Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Jackson (abt. 1740 - 1781)

Born about 1740 in Kirkpatrick Parish, Scotland [uncertain]

Wife of Andrew Jackson — married 7 Feb 1759 in the parish church of Carrickfergus, Ireland

Died 2 Nov 1781 at about age 41 in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

No documentation for Elizabeth's birth have been found. Her birth has been estimated between the late 1730s and the early 1740s. Her parents are also unproven at this time.^[1]

Elizabeth Jackson is credited with having boundless energy, rare native intelligence, courage, determination and "spunk" -- to use a commonplace term. She endured much with fortitude. She was widowed early, lost two teenage sons in the War, and indeed lived a life of trauma. This would have been too much for most women. Not so with her. It did not deter her from a final act of courage and service. She traveled to Charleston and helped nurse Revolutionary War soldiers who were sick of "ship fever" in a British prison ship, where she herself caught the plague and succumbed to it on an unrecorded day in November 1781. She was buried with other victims in an unmarked grave somewhere north of Charleston. Fourteen year old Andrew remembered one of her last words to him: "Make friends by being honest, keep them by being steadfast". Consult James Parton's and Marquis James biographies of Andrew Jackson for further information. "The way Mrs. Jackson told the story, he [her father] had fought the troops of the British king in action at Carrickfergus "Often she would spend the winter's night , in recounting to them the suffering of their grandfather, at the siege of Carrickfergus, and the oppressions exercised by the nobility of Ireland over the laboring poor," wrote John Reich and John Eaton in a biography Jackson approved,..."

":"Elizabeth Hutchinson ), the youngest of the Hutchinson sisters -- short, plump, blue-eyed and red-headed -- was probably born in the early 1740s. She married Andrew Jackson Sr. in Carrickfergus, North Ireland in 1761. They came to America in 1765 with their two small sons, Hugh and Robert. They landed in the Philadelphia region, headed south on the trail of their kinsmen and settled in the Waxhaws on Twelve mile Creek near the present site of Pleasant Grove which was some six miles north of the main settlement. (Some biographer contend that the Jacksons and Crawfords entered this country through Charleston, S.C., but this is not substantiated by the lists of immigrants coming through that port).

" The going was hard on Twelve Mile Creek and Andrew Jackson Sr. died there in early 1767, and was buried in the Waxhaw cemetery. In a matter of weeks the widow, expecting a baby shortly, proceeded with her two sons to her relatives closer to the settlement, hoping to reach James Crawford's place. Caught short, their mother and sons stopped at George McKemey's house on the night of 14-15 March, 1767, where she gave birth to Andrew Jackson., who was later to be President. Sarah Hutchinson Leslie, sister of Andrew Jackson's mother and also a neighbor of her sister Margaret Hutchinson McKemey, is said to have assisted in the birth."

Parents

Please see discussion at Elizabeth Hutchinson's Parents

Marriage

Wife: Elizabeth Hutchinson  :Husband: Andrew Jackson , Sr..

Children of Elizabeth Hutchinson and Andrew Jackson are:

1. Hugh Jackson.
2. Robert Jackson.
3. Andrew Jackson.

Andrew Jackson's Birthplace

Andrew Jackson's birthplace is a matter of dispute among historians and a running controversy between the states of North and South Carolina. On the one hand there is Andrew Jackson's own belief that he was born on the plantation of James Crawford, husband of his aunt Jane Hutchinson Crawford, which was some two and a half miles to the southwest of McKemey's place -- and in South Carolina. He is supported in this by several historians. however, in 1845, and again in 1858, Col. S. H. Walkup, a distinguished North Carolina lawyer, state senator and later a colonel in the Confederate Army (historian James Parton refers to him as General Walkup), visited the Waxhaw area and conducted an in-depth study of Andrew Jackson's beginnings. He took fourteen affidavits of residents who were knowledgeable of Jackson's early life, they having heard about it from their parents and older relatives. It was the most exhaustive study ever undertaken on the subject. It was the firm consensus of these affidavits that Andrew Jackson's mother was unable to reach James Crawford's place on her journey to the settlement , but instead stopped at George McKemey's on the way where she was delivered of her child, and further that after the mother and child were able to travel they continued their journey to the Crawford plantation. It was there that Andrew Jackson spent his childhood and got the impression that he was actually born on the plantation. With historians presenting these two points of view, it is small wonder that North Carolina has put up a monument marking Andrew Jackson's birthplace at the McKemey site, and South Carolina has put up a similar type of marker at the Crawford place about two miles to the southwest, eacn being within the present boundaries of their respective states.

Elizabeth's Children's Deaths

A footnote to the Jackson story is that Andrew's brothers,

"Hugh and Robert, died at the ages of seventeen and fourteen, respectively, from wounds and exposure in the Revolutionary War.

He had no sisters.

Hugh and Robert Jackson, like their father Andrew Jackson Sr., are buried in the Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church Cemetery. (ID: 10225235)

Nancy Crockett belongs to this old church and was instrumental in arranging for government markers to be placed in the cemetery for them.

In 1931 the Catawba Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a granite boulder at the burial place of Andrew Jackson Sr. This was a couple of years after the author visited the cemetery (1n 1929) and was shown the location of the grave.

Also the Daughters of the American Revolution chapter placed a monument (figure of a woman) in the cemetery in memory of Elizabeth Jackson."

Also this woman of our history, was also memorialized by another Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, REBECCA MOTTE Chapter" at the City Burial Ground Old, Charleston County, South Carolina. (ID: 14220318}

Notes

After her husband's death, Elizabeth abandoned the family farm of some 200 acres. It’s possible that the Jacksons only had squatters' rights because title to it was later. She went to live with her relatively prosperous sister Jane who was married to James Crawford or Crafford and became her housekeeper because Jane was in poor health. On her way to the Crawfords' she stopped off at the cabin where her sister Margaret lived with her husband Georg McKerny or McCamie. The future president was born either there or at the Crawfords'.

Sources

1. ↑ Collective Biographies of Women at the University of Virginia

1. Dictionary of Irish Biography
2. MacKie, Brownie. Hutchinson, John, Descendants. Hutchinsons of Waxhaw, SC, late 1700s. http://genforum.genealogy.com/hutchinson/messages/393.html Date: 04/08/09 In Reply to: Hutchinsons of Waxhaw, SC, late 1700s by James Manees
3. 404 Page Not Found-/collections/show/109Walkup, is not a valid URL. digitalcollections.eku.edu/collections/show/109Walkup, Samuel H. Papers 1858-1876. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
4. Miscellaneous papers including the Civil War diary of Samuel Hoey Walkup, colonel of the 48th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., while stationed in Virginia and eastern North Carolina; and letters written home from the front. The diary describes the formation of the 48th North Carolina Regiment and its participation in the Peninsula Campaign, the battles of Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and the siege.
5. Source: S330 Text: Report on Andrew Jackson’s Genealogy, The Hermitage Data Changed: Date: 19 JUN 2009
6. Source: S341 Type: Web Site Title: Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) URL: State Library State Library of North Carolina--Date: June 2009 Publication: State Library of North Carolina Data Changed: Date: 13 JUL 2009
7. WikiTree profile Hutchison-278 created through the import of LJM Family File 10.1.ged on Oct 28, 2012 by Vivian Kahn. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Vivian and others.

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