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Descendants of Samuel Jackson, Sr.

Generation No. 1

1. SAMUEL² JACKSON, SR. (AARON¹)¹ was born Bet. 1729 - 1730 in Carrickfergus, Antrim Co., Ireland ², and died 1806 in Surry Co., NC ³. He married (1) MARY CATHERINE PLANKINHORN³ Abt. 1747 in Chester Co., PA³, daughter of PETER PLANKINHORN and SUSANNA UNKNOWN. She was born 1730 in Chesapeake Bay States³, and died 24 Apr 1780 in Surry Co., NC³. He married (2) SARAH UNKNOWN³ Aft. 1780³. She was born Unknown³, and died Unknown.

Notes for SAMUEL JACKSON, SR.:
It is rumored among Jackson genealogists that Samuel was born in Chester Co., PA, however he does not show up on any birth records in Chester Co, PA. He moved to NC in the early 1750's. Lucille Jackson Vernon stated in her research that they lived in an area that is now in Davidson Co., NC before moving on to Westfield, NC. Samuel and Catherine came to Surry Co., NC around 1770-72, settling on Tom's Creek, later called Westfield. They were the first Jacksons in the Westfield area. Much of what is known about these people is from Quaker records. Samuel Jackson was living in Chester Co., PA at the time when several Quaker families by the name of Jackson were in the area, so most researchers have made the assumption that Samuel was a Quaker. Lucille Vernon wrote to the Quaker College at Guilford Co., NC; they wrote back saying they had no record of Samuel or his wife, Catherine, ever being members of the New Garden congregation. Lucille assumed the other researchers were wrong; however in Henshaw's "Encyclopeida of America Quaker Genealogy" Vol I, page 504 (New Garden MM) lists Samuel, Catherine as follows: page 182, Samuel Jackson; Catherine Jackson, d.4-24-1780; Joseph b. 12-27-1761; Elizabeth b. 5-12-1763; Jehu b. 7-4-1765; William b. 5-15-1767; Amer b. 6-19-1769. Page 14 of same volume shows Samuel and Catherine were present for marriage of Jacob Jackson and Ann Beales. This becomes a difficult thing to document as Lucille Vernon found in Jacob Jackson's application for membership at New Garden MM, he stated he was not a Quaker and that his parents were not members of the Society of Friends. I do not know if Samuel was a Quaker, but certainly his sons, Curtis, Jacob, John and Joseph, were as their names show up on the list of Charter members of the Westfield Friends. Jacob was a minister and received his brother, Samuel, Jr., into the membership at his request. Most all of the Jacksons migrated west with the exception of Joseph who married Sarah Jessup. They and many of their descendants remained in NC.

The descendants of Samuel and Catherine Plankinhorn Jackson who are now living in the Westfield area of Surry Co., NC will tell you that Samuel's father was Aaron Jackson, son of William Jackson, born feb 25, 1725 in Pasquotank Co., NC. This information came to them from Luther Byrd of Westfield and can be found in the Guilford College library. Mr. Luther N. Byrd, grew up in Mount Airy, NC and while a teacher in the Westfield High School, became interested in the history of the early Quakers that settled in the area. He started his students working on family trees and in order to help the students he did genealogical research, also. In his research he gives the name of Aaron Jackson, son of a William Jackson as the father of Samuel and Priscilla Jackson Jessup as a sister of Samuel. I was privileged to have had Luther Byrd as a teacher in the 8th grade.

