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John Farrow Jackson was born March 15, 1788 in Prince William County, Virginia to Samuel Jackson and Mary Farrow. When he was about 25 years old, he married Elizabeth Grigsby but the marriage was not a happy one. Elizabeth filed for divorce twice but at that time divorce was nearly impossible to obtain. She eventually left him and went to live with their son.
Tax research by John McAnally from various sources. It appears that John married about two years before his father died. John is taxed on 103 acres in the District BELOW the Cedar and Occoquan Rivers first in 1811, then in 1812 and 1813. His father died in 1815 and John was taxed in 1816 on 159 1/2 acres and an adjoining 110 acres both received by his father's will.
Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850 Groom Name: John F. Jackson Bride Name: Elizabeth Grigsby Marriage Date: 6 Dec 1813 County: Fauquier State: Virginia
Virginia Genealogies, pg 537 Henry Peyton, b ---; d ---; m 1818 Sarah G. Grigsby, dau of Wm. Grigsby. In 1840 Henry Peyton of Howard Co., MO, deeded to Jno. F. Jackson land on Carter's Run, Fauq'r Co., Va, inherited by his wife Sarah from her father, Wm. Grigsby. 9 children listed
Elizabeth twice sued for divorce from John alleging cruelty and adultery among other things and these cases may be found in the records of VA Index #1848-002 and Index #1852-002. It appears from these suits and from subsequent research by various other folks that John had children by other women. These children do not carry the name Jackson but the names of their mothers and may be the source of several persons in much later years discovering through DNA that somewhere in their line there was a Jackson father.
From Mike Wilson's summary of the divorce proceedings: John and Elizabeth Jackson had had nine children within 26 years (1813-1839), but only six that were living in 1839. 1839 John Jackson accrued his portion of his wife's inheritance, 126 acres in Fauquier County. Dec 1839 John sold his land in Prince William County and moved to the 126 acres of his deceased father-in-law. 1840 John bought an additional 244 acres from William Grigsby's other heirs (see Virginia Genealogies above). John now owns a total of 370 A of Fauquier land. The first 126 acres included the house where Elizabeth was born. Mardula and Adelaide are mentioned as daughters and William S. mentioned as son. Jackson Strother is mentioned as nephew (son of John's sister, Nancy.)
Elizabeth left John in the fall of 1843, and went to live in Washington, DC, with their son, William S. G. Jackson, Mardula, her unmarried daughter, and another married daughter, a Mrs. Howison (Juliet Virginia), and her husband, Mr. (Henry) Howison. The two youngest Jackson children, both sons, stayed in Carter's Run in Fauquier Co. with their father. Another child who also stayed with him was named Adelaide In February or March of 1845, Elizabeth Jackson made the original bill of complaint.
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