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Recently I paid money to the Bethel Historical Society in Bethel, Maine to do research on the family of our ancestor Moses Jackson and his father Joseph Jackson. They sent me a letter which I e-mailed to you yesterday. On April 30 I received a package from them that contained the same letter and some information, including an obituary notice for Joseph Jackson, our ancestor. This is the obituary notice: Death Notice of Joseph Jackson, Oxford Democrat [newspaper] September 8, 1835, p. 3, col 4: DIED In Newry [Maine], on the 5th alt; Joseph Jackson, a Hero of the Revolution, aged 83. Among the brave he was the bravest. He began his military career at Lexington -- He was at Bunker Hill, at the battle of the White plains [in New York State], and in all the engagements with the enemy of his country in those parts, during the war. The invincible defender of his country's rights both by sea and land. He captured several of the enemies ships and carried them into a port in France.--After the war, he retired to Newry, to enjoy the peace his valor had won. He was a firm uncompromising friend to his country, always jealously supporting the cause of Democracy. Joseph Jackson was a hatter. His wife was Mercy Jackson, maiden name unknown. She died before he did. My husband and I went on May1 to do research at the genealogical library in the headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, D.C. While there, I made a copy of the Revolutionary War Pension Record of Joseph Jackson. Joseph Jackson states in this record that on April 19, 1775 he joined the company of Captain John Davis in the regiment of Colonel James Frye of the Continental Army and served for eight months. The Battle of Lexington took place in the early hours of April 19, 1775, but the militia unit was led by Captain John Parker. I consulted a list of those men who fought at Lexington and Joseph Jackson was not listed. However, Colonel James Frye's regiment did fight at the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775 in Charlestown, Massachusetts against the British soldiers. I am trying to find out if Joseph Jackson fought in the battle. From the U. S. Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C. I obtained a record about the Frigate Raleigh on which Joseph Jackson served during the Revolutionary War. According to the record, the Raleigh did capture several British ships and did sail into and out of a port in France. The record does not state that the crew of the Raleigh sailed any of the captured British ship to France with them. If anyone would like to receive a copy of Joseph Jackson's Revolutionary War Pension record or the record about the frigate Raleigh, please let me know and I will be glad to copy them and mail them to you. I hope this information is interesting to you. Sincerely, Susan M. Grady 1830 JACKSON ALFA Oxford County ME 201 Newry Federal Population Schedule ME 1830 Federal Census Index ME55930411 1810 JACKSON JOSEPH Oxford County ME 391 Newry Federal Population Schedule ME 1810 Federal Census Index MES1a1752725 1810 JACKSON JOSEPH Oxford County ME 391 Newry Federal Population Schedule ME 1810 Federal Census Index MES1a1752866 1820 JACKSON JOSEPH Oxford County ME 144 Newry Federal Population Schedule ME 1820 Federal Census Index MES2a654606 1820 JACKSON JOSEPH Oxford County ME 144 Newry Federal Population Schedule ME 1820 Federal Census Index MES2a654610 1830 JACKSON JOSEPH Oxford County ME 200 Newry Federal Population Schedule ME 1830 Federal Census Index ME55932871 1850 JACKSON JOSEPH Oxford County ME 240 Newry Federal Population Schedule ME 1850 Federal Census Index MES6a1599388 1860 JACKSON JOSEPH Oxford County ME 931 Newry Federal Population Schedule ME 1860 Federal Census Index ME17121464 1820 JACKSON JOSIAH Oxford County ME 144 Newry Federal Population Schedule ME 1820 Federal Census Index MES2a654712 by Susan M. Grady Most Recent Information on Jackson Family July 19, 2003 Joseph Jackson was born around 1754 in Durham, New Hampshire, northwest of Portsmouth. In 1633 people came from Bristol, England with Captain Thomas Wiggin to Dover Neck, New Hampshire which they named Bristol after Bristol, England. In the 1630's they went from Bristol, New Hampshire to Durham. I found the Revolutionary War pension record of Joseph Jackson. He applied for this pension on April 24. 1818 when he was living in Newry, Maine. He was granted a pension. (On March 15, 1820 Maine became the 23rd State of the United States. Before that time it was part of Massachusetts.) In 1820 he and his wife Mercy Jackson (Her maiden name is unknown.) were living in Portland, Maine. He said that he had no income and that his wife was crippled. He said that he had no family except for his wife. He said that all that he owned was one old horse and that his friends were helping to take care of him and his wife. He said he was a hatter, a person who made hats, but that he had not been able to do this work for a long time. He and his wife had four children: Joseph (born 1786 Newry, Maine; died 1875), Nancy (She married Henry Goodenow.), Moses, and Willard (He was the father of Willard Cross Jackson.). Joseph Jackson joined the Continental Army (Army of the United States of America on the continental establishment) at Cambridge, Massachusetts (near Boston) on April 19, 1775, the day after the Battles of Concord and Lexington. He was listed as living in Andover, Massachusetts. Joseph Jackson served first eight months in Captain John Davis' Company, Colonel James Frye's Regiment. His rank was a private. He served in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After this he enlisted in the army again for one year as a private in Captain James Keith's Company, Colonel Sargeant's Regiment and Colonel Nixon's Brigade. He principally served in New York State. He was discharged at Fishkill, New York. On May 1, 1777 he entered on board the continental Frigate Raleigh at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was living in Nottingham, New Hampshire then. He was a marine under the command of Captain Thompson and he served for eleven months. He was discharged in Boston, Massachusetts. In June 1778 he again entered the army. This time he enlisted at Andover, Massachusetts, where he was living. He was a private. He served for nine months in Captain Daniel Shays' Company, Colonel Israel Putnam's Regiment. He served in New York State. He was discharged at Peekskill, New York. (From 1786 - 1787 Daniel Shays led a rebellion in western Massachusetts. It was called Shay's Rebellion and it was caused because the people were unhappy for several reasons, among them being: the wastefulness in the costs of lawsuits, the high salaries received by public officials, and exorbitant land taxes. President George Washington had the governor of Massachusetts raise an army that put down the rebellion.) All of Joseph Jackson's Revolutionary War army service was in Massachusetts regiments because at that time Maine was a part of Massachusetts. Maine became a state in the United States in 1820. From 1780 to April 1784 he was living in Canterbury, New Hampshire. He came to live in Newry, Maine in May 1784. On May 30, 1787 Joseph Jackson and nine other men signed a petition and then sent it to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts asking that the land they were occupying be granted to them. They said they had been living on and working this land for the past seven years. In 1790 when the first United States Census was taken, Newry had twelve families and fifty inhabitants, one of whom was Joseph Jackson. The town of Newry, Maine was incorporated in 1805. In January 1805 Joseph Jackson was one of the persons who signed a petition given to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in Boston asking for Newry to be incorporated. It was named after Newry, Ireland. James Beatty was born in Newry, Ireland. He owned and operated a plant that distilled whiskey from potatoes. He offered to give to the town's residents a certain quantity of whiskey for free if they would name the town 'Newry' after his birthplace. In 1805 Joseph Jackson was a Highway Surveyor in Newry. Joseph Jackson moved from Newry to Gorham, New Hampshire in 1807, but he did not stay there long. He built the first log house in Gorham and went to another town and bought apple and pear trees and brought them back to Gorham and planted them next to his cabin. He went back to Newry. In 1808 he was again living in Newry. In 1820 he and his wife were living in Portland, Maine. He died in Newry September 5, 1835, but the town clerk has no official record of his death. He is buried in the Sunday River Cemetery in Newry.

