Spouse: Ebenezer KIMBALL.

The knowledge of my forefathers is very limited, and that of my own life up to the time of writing will be scant, having to rely mostly on memory for at least thirty years of my life.

The knowledge imparted to me by my mother of my ancestors was that in an early day, 1634, they (three brothers) came from England and settled in America. My 3rd great grandfather staying in or near Newbury, Mass. The other two going farther south. What their names were and their destination was I never learned. My father, Moses French Jackman, was the son of Daniel Jackman and Eleanor Merrill, and was born June 16, 1769, Salisbury, Mass.

My mother, Elizabeth Carr, daughter of James and Mary Carr and born September 19, 1769 in Salisbury, Mass. Her parents were of Scotch descent and lived in Old Salisbury on opposite side of the river from Newburyport in the state of Massachusetts. He being a sea- captain at some period of his life and died in New York of Yellow Fever. My mother had left her, near the bank of the river, one brick and one frame house and for some time lived alone, teaching school, and dressmaking. Her brothers were sea-faring men, one being killed in an engagement, but do not know with what nation.

My father, Moses F. Jackman, was apprenticed and became a finished workman at the shoe-making trade. He had two brothers Abel and Levi. I mention them as their names will appear later on.

On the marriage of my parents, previous to 1790, my mother sold her property and with my father moved to the new state of Vermont where they bought fifty acres of land, where their family were born, and it was here that my father met his death on the 7th of July, 1797, twenty-one (21) days previous to my birth, 28th day of July, 1797. The accident that caused his death I will relate as near as memory serves me aright.

My Uncle Abel Jackman agreed with father to do some chopping for him some two or three miles from our home. Father went also accompanied by a near and very dear friend by the name of Rollins, as they were never happy only when together.

They commenced to fall the trees, and in the falling of an ash tree about a foot in diameter it fell over a knoll or eminence and in the rebounding of the butt it struck father on the side of the head killing him instantly. A messenger was dispatched to inform and bring my mother to my Uncle Abel's home where the body lay. He went, but did not inform her of the accident but desired her to accompany him, but it seemed that she had a foreboding that some calamity had taken place, not daring to ask fearing the reply. On arriving at my uncle's home she went in finding all in sorrow and silence. My uncle taking her arm walked the room for a long time. She then being in ignorance of the true condition. At length Uncle proposed that she be told, which was done and she was conducted into the chamber of death. You can imagine her grief and sorrow on seeing her husband, her friend, her only joy on earth, cut down by the cruel shaft of death in the prime of life, leaving her and his family to mourn his untimely death. It was a sad ending to a life of eight or ten years of wedded happiness, and it was with great difficulty that she bore her affliction. Summoning all her fortitude to her aid and realizing the duty devolving upon her, she devoted her life to the welfare of her children. Left in poor circumstances, and with fifty acres of very poor land (but happily out of debt) and with no manual aid from her children to assist her she nobly and trustfully took up her increased labor to do battle with the things of life for the welfare of the children. The next winter following my father's death, Uncle Levi came from Massachusetts and took my brother Moses back with him until he attained into his twenty-first year of age.

By industry and economy my mother succeeded not only in providing food and clothes for our bodies but stored our minds with principles of truth and salvation, trying in kind motherly ways to inculcate our minds in morality and uprightness, belonging to no church. My parents were very strict in attending church, generally the Methodist, my father before his death being chorister. In the years 1808 and 1809 there was much excitement and much said of the fertility of the land in what was then called the "Hollen Purchase" situated in the western part of New York State. Mother being enthused with the reports of the country - sold her land on time -a small advance being made that enabled us to prepare the moving, which we did in January 1810; having all our worldly possessions packed in one sleigh, we bid our friends adieu - leaving many in tears at bidding us good-bye with the expectation of never seeing us again in life.

After crossing the Green Mountains, the snow gave out and we were compelled to trade our sleigh for a wagon - paying a difference of fifteen dollars, this being a great sum to us in our limited means. Before our journey was ended our money was all paid out and we were compelled often to stop and work a few days for subsistence, and then continue our journey onward until on the 26th of March, 1810, we arrived at Batavia, Genesee County, New York. Staying there briefly we went eight miles further into the township of Alexander, taking up our quarters in an old house until we found a permanent resting place for a home which we did some time in April following and put up a log cabin and moved into it. Those days of my youth were among the happiest of my life - spent in helping to clear off the dense, forest of trees clothed in its mantle of green leaves and foliage; the ground covered with a mat of flowers of every description, color and hue; crystal streams wending their way to the larger streams lower down in the valleys. The denizens of the forest, the bear, and deer, wolves and other animals roamed at will around our humble home unsuspecting of danger.

Home seekers soon came pouring in, humble homes soon sprang up around us, improvements were made throughout the country and the wilderness was soon converted into fruitful fields, yielding their bounties to reward the toilers for their labor.

Here our greatest loss befell us in the death of our noble mother, occurring on the 20th of September, 1819. For several years she had been afflicted with a cancer of the breast - causing her much suffering until released by death - going to join her ones gone before and with the just.

The LDS Historical Database is a multimedia compilation of over 177,000 individuals by Vern Taylor of Stockton California Dec 2003-5. Most notes and biographies were collected from various sources on the Internet. Some were digitally keyed by Ren
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I have tried to error correct and standardize the place names. Unless otherwise indicated, all places are USA. Abbreviations used are Cem=Cemetery, Mt.=Mount, Twp=Township, St.=Saint, (xxx)=current name in use.

Parents: James CARR Sr and Mary GREELEY.

Spouse: Daniel JACKMAN.

Spouse: Moses French JACKMAN. Elizabeth CARR and Moses French JACKMAN were married on 22 June 1789 in Vershire, Orange, Vermont. Children were: Daniel JACKMAN, James Rayerdon JACKMAN, William JACKMAN, Levi JACKMAN.

Spouse: Charles Robert WALLS. Children were: Charlotte Aleane WALLS, JoAnn WALLS.

Spouse: Obediah Stephen PERRY.

Spouse: Lucinda DEVENPORT (DAVENPORT) Imm. Lucinda DEVENPORT (DAVENPORT) Imm and George CARR Imm Sr were married before 1620 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts.⁴

Spouse: Elizabeth OLIVER Imm. Elizabeth OLIVER Imm and George CARR Imm Sr were married in 1640 in Salisbury, Ma.¹²²⁰ Children were: Elizabeth CARR, George W. CARR Jr, Richard CARR, William CARR, James CARR, Mary CARR, Sarah CARR, John CARR, Richard CARR Sr Capt, Ann CARR.

Spouse: Elizabeth OLIVER. Elizabeth OLIVER and George CARR were married on 4 April 1682 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Children were: Elizabeth CARR, George W. CARR, Richard CARR, William CARR, Sarah CARR, John CARR, Richard CARR, Ann CARR, James CARR, Mary CARR.

Spouse: Elizabeth OLIVER. Elizabeth OLIVER and George CARR were married on 4 April 1682 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Children were: Elizabeth CARR, George W. CARR, Richard CARR, William CARR, Sarah CARR, John CARR, Richard CARR, Ann CARR, James CARR, Mary CARR.

Spouse: Ann COTTON.

Spouse: Mrs. James CARR.

Spouse: Mary SEARS.

Spouse: Mary SEARS. Mary SEARS and James CARR were married on 14 November 1677 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Children were: John CARR, John CARR, Hepzibah CARR, Hannah CARR, James CARR, Hepzibah CARR, Sarah CARR, Catherine CARR, Mary CARR, Elizabeth CARR.