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- "Came from London aged 29 on Elizabeth and Ann, 1635; settled first in Watertown, Mass., where he was a lessee of fishing rights. Rem. to Fairfield, where he made an agreement with the town about the tide mill, 2 Feb. 1648 [1648/9]; and sold the mill to Thomas Morehouse, 1653. He bought land in Fairfield, 16 June 1650, from Thomas Wheeler, Jr."
In his will he gave to "son Moses, house at "Poquanocke"; son Samuel already had land; gr. child Moses Jackson, land at Compo; son John; gr. child Samuel Jackson; wife; the old negro woman; sons John, Moses, and Samuel, and dau. Hannah; Maj Nathan Gold and Mr. Josiah Harvey, overseers; portion due to Est. of my son Joseph. Inv. 21 June 1686."
"Adm'n was granted, 13 Jan. 1718/9, to the gr. sons John and Robert Jackson; distribution ordered to the legal representatives of the sons, John (eldest), Moses, Samuel, and Joseph. Distribution, dated Stratfield, 3 Jan. 1720; heirs of John Jaackson, viz. Moses and John Jackson, and Susanna Lyon; heirs of Moses Jackson, viz. Robert Jackson and Deborah Smith; heirs of Samuel Jackson, viz. Daniel, Jonathan, Ebenezer, and Gabriel Jackson, Hannah Jennings, Deborah Fairchild, Rachel Lyon, and Abigail; and Sarah wife of John Bartram." [1]
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