1705, Dec 4  

SOURCE: T.G.F. Patterson, Notebook #5, p. 19. Held at the Armagh Library.

NOTE: I need to look at the entire transcription in Patterson’s Notebook and see if captured all of it – or better yet, I would like to find a copy of the original.

NOTE: It may help to reference the family tree I have cobbled together on the Jacksons of Coleraine.

Probated Will made 4 Dec 1705 Proved 12 Feb 1705/ 6. Samuel JACKSON[1] of D?ldin esq. Estate of ???? forfeited estates  in Monaghan[2] and Cavan[3] & Clifford[4] in Yorkshire ? my brother Leonard JACKSON[5] son of my dead brother[6] Nathaniel JACKSON[7] of Leeds in Yorkshire & his issue then to my brother-in-law [Rt] John JACKSON[8] minister of Skipworth in Yorkshire, then to my brother [Rt] Leonard JACKSON[9], Rector of Totham[10] in Lancashire 20 pounds each to nephews Capt W. JACKSON[11] of Coleraine & Robert JACKSON[12] House in Mary Lane in which I now live. Homes at Young Cashall & Fishamble St. House in King St. bought from Wm. Robert THORNTON[13].. Nephews Wm. ?PSON[14] of Dublin, W. MADDEN[15] of Kilmon?, Jas HAMILL[16], niece Mary GILES?[17]; friends Robert KING[18] & Jos BAYLEY[19]; Nicholas EVERELL[20] of Coleraine ... description of something bought from Sir Wm. HAMILTON[21] estate of Clifford- Yorkshire from M. WITHERS[22].... Capt Adam DOWNING[23] of Londonderry.

 



[1] Samuel JACKSON (?-1706). He resided at the time of his death with a nephew, Robert JACKSON in a house on MaryLane, Dublin. He owned property in Co. Monaghan and Co. Cavan as well as at Clifford in Yorkshire. Also properties in Dublin: Young Cashall & Fishamble St. House in King St. which he bought from William Robert THORNTON. In naming three friends from Coleraine as well as a nephew from Coleraine, he clearly had strong connections with that part of Ireland.

·         4. Tues. 15-19 Jan 1706. ... This morning Sam Jackson Esq. died, 'tis said he was worth £30,000 which he left to his two nephews. About half an hour after, Madam Mitchelburn, sister to the said Jackson, died in the same house. [NOTE: The announcement of the death of Madam MITCHELBURN was untrue as can be seen from a future announcement: 21. Richard Mitchelburne, Dublin, gent, whose will is dated 31 Jan. 1715 (Eustace, Registry of Deeds Dublin, Abstracts of Wills, vol. I, p. 79), was married to Mary Jackson; she, however, was still alive in 1715. Also, she was a sister-in-law of Samuel JACKSON, not a sister (see beneath in entry for her son William JACKSON)] SOURCE: Announcements In Impartial Occurrences, Jan. 1705—Feb. 1706  H. F. MORRIS, LL.B., M.A., PH.D..

·         There is a Samuel JACKSON mentioned as a purchaser of an estate as well as a Roger  Significantly, Samuel JACKSON had a brother named `Rodger`. SOURCE: The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry, When Cromwell came to Ireland. John O’Hart. 2007

·         This letter may be from him: Samuel Jackson, Dublin, to Sir Albert Conyngham, Mount Charles House, Strabane, about Capt. Hamilton's affairs.'... We have been in great consternation here about a letter which I presume you must have heard of, wherein it was said that on the 7th instant the Protestants was [sic] to be cut off; which alarm hath caused I believe 2000 [?] people to go for England. But, God be thanked, now people begin to come into their right wits again. For my part, I never believed anything of that report, and I do not doubt but in a little time all things in England will come to a good accommodation. ...' SOURCE: PRONI T2825/C/47/2.

Name

Occupation

Birthplace

Year of taking oaths

Jackson, Samuel

Pewterer

Nantwich

20 May 1669

 

[2] NOTE: I don’t yet know what lands he had in Monaghan. SEE 1739 Deed for possible connections. If those JACKSONs connect to these ones, then the Monaghan lands are likely in Errigal Trough.

