Elizabeth (Brewer) Jackson (1796)

Born 1796 in Kingston, Frontenac, Upper Canada

Ancestors

Wife of William Jackson — married 1818 in Kingston, Frontenac, Upper Canada

Descendants

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Elizabeth was a Friend (Quaker)

Biography

Elizabeth was born in 1796. She is the daughter of Aaron Brewer and Elizabeth Cooper. She married William Jackson in Upper Canada in around 1816.

Quakerism

Following his immigration to Upper Canada, Aaron Brewer became an active member of the Religious Society of Friends. While resident in Upper Canada, he and his wife Elizabeth requested admission to the Nine Partners Monthly Meeting in New York in 1795. Both were accepted as members in 1796.^[1]

In 1799, the Nine Partners Monthly Meeting accepted Aaron Brewer’s request that his daughters Margaret, Sarah and Elizabeth be admitted to membership in 1799.^[2]

Elizabeth Jackson nee Brewer was disowned in 1818 by the Adolphustown Monthly Meeting "for Marrying out of the unity of friends".^[3]

Loyalist Land Petitions

Elizabeth Jackson nee Brewer filed a land petition with the Upper Canada Land Board in 1839 as daughter of Aaron Brewer.^[4]

Reid’s Loyalists in Ontario ^[5] records six children of Aaron Brewer of Kingston who filed UEL land claims, as follows:

• Margaret [+ Jarvis Worden of Kingston on 1 Jun 1804]
• John [+ Ann Warner on 20 Sep 1807]
• Sarah [+ William Spafford of Hallowell on 7 Aug 1808]
• Aaron
• Philip
• Elizabeth + William Jackson

Estate Litigation

The family tree of the Brewer family is discussed at length in Den v Gifford (1827)^[6]. It records the children of Aaron Brewer who had removed to Canada and died in 1802; that Aaron Brewer was the son of Eleazarus Brewer who died April 1821 in Monmouth, New Jersey; and that Eleazarus Brewer was the son of Adam Brewer who died 13 January 1769 in Monmouth, New Jersey.

Sources

1. ↑ Swarthmore College Archives, Nine Partners Monthly Meetings, Men 1790 - 1797 (online at: https://cfha.info/NP1790-97.pdf).
2. ↑ Swarthmore College Archives, Nine Partners Women Monthly Meetings 1794 - 1811 (online at: https://cfha.info/NP1794-11.pdf).
3. ↑ Canadian Quaker Library and Archives, Adolphustown Women’s Monthly Meeting Minutes 1808-1824 (online at: https://cfha.info/AdolphusO-2-2.pdf).
4. ↑ Library and Archives Canada, Upper Canada Land Petitions RG 1 L3, C-2112, Volume 261(a), Bundle J22, Petition 8 (online at: https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-119.02-e.php?q2=29&q3=2492&sqn=1010&tt=1075&PHPSESSID=rgi7t06a60or2jdheocn6v65f4).
5. ↑ William D. Reid, The Loyalists in Ontario: The Sons & Daughters of The American Loyalists of Upper Canada (Lambertville: Hunterdon House, 1973) at p 34.
6. ↑ William Halstead, ed. New Jersey Law Reports, Vol 9 (Supreme Court of Judicature 1827-8) (Trenton, 1875) at p 46 ff.