Elizabeth Jackson

Elizabeth Hutchinson, born about 1740; died November 1781 in Charleston, South Carolina. The names of Elizabeth Hutchinson’s parents are not known.

Origins

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Report on Andrew Jackson’s Geneaology

Generation No. 1

Andrew Jackson, born March 15, 1767 in the Waxhaws area on the border between present- day North and South Carolina; died June 08, 1845 at The Hermitage, Davidson County, Tennessee. He was the son of Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth Hutchinson. He married Rachel Donelson about 1791 in Natchez, Mississippi. She was born in 1767 in Virginia, and died December 22, 1828 at The Hermitage, Davidson County, Tennessee.

Generation No. 2 (Jackson’s Parents)

Andrew Jackson, born about 1730 in northern Ireland; died about March 1, 1767 in the Waxhaws. He was the son of Hugh Jackson. He married Elizabeth Hutchinson about 1760.

Elizabeth Hutchinson, born about 1740; died November 1781 in Charleston, South Carolina. The names of Elizabeth Hutchinson’s parents are not known.

Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson migrated to the colonies from Northern Ireland about 1765. There is conflicting information about the identity of Andrew Jackson Senior’s father, but it is generally believed that his name was Hugh Jackson. Andrew Senior died just before the birth of his third child.

Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson died of illness contracted while nursing prisoners during Revolutionary War.

• Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson Find A Grave Memorial# 10225235

As Andrew Jackson's formative years were marred with suffering and death, it is understandable that there is some confusion as to Jackson's family history. Although historians differ in opinion regarding the distant ancestry of President Jackson, his father, Andrew Jackson Senior, was born in Northern Ireland on July 20, 1737 to Hugh Jackson, a linen draper, and Elizabeth Creath. According to a family bible discovered in North Carolina, his parents were married on October 12, 1727 by Reverend James Craig at the parish church of Dundee, Northern Ireland. Andrew Jackson Sr. married Elizabeth Hutchinson, youngest daughter of Charles Hutchinson and Sarah McConnell at the parish church of Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland on February 7, 1759. Of this union came three boys, Hugh Jackson, born October 10, 1762 in Antrim, Northern Ireland; Robert Jackson, born October 16, 1765, in Northern Ireland, town not known; and Andrew Jackson Jr., born March 15, 1767 in Waxhams, North Carolina.

Andrew Jackson Sr. and Elizabeth made the difficult choice to uproot themselves, as well as their two children Hugh and Robert, to sail across the Atlantic to the American colonies in search of prosperity and opportunity. It is believed they arrived soon after their son Robert was born and settled in the town of Waxhams, on the border of North and South Carolina. Life became very difficult for the Jackson family as their father, Andrew Sr. died shortly after Andrew Jr. was born. During his early childhood, Andrew Jr. received sporadic education and when the American Revolution began, the Jackson family made their allegiance known.

This war for American freedom caused terrible heartbreak to Andrew Jr., forcing him to ally himself, heart and soul to fighting for freedom, or allowing himself to be destroyed. A young 14 years old Andrew Jr. decided to join the American forces in the War, subsequently being captured at the battle of Hanging Rock. While a prisoner of war he received a wound to his arm for refusing to blacken the boots of his British captors. His brothers Hugh and Robert enlisted in the conflict as well and both were killed; Robert from wounds received as a prisoner of war after being captured with Andrew and Hugh at the battle of Stono. His mother, Elizabeth, fell ill with ship fever returning from Charleston, South Carolina, where she had been helping friends and neighbors held as prisoners of war in Charleston Harbor.

After the horrific formative period of the Revolutionary War, Andrew Jackson chose to study law in Salisbury, North Carolina. He then moved to Jonesboro, Tennessee and began his political career as the Solicitor of the Western District of North Carolina. During this time he married Rachel Donelson. Later, during his first campaign for the presidency he received criticism for marrying Rachel before her divorce was final. Jackson blamed her early death in 1828 partially upon this harsh criticism. They were unable to have their own children but adopted a son, Andrew, born December 4, 1808 in Davidson, Tennessee. From this son came a limited amount of Jackson descendants as Andrew III had four sons, two of which died in infancy, one dying during the Civil War, and one daughter. Their surviving son Andrew IV had two children and their daughter Rachel had nine children, thus limiting the amount of "Jackson" descendants.