[3] NOTE: I don’t yet know what lands he had in Cavan. Years later at the time of Griffiths, there were JACKSONs connected to a number of townlands in the Parish of Killeshandra.

[4] Clifford, West Yorkshire, about 3 miles south of Weatherby.

[5] Leonard JACKSON

[6] son of my dead brother – this is where I think I may have a transcription error.

[7] Nathaniel JACKSON. I don’t know any more about him, but am including two disparate references:

·        There is another Nathaniel JACKSON in the same time and place who may be him (I include this here so I don`t lose track of it in case it fits in another line of JACKSONs): JACKSON, Nathaniel ( -1662), was ejected from the  Vicarage of Barwick-in-Elmet , eight miles from Leeds.  He is not mentioned by Calamy, but has a rightful place among the ejected nonconformists. He belonged to a Puritan family, being son of John Jackson, rector of Meltonby, near Pocklington, who had three sons. His elder brother, John Jackson [NOTE: could this be a slight error and if it were `brother-in-law”, then we would have a fit.], was rector of Marske, near Richmond; presented in 1634 at Archbishop Neile's Diocesan Visitation for not reading prayers upon the eves of Sundays and Holy days, and sometimes omitting to wear the surplice; a member of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, and preacher at Gray's Inn, but nevertheless a royalist ; and died at Barwick in 1648. Another brother, Timothy, was curate of Hackness and preacher at Wragby (1630-1647) ; his son John was vicar of Doncaster ; " He deserted the politics of his family and bowed to the storm" (Raine). Nathaniel was rector of Stonegrave (1629-1648), and soon afterwards of Barwick; " a godly, learned and painful preacher" (Pari. Sur.) ; signed the certificate of the ordination of Matthew Hill at Thirsk, June 14th, 1654 ; gave instruction to Thomas Hardcastle (vide) ; and continued until the Restoration, when Dr. Dalton was brought back, and he took up his residence in York (see Arlush), where he died soon after the Act of Uniformity came into operation. " He was interred in that great rendezvous of the Puritan party, the Church of All Saints, in the Pavement, November 1st, 1662, with the famous Edward Bowles and many others of his friends " (" Marske in Swaledale," by Canon Raine). SOURCE: Yorkshire Puritanism AND Early Nonconformity. Illustrated by the Lives of the Ejected Ministers, 1660 and 1662. by the Late Rev. Bryan Dale, M.A. (Some time Secretary of the Yorkshire Congregational Union). EDITED BY T. G. CRIPPEN (Secretary of the Congregational Historical Society).  http://www.archive.org/stream/yorkshirepuritan00dalerich/yorkshirepuritan00dalerich_djvu.txt

·        Another Nathanial JACKSON (executed 18th of July, 1722) was a highwayman: ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/3/0/9/13097/13097.txt

[8] John JACKSON minister of Skipworth in Yorkshire. I have been unable to learn more about him

[9] Leonard JACKSON, Rector of “Totham” in Lancashire NOTE: He shows up at: Marriages at the Church of St James the Less in the Parish of Tatham performing a marriage in 1718. Other JACKSONs were also in the Parish. SEE:  http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Tatham/stjames/marriages_1558-1754.html

·         Leonard Jackson, a son of Richard Jackson, rector of Whittington, was educated at Christ's Coll., Camb.; M.A. 1677. He was a benefactor. SOURCE: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53304  Richard JACKSON became Rector of Whittington in 1641, July 26. SOURCE: The registers of the parish church of Whittington in the County of Lancaster. Christenings, burials, and weddings, 1538 to 1764 http://www.archive.org/stream/registersofparis00whit/registersofparis00whit_djvu.txt

·         Jackson, Leonard: son of Richard: born at Whittington, Lanes. School : (1) Lancaster, under M'' Holden : (2) Kirkby Lonsdale, under M"' Garthwaite for a few months. Admitted sizar under M"' [Chris.] Bainbridge [who held his Fellowship till Mids. 1669] 20 May 1668. Age 17.  B.A. 167|; M.A. 1677. Born 21 April 1650, of Jane the second wife of Richard (uiaf*. 1619) rector of Halton, then of Whittington near Kirkby Lonsdale: half-brother of Francis (1649). Ordained deacon, Chichester, 1673 May: priest, York, 1676 May. Rector of Claughton in Lonsdale, Lanes. 5 Sept. 1678: held it till 1681, when according to Croston-Baines (5. 534) he died : but he pretty certainly is the same who resigned the vicarage of Sheritt' Hutton before April 1700: and on 3 Feb. of the same year he became rector of Tatham near Wennington. Added a steeple to the church tower 1722. Died 1734: or 1726 (Croston-Baines, 5. 555) when at all events he ceased to be rector, Robert Jackson succeeding. (Information from B. N. North, Esq., Kirkby Lonsdale.) SOURCE: Biographical Register  Of  Christ's College  1505-1905  And Of The Earlier Foundation, God's House  1448-1505   Cambridge University Press  1st Edition: Cambridge University Press  1913  http://www.archive.org/stream/biographicalregi02peil/biographicalregi02peil_djvu.txt

[10] Tatham proper lies in the valley of the Wenning, the parish church being placed on the northern side of the river, which is crossed by a bridge; but nearly the whole area of this township-parish lies to the south of the river, occupying hilly country between the wooded valley of the Hindburn and the border of Yorkshire. SOURCE: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53304

[11] William JACKSON of Coleraine. His father, was the William JACKSON who had died in 1688  (his wife, Susanna BERESFORD – daughter of Sir Tristram Beresford - was already the widow Of William JACKSON in 1690 and married a second husband, John MITCHELBURN). SOURCE: Irish Genealogist. SOURCE: Further Notes on the High Sherrifs of Co. Sligo. Edward Stewart Gray. The Irish Genealogist Vol. 2, #9, July 1952. p271

·         More on Susanna BERESFORD: Susannah Beresford was the daughter of Sir Tristram Beresford, and sister of that other Tristram Beresford, who was involved in the Williamite wars. Her family were extremely powerful in the Coleraine to area and her marriage to William Jackson who also owned substantial estates near Coleraine and acted as agent for the Irish Society, can be considered a dynastic alliance. She had perhaps seven surviving children to what was her first and her husband's second marriage. Her husband fell out of favour with the society over the improper exploitation of timber belonging to them. Richard Jackson of Draperstown who served in Michelburne's regiment is probably her son. In the aftermath of the siege Susannah married John Michelburne and both she and her daughter stood guarantee for a loan given by the Stronge's to her new husband. Her son William Jackson stood in the 1697 by-election for county Londonderry which followed the death of George Philips MP. Although the election was won by James Lennox, Mayor of Londonderry, Jackson overturned the result and had himself declared MP for the county. Susannah's relation with Michelburne was a stormy one and after their separation Bishop William King then Bishop of Derry attempted to mediate between the parties with little success. During Michelburne's imprisonment in London, Susannah lived in the home of her fabulously wealthy brother in law in Coleraine. Her disputed settlement with Michelburne perhaps tied up his capital investments, thus lengthening his imprisonment in the Fleet. SOURCE: http://www.lynx2ulster.com/Siege/newinfo.php?PersonalID=65

[12] Robert JACKSON – residing in a house in Mary Lane, Dublin.

[13] Wm. Robert THORNTON

[14] Wm. ?PSON

[15] W. MADDEN of Kilmon

[16] Jas HAMILL

[17] Mary GILES

[18] Robert KING

[19] Jos BAYLEY

[20] Nicholas EVERELL of Coleraine

[21] Sir Wm. HAMILTON. NOTE: I feel a little abashed – this name should be easy to find, but I haven’t been able to run him to ground.

[22] M. WITHERS

[23] Capt Adam DOWNING (1666 - 1719) of Londonderry. He was the husband of Margaret JACKSON