Person:Benjamin Jackson (48)

Benjamin is said to have been "an early settler of the Buckeye State".

In the Pennsylvania Septennial Census 1821 Sugar Loaf, Columbia County, Daniel Jackson, Sr. is listed and four of his sons: Daniel Jr., Silas, Joseph and Benjamin.

U.S. General Land Office Records, 1776-2015
Name: Benjamin Jackson
Issue Date: 23 Jun 1826
Place: Richland, Ohio, USA
Land Office: Wooster
Meridian: Ohio River Survey
Township: 19-N
Range: 18-W
Section: 3
Accession Number: OH0540__.017
Document Number: 1007

1830 United States Federal Census
Name: Benjamin Jackson
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Berlin, Knox, Ohio
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 [Eden]
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2 [Joel & Henry]
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 [Benj & wife]
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 5

1840 United States Federal Census
Name: B B Jackson
Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Ridgefield, Huron, Ohio
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 Benj F
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2 Dan'l & Wm
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2 Eden & Joel
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1 Henry
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 Benj
Free White Persons - Females- 40 thru 49: 1 Polly
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 5
Free White Persons - Under 20: 6
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 8

1850 U.S. Census Ridgefield, Huron Co., Ohio
Benjamin B. Jackson 50 M Farmer 4000. PA
Polly Jackson 51 F PA
Henry Jackson 28 M Carpenter PA
Eden R. Jackson 22 M Farmer OH
Daniel A. Jackson 19 M Farmer OH
William A. Jackson 17 M Farmer OH
Benjamin F. Jackson 11 M OH
Beron Jackson 8 M OH
Lorana Jackson 25 F NY (later census proves she is Henry's wife.)
Eunretta Jackson 3 F OH (prob is Henrietta; later is Frances H.)
Eden Ruggles 84 M Conn
Astemesia Ruggles 79 F Conn

1860 U.S. Census Ridgefield, Huron Co., Ohio
Post Office: Monroeville
Benjamin B. Jackson 60 M Farmer PE:3000 PERS:700. PA
Mary Jackson 61 F PA

Jackson info taken from the California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898
Yolo County, California 1867-1890
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2221
Jackson, Benjamin B; age 66; PA; Farmer, Woodland; reg 14 Sep 1867
Jackson, Henry; age 45; PA; Physician; Woodland reg 14, Sep 1867

Inscription on his gravestone:
BENJAMIN B JACKSON
Died July 11, 1868
Aged 67y, 11m, 10d

This age and date calculates out to be the same Aug 1, 1800 date that Oscar B. Robbin's book says is the birth date of Benjamin, s/o Daniel Jackson and Jemima Benjamin!!
Descendants of this line have DNA that matches the DNA of Robert Jackson of Hempstead, New York.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Find A Grave
   Memorial# 87284958.

   https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=87284958

2. ↑ Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Septennial Census Returns, 1779-1863. (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania State Archives Series #7.26)
   Sugar Loaf, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania.
3. ↑ United States. 1830 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M19)
   Berlin, Knox Co., Ohio.
4. ↑ United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432)
   Ridgefielld, Huron Co., Ohio.
5. ↑ United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M653)
   Ridgefield, Huron Co., Ohio.
6. ↑ California, United States. Great Registers, 1866-1898.

   Benjamin and his son Henry both registered on the same day.

7.   Robbins, Oscar Burton. History of the Jackson family of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., Ohio and Indiana: descendants of Robert and Agnes Washburn Jackson. (Loveland, Colo.: Robbins, 1951)
   74.