Capt. James Jack

DAR Ancestor #: A060807

Origins

Patrick Jack had four sons, James, John, Samuel and Robert, and five daughters, Charity, Jane, Mary, Margaret and Lillis, named in the order of their ages. Capt. James Jack, the eldest son, married Margaret Houston, on the 20th of November, 1766.

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Carried the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence to Philadelphia in June 1775.

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Captain James Jack died in this county, on the 18th of January, 1823, at the age of eighty-four years. He was born in Pennsylvania, from whence he removed to North Carolina, and settled in the town of Charlotte, where he remained until the end of the Revolutionary War, in which he took a decided and active part. At the close of the war he removed to Georgia. In the spring of ?75, he was the bearer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence to Congress. His claims upon the State of North Carolina, for Revolutionary services were said to have amounted to 7,646, State currency. Colonel Patrick Jack was his son.

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