Born in Bedford County, Virginia
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Daughter of Stephen Hancock I
and Catherine (Merchant) Hancock
Sister of
Ruth (Hancock) Cooper, Frances Hancock, John Hancock, George Washington Hancock, Robert Hancock and Stephen Hancock Jr.
Wife of
John Jackson
— married
17 Jan 1787 in Madison County,Kentucky
Descendants 
Mother of
Jarvis Jackson, Catherine Minerva (Jackson) Oldham, Hancock Lee Jackson, Humphrey Tunstal Tunsil Jackson and Stephan Marshall Jackson
Died about
at about age 77
in Laurel, Kentucky, United States [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Biography
Mary was born while traveling with Daniel Boone's party from Virginia to Kentucky. She was given the name Mary Forest Hancock, not as a surname but because she was born in the forest. She married John Jackson in Madison County, Jan. 17, 1787.
"I bequeath to my well beloved wife Ann Hancock my house and cattle, horses and hoggs and all and everything that is mine both within doors and without to be order'd and manage'd as she pleases for duration of her natural life. At her decease I order that my lands and whatever part or parcels of my goods and utensils are left be equally and exactly divided amongst my dear children Nathanial, Benjamin, Henry, Joseph, Mary, John, and William with the provisions that if any of my children die before my wife that the part for them allotted be at my wife's disposal to give some to any of my other children as she pleases..." (transcribed by Laura Harlow from scanned image of original will)
Children & Their spouses listed on DAR Record
- HUMPHREY TUNSTALL [1] ADELINE D. PEARL
- STEPHEN MARSHALL [1] MINERVA MOORE
- JARVIS [1] FRANCES JONES CALDWELL
- CATHERINE MINERVA [1] GOODMAN OLDHAM
- GEORGE [1] CRISSY HANCOCK
- HANCOCK LEE [1] URSULA D OLDHAM
Sources
- Mary & her husband, John Jackson are listed on her father's DAR record https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A050909
- Find A Grave: Memorial #10332217
- Mary is listed in her husband's DAR Record https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A061136
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10332217/mary-forest-jackson
- https://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/John-Jackson/p352211
- Wills, 1663-1789; Author: North Carolina. Division of Archives and History; Probate Place: North Carolina Will of Hester Hancock (father)
Acknowledgments
- Thank you to Anita Stickler for creating Hancock-2340 on 28 Oct 13.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
-
~3.12%
Jordon Cooper
:
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #4627
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~1.56%
Dave Beebe :
23andMe
-
~1.56%
Shereen Oldham :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A605837 [compare], Ancestry member ShereenVenning
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~1.56%
Cindy (Cooper) Ferguson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch SX6692768 [compare], Ancestry member Run2katz
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~1.56%
Casey Campbell :
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
Michael Rust :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member kowboy44507
-
~1.56%
Christopher Jacobs :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #9988
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Nancy Beebe :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #701317
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~0.78%
Stephanie (Yarger) Hall :
23andMe, GEDmatch DM8001862 [compare]
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~0.78%
Linda (Livermore Ainsworth) Pinkham :
23andMe, yourDNAportal LINc1d59153
+
AncestryDNA, yourDNAportal LINc1d59153, Ancestry member Pink11439
-
~0.78%
Tracy (Cook) Moore :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A659745 [compare], Ancestry member COOKMOORE
-
~0.78%
Merle (Ladd) Silverman :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member merlesilverman
-
~0.78%
Paul Hayes :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A863419 [compare], Ancestry member clarencepaul
-
~0.78%
Vicki (Campbell) Barge :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.39%
~0.78%
Christine (Heger) Romero :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member cromero51
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H > Hancock | J > Jackson > Mary Forest (Hancock) Jackson
Categories: A.R. Dyche Memorial Park, London, Kentucky
First, there is no indication that Hector's daughter Mary used a middle name, and her birthdate should have been around 1744. Hector lived his entire life in Carteret North Carolina so a birthplace of Virginia for his daughter is also fairly impossible. Her listed birthdate of 1769 is 18 years AFTER her father's death. Please let me know what your thoughts about this are.