Joe Willard Snyder states the following in his Jackson research:
Samuel and his three brothers, Moses, Charles and William worked in Benjamin Franklin's print shop in Philadelphia (his source was Leola Grim Tobin's Jackson Family Records)

Professor Edwin P. West, great-grandson of Jacob and Ann Jackson, gave an account which was used in the History of Clinton Co, OH. This article had been written earlier by Judge Harlan on "Sketches of Clinton Co", which stated that three brothers Jacob, John, and Samuel Jackson were among the first settlers of Clinton Co and that their father was Samuel Jackson who was the son of Isaac Jackson, who was the son of Anthony Jackson, who was a descendant of Ralph Jackson who was burned at the stake as a martyr at Stratford, England in 1556. He also stated that Samuel was probably a first cousin and intimate friend of President Andrew Jackson.
I have found many discrepancies in this article. First, the Isaac Jackson, son of Anthony Jackson, married Ann Evans, and brought his family to America in 1725 when he was sixty years of age and settled in Chester Co, PA. His life has been well documented in Quaker records and Pennsylvania histories. They did not have a son by the name of Samuel, so Samuel Jackson was not the son of Isaac and Ann Evans Jackson.
The brother Samuel that he speaks of is believed to be the son of Jacob and not his brother. Jacob had a son named Samuel born in Surry Co, NC in 1774 and would have been old enough to be the Samuel that Professor West wrote about.
He stated that Samuel was probably an intimate friend and first cousin of President Andrew Jackson. Records show that Andrew Jackson received his license to practice law in Surry Co at the old Richmond court house (now gone) which was located on the banks of the Yadkin River, just below where Samuel and his family lived. It is possible that they did become friends with Andrew. From information that has been handed down, it is apparent they never liked Andrew, and could not believe that it was the Andy Jackson they knew who had been elected President of the United States, as he was such a rough character, always getting into brawls, fighting, gambling, etc.
Samuel Jackson was around forty-five years old when Andrew Jackson was born, and had been in America for several years before Andrew Jackson Sr. came to America and settled at Waxhaw. Andrew Sr. did have a brother named Samuel, "Called Sam the Sailor" and as the story goes was instrumental in getting the Jackson and Hutchins family out of Ireland and to America.
If there is any relationship between Samuel Jackson of Westfield and Andrew Jackson, it would be way back in England or Ireland where they may have had a common ancestor, as I can find no close connection between these two families in America.
With so many descendants of Samuel Jackson Sr. and Samuel Jr. doing research on both families, maybe some day one of them will get lucky and find the clue that will lead to the identity of their parents.
More from Lucille Jackson: Samuel and Catherine were natives of Chester Co, PA, and "Old" New Castle, Delaware. When they first came to North Carolina, they lived on the Davidson-Randolph County line, were there was a Jackson settlement named Jackson Creek, and a Church.

Notes for MARY CATHERINE PLANKINHORN:
Catherine Plankinhorn was born abt 1730 in the Chesapeake Bay States and died 24 Apr 1780 in Surry Co., NC. Jackson researchers over the years have tried to find Catherine Plankinhorn's parents or anyone by the name of Plankinhorn. Every available source has been researched in the states of NY, PA, MD, NJ and DE. The libraries in Washington,DC including the Library of Congress and the D.A.R. Library has been searched. Research was done in archives, county seats and tax records and in all of this research, only two small articles have been found on the name of Plankinhorn and they were on Peter and Susanna Plankinhorn.

Lucille Jackson Vernon felt that one of the reasons for not finding the name is that prior to the war in 1776 the name was changed from Plankinhorn to Plankenton. Information has been found in PA on the Plankenton families who were the children and grandchildren of Peter and Susanna Plankinhorn.

The first valuable source of information on the Plankinhorn's was compiled in 1901 by Gilbert Cope, on the descendants of George and Sarah Smedley, early settlers of Chester Co., PA, who's descendants had married into the Robins family of Edgemont Township, Delaware Co., PA. Two of the Robin sisters, Jane and Sarah, married Jesse and Samuel Plankenton, son of Peter Plankinhorn, Jr. Jane and Sarah were the granddaughters of Joseph and Lear Crayton Robins of NJ and the daughters of Joseph and Jane Hooper Robins of Edgemont. In 1901, Cope wrote that Peter and Susanna Plankinhorn who, in 1778 (now deceased) were mentioned as "Late of Gloucester in the Providence of New Jersey." He named four known children: Jacob, John, Peter, Jr. and Elizabeth. Information on these four is found in census, tax records, and marriages of PA. He did not research the family, but they probably had other children.

