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Jonathan Jackson

The New Netherland Ancestors of

JONATHAN JACKSON



House of Representatives, Provincial Congress Delegate, State Senator




       __Edward Jackson1
      |
JONATHAN JACKSON4
      |
      |     __Edmund Quincy2
      |    |
      |__Dorothy Quincy1
	   |
	   |     __Josiah Flynt3
	   |    |
	   |__Dorothy Flynt2
		|
		|     __Thomas Willett3
		|    |
		|__Esther Willett3
		     |
		     |__Mary Brown3



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Biography of JONATHAN JACKSON

 
JACKSON, Jonathan, statesman, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 4 June 1743; died there, 5 March 1810. He was graduated at Harvard in 1761, and became a merchant in Newburyport. He was a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775, a representative in 1777, a member of Congress in 1782, and State Senator in 1789, when he became United States Marshal, and held this office till 1791. He was Treasurer of Massachusetts from 1802 till 1806, was also President of the State Bank, and was Treasurer of Harvard from 1807 till his death. He was the author of "Thoughts upon the Political Situation of the United States" (Worcester, 1788).
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Flint, Edward F., S.M., and Gwendolyn S. Flint, Flint Family History of
       The Adventuresome Seven, Volume II.  Baltimore:  Gateway Press, Inc.,
       1984.  607-608.
   2.  Ibid., p. 578=579.
   3.  Ibid., p. 569-570.
   4.  Ibid., p. 654-655.

 

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