WALTER JACKSON
(Scottish prisoner on the John and Sara)
Scottish Prisoners of War Society
Scottish Prisoners of War...
"Walter Jackson was one of those Scots captured at the battle of Worcester, 1651, and sent to Boston in the ship John and Sara. He probably worked in Valentine Hill's saw mill at the Falls. He was accepted as an inhabitant of the town, 10th of 11th month, 1658. He had wife, Jane, in 1663 and wife, Ann, in 1667. He had a grant of twenty acres "at the head of his one lot betwext the Cow [Cochecho?](sic) path and the swamp," in 1666. The inventory of his estate is dated 18 March 1697/8...... His homestead was on the north side of Oyster River, between the lots of William Beard and Philip Chesley." History of the town of Durham, New Hampshire : (Oyster River Plantation) with genealogical notes by Stackpole, Everett Schermerhorn, Thompson, Lucien, Meserve, Winthrop Smith, 1913, pg. 226
"Royalist soldier captured at Worcester. Transported on the John and Sara, master John Greene, from Gravesend to Boston 13 May 1652 (NER)"
Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775, pg. 81
1658 Received as inhabitant
Historical memoranda concerning persons & places in old Dover, N.H. by Scales, John, Quint, Alonzo Hall, 1900, pg. 145
".....(Robert (Watson) was born in 1641, purchased land at O.R. (Oyster River) of Walter and Jane Jackson 14 Dec. 1663.....
Historical memoranda concerning persons & places in old Dover, N.H. by Scales, John, Quint, Alonzo Hall, 1900, pg. 250
March 1666....At the same time there was "given unto Walter Jackson 20 acers(sic) of land at the head of his own lot betwixt the cow path and the swamp."
Notable events in the history of Dover, New Hampshire, from the first settlement in 1623 to 1865 by Wadleigh, George, 1913, pg. 65
"JACKSON, WALTER, a prisoner of war, captured at the Battle of Worcester 2.9.1651, transported from London to New England 12.1651 on the John and Sara of London, master John Greene, landed in Boston 2.1652 [Suffolk Deeds, 1/5-6]"
The original Scots Colonists of Early America. Supplement 1607-1707, pg. 86
Signed petition to the General Court of Massachusetts 1669, to have Oyster River made a Township.
Historical memoranda concerning persons & places in old Dover, N.H. by Scales, John, Quint, Alonzo Hall, 1900, pg. 57,58
Signed Petition to the General Court of New Hampshire 1695, to have Oyster River made a Township.
Historical memoranda concerning persons & places in old Dover, N.H. by Scales, John, Quint, Alonzo Hall, 1900, pg. 58,59
WALTER JACKSON 1697/8 DURHAM
[Administration on the estate of Walter Jackson of Oyster River granted to his oldest son, William Jackson, March 18, 1697/8.] Probate Records, Vol. 2, p. 45
[Inventory of the estate of Walter Jackson of Oyster River, who died in 1683; amount, 46 pounds; signed by Thomas Chesley and Stephen Jones; attested by William Jackson, oldest son, March 18, 1697/8.]
New Hampshire Probate Records, 1635-1753, Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire, vol 1, New Hampshire Wills, 1696
Walter Jackson
Arrival Year: 1652
Arrival Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Primary Immigrant: Jackson, Walter
Walter Jackson, in the U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, DOBSON, DAVID. Scots in New England, 1623-1873. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2002. 236p.
JACKSON, Walter [-1683} & Jane______, , m/2 Henry RICE; B 1669; Dover, NH
*****U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 for Walter Jackson, New England Marriages Prior to 170
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