Birth	Abt 1754	Durham, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States
Milit-Beg	19 Apr 1775	8 Months, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Milit-Beg	Jan 1776	12 months
Milit-Beg	1 May 1777	11 Months - Navy - Ship Raleigh, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States
Milit-Beg	Jun 1778	9 Months - Army, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Living	Bet 1780 and Apr 1784	Canterbury, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States
Living	Aft May 1784	Newry, Oxford, Maine, United States
Living	30 May 1787	Petition For Land, Newry, Oxford, Maine, United States
Census	1790	Newry, Oxford, Maine, United States
Residence	1790	Settlements Adj Sadbury, York, Maine, United States
Residence	1790	Sudbury-Canada
Residence	1800	Bostwick, York, Maine, United States
Living	1807	Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire, United States
Living	1808	Newry, Oxford, Maine, United States
Residence	1810	Newry, Oxford, Maine, United States
Military	Bet 1818 and 1832	Maine, United States
Event-Misc	24 Apr 1818	Newry, Oxford, Maine, United States
Residence	1820	Newry, Oxford, Maine, United States
Occupation	1820	Hatter - He said he was a hatter, a person who made hats, but that he had not been able to do this work for a long time.
Living	1820	Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States
Death	5 Sep 1835	Newry, Oxford, Maine, United States
Probate	17 Nov 1835	Oxford, Maine, United States
Probate	5 Jan 1836	Oxford, Maine, United States
Marriage		Mercy
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Spouse	Mercy ( - 1824)
Child	Willard Jackson ( - )
Child	Josiah Jackson ( - )
Child	Moses Jackson ( - )
Child	Dorothea (Dolly) Jackson ( - )
Child	Nancy Jackson (1786 - )
Child	Joseph Jackson (1786 - 1875)
Child	Marcy Jackson (1794 - 1883)

Father

Benjamin Jackson (1730 - )

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