Individual Details

Birth

Jane Garrison [numbered (a) by Mr. Outlaw] was born 1785 or thereabouts, not 1765. The erroneous year was found in Jane (Meaders) Quillian's memoirs which she wrote in 1882 following the death of her mother, Jane (Garrison) Meaders. [The more nearly correct 1785 is found in many sources including John Silas Garrison's The Garrison Family. p. 29.]

This date error, 1765 that should be 1785, has caused idiotic results in the information some descendants of Jedediah have put together. Unfortunately they have been so anxious to share their stupendous mistakes that they entered this "pseudo-data" into the International Genealogical Index of the LDS Church and this collection of "imaginary facts" is now available on the Internet. Someone, carelessly accepting 1765 as Jane's date of birth, decided that her father, Jedediah, must have been born about 1730. That meant that his father, the imaginary Christopher Garrison, must have been born about 1700, an estimate made in spite of the fact that the real Christopher Garrison had been born 1730/1 on Staten Island. And, of course, that meant that Christopher's parents, Isaac Garrison and Maria Christopher, had been born in the 1670s or so, in spite of Isaac having been listed as a boy in the 1706 census of Staten Island, and in spite of Maria having been christened as an infant in 1710. Another unfortunate situation is that some descendant of Jedediah, likely D. H. P. Garrison, entered this information into a family Bible and then submitted it to the Georgia DAR for publication in a collection of Bible records. Doesn't it mean anything to anyone that the only reliable Bible records are those entered after the Bible was printed?