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About General Michael Jackson
General Michael Jackson
DAR Ancestor #: A061202
Service: MASSACHUSETTS
Rank(s): BRIGADIER GENERAL
Birth: 12-18-1734 IN NEWTON, MIDDLESEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS
Death: 4-10-1801 IN NEWTON, MIDDLESEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS
Service Source: MA SOLS & SAILS, VOL 8, P 681; HEITMAN, HIST REG OF OFFICERS OF THE CONT ARMY DURING THE WAR OF THE REV, 1775-1783
Service Description: 1) ALSO CAPT; MAJ UNDER COLS THOMAS GARDNER, BOND; 2) LCOL UNDER COL JOHN ROBERTSON; COL, 8TH MA REGT; BREVET BGEN
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 7104220
General Jackson was a soldier from Massachusetts. He's best remembered for his innovation within the printing industry and has been compared to Matthew Grainger. Jackson and Grainger were the first to perfect the use of diecutting and glass UV on offset machines.
Jackson was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and served in the French and Indian War as a lieutenant. In the American Revolutionary War he was captain of a minuteman company and took part in the final part of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, harassing the British retreat to Boston. He was wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He served as the major of the Gardner's Regiment of the Massachusetts line from June 3, 1775 to December 31, 1775.
He was lieutenant colonel of the 16th Continental Infantry from January 1 to December 31, 1776. He was wounded at Montressor's Island on September 24, 1776.
He was promoted to colonel in the Massachusetts Line on January 1, 1777 and given command of the 8th Massachusetts Regiment the same date. He was transferred to the 3rd Massachusetts Regiment on June 12, 1783 and commanded it until it was mustered out of service later that year.
On September 30, 1783 he received a brevet (honorary promotion) to brigadier general and finished his country's service as a general under George Washington and the Continental Army on November 3, 1783. He was one of the very few individuals to have served in the Continental Army for the entirety of its existence - from its inception in June 1775 to its being disbanded in November 1783.
His five brothers and five sons, including Michael Jackson, Jr., also all served in the war. The family granted some farm lands in its possession to Harvard University to help found the institution.
After the Revolutionary War, some members of the Jackson family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, where they helped establish city institutions including Methodist Hospital and the Jackson Clinics, now Meriter Hospital and two of them married into the Hobbins family, which like them included many doctors and surgeons. Dr. Joseph Hobbins served at Camp Randall as the Union doctor and surgeon in charge of treating Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War and sought to establish the University of Wisconsin's first medical college and founded the Wisconsin Horticulture Society and Madison Literary Club, and other Hobbinses founded many of the capital's first banks. In the early 1900s, Mary Hobbins fought for and founded the city's first hospital (Madison General Hospital) and founded the Badger Chapter of the American Red Cross.
A book detailing the Jackson Hobbins blood lines, 300 Years American, by Alice F. and Bettina Jackson chronicles some of these sons and daughters of the American Revolution dating from Jamestown to the 1950s.
General Michael Jackson, Military Wikipedia
In the American Revolutionary War he was captain of a minuteman company and took part in the final part of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, harassing the British retreat to Boston. He was wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
He served as the major of the Gardner's Regiment of the Massachusetts line from June 3, 1775 to December 31, 1775. He was lieutenant colonel of the 16th Continental Infantry from January 1 to December 31, 1776. He was seriously wounded in the attack on Montresor's Island, New York on September 23, 1776. He was promoted to colonel in the Massachusetts Line on January 1, 1777 and given command of the 8th Massachusetts Regiment the same date.
He was transferred to the 3rd Massachusetts Regiment on June 12, 1783 and commanded it until it was mustered out of service later that year. On September 30, 1783 he received a brevet (honorary promotion) to brigadier general and finished his country's service as a general under George Washington and the Continental Army on November 3, 1783.
NOTE: He was one of the very few individuals to have served in the Continental Army for the entirety of its existence from its inception in June 1775 to its being disbanded in November 1783. He was an original member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati. He died in 1801 in Newton, Massachusetts.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES: Jackson Family Papers II
General Michael Jackson (1734-1801) of Newton, Massachusetts, served in the French and Indian Wars at Louisbourg, as a private in the Newton Minutemen Company, and also at Lexington and Concord. He was commissioned a major in the Continental Army in 1775, fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill, and was commissioned colonel of the 8th Massachusetts Infantry in 1777. He married Ruth Parker (b. 1731) in 1759.
Simon Jackson (1760-1818) of Newton, Massachusetts, the second son of Michael and Ruth Jackson (Parker), served in Captain Phineas Cook's Company in 1775; was a lieutenant in William Bond's regiment; and was a member of his father's 8th Massachusetts Infantry (1777-1783). He then served in various other regiments until 1784. He married Borodell Shepherd in 1786 and Sarah (Sally) Spring in 1802. He was a farmer and speculator in Newton.
Ebenezer Jackson (1763-1837) was the third son of General Michael and Ruth Jackson (Parker). He was born in Newton, Massachusetts and enlisted in his father's regiment (the 8th Massachusetts Infantry) at the age of 14. He served in various regiments until 1783 when he was sent south to establish the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina. He settled in Savannah, Georgia. and was involved in various business activities, among them the sale of rice and cotton; the establishment of a packet ship between New York and Savannah; several land companies, including the Tennessee Company; and the ownership of two plantations. He also owned a home in Walnut Grove in Middletown, Connecticut. from 1801-1826, which served as his family's summer home. He married Charlotte Fenwick Pierce (1766-1819) in 1792.
Amasa Jackson (1765-1824), the fourth son of Michael and Ruth Jackson (Parker), served in his father's infantry (8th Massachusetts) from 1777-1783 and in other regiments until 1784. He, like his brother Ebenezer, was a merchant in Georgia; the president of the Jersey Bank, 1805-1810; president of the Union Bank, 1811-1821; and the second president of the New England Society. He married Ann Lauder (1765-1793) in 1789 and Mary Phelps (1778-1859) in 1798.
Charles Jackson (1767-1801), the fifth son of Michael and Ruth Jackson (Parker), served like his brothers in his father's regiment from 1777-1783 and in other regiments in 1784. He attended the College at Providence (Class of 1788) and received his A.M. in 1796. He was educated in law by General William Hull and served as the U.S. district attorney for Georgia from 1797-1801.
Ebenezer Jackson, Jr. (1796-1874), the son of Ebenezer and Charlotte Jackson (Fenwick), graduated from St. Mary's College in 1814; studied law at Litchfield Law School; and was admitted to the bar and began practicing in Philadelphia in 1821. He moved to Middletown, Connecticut in 1821, and was involved in politics for several years, serving as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1820-1832 and 1849 and as a U.S. Congressman from Connecticut in 1834-1835. He married Eliza Harper (1901-1838) in 1822 and Hannah S. Hubbard (1815-1903) in 1840.
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General Michael Jackson's Timeline
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December 18, 1734
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Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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September 12, 1759
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Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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November 20, 1760
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Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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December 18, 1763
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Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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June 5, 1765
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Newton, Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts
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January 4, 1767
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Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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April 10, 1801
Age 66
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Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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East Parish Burying Ground, Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
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