Wm Jackson, bro to Eliz Jackson Tomkins Carter TN deeds
This is text I copied from my Jackson web site www.jacksonfamilygenealogy.com.The links to the deeds will work from there.
There is a transcription of a original deed from the state in 1794 for 200 acres given to William Jackson, Washington County (now Carter County), North Carolina.Then in 1801 William deeded 100 of these acres to Leonard Shown.This second deed is Witnessed by JOSEPH TOMPKINS and WILLIAM JINKINS.This second deed is significant in light of the comments made in the 1887 Jackson Ledger (pg 12) about Joseph Jackson's son, William, and Joseph's daughter, Elizabeth Jackson TOMPKINS, migrating South together.Add also the fact that Elizabeth Jackson Tompkins had a son named JOSEPH TOMPKINS and the fact that JOSEPH TOMPKINS married a Mary Jenkins, and the circumstantial evidence adds up for this William being the son of Joseph Jackson of Morris County, New Jersey.For here in this deed we have William Jackson, a Tompkins and a Jinkins/Jenkins all together.Joseph Tompkins may have been William's nephew and William Jinkins' son-in-law.Any comments and/or additional research on this connection will be appreciated.Please email.P.S. Elizabeth Jackson Tompkins also died in Carter Co. TN.