Andrew Jackson lead a very politically prominent life, elected to the fourth and fifth congresses after Tennessee entered the Union, the United States Senate, the State Supreme Court and ultimately the United States Presidency, elected to two terms. President Jackson was also a very well respected military leader serving during the Creek War, becoming Major General in 1814 during the War of 1812, defeating the British in New Orleans, as well as serving in the 1st Seminole War, overthrowing the Spanish governor in Florida. President Jackson is not only one of the most beloved US presidents, but one of the most revered historical figures in US history, proving that anyone, no matter the economic or personal circumstance, can rise to greatness. _______________________________________

Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson died of illness contracted while nursing prisoners during Revolutionary War. The Hutchinson and Jackson Families worked together in Ireland, as weavers, in their company. The families knew each other for many years. (Noted by Virginia Diane (Davis) Valdez Bennett a cousin to President Jackson..

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The most important fact that the source taken from

http://matsonfamily.net/welchancestry/family_vance.pdf

documents is the marriage of Elizabeth "Betty" Jackson (Hutchinson) to Andrew Jackson Sr., father of Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States. However, the document is flawed in that it incorrectly states that her husband's father was Dr. Joseph Jackson. According to Jason Wills (C), who curates the Jackson family name back to 1505, Andrew Jackson Sr.'s father was Hugh Jackson, not Joseph Jackson.

Nonetheless the document may be of value to people researching Andrew Jackson,7th U.S. President,, in that they need to know that some fairly credible sources believe that he was related to the Vances. They also need to know that such a belief is incorrect.

--Terry Teford Cooper

https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2008/12/elizabeth-hutchinson-jacks...

Elizabeth Hutchinson was born circa 1740 in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland. She was the daughter of Francis Cyrus Hobart Hutchinson and Margret Lisle of Royston. Andrew Jackson, Sr. was born about 1730 in northern Ireland. Elizabeth and Andrew were married in Carrickfergus circa 1761, and the couple emigrated to America in 1765 with their two young sons, Hugh and Robert.

They were Presbyterians escaping religious persecution and tariffs from the ruling Anglican faction. Four of Elizabeth Jackson’s sisters and three Crawford brothers – James, Robert and Joseph – also moved with their families to America at that time. James Crawford was married to Jane Hutchinson, Elizabeth’s sister.

Within a short time of their arrival, the Jacksons acquired 200 acres of poor land at Twelve Mile Creek, a tributary of the Catawba River in the Waxhaws settlement in the Carolinas, southeast of the present city of Charlotte. There the Jacksons began their life in America.

Waxhaws is the name of both an extinct American Indian tribe and of a geographical area bordering North and South Carolina. At that time, the Waxhaws consisted of little more than a Presbyterian church, a general store, and a few scattered houses.

In February 1767, the elder Andrew Jackson died unexpectedly at the age of twenty-nine – just before his wife was to give birth again. Andrew Jackson II was born March 15, 1767, just three weeks after his father’s death.

A few weeks later, Elizabeth and her sons moved to the house of her sister and brother-in-law, Jane and James Crawford, just over the border in South Carolina. Jane’s health had greatly deteriorated after she moved to America, and she was now and invalid.

When the Crawfords asked Mrs. Jackson and her sons to live with them, it was not wholly out of a sense of familial devotion and duty. The Jacksons needed a home, the Crawfords needed help, and a bargain was struck. “Mrs. Crawford was an invalid,” wrote James Parton, an early Jackson biographer, “and Mrs. Jackson was permanently established in the family as housekeeper and poor relation.”

Elizabeth raised Andrew for the first thirteen years of his life in the Crawford house, where she worked as a housekeeper and a nurse for her ailing sister. Growing up, Andrew would be a guest at the houses in which he lived, not a son, except of a loving mother who was never the mistress of her own household. The Crawfords were more affluent than the Jacksons. The loss of Mr. Jackson only widened the gulf.

When the Revolutionary War broke out, Jackson and his brothers were anxious to fight the British. Elizabeth had regaled her sons with stories of the battle for freedom in her native Ireland, including tales of how their grandfather had fought against the British in Ireland and participated in the siege of Carrickfergus.

It was several years, however, before the war for independence reached the Southern colonies. In 1780, the British launched an invasion of South Carolina and captured Charleston on May 12. Groups of soldiers and Tory sympathizers began to loot and pillage the countryside. Three hundred soldiers leveled much of the Waxhaws settlement, surprising a force of several hundred American patriots and killing more than a hundred of them.

The massacre sparked widespread outrage, as many bodies were mutilated and some had suffered more than a dozen wounds. The approximately 150 wounded were put up in the Waxhaw church, where residents, including the Jackson family, tended to the wounds and administered first aid. After the Waxhaw massacre, Andrew (age 13) and his brothers Hugh and Robert joined a patriot regiment. Soon thereafter, Hugh died from heat exhaustion at the Battle of Stono Ferry.

