Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-07-30

Braxt0n Davenport, IN letter 10 tue uO'-
ernor Of Virginia, claims that Gen. Andrep
Jackson was born in Berkeley County. Va, on
the estate of James Strobe. The following IS
his statement:
81 claim his birth for Virginia, on the de-
clarasion of the late Mrs. Shepherd, the relcs
of the late captain Abraham Shepherd, and
Mrs. Bednger, the wife Of the late Major
Henry Bedipger, Of Berkeley county. These
gentlemen we're officers in the army Of the
revolution. These ladies we're respectively
married, Mrs. Shepherd in the early part Of
the revolution, and Mrs. Bsdingsr, young
er sister, at the conclusion. The war OF
1872, gave to Gen. jackson celebrity, and the
question Of nativity was started, and among
those advanced in life, who remained In
Berkeley and Jefferson taken tbereirom, at
that period, were those ladies, from whom
learned that an Irish family named Jack
son, came to their fathers, the late james
Strobe, somewhere about the year 100. to
whom their father furnished small tene-
meut and gave employment-that they were
then young girls-that about l764 or '65, a
son was born to that family, whom they nam
ed Andrew--thst they bad two other sous
older--thst being themselves without broth
ers, they with their two elder sisters, sought
and obtained the consent of their father and
mother, when in l768 the Jacksons were
making arrangements to emigrate TO the
Waxhaw Settlement in North Carolina, to
obtain from the Jacksops, their youngest son,
Andrew, to be raised as bro'hsr--but were
unable to do 90, though they went some five
miles on the road, importnning-tbe Jack
soDs were poor. the Strodes having all that
could be desired. 1t seems as If the hand OF
DESTINY was IN the matter, and that Andrew
was a fated boy. Many years after bad
received this information from these ladies,
think in 1924 early, when Gen. Jackson was
put forward By bis friends for the Presiden-
cy, met with George Johnston. Scotch
man, a very aged man in my neighborhood,
who in early lite think, was 10 Braddock's
defeat, and soldier through the resolution,
and who had resided near MIR. Strode's resi-
dence from 1850 to the revolution.
/ Immediately erQuired II be had ever
known family Of the name OF jackson, who
had resided on MIR. James Sirode's estate,
previous to the revolution, if So, how many
children they had and Of what sex, and what
became of the family. He replied promptly
that he knew such family that they bad
three sons, the youngest Of whom Was called
Andrew (Apdy as he called him, who was
carried 90 the hip-that is, was not able to
travel, when, in l7GS they went to the Wax
haw settlement in n. Carolina. No history
or biography of Gen. Jackson had then
been written, and if one had been, Johnston
was illiterate and be had no idea Of the object
Of my enquiry.
The biograpber Of Gen. jackson. (Eaton)
places the arrival of the family in lIGS direct
from Ireland, in the Wa1haw settlement IN
South Carolina-bringing the youngest son
of the family named Andrew with them.
Thus we have on good authority. mine
cannot be doubted, for my informants sur
vived It'll recently, two families, both Irish,
who emigrated to the Waxhaw settlement
aud each family having their youngest son
named Andrew. have understood that
that settlement was believed to be In North
Carolina previous to the revolution; that her
courts had jurisdiction over its Inhabitants,
it being included in one Of her counties;
that after the revolution the two States Ut
South and North Carolina, bad the division
line run, and that that settlement fell into
South Carolina. Could it be possible that
two families from Ireland each having three
sons, the youngest one in each family, bearing
the name Of Andrew, could arrive in the
same year l76S, in the same settlement?