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Edward Jackson (bp. 1604–1681)

Frances Unknown (say 1610–1648)

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Edward Jackson, the son of Christopher Jackson and Susan Johnson, was baptized on 3 February 1604 in St. Dunstan's Stepney, London. [1] He died on 17 June 1681 in Newton. [1] He married first Frances ___ about 1630 in England. [1] He married second Elizabeth Oliver on 14 March 1648/9 in Newton or Cambridge. [1] Elizabeth, the daughter of John Newgate, was baptized on 1 January 1617/8 in St. Olave Church, Southwark, county Surrey. [1] She died on 30 September 1709 in Newton. [1] She married first Reverend John Oliver about 1637 in Boston. [1] John, the son of Elder Thomas and Ann Oliver of Boston, was born about 1616 in England and died on 11 April 1644 in Boston. [1]

Frances Unknown was born say 1610. She is probably the Frances who died as the daughter [!] of Edward Jackson on 5 October 1648 in Newton. [1]

Edward and Elizabeth are buried in the Center Street Cemetery in Newton. Edward's gravestone says that he died at 79 years and five months; Elizabeth's says that the died at age 92. [1]

Edward purchased land in Cambridge Village in 1643. He took the freeman’s oath in 1654. He purchased a 500-acre farm from Governor Bradstreet for 140 pounds in 1646. It was known as the Mayhew Farm as Governor Bradstreet had purchased it from Thomas Mayhew. Edward was a deputy from Cambridge to the General Court in 1647 and he was regularly re-elected for 17 years. He was a proprietor of Cambridge and a large proprietor of Billerica, where in the land division of 1652 he had 400 acres. He left this land to Harvard College. His inventory contained over 1,600 acres of land and amounted to 2,477 pounds. He was probably the first slave owner in Newton. [2]

Edward Jackson, Sr. made his will on 11 June 1681; it was proved on 26 August 1681. He mentioned his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Mr. John Newgate; his son Edward Jackson; his daughter Ruth Jackson; his son Jonathan Jackson; his two sons-in-law, John Ward and Thomas Prentice; his daughter Rebecca Prentice; his son-in-law Nehemiah Hobart; his son-in-law Joseph Fuller; his son-in-law John Prentice; his son-in-law Nathaniel Wilson; his grandson John Ward, Jr.; five grandchildren named after him; 36 grandchildren and great-grandchildren; sons-in-law Mr. John and Thomas Oliver; daughter-in-law Elizabeth Wiswall; the College in Cambridge; son Hobart; daughter Sarah Hobart; Lydia Fuller; Elizabeth Prentice; Hannah Wilson. [1]

Children of Edward and Frances Jackson: The first six were baptized in Whitechapel and the last two were supposedly born on the trip to New England: [2]

i. Israel Jackson was baptized 9 March 1631. He probably died young. [2]

ii. Margaret Jackson was baptized 1 January 1633. He probably died young. [2]

iii. Hannah Jackson was baptized 1 May 1634. She married John Ward. [2]

iv. Rebecca Jackson  was baptized on 10 October 1638 in Whitechapel. She married Thomas Prentice.

v. Caleb Jackson was baptized on 10 October 1638. He probably died young. [2]

vi. Jonathan Jackson died on 28 August 1693. He married Elizabeth Unknown. [2]

Jonathan was admitted to the Old South Church in Boston in July 1670. [2]

vii. Sebas Jackson died on 6 December 1690. He married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Baker of Roxbury on 19.2.1671. She died on 25 March 1726, age 84. [2]

Children of Edward Jackson and Elizabeth Newgate:

viii. Sarah Jackson was born on 5.11.1649. She married Reverend Nehemiah Hobart on 21 March 1677. [2]

x. Lydia Jackson was born in 1656. She married Joseph Fuller, Sen. in 1679. [2]

vi. Elizabeth Jackson was born on 28 April 1658. She married first John Prentice, son of Captain Thomas Prence, in 1677. She married second Jonas Bond, Esq. of Watertown. [2]

xii. Ruth Jackson born on 15 January 1664. She died unmarried 1692. [2]

Endnotes:

1. John William Linzee, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants (Boston: privately printed, 1918), 401–2.

2. Francis Jackson, History of the Early Settlement of Newton (Boston, Stacy and Richardson, 1854), 330–3.

Revised July 11, 2023

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