One piece of information that is floating around out there all over the place is this...
Marmaduke Scott married Miriam Jackson and she was the daughter of Bailey Jackson....
To put it politely, Wrong! And I have some evidence to support that.
Marmaduke Scott married Miriam Jackson on December 30th, 1789, in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, If you search in "North Carolina, Index to Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868" in Ancestry, you will be able to find the record. It lists, as the bondsman, a man named "Demsey Jackson." My first response was "This has got to be some connection to Miriam. Brother? Father? Uncle?" Well, with some heavy-duty digging which meant reading through the estate papers of numerous Jacksons of Pasquotank County, (which by the way you can do on either Ancestry or Family Search, and I might add that Family Search is free, and my eyes almost went cross-eyed,) I was able to find my answer.
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| Image from the estate files of Simon Peter Jackson, from Ancestry, 9/23/2017 |
In the 1774 estate papers of Simon Peter Jackson, you will find on a half-sheet of paper, that looks like it was a scrap piece, a note about an orphan by the name of Miriam. On the back of this slip of paper, you will find the name Dempsey Jackson, Simon's brother, Uncle to Miriam.
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| Image from the estate files of Simon Peter Jackson, from Ancestry, 9/23/2017 |
I think that should do it. I did read other information about Miriam, the orphan of Simon Peter Jackson in the estate papers. By the way, her mother was Mary and she had a brother named Zackariah Jackson.
If that's not enough for an doubting Thomases out there, how about the other interesting piece of evidence found in the estate files. A note requesting information about the receipts of said orphan. Someone is requesting that information for his court case... And that man is none other than Marmaduke Scott himself. (I love his signature!)
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| Image from the estate files of Simon Peter Jackson, from Ancestry, 9/23/2017 |
Somehow along the way in the research, someone got the idea that Miriam was Bailey Jackson's daughter and she married Marmaduke Scott. They were partially correct. Marmaduke did marry Bailey Jackson's daughter, after Miriam died.
Marmaduke Scott married Mary Polly Jackson, daughter of Bailey, and they had several children. His first child, Harvey, was the Miriam's son, but the rest listed in his will belonged to Mary Polly. That's further shown in her will dated 1820. You can also search for Bailey's will and find even more support there.
And one last item, click on this link and take a look at this... THE JACKSON-JENNINGS HOUSE PASQUOTANK COUNTY: A DOCUMENTARY RESEARCH REPORT Prepared by Jerry L. Cross November, 1991 This report is about the Mary Polly Jackson Scott cabin which is now in the Museum of the Albermerle in Pasquotank County. There's some information about the Jackson family, a kind of a tell-all about the strife between Harvey Scott and Mary Polly, his step-mother. It also gives lots of information about her estate and from that you can learn a lot about Marmaduke's children and who they married.
That's another story... The children. From my findings, Marmaduke and Miriam had two children -- a girl born in late 1790 and Harvey in either 1791 or 1792. But there seems to be a couple who claim to be the daughters of Marmaduke... I'm not so sure.
Tune in next time for more about these two and the rest of the children... Working title:
Here a Child, There a Child... Or Where There's a Will, There's a Relative.
CSM
