Katherine (Miller) Jackson (1713 - 1781)

Katharine, wife of James Miller, was the daughter of Thomas Lightfoot a native of Cambridgeshire, England, who at an advanced age removed from Ireland and settled in Chester county, Pa. He died 9mo. 1725, aged about eighty-five years, and was buried at Friends' burying ground, Darby. Concerning him, Thomas Chalkley bore this testimouy : '"Our dear friend was greatly beloved for his piety and virtue, his sweet disposition and lively min- istry."

James and Katharine Miller, accompanied by live of their children, removed to America, arriving at Philadelphia in "the Sizarah of Whitehaven, Jeremiah Cowman, Master," in the 9th or 10th mo., 1729. In a memoir, which has been preserved, it was stated that " Katharine was a worthy pub- lic Friend, but in the great loss to her family and friends, she departed this life in said city, a few weeks after their arrival."! Soon after this sad event James and the five children settled in New Garden, and produced at that meeting in the following year their certificate of removal from Dublin, Ire- land, dated .5nio. 29, 1729. The names of their children were as follow :— Sarah, Elizabeth, James, Mary, Katharine, Ann and Hannah, — the two oldest daughters, Sarah and Elizabeth, having married in Ireland, the former to Thomas Millhouse, the latter to Thomas Hiett. Thomas Millhouse and family came with his father-in-law to Pennsylvania, and Thomas Hiett and family followed them in 1733, settling in New Garden.

James Miller married (2d) Ruth Seaton, of Londongrove, 2mo. 10, 1734, at Londongrove Meeting, and after his death, she married John Gracy, 3mo. 8, 1751.

James, Jr., born about 1708, married in 1733, Rachel (Fred), widow of James Miller, of Kennett, by whom he had three children. He married (2d) Rebecca Kirk, daughter of Jacob, of Lampeter, Imo. 6, 1749 ; was Clerk of New Garden Monthly Meeting for several years, and died 1758.

Mary Miller, daughter of James and Katharine, married 4mo. 11, 1730, Isaac Jackson, son of Thomas, of East Marlborough. They had several children, with whom they removed in 1751 to Eno, North Carolina. Mary was a minister. Ann Miller, the remaining daughter, married 2mo. 19, 1733, William Farquhar, son of Allen, of Pipe Creek, Maryland.

The high standing William and Katharine Jackson maintained, not only in their relations to the religious society of which they were members, but to the community at large wherein they were known, presented an example of industry, frugality and unswerving integrity worthy of imitation. Katharine died 4mo. 2, 1181, aged sixty-seven years. William died II mo, 24. 1785, aged eighty years. The exemplary lives they lived and their usefulness in society appear manifest from a testimony concerning them, issued by New Garden Monthly Meeting of Friends.

Proceedings of the sesqui-centennial gathering of the descendants of Isaac and Ann Jackson : at Harmony Grove, Chester Co., Pa., eighth month, twenty-fifth, 1875, together with the family genealogy by Jackson, Halliday

Publication date 1878 https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofses00injack/page/74/mode/2up

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