James Jackson (1773 - 1834)

Ancestors

Descendants

Discrepancy: The UELAC profile for James Jackson is conflating the biographies of 2 men who emigrated to Canada.

• James Jackson (b.1740 in England; parents unknown; fought in Jessup's Loyal Rangers)
  • Settled ca.1770 in Skenesborough, New York (what is today Whitehall, near Lake Champlain, on the Vermont border)
  • Wife Ann, probably born in England; 4 known children & approx. birth years were Thomas (1767), Catherine (1769), Anne/Nancy (1772), William (1777).
  • Settled after war in Ernestown/Bath, Lennox & Addington
  • Died 1808 & buried on Amherst Island

• James Jackson (b. New York state; lived 1773-1834; parents Henry & Sara; perhaps fought in War of 1812 given that his children filed UEL land claims).
  • Settled after war in Augusta (Leeds & Grenville) and Mountain (Dundas) Townships
  • The "Children" and "Biography" sections of the UELAC page clearly pertain to this James Jackson (1773-1834).

More Jackson Loyalists in early Ontario:

• 1808: Three Jacksons (Jacob and sons James & Isaac) are listed as landowners in Hallowell, Prince Edward County (near today's Belleville, Ontario). This family came directly to Canada from Long Island, New York.^[1]
• Jethro Jackson UE (born 1758)^[2] married Zelicia Coggelshall and they had at least 9 children. Died in 1825 in Richmond (near Ernestown).

Biography

1798 Upper Canada Land Petitions^[3]

James Jackon of Township of Edwardsburg, County of Granville,

Son of Henry Jackson, Loyalist

That your petitioner's Father has served His Majesty in the late American War as a true and faithful Loyalist and having suffered great heardship during the said War; your Petitioner not having drawn any land entreats your Excellency will grant him such a quantity of waste lands of the Crown as your Excellency may think your Petitioner is entitled to receive and your Petitioner as in duty bound shall pray.

Date: May 17th, 1798

List of 11 children^[4] of James Jackson (1773-1834) who filed UEL land claims in Upper Canada in the 1800s:^[5]

• Elisha JACKSON [living in Mountain, Dundas County, in 1840]
• Levina JACKSON [+ William CAMPBELL / KIMSALL; living in Portland, Ontario, in 1840]
• Diadema JACKSON [+ Cornelius MILLS; living in Loughborough in 1840]
• John JACKSON [living in Mountain, Dundas County, in 1840]
• James JACKSON [living in Mountain, Dundas County, in 1841]
• Thomas JACKSON [living in Mountain, Dundas County, in 1837]
• Elizabeth JACKSON [+ John RICHARDSON; living in Mountain in 1837]
• George JACKSON [living in Portland in 1837]
• Samuel JACKSON [living in Portland in 1836]
• Erastus JACKSON [living in Loughborough in 1834]
• Phineas JACKSON [living in Portland in 1834]

How did his children qualify for UEL land? Was James in the War of 1812?

Sources

1. ↑ The Jacksons of Long Island are profiled in detail in "Pioneer Life on the Bay of Quinte", pp.452-457:
   • https://ia802605.us.archive.org/9/items/pioneerlifeonbay00torouoft/pioneerlifeonbay00torouoft.pdf
2. ↑ From his [UELAC biography: Jethro Jackson was born in Cornwall, Connecticut (near the 3 borders of NY, Connecticut and Massachusetts)
3. ↑ Library and Archives Canada C-2108, 1798, Volume 254A, Bundle I-J 4, Petition 2 (found on page 989)
4. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20051218154807/http://www.qschooner.com/reid/d0002/g0000012.html#I2430
5. ↑ The Reid book gives this James Jackson's residence as Ernesttown/Augusta/Mountain, but he appears to be conflating several James Jacksons. Augusta (Leeds & Grenville) and Mountain (Dundas) are probably correct, but not Ernestown, which was the home of the other James Jackson (b.1740 in England).

April 2nd 1801, List of Inhabitants of the Township of Edwardsburgh

Name: James Jackson

Men: 1

Women: 1

Boys: 1

Girls:

Total: 3

....... (next door to to Abraham Bolton, whose wife Leah was James first cousin) ...

• William D. Reid, The Loyalists in Ontario: The Sons & Daughters of The American Loyalists of Upper Canada, Hunterdon House, Lambertville, New Jersey USA, 1973.