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VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY

Jackson, Mr. Joseph, was a burgess from Charles City in the assembly of 1641.

Jackson, Robert, was a son of Joseph Jackson, of Carlisle, Cumberland, England. He resided at Vorktown, Virginia, where he married in 1731-32 a Miss P^rett, of that place. lie was grandfather of Sir John fackson, of Kingston, Jamaica.

Jarrell, Thomas, was a burgess from Southampton in the session of February i, 1752. In the session of November i, 1753, Robert James represented Southampton in place of Thomas Jarrell, deceased.

Jaquelin, Edward, son of John Jaquelin, of county Kent, England, and Elizabeth C raddock, his wife, came to Virginia in 1697; settled at Jamestown, where he mar- ried Rachel Sherwood, widow of William Sherwood. When she died, he married in 1706, Martha, daughter of William Gary, of Warwick county. He was born in 1668 and died in 1739. His eldest daughter Elizabeth married Richard Ambler, a merchant of Vorktown, and his daughter Mary married John Smith, of "Shooter's Hill," iMiddlesex county.

Jefferson, John, was a burgess from Flow- erdieu Hundred in the first assembly of 1619. He is believed to have been ancestor of Thomas Jefiferson.

Jefferson, Peter, son of Thomas Jefferson, of Henrico, was a justice of the i)eace, and a vestryman of his parish. He was a bur- gess from Albemarle county (in the place of Joshua Fry, deceased), and in the sessions of August 22, 1754, October 17, 1754, May I. 1755, August 5, 1755, October 27, 1755. He was a man physically strong, a good mathematician, skilled in surveying, fond

of standard literature, and in politics a British Whig. He and Fry were the com- pilers of a map of Virginia, known as Fry and Jeft'erson's map. He married in 1738 Jane, daughter of I sham Randolph, of Goochland county. He was the father of President Thomas Jefferson. He died in I757-

Jenkins, Henry, came probably from the city of Dublin, wdiere he states his brother IJaniel Jenkins lived. He was 1695 "justice of the Quorum and commander-in-chief for the county of Elizabeth City." In 1676 he had supported Nathaniel Bacon, Jr. He was burgess from Elizabeth City in 1685, and for York in the assembly of 1696-1697. His will was proved in Elizabeth City county September 24. 1698. He had issue flenry Jenkins, Jr.

Jenings, Edmund, son of Edmund Jen- ings, Esq., of Virginia, was admitted at- torney in the Baltimore county court March, 1724; burgess for Annapolis in the Maryland assembly ; took his seat in the Maryland council, October 21, 1732, and was an active member till 1752; w^as com- missioned secretary of the province, March . 20, 1732-1733, and resigned that of^ce in 1755. He married Ariana, widow of Thomas Eordley and daughter of Matthias Vander- heyden, July 2. 1728, and died in Yorkshire, England, in >\Iarch, 1756. His daughter Ariana married John Randolph, attorney general of \'irginia.

Jenings, Edmund, son of Edmund Jen- ings, Esq., of Maryland, was a lawyer of Eincoln's Inn, London. In 1769 he present- ed to "the Gentlemen of Westmoreland county," a portrait of the Earl of Chatham, which hangs in the court house at Montross.