. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . Eairburn, in the Parishof Ledsham, Yorkshire, where the Jack-sons had been seated for several genera-tions, the parish registers exhibitingmemorials of them from the year Jackson died May 22, 1703, atLedsham, leaving one son : James, men-tioned below. James, son of James Jackson, was bornin 1664, and was lessee, under the Deanand Chapter of York, of the tithes ofFairburn, having also at that time a free-hold estate. He died in 1745, leavingchildren: James; John, born 1710;Charles, mentioned below; probablyothers. Charles, son
. Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania biography : illustrated . Eairburn, in the Parishof Ledsham, Yorkshire, where the Jack-sons had been seated for several genera-tions, the parish registers exhibitingmemorials of them from the year Jackson died May 22, 1703, atLedsham, leaving one son : James, men-tioned below. James, son of James Jackson, was bornin 1664, and was lessee, under the Deanand Chapter of York, of the tithes ofFairburn, having also at that time a free-hold estate. He died in 1745, leavingchildren: James; John, born 1710;Charles, mentioned below; probablyothers. Charles, son of James Jackson, wasborn in 1711, in Eairburn, and married,in 1736, Jane Booth, of the same date of his death is unknown, butit is probable that both he and his wifedied young, there being no record ofother issue than one son : Charles, men-tioned below. Charles, son of Charles and Jane(Booth) Jackson, was born in 1739, andwas in Roscrea, Ireland, as early as or why he removed thither hasnot been definitely ascertained, but as [26. ^ ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY many of his cousins settled in that coun-try, it is probable that they all leftYorkshire about the same time. Charles Jackson married Mary , and their children were: John, mentioned below;Thomas, a clergyman of Roscrea, Tipper-ary; Letitia, died in Portarlington, Ire-land, unmarried; and probably Jackson was a merchant incounty Kings, Ireland. No record of hisdeath can be found. John, son of Charles and Mary Jack-son, was born in 1766, in Roscrea, Tip-perary, Ireland, and in 1806 emigrated tothe United Stales, settling in Pittsburgh,where he engaged in business, meetingwith a fair measure of success. He gavehis children the best educational advan-tages, including Latin and French, as oldschool-books still in possession of thefamily testify. John Jackson married, inIreland, Margaret Davis, and they werethe parents of the following children, allof whom, with the exception of theyoungest, w
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