In the late summer of 1780, British commander General Charles Cornwallis gained an upper hand following the battle of Camden, which left the patriots in tatters. As Cornwallis marched toward the Waxhaws, a yearlong battle of attrition began.

After a small engagement near Waxhaw, Andrew and his brother Robert hid in the house of their relative, Thomas Crawford. British dragoons discovered the two and began to destroy the house, tearing apart furniture and breaking windows. The prisoners cowered in the living room until the British commander ordered Andrew to clean the mud from the soldiers’ boots.

Andrew refused, replying, “Sir, I am a prisoner of war and claim to be treated as such.” In an angry response, the soldier raised his sword and swung at the boy’s head. Jackson managed to deflect part of the blow with his left hand, but he received a serious gash on his hand and another on his head – two scars Andrew would bear for the rest of his life. When Robert also refused to clean the boots, he was sent staggering across the room by a blow from the officer’s sword.

As a result of this incident, Andrew and Robert were held prisoner at Camden, South Carolina. Both boys became infected with smallpox and would have likely died, but Elizabeth arranged a prisoner transfer – the patriots turned over thirteen redcoats and the British freed seven prisoners, including the two Jacksons. Andrew walked 40 miles back to Waxhaw, while his mother and his dying brother rode beside him. Robert died two days after returning home, and it was several weeks before Andrew regained enough strength to leave his bed.

Last Words to Her Fourteen-Year-Old Son
by Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson
From When Prose Becomes Poetry

Andrew, if I should not see you again, I wish you to remember and treasure up some things I have already said to you. In this world you will have to make your own way. To do that you must have friends. You can make friends by being honest and you can keep them by being steadfast. You must keep in mind that friends worth having will, in the long run, expect as much from you as they give to you.

To forget an obligation or be ungrateful for a kindness is a base crime, not merely a fault or a sin, but an actual crime. Men guilty of it sooner or later must suffer the penalty. In personal conduct be always polite but never obsequious. None will respect you more than you respect yourself. Avoid quarrels as long as you can without yielding to imposition. But sustain your manhood always.

Never bring a suit in law for assault and battery or for defamation. The law affords no remedy for such outrages that can satisfy the feelings of a true man. Never wound the feelings of others. Never brook wanton outrage upon your own feelings. If you ever have to vindicate your feelings or defend your honor, do it calmly. If angry at first, wait till your wrath cools before you proceed.

After Andrew got well, Elizabeth left to tend to other soldiers, who were being held on prison ships in Charleston harbor. The work was hard, and she took ill with ship’s fever – cholera.

Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson died November 1781 at Charleston, South Carolina. As a notice of her death, relatives sent a small pile of her belongings to Andrew, whose entire immediate family had died from war-related hardships, which he blamed on the British.

Orphaned at age fourteen, Andrew had only distant maternal relatives to supervise his continuing education, which he resumed after a brief residence in Charleston. In his late teens, Andrew read law, was admitted to the bar in 1787, and became an outstanding young lawyer in Tennessee.

In a letter, Andrew Jackson later wrote about his mother:

I knew she died near Charleston, having visited that City with several matrons to afford relief to our prisoners with the British – not her son as you suppose, for at that time my two Elder brothers were no more; but two of her Nephews, William and Joseph Crawford, Sons of James Crawford, then deceased. I well recollect one of the matrons that went with her was Mrs. Barton. If possible, Mrs. Barton can inform me where she was buried that I can find her grave. This to me would be great satisfaction, that I might collect her bones and inter them with that of my father and brothers.

Andrew Jackson’s father and brothers were buried in the Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Church cemetery in upper Lancaster district, near Jackson’s birthplace.

Agnes Barton was located and interviewed on the subject of Elizabeth Jackson’s burial place. She had come to the Waxhaws when Andy Jackson was two years old, but during the Revolutionary War, she and her husband went to Charleston and settled in the suburbs of that city. When Elizabeth Jackson became ill, she was taken into Mrs. Barton’s home and nursed. When she died, Mrs. Barton dressed the corpse in her own best dress, while Mr. Barton built the casket. They buried her on a hill in a simple unmarked grave.

Andrew Jackson never fulfilled his wish to find the bones of his mother and place them beside his father’s and brothers’ graves. Not until 1949 was there a marker to Elizabeth Jackson placed in the Old Waxhaw Presbyterian Cemetery.

President Andrew Jackson, died June 8, 1845, at his home, The Hermitage, in Davidson County, Tennessee.

References

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