Portrait and biographical album of Jackson County, Michigan : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the County together with portraits & biographies of all the governors of the State and of the presidents of the United States . ^JllS fi^^ w. NDRKW JACKSON, the seventh of tlieIr United States, was born in?^ Waxhaw settlement, N. (;.,Marcli 15, 1767, a few daysafter his fathei-s deatli. Hisparents were poor emigrantsfrom Ireland, and took uptheir abode in N\a,\haw set-tlement, where they lived indeepest poverty,Andrew, or
Portrait and biographical album of Jackson County, Michigan : containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the County together with portraits & biographies of all the governors of the State and of the presidents of the United States . ^JllS fi^^ w. NDRKW JACKSON, the seventh of tlieIr United States, was born in?^ Waxhaw settlement, N. (;.,Marcli 15, 1767, a few daysafter his fathei-s deatli. Hisparents were poor emigrantsfrom Ireland, and took uptheir abode in N\a,\haw set-tlement, where they lived indeepest poverty,Andrew, or Andy, as he wasuniversally called, grew uj) a veryrough, rude, turbulent boy. Hisfeatures were coarse, his form un-gainly; and there was but verylitiL- in liis character, made visible, which was at-tractive. W!ien only thirteen years old he joined the volun-teers of Carolina against the British invasion. In17S1, he and his brother Robert were captured andimprisoned for a time at Camden. A British officerordered him to brash his mud-spattered boots. I ama prisoner of war, not your servant, was the reply ofthe dauntless boy. The brute drew hi:; sword, and aimed a desperateDlow at the head of the heii)less young i:) raised his hand, and thus received two fear-ful gashes,—one on th
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