The second piece of information written on the family of Peter and Sarah Plankinhorn was four pages written out in long hand and very hard to read. It was written by one of the great-grandsons of Peter Plankinhorn, Jr. and placed in one of the libraries in Washington, DC. Mr. Keith Parrish from Washington, DC found these pages while researching the family and sent copies to Lucille Jackson Vernon. The name of the writer was not given.

Peter and Susanna may have had other children named Susannah, Michael, and Bridget. One Susannah Blankinhorn was married to John Hepperset 27 Aug 1763 at St. Michael and Zion Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, PA. One Bridget Blackenton was baptized in 1760 at the age of 23. In 1777, Michael Blankinhorn was in the Revolutionary War, and in 1780 he was listed as Michael Plankinhorn. In Colonial days, the "P" and "B" were often used interchangeably.

Joseph Plankinton has said he thought the origin of the Plankinhorns were from Great Britain (Wales) Cope said he thought they came from Wales, since no one has found any written information on where they came from or how many children they had. The origin could even be German instead of from Wales. The Moravians had settled in PA around 1722. They had come from Hernhut,Germany. Their religion is very similar to that of the Lutheran Church. In the early 1800's a John Plankinhorn settled in Lycoming Co., PA. He was from Germany. The Susannah Blankinhorn was married in a Lutheran Church. Elizabeth was married in the Old Swede Church, (now Lutheran), so the religion of the early Plankinhorn's may have been Lutheran. One of their sons, John, married a Quaker girl and later joined the Concord MM in Philadelphia.

Lucille Jackson Vernon expresses her thanks to Keith Parrish who sent her most of the information that she had on the family, along with Mrs. Edith Hankins of Memphis, TN.

From the LDS site (www.familysearch.org) comes:

Plankenhorn 160 entries Black Forest, Germany
Planckenhorn 20 entries Black Forest, Germany
Plankinhorn - no entries in Germany
Catharina/Katharina/Catharine/Kathraine Plankenhorn 12 entries
Catharina Planckenhorn 1 entry
Plankinton/Plankenton 232 entries USA
Plankenhorn 87 entries USA

Children of SAMUEL JACKSON and MARY PLANKINHORN are:

2.	i.	JACOB³ JACKSON, b. 1749, Chester Co., PA; d. 14 Nov 1844, Martinville, Clinton Co., OH.
3.	ii.	CURTIS ISAAC JACKSON, b. 1751, Chester Co., PA; d. 25 Sep 1829, Guilford Co., NC.
4.	iii.	JOHN JACKSON, b. 1753, Chester Co., PA; d. 10 Aug 1810, Clinton Co., OH.
5.	iv.	SUSANNA JACKSON, b. 1755, Probably in Chester Co., PA; d. Aft. 1808, Randolph Co., IN.
6.	v.	SAMUEL JACKSON, JR., b. 23 Jan 1758, A few miles from Philadelphia, PA on Delaware River; d. 06 Jun 1834, Stokes Co., NC.
7.	vi.	JOSEPH JACKSON, b. 27 Dec 1761, Rowan Co., NC (currently Surry); d. 22 Oct 1815, Surry Co., NC.
8.	vii.	ELIZABETH JACKSON, b. 12 May 1763, New Garden, Guilford Co., NC; d. Bef. 1808, Surry Co., NC.
9.	viii.	JEHU JACKSON, b. 04 Jul 1765, Rowan Co., NC; d. 06 Jul 1844.
10.	ix.	WILLIAM JACKSON, b. 15 May 1767, Rowan Co., NC; d. 20 Sep 1841, Surry Co., NC.
11.	x.	AMER JACKSON, b. 09 Jun 1769, Rowan Co., NC; d. Aug 1843, Stokes Co., NC.

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