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Mary FITZ RANDOLPH's other families: with Ebenezer FORD ( -1797), Jeremiah MANNING (1736-1803) and Edward GRIFFITH ( - )

Family of Charles JACKSON and Mary FITZ RANDOLPH

Husband: Charles JACKSON (1738-1785)
Wife: Mary FITZ RANDOLPH (1748- )
Children: Thomas JACKSON (1765?-bef1830)
James JACKSON (bef1775-bef1830)
Charles JACKSON (1775?- )
Marriage 1764 (app) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1

Husband: Charles JACKSON

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      Charles JACKSON, "Musketman8"    
 
Name: Charles JACKSON
Sex: Male
Name Prefix: Patriot
Father: James JACKSON (1704-1750)
Mother: Mary FITZ RANDOLPH (1710-aft1759)
Birth 11 Jan 1738 Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 2
Civil (1) 1775 (age 36-37) Member of the Committee of Correspondence and Observance; Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 3
Military (1) 1778 (age 39-40) Quartermaster, State Troops & Militia; New Jersey, USA 4
Residence (1) Jun 1778 (age 40) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
Occupation 1779 (age 40-41) Elm Tree Tavern Keeper; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
Civil (2) "1770's" Town Clerk; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
Residence (2) Feb 1779 (age 41) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
Military (2) 9 Feb 1779 (age 41) captured by British trops at the Elm Tree Tavern; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 5,6
Residence (3) Jan 1780 (age 41-42) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
Residence (4) Aug 1784 (age 46) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
Death 31 May 1785 (age 47) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA

Additional Information

Civil (1) Charles hosted the meetings at the Elm Tree Tavern.

Wife: Mary FITZ RANDOLPH

Name: Mary FITZ RANDOLPH
Sex: Female
Father: Robert FITZ RANDOLPH (1712-1804)
Mother: Catherine TAYLOR (1712- )
Birth (1) 16 Feb 1748
Birth (2) 16 Apr 1749 Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 7
Residence (1) Aug 1785 (age 37) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
Residence (2) Aug 1786 (age 38) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
Residence (3) Aug 1787 (age 39) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA

Child 1: Thomas JACKSON

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      Thomas JACKSON, "Musketman8"    
 
Name: Thomas JACKSON 8,9
Sex: Male
Birth 1765 (est) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 10,11
Residence (1) 1790 (age 24-25) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 12
Military (1) 29 Dec 1792 (age 26-27) Private in Woodbridge militia; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 13
Civil 9 Dec 1793 (age 27-28) signed a petition; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 12
Military (2) frm 11 Sep 1794 to 31 Dec 1794 (age 28-29) Sergeant, 3rd Regiment, NJ Militia; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 14
Residence (2) Nov 1810 (age 44-45) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 15
Residence (3) Jun 1818 (age 52-53) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 15
Residence (4) Sep 1819 (age 53-54) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 15
Occupation tavernkeeper
Death bef 1830 (age 64-65)

Child 2: James JACKSON

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      James JACKSON, "Musketman8"    
 
Name: James JACKSON 8,9
Sex: Male
Spouse: Mary UNKNOWN (aft1780- )
Birth bef 1775
Caution Marriage and family group are not proven.
Residence (1) 1790 (age 14-15) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 10
Military 29 Dec 1792 (age 16-17) Private in Woodbridge Militia; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 16
Civil 9 Dec 1793 (age 17-18) Signed petition to hold a lottery to raise money; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 12
Residence (2) Nov 1810 (age 34-35) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 17
Occupation 24 May 1813 (age 37-38) Elm Tree Tavern proprietor; Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 18
Residence (3) Sep 1819 (age 43-44) Elm Tree Tavern proprietor
Death bef 1830 (age 54-55)

Child 3: Charles JACKSON

Name: Charles JACKSON 8,9
Sex: Male
Spouse: Margaret MOORE (aft1770- )
Birth 1775 (app) Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey
Residence (1) Oct 1812 (age 36-37) New Providence, Middlesex County, New Jersey 19
Residence (2) Jul 1814 (age 38-39) Westfield, Union, New Jersey, USA 19
Residence (3) Sep 1817 (age 41-42) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 19
Residence (4) Jun 1818 (age 42-43) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 15
Residence (5) Sep 1819 (age 43-44) Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 19
Residence (6) 1830 (age 54-55) Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey 20
Residence (7) 1840 (age 64-65) Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey 21
Caution The parentage is not proved.

Note on Marriage

It is assumed that Charles and Mary had at least three sons, Thomas, James and Charles since they are reported to be the next proprietors of the Elm Tree Tavern after Charles and Mary until 1821 when the tavern is operated by Henry Potter.9,22

Note on Wife: Mary FITZ RANDOLPH

from Descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph,, 1950, p36.

 

115. MARY FITZ RANDOLPH (47), born Woodbridge Apr. 18, 1749; married first, CHARLES JACKSON, whose estate was administered May 31, 1785; married second, EBENEZER FORD, whose estate was administered Aug. 4, 1797;

married third, July 21, 1799, JEREMIAH MANNING, b. May 25, 1736, d. June 10, 1803, admr. June 24, 1803, son of James and Grace Manning. He had married first, in Sept., 1758, Ursula Drake, and married second Rachel (FORD) Fitz Randolph, widow of Jeremiah5 Fitz Randolph No. 105.

Mary5 Fitz- Randoklph-Jackson-Ford-Manning married fourth, EDWARD GRIFFITH,., No Children recorded.

Sources

1Ambrose M. Shotwell, "Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendents" (Robert Smith & Co., Printers & Binders, Lansing, Michigan, 1895-7). p. 187.
Text From Source: Fitz Randolph, Mary, disowned by W. R. & P. M. M., 7-18, 1764, for having married her 1st cousin.
Google Books.
2"New England Historic Genealogical Society Register" (Name: Boston, MA;). vol 9, p 177.
3W. Woodward Clayton, "History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey" (Everts & Peck, Philadelphia, 1882). p. 452.
Text From Source: Accordingly, the several districts in the county have had meetings, and have chosen Committees of Observation as follows, to wit:

For Woodbridge — Ebenezer Foster, Henry Freeman (1), Nathaniel Heard (2), Reuben Potter, William Smith, Jeremiah Manning (3), Matthias Baker (4), Charles Jackson (5), Samuel Force (6), John Pain (7), James Manning (8), John Heard, Daniel Moores (9), John Ross (10), Ellis Barron, William Cutter (11), Reuben Evans, James Randolph, Timothy Bloomfield (12), John Noe (13), and John Conway (14).
4WILLIAM S. STRYKER, ADJUTANT GENERAL of NJ, "Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War" (Name: 1872;). p373.
Text From Source: JACKSON, CHARLES. Quartermaster, Essex.
5"New Jersey Archive". Ser 2, Vol III, pp 65, 76-77, 81.
6David C. Munn, "Battles and Skirmishes of the American Revolution in New Jersey". pp 113-115.
Text From Source: Woodbridge, February 9, 1779 Tories under Capt. Joseph Ryerson raid house of Charles Jackson (Tavernkeeper) and take Nathaniel Fitz Randolph (Am. Capt.), just returning from a raid on Staten Island, NJA 2, III, 65, 76-77, 81.
7Christian and Fitz Randolph, "Descendents of Edward FitzRandolph". p21.
8Woodbridge High School, "History of Woodbridge" (http://archive.org/details/historyofwoodbridge00wood). p 23.
Relationship to parents is assumed since Thomas and his two brothers took proprietorships of the Elm Tree Tavern.
9Edna Oberlies Jost and Margaret Krewinkel Jost, "1664-1964 An Historical Sampler Woodbridge" (1964). p 216.
Text From Source: A famous tavern, known as the Elm Tree Tavern, conducted by Thomas, James and Charles Jackson was located on the west side of the road to Rahway.
10"U.S. Colonial Census Reconstruction Records, 1660-1820" (ancestry.com). Text From Source: Name on one of two petitions, 9 Dec 1793, to the Legislative Council, etc., from
freeholders and inhabitants of Woodbridge in Middlesex County seeking approval for
a lottery to raise money to repair a
11Ambrose M. Shotwell, "Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendents" (Robert Smith & Co., Printers & Binders, Lansing, Michigan, 1895-7). p. 187.
This source is for the lmarriage of Charles and Mary, likely parents of Thomas. This birth date estimation implies that Mary was pregnant about the time they married in 1764 and had Thomas the following year.
Google Books.
12"U.S. Colonial Census Reconstruction Records, 1660-1820" (ancestry.com).
13"Compiled Records of the Middlesex County, New Jersey Militia, 1791-1795" (http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=49042&iid=FLHG_CompiledRec ordsMiddlesexCntyNJ-0001). Part II, p46.
14Ibid. Part II, p124.
15"New Jersey Census, 1643-1890" (ancestry.com).
16"Compiled Records of the Middlesex County, New Jersey Militia, 1791-1795" (http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=49042&iid=FLHG_CompiledRec ordsMiddlesexCntyNJ-0001). part II, p46.
17"New Jersey Census, 1643-1890" (ancestry.com). p34.
18Woodbridge High School, "History of Woodbridge" (http://archive.org/details/historyofwoodbridge00wood). p14.
19Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp, "New Jersey Census, 1772-1890" (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999;).
www.ancestry.com.
20Ancestry.com, "1830 United States Federal Census" (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004;).
www.ancestry.com.
21Ancestry.com, "1840 United States Federal Census" (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004;).
www.ancestry.com.
22Woodbridge High School, "History of Woodbridge" (http://archive.org/details/historyofwoodbridge00wood). p 23.

 

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