Individual Details
John Jackson
(Abt 1636 - 23 Feb 1718)
[[Category: Salem Witch Trials]]
==Biography==
}John Jackson was born after 1640 in Massachusetts Bay, the son of William Jackson and Joane Collin. Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1567/i/21162/21/426838378
On 27 Feb 1669, he married Elizabeth at Rowley, Massachusetts Bay."Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-4WJF : 29 November 2018), John Jackson and Elizabeth Poore, 27 Feb 1669; citing Marriage, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009689.
He died 23 Feb 1718 in Rowley, Massachusetts Bay "of great fame."Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Online at [https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=VrY1&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&dbid=2495&gsfn=John&gsln=Jackson&msddy=1718&new=1&rank=1&uidh=rf1&redir=false&msT=1&gss=angs-d&pcat=34&fh=0&h=10878676&recoff=&ml_rpos=1&queryId=fa677623a682147083052c1d4a84dbc1Ancestry.com]
'''Massachusetts Remediation'''
# 17 October 1710, ''Convictions Reversed'', The General Court of Massachusetts Bay, An act, ''the several convictions, judgments, and attainders be, and hereby are, reversed, and declared to be null and void.'' “Salem Witchcraft : with an Account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects : Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875, Author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, January 1, 1970. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17845/17845-h/salem2-htm.html#Page_ii.480.# 17 Dec 1711, ''Compensation to Survivors'', Governor Dudley, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, approved compensation ''to such persons as are living, and to those that legally represent them that are dead''# 28 Aug 1957, ''No Disgrace to Descendants'', General Court of Massachusetts, ''...such proceedings, were and are shocking, and the result of a wave of popular hysterical fear of the Devil in the community, and further declares that, as all the laws under which said proceedings...have been long since abandoned and superseded by our more civilized laws, no disgrace or cause for distress attaches to the said descendants or any of them by reason of said proceedings.''https://www.mass.gov/doc/resolves-of-1957-chapter-145/download# 31 Oct 2001, ''Additional Victims Included'', Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives in General Court, AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WITCHCRAFT TRIAL OF 1692, ''chapter 145 is hereby further amended by adding Bridget Bishop, Susannah Martin, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott and Wilmot Redd.''https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2001/Chapter122
== Sources ==
==Biography==
}John Jackson was born after 1640 in Massachusetts Bay, the son of William Jackson and Joane Collin. Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1567/i/21162/21/426838378
On 27 Feb 1669, he married Elizabeth at Rowley, Massachusetts Bay."Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-4WJF : 29 November 2018), John Jackson and Elizabeth Poore, 27 Feb 1669; citing Marriage, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009689.
He died 23 Feb 1718 in Rowley, Massachusetts Bay "of great fame."Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Online at [https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=VrY1&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&dbid=2495&gsfn=John&gsln=Jackson&msddy=1718&new=1&rank=1&uidh=rf1&redir=false&msT=1&gss=angs-d&pcat=34&fh=0&h=10878676&recoff=&ml_rpos=1&queryId=fa677623a682147083052c1d4a84dbc1Ancestry.com]
'''Massachusetts Remediation'''
# 17 October 1710, ''Convictions Reversed'', The General Court of Massachusetts Bay, An act, ''the several convictions, judgments, and attainders be, and hereby are, reversed, and declared to be null and void.'' “Salem Witchcraft : with an Account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects : Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875, Author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, January 1, 1970. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17845/17845-h/salem2-htm.html#Page_ii.480.# 17 Dec 1711, ''Compensation to Survivors'', Governor Dudley, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, approved compensation ''to such persons as are living, and to those that legally represent them that are dead''# 28 Aug 1957, ''No Disgrace to Descendants'', General Court of Massachusetts, ''...such proceedings, were and are shocking, and the result of a wave of popular hysterical fear of the Devil in the community, and further declares that, as all the laws under which said proceedings...have been long since abandoned and superseded by our more civilized laws, no disgrace or cause for distress attaches to the said descendants or any of them by reason of said proceedings.''https://www.mass.gov/doc/resolves-of-1957-chapter-145/download# 31 Oct 2001, ''Additional Victims Included'', Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives in General Court, AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WITCHCRAFT TRIAL OF 1692, ''chapter 145 is hereby further amended by adding Bridget Bishop, Susannah Martin, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott and Wilmot Redd.''https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2001/Chapter122
== Sources ==
Events
| Birth | Abt 1636 | England | |||
| Death | 23 Feb 1718 | Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay | |||
| Reference No | 1373312 | ||||
| Reference No | 1396774 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | William Jackson (1607 - 1688) |
| Mother | Joane Jackson (1617 - 1680) |
| Sibling | Mary Jackson (1639 - 1715) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Jackson (1635 - 1692) |