John Jack (1726 - 1808)

Born 11 Mar 1726 in Ardstraw, Tyrone, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Eleanor (Stevenson) Jack — married 1752 in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 23 Apr 1808 at age 82 in South Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

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SOURCE: WILL BOOK I - 1773-1811 (EXTRACTS) WESTMORELAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA PAGE 46.

JOHN JACK: BK I P. 46 YEOMAN OF HUNTINGTON TOWNSHIP. WIFE: ELEANOR; CHILDREN; PATRICK, ANNA ROBERTSON, ELIZABETH MARKLIN, & REBECCA JACK; GRANDSONS, JOHN CLARK, ANDREW THOMPSON & JOHN FINLEY; SONS-IN--LAW ANDREW FINLEY, JOHN ROBINSON & JOHN MARKLIN, SON THOS. S. JACK AND OTHER CHILDREN, NOT NAMED. EXECUTORS: ANDREW FINLEY & JOHN ROBERTSON. WITNESSES: JOHN CARNAHAN & JOHN ROBERTSON DATED: AUGUST 2, 1806 PROVEN: APRIL 23, 1808

Biography

John Jack was born on March 11, 1726 in Ardstraw, Tyrone, Ireland, he was the first son to James Jack and Elizabeth McNulty. He died on April 23, 1808 in South Huntington Beach, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, and was buried in Rothermel Cemetery, Sewickly Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania

He married Eleanor Stevenson in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania in the year 1752.

Notes

Note NI5382[Guill dec.ged] J.V. Thompson Journals, vol. 1, p. 32; vol. 2, p. 313-314 ( will of John Jack) dated 2 Aug 1806, proved 23 Apr 1808 John Jack (1726-1808) Revolutionary War Patriot of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania: He was buried on the Old Clement Finley Farm.

D.A.R. Patriot Index

Charlotte Smith gives birth place and states that John died in

Westmoreland Co., PA. John Donaldson, 716 W. Moon Valley Dr.,

Phoenix, AZ 85023 (DAR papers of Olive R. JACK also gives death place as

Westmoreland Co., PA. Gives marriage place as Ireland) States that John

Jack's Revolutionary War Services were as follows: "John Jack served as

a Ranger on the frontier from 1778 to 1783 in Westmoreland Co. , Penna.

under Captain Andrew Swearington. Reference: Pennsylvania Archives,

Series III, Vol. XXII, page 312. Compare this list of Rangers with the

taxables of Huntington Township in 1783, Pennsylvania Archives, Series

III, Vol. XXII , Pages 408 to 419. It will be seen that Major David

Vance , Adj. Thomas Mason and others were Rangers in this company and

taxable in Huntington County." Lists his rank as private. DAR

application verified by national number 186084 a dd 271. 6th Company.

4th Battalion, Cumberland Co., PA 2 4 Oct 1782 Lt. Col. Samuel Culbertson

He was prominent with others in his family in drafting and uttering the

Hannastown Declaration of Independence in 1775.126 page 350 According

the Volume 4 of the J. V. Thompson book John Jack came to Westmoreland

County from Franklin County in 1772, and he and his wife are buried on

the Rothermel Farm near Wes t Newton, Pennsylvania. In the J. V. Thompson

book, he is said to have red hair and passed it down our line to his dau

ghter, Elizabeth Jack, and his granddaughter, Maria Martha Markle, the

wife of Micajah Patterson Smith, and to my great-grandmother, Alvira

Fuller Smith married to Henry Harrison Markle, and to my grandmother May

Markle Donaldosn and to my father and his brother.

Patricia Lowry plowry at neo.Irun.com e-mail 8 Jul 1997 gives the following

from Publications of the Genealogical Soci ety of Pennsylvania, Vol.

V:3, p. 338, "Abstracts of Wills of Westmoreland County, " Will Book I,

p 46: John JACK, Yeoman, Huntington Twp., dated 2 Aug 1806, proved 23

Apr 1808 - wife Elinor; Children - Patrick, Anna ROBERTSON, Elizabeth

MACKLIN [MARKLE] and Rebecca. JACK. Grandsons John CLARK, Andrew

THOMSON and John FINLEY; Sons-in-law- Andrew FINLEY, John ROBINSON, and

John MACKLIN. Son Thomas S. JACK and other children not named; Andrew

FINLEY and John ROBERTS ON Executors, Witness, John CARNAHAN and Charles

HUNTER. Patricia Lowry gives his place of death as Westmoreland Co. , PA.

John Jack, the father of Jane and Margaret Jack, served as one of Brady's

Rangers on the frontier from 1778 to 1783 in Westmoreland County, PA

under Captain Andrew Swearington. Brady's Rangers were instrumental in

retrieving people who were taken captive in Indian raids. Allan W. Eckerd’s book

"That Dark and Bloody River" mentions John Jack several times