Alice Jackson

Notes:

Died:
Alice Mayes's Affidavit says Alice died of poisoning

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Liberty Co, Texas
• Census: 1860, Chambers Co, Texas

Notes:

Census:
Jackson, Hugh, 33, LA, surveyor
Elizabeth S, 27, MD
Alexander B, 6, TX
James S, 4, TX
John H, 2, TX

Census:
Long, A H, 56
Litticia, 44
Jackson, Jas S, 14
John H, 12
Decandia, 8

Hugh married Elizabeth Sophia Bond on 21 Mar 1843 in Texas. Elizabeth was born in 1813 in Maryland; died after 1852 in Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

JACKSON, HUMPHREY (1784-1833). Humphrey Jackson, Harris County pioneer, member of Stephen F. Austin'sqv Old Three Hundred colonists, and early San Jacinto District official, was born on November 24, 1784, in Belfast, Ireland, where his father owned flour and linen mills and was a member of the Irish Parliament that was dissolved in 1801. Jackson was educated in the law and immigrated to the United States in 1808. He settled at Berwick's Bayou, Louisiana, where he operated a sugar plantation near Vermillionville and served as a private with Baker's Louisiana Militia regiment at the battle of New Orleans in 1815. Jackson had married a Miss White, who died shortly without children. On October 13, 1814, he married Sarah Merriman, his first wife's cousin, with whom he had four children. Unable to run his plantation because he chose not to own slaves, Jackson traveled to Texas in September 1823 and built a log cabin outside Austin's colony on the San Jacinto River, a half mile west of the site of present Crosby. When it was discovered that he had settled outside the colony, Jackson petitioned the Baron de Bastrop,qv who on August 16, 1824, granted him title to a league and a labor of land, including the place where he had settled, in what is now Harris County. To become a legal colonist, Jackson next petitioned the Mexican government to form the San Jacinto District under control of the Austin colony; he was elected alcalde of the new district in 1824, 1825, and 1827, and served as ex officio militia captain of the San Jacinto area. In May 1825 he was appointed deputy constable in a case involving the schooner Mary. The census of March 1826 classified him as a farmer and stock raiser, a widower with a household including one servant, three sons, and a daughter. He offered Austin his services to help put down the Fredonian Rebellionqv in 1827 and in 1828 was regidorqv of Liberty Municipality. He was also a candidate for alcalde in 1830, when Francis W. Johnsonqv was elected. Jackson was killed by a falling tree on January 18, 1833, and buried at Crosby. Jackson's Bayou in eastern Harris County is probably named for him.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Austin Papers (3 vols., Washington: GPO, 1924-28). Eugene C. Barker, "The Government of Austin's Colony, 1821-1831," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 21 (January 1918). Eugene C. Barker, ed., "Minutes of the Ayuntamiento of San Felipe de Austin, 1828-1832," 12 parts, Southwestern Historical Quarterly 21-24 (January 1918-October 1920). Lester G. Bugbee, "The Old Three Hundred: A List of Settlers in Austin's First Colony," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 1 (October 1897). Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Founders and Patriots of the Republic of Texas (Austin, 1963-). Andrew Forest Muir, "Humphrey Jackson, Alcalde of San Jacinto," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 68 (January 1965). Regina Shaw, "European Immigration to the American Frontier: The Case of Humphrey Jackson, 1784-1833," Touchstone 1 (1982). Texas Gazette, November 27, 1830. Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Diana J. Kleiner

Humphrey's father was an apothercary, not a member of Parliament. His nephew, however, was a member of Parliament. Also, Humphrey did not travel to America with his brothers. They joined him there at a later date.

Humphrey is listed as follows in BRITISH ALIENS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE WAR OF 1812:

Jackson, Humphrey, age 28, 6 years in U.S., Attakapas (LA), planter; applied 8 oct. 1812 Superior Court LA. (16 nov. 1812 - 4 jan. 1813).

War of 1812 Service Records

Name: Humphry Jackson
Company: BAKER'S REGIMENT, LOUISIANA MILITIA.
Rank - Induction: PRIVATE
Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE
Roll Box: 109
Roll Exct: 602


Letitia Tennent, his niece, created a Jackson family tree sometime in the 1870s I suspect. I have a copy of this tree and it, along with other research notes names Humphrey's parents and his siblings. (see Letitia Tennent Notes)

His cousins from Ballybay, Ireland, actively funded Andrew Jackson's presidential ambitions, and one of them made an attempt on President Jackson's life.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I39

from Adam Edwards:
Some old correspondence/research alludes to the possibility that the Ballybay Jackson's were somehow related to President Andrew Jackson. Certainly both Andrew Jackson and the Ballybay Jackson's came from Northern Ireland, and they certainly gravitated toward each other when they came to North America, but it's unclear how they might be related by blood, if at all. I suspect they were cousins of some kind, but to what degree it's impossible to tell.
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also from Adam Edwards:
His cousins from Ballybay, Ireland, actively funded Andrew Jackson's presidential ambitions, and one of them made an attempt on President Jackson's life.
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Humphrey married Sarah Merriman on 13 Oct 1814 in Louisiana. Sarah was born on 06 Jun 1796; died in 1823. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Family lore has it that she is the daughter of John Merriman and Mary Berwick. These two appear to have a daughter, Anne, born on Jun 9, 1796 in LA. I have not been able to determin for sure if Anne and Sarah are the same person but it seems likely. We do not know for sure Sarah was born on the 6th instead of the 9th. They were both living in the same area. We have a record of Anne's birth but none for Sarah. We have a record of Sarah's marriage and death but no such records for Anne. She named her first two children, Letitia and Hugh after her husband's parents. The third child, John, could be named after Sarah/Anne's father, John Merriman. The fourth child is a boy so the symetry is broken. That said, their eldest daughter does name her first born Mary.
On the flip side, the source of the family lore stated above was not very reliable where Humphrey's Irish ancestory was concerned.
(from Adam Edwards - http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I487
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Notes:

(from Adam Edwards)
The names of all the children come from genealogy notes compiled by Letitia Emerson Tennent in the mid 1870s concerning her Jackson aunts and uncles.

Memoranda relating to my dear Grandmother's family:

Eleanor Jackson, my mother, born 18 January 1781 - married W Tennent Esq 25 March 1805 - died 18 january 1807

Letitia Jackson, born 22 January 1782 - died April 20 - died 1783

Hugh Jackson, born 19 January 1783 - died May 18, 1783

Humphrey Jackson, 24 Nov 1784 - died January 1833 in America

Hugh Jackson, b. 2 dec 1785 - died 15 sept 1805 of yellow fever in America

Susana Jackson, b. 2 april 1787 - died 23 may 1787

Letitia Jackson, b. 24 jul 1788 - died in America 11 august 1815. Well remember her; a beautiful woman

Isabella Jackson, b. 21 oct 1789 - died 14 may 1829. Well remember

Susana Jackson, b. 25 jun 1792 - died 31 dec 1824 [1826?]. Well remember. Much loved.

James Jackson, b. 8 sep 1793 - died in America 13 may 1824. Such a fine character and clever man: remember him well

Henry Jackson, b. 5 jul 1795 - died abroad - [?] [?] 1814. Just recall!

John Jackson, b. 13 nov 1797 - died 9 feb 1798

Alexander Jackson, b. 2 aug 1799 - died in America 6 aug 1839. Recall well.

Mary Jackson, my loved aunt, b. 29 oct 1800

- Letitia Emerson Tennent, sep 1876

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I672

Hugh married Letitia Thompson about 1780 in Ireland. Letitia was born in 1761 in Ireland; died in Feb 1826 in Ireland; was buried in New Burying Ground, Belfast, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]