Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-05-06
From the National Intelligence
Birthplace of General jackson.
MoNpop IN C1 March %, 1859

time that HiF davenport clalDleu tue Vi
General Andrew jackson for Virginia, much ink has
been shed and many conecures have been made as to
the true place of the old heros nativity But OF
them all approach in probability and eircumstantlal
facts of the Mechanic house IN North Carolina. Inc
mere statement of the well proven facts 10 that case ut
tery demolishes every other theory in opposition to it.
The generally conceded facts in the vicinity where Jack
son lived until he about fifteen years of age, and not
far from where he resided until he twentyone were
these viz:
That old Andrew Jackson the father of General An
drew Jackson with several of his brothers inaw, to
w.t. George Mechanic, John Leslie, Samuel Leslie,
James Crawford, and James Grow, who married the
Misses Hutchinson, sisters of Mrs. jackson, all came to
this country from Ireland and settled in the Warsaw
settlements lying partly in North and partly in South
Carolina That Andrew jackson, senior, came IN 100
and settled on Twelve Mile Greek, North Carolina at a
place where Mrs. Martha Laney now lives near Pleas
ant Grove camp ground which place was then com
prised in what was then called The Warsaw settle
ment "a place including considerable boundary, and
taking its from tribe of the CataWba Indians
called the Warsaw tribe and from which also the Wax
Greek took its name That IN the latter part OF
the winter of l766 and 76 and before the birth of bis
son Andrew old Andrew Jackson died at the aboven nam
ed place on Twelve Mile Creek North Carolina. That
afterwards his mother removed from Twelve Mile
Greek Orth Carolina to live with her sisters on Warsaw
Creek, and more especially with her brother-lnlaW,
JAS Crawford of South Carolina, who the wealth.
lest among them. That she stopped on her way at
the house of Mrs. Margaret Mechanic, in North Caro-
lima, and whilst there gave birth to her son Andrew
That afterwards, as soon she had recovered her
strength sufficiently to travel she proceeded to Mr.
James Craword's, in South Carolina, about three
miles further southwest and remained there with her
children until 1880 or 81, upon the invasion of South
Carolina and North Carolina by Lord Corvallis
when she retreated with her Andrew in the vicin
ty of Charlotte North Carolina and shortly afterwards
died near Charleston, South Carolina. Andrew, now
fourteen years old, his mother and brothers all being
dead, removed into North Carolina, where he finished
his education under Mr. McCullock, and began the
study of the law with Spruce McCay, Esq, and John
Stokes, in Salisbury North Carolina was licensed to
practice law, and remained in Salisbury until the spring
Of 1888, at which time heswent with Judge McNairy
to Tennessee
These facts are taken from his biographies from the
time he thirteen fourteen years of age and
all within the entire recollection of Gen. Jackson him.
SELF and they give perfect quietus to Mr.. John A.
James conversations with Simon Trenton to jackson
being in Kentucky in 1879" and being then twenty
odd years of age that time, and Fenton's knowing
him there until 1882 There persons yet living
here now who knew and saw General jackson during
that time, and know that statement of Fentons to be
utterly groundless. And there the daybooks and
edgers Of gentement in Salisbury and Charlotte, North
Carolina with his accounts contracted during that time
which have been paraded during the Jackson excitement
between 1882 and &c. which show, beyond question:
that jackson there up to 1888 The report about
his having been born at sea-, and other reports reec
ting his parentage were raised in 1925 when Jack
davts of Mrs Mary Cowsar and many others who knew
him and his family WE'LL and some of whom pres
en on the night of his birth, taken By James D.
Craig, Esq, at that time, and sent to Mr. George Ne
wells, chairman OF jackson committee in Ohio, and
published so says Mr. Craig in the S. Telegraph that
day. Mrs. Mary Cowsar was then living in South Caro-
lima, where she living when jackson was born,
within half mile of George Mechanics house in North
Carolina, and stated that she present the night of
his birth at George Mechanics, in North Carolina
f11c rofN i1I-al
