishing disorder," age 55, in Byfield Parish. [1, 2: 623][4] He married third Anne Adams on 22 February 1779 in Rowley. [2, 322] Anne, the daughter of William (Abraham, Abraham, Robert) and Elizabeth (Noyes) Adams, was born on 3 November 1733. [5]

Mary Thurston, the daughter of Jonathan and Lydia Thurston, was born on 27 February 1731/2 in Rowley. 2, 219] Mary the daughter of Jonathan Thurston, was baptized on 5 March 1731/2 in Newbury. [1] Mary ("Molly"), the wife of Timothy Jackman, Jr., died of a "consumptive disorder" on 27 October 1767, at about 33, in Byfield Parish. [1, 2: 624][4][6]

Mary's identification is circumstantial. There were two Mary Thurstons of the right age and in the right place to have been this Mary. A Mary Thurston, the daughter of Richard and Mehitable, was born in Rowley on 26 October 1734. But, she is referred to as Mary Searl in the will of her father (Essex case 27642).

Captain Timothy Jackman and his first wife Molly are buried together in the Byfield Parish Cemetery in Byflield. [6]

Newburyport became a distinct town from Newbury in 1764.

Timothy and his family lived in the Byfield parish. Byfield is now a village in Newbury but parts of Byfield were orginally in Rowley.

Timothy Jackman of Rowley, gentleman, made his will on 1 December 1787 "in the twelfth year of American independence." He left his estate to his wife Anna and his five daughters: Sarah the wife of Jeremiah Jewitt, Hannah, the wife of Eliphas Chapman, Ruth, the wife of Benjamin Jackman, Mary, the wife of John Barker, and Lydia, the wife of Benjamin Tenney. Probate was on 3 August 1795 and on that day Jeremiah Jewitt, yeoman, Parker Cleveland, Esq., and Joseph Pike, gentleman, all of Rowley, posted bond on the estate of Timothy Jackman, late of Newbury, gentleman, who was formerly of Rowley. [7]

Note: The Timothy Jackman, 3rd, of Byfield Rowley who married in 1768 in Newport was the son of Benjamin Jackman, baptized on 25 October 1747 in Byfield parish. [8]

Children of Captain Timothy Jackman and Mary Thurston: Births of Sarah, Hannah, Ruth, and Lydia recorded in Rowley [2, 104–5]

i. Sarah Jackman was born on 15 January 1752. She was baptized on 19 January 1752 in Byfield parish. [1, 1: 243][8] She died on 6 April 1839, age 87, in Newbury. [1, 2: 629][6] She married Jeremiah Jewett III on 31 December 1772 in Rowley. [2, 321][9] Jeremiah, the son of Jeremiah Jewett, was born on 10 January 1745 in Byfield. [9] He was baptized on 13 January 1745 in Byfield parish. [1, 1: 251] He died on 22 April 1808, age 63, in Newbury. [1, 2: 628][6][9]

Jeremiah and Sarah are buried in the Byfield Parish Cemetery. [6]

ii. Hannah Jackman was born on 24 July 1753. She was baptized on 29 July 1753 in Byfield parish. [1, 1: 241][8] She died on 15 December 1839. [10] Hannah of Byfield Rowley married Eliphaz Chapman, a "lay preacher" of Rowley, on 18 August 1772 in Newbury. [1, 2: 252][2, 321]Eliphaz, the son of Samuel Chapman, was born on 7 March 1750 in New Market, New Hampshire. [10] He died on 20 January 1814. [10]

Eliphaz and Hannah lived in Bethel, Oxford County, Maine. [10]

iii. Ruth Jackman was born on 7 October 1755. She was baptized on 12 October 1755 in Byfield parish. [1, 1: 243][8] Ruth, the widow of Benjamin, died on 9 July 1842 in Newbury. [1, 2: 624] She married [her first cousin] Benjamin Jackman, Jr. on 8 August 1776 in Rowley. [2, 321] Benjamin, the son of Benjamin Jackman, was baptized on 8 March 1752 in Newbury. [1, 1: 240] He died on 25 February 1825, age 73, in Newbury. [1][6]

Benjamin and Ruth are buried in the Byfield Parish Cemetery. The inscription on Ruth's grave says, "In memory of Ruth, relict of Benjamin Jackman, who died July 9, 1842 at 86 years & 9 months." [6]

iv. Paul Jackman was born on 29 August 1757 in Newbury. [1, 1: 243] He was baptized on 27 September 1760 in the Old South Presbyterian church in Newbury. [1, 1: 243] He probably died by 1 December 1787, when he was not mentioned in his father's will.

iv. Mary Jackman was baptized on 21 November 1761 in Rowley. She died on 19 January 1842, probably in Bethel, Oxford County, Maine. She married John Barker.

v. Lydia Jackman was born on 1 September 1764. Lydia of Byfield Rowley married Benjamin Tenney of Byfield Rowley on 18 March 1783 in Newbury. [1, 2: 253] Benjamin, the son of Oliver Tenney, was baptized on 11 January 1761 in Byfield parish. [1, 1: 505][8]

Endnotes:

1. Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1911), vol. 1, vol. 2.

2. Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, vol. 1 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1928).

3. Vital Records of Newburyport, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1911), vol. 2.

4. Joseph N. Dummer, "Byfield Parish Deaths," Essex Antiquarian 7 (1903): 145–158.

5. Editors, "Adams Genealogy," Essex Antiquarian 2 (1898): 17–22.

6. Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 27 September 2023), memorial pages for

All citing Byfield Parish Cemetery, Byfield, Essex County, MA.

7. "Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638–1881," database with images, AmericanAncestors, case 14675.

8. Joseph N. Dummer, "Byfield Baptisms," Essex Antiquarian 6 (1902): 49–56.

9. Frederic Clarke Jewitt, History and Genealogy of the Jewetts in America (NY: Grafton, Press, 1908), 124, 226.

10. William B. Lapham, History of Bethel, Maine (Somerset, NH: New England History Press, 1891).

Photo: April Lynn (Wood) James Holdridge

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