Michael Jackson (1759 - 1802)

Born 12 Sep 1759 in Newtown, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Badger) Jackson — married 22 Feb 1791 in Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 15 Oct 1802 at age 43 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Lieutenant Michael Jackson served with 8th Massachusetts Regiment (1777), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Michael Jackson is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 223785
Rank: Quartermaster

Michael Jackson, Jrs. of Newton served in the Revolutionary War as a Private in Capt. Phineas Cook's company, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to headquarters at Cambridge under command of Capt. Lieut. John Marean, and as a Fifer in Capt. Phineas Cook's company, Lieut. Col. William Bond's (late Col. Thomas Gardner's) 37th regiment, and as Quartermaster Sergeant in Capt. Wiley's company, Col. Michael Jackson's (his father) (8th) regiment, then Ensign and Lieutenant in the years 1777 though 1780, being at Boston, West Point and Phillipsborough, and again as Lieutenant in the 3d Massachusetts regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson in 1783. ^{[2] [3]}

Michael married Sarah Badger on 22 Feb 1791, in Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.^[4] They had three children whom they registered in Newton:

• Stephen Badger Jackson (b. 16 May 1793)
• Horace Jackson (later changed to James Lander Jackson) (b. 20 Dec 1794)^[5]
• Abigail Hill Jackson (b. 23 Feb 1797)^[6]

Capt. Michael Jackson died at the age of 43, on 15 Oct 1802, in Newton. He was buried at the East Parish Burying Ground in Newton.^[7]

The inscription on his gravestone reads:^[8]

Captain

MICHAEL JACKSON

Eldest Son of

General Michael Jackson.

in the various relations of life,

He discharged is duties

with fidelity and diligence;

He justified God

and died in the faith

of Christ.

October 15th A.D. 1802

AEt. 43

Probate

Michael Jackson's Last Will and Testament was dated 16 Aug 1802. He made his wife, Sarah, his sole executor and unconditionally bequeathed his entire estate, after payment of his just debts and apart from specific legacies, to her.^[9] In this will, he named his three children, who were each to receive a legacy of $20.00 when they turned 21: Stephen Badger Jackson, James Lander Jackson, and Abigail Hill Jackson. Sarah Jackson presented his will to Oliver Prescott, Judge of the Probate Court, and it was accepted for probate on 2 Nov 1802.^[10] She signed the administration bond, with William Greenough Clark of Newton and Ebenezer Wells of Cambridge (a "salemaker" - sail maker?) as her sureties, that same day.^[11]

Note: Newton was known as "the newe towne" until 1638, when it was renamed Cambridge. It was incorporated in 1688 as Cambridge Village, then renamed Newtown in 1691. It was named Newton in 1766.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Newton - Births, p. 118 (accessed 24 Sep 2017).
2. ↑ Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War
3. ↑ History of Newton, Massachusetts
4. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Newton - Marriages, p. 319 (accessed 24 Sep 2017)
5. ↑ Citing baptismal records of the Church for the change of name, town records for the birth: Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Newton - Births, p. 115 (accessed 4 Oct 2017).
6. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Newton - Births, p. 112 (accessed 4 Oct 2017).
7. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Newton - Deaths, p. 468 (accessed 24 Sep 2017)
8. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 7104219
9. ↑ Last Will and Testament, Michael Jackson, dated 16 Aug 1802: Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871 #12447 (accessed 4 Oct 2017).
10. ↑ Acceptance of will for probate, dated 2 Nov 1802: Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871 #12447 (accessed 4 Oct 2017).
11. ↑ Administration and inventory bond, dated 2 Nov 1802: Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871 #12447 (accessed 4 Oct 2017).

• Alice F. Jackson and Bettina Jackson, Three Hundred Years American: The Epic of a Family from Seventeenth-Century New England to Twentieth-Century Midwest, Published by The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1951.

• Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) (subscription required)

• Smith, S.F., History of Newton, Massachusetts (The American Logotype Co., Boston, 1880); p. 339-47

• Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, 1896) Vol. 8, p. 680
  • "JACKSON, MICHAEL (also given MICHAEL, Jr.), Newton. Private, Capt. Phineas Cook's co., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to headquarters at Cambridge under command of Capt. Lieut. John Marean ; service, 2 days ; also, Fifer, Capt. Phineas Cook's co., Lieut. Col. William Bond's (late Col. Gardner's) 37th regt. ; receipt for advance pay, signed by said Jackson and others, dated Camp at Cambridge, June 27, 1775; also, company return dated Oct. 6, 1775; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Prospect Hill, Dec. 26, 1775."
  • "JACKSON, MICHAEL (also given MICHAEL, Jr.), Newton. Quartermaster Sergeant, Capt. Wiley's co., Col. Michael Jackson's (8th) regt. ; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1777, to Oct. 15, 1778 ; residence, Newton ; credited to town of Newton ; reported promoted to Ensign Oct. 15, 1778 ; also, Ensign, Col. Michael Jackson's regt. ; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Oct. 15, 1778, to Dec. 31, 1779; also, same regt.; return of officers for clothing, dated Boston, Nov. 20, 1778; also, same regt. ; list of officers, dated West Point, Nov. 8, 1779; also, Lieutenant, same regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780, to Dec. 31, 1780; also, Lieutenant, same regt.; list of officers promoted in the Continental Army ; commissioned July 4, 1780 ; also, return dated Phillipsborough, July 18, 1781. made by Ezra Badlam, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, 8th Mass, regt., of officers of said regiment doing duty upon warrants ; date of warrant, Dec. 15, 1779 ; also, Lieutenant, 3d Mass. regt. commanded by Col. Michael Jackson ; return of effectives, dated Oct. 31, 1783 ; reported sick, but present; also, Paymaster, Col. Jackson's regt.; list of Continental officers [year not given] ."