When Jacob Jackson was born on 7 October 1780, in Lonaconing, Allegany, Maryland, United States, his father, Samuel Jackson, Jr, was 31 and his mother, Margaretha Drollinger, was 36. He married Elizabeth Poling in 1804. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. He died on 7 October 1842, in Van Buren, Iowa, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Buckeye Cemetery, Van Buren, Jackson, Iowa, United States.
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In 1781, Maryland donated land to be used for part of Washington, D. C.
Historical Boundaries: 1789: Allegany, Maryland, United States
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: patronymic from Jack . In North America, this surname has absorbed other patronymics beginning with J- in various European languages, in particular those derived from equivalents or short forms and other derivatives of the personal name Jacob , e.g. Norwegian Jacobsen or Jakobsen and, in some cases, Slovenian Jakše (from a derivative of the personal name Jakob ). This surname is also very common among African Americans (see also 2 below).
African American: from the personal name Jackson (or Andrew Jackson), adopted in honor of Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the US; or adoption of the surname in 1 above, in many cases probably for the same reason.
History: This extremely common British name was brought over by numerous different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One forebear was the father and namesake of the seventh US president, Andrew Jackson, who migrated to SC from Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland in 1765. The Confederate General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson came from VA, where his great-grandfather John, likewise of Scotch–Irish stock, had settled after emigrating to America in 1748.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesJacob Jackson was the son of Samuel Jackson and Margaret Drollinger, the latter a native of Salem County, New Jersey. Jacob's father, Samuel, was a veteran of the Revolutionary War, serving from New J …
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