Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Halliday JACKSON
HALLIDAY, born 8mo. 31, 1771; married Jane, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Adams) Hough, of Philadelphia, 3mo. 18, 1801, at Friends' Meeting, Philadelphia. Jane born 5mo. 23, 1777; died 12mo. 28, 1830. They had twelve children. He married, (2nd) 6mo. 13, 1833, Ann P., widow of Thomas Paschall, and daughter of Samuel Gibson, Kingsessing, Philadelphia Co. Ann P. born 6mo. 24, 1792; died 2mo. 11, 1874. Issue, one child that died in infancy. Ann P., was a minister in the Society of Friends for more than forty years.
Halliday Jackson, when a young man, offered his services with two others(*) to go among the Seneca Indians, then under the care of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, to instruct them in various industrial pursuits, and remained with them about two years. The encouraging success of his labors met with a favorable endorsement from the Yearly Meeting, as appears from the following minute on the Records of New Garden Monthly Meeting, dated 9mo. 6, 1800.
"Halliday Jackson returned the recommendation granted him in 3mo., 1798, endorsed by the Yearly Meeting's committee appointed on Indian Affairs, dated the 14th of last month, expressive of their unity with him in his weighty undertaking, and satisfaction with his service among the Indian tribes where he was stationed, which, with his safe return and verbal account of pursuing his prospect to the peace of his own mind, is satisfactory to this meeting."
He obtained a certificate of removal from New Garden Monthly Meeting, dated 4mo. 28, 1803, to the meeting at Darby, Delaware Co., Pa., within the limits of which he then settled. In 1830, the results of his own observations
(*) Henry Simmons and Joel Swayne.
and of the labors of co-workers in the Indian cause, were published in his work, entitled "Civilization of the Indian Natives." in the preface of which occur the following remarks: "Although the author has spent but a small portion of time in a personal residence among this people, in comparison with many others, yet he can acknowledge, that the short time devoted to that service embraced some of the happiest moments of his early life. For, although deprived of the social comforts of society, and far removed from all the near and tender connections of his youthful days, yet from a full conviction of the rectitude of the work, and the incalculable good, under the Divine blessing, that might finally result to that people, the wilderness was often made as it were an Eden, and the desert as the garden of the Lord--'Joy and gladness were found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody.'" He died 2mo. 9, 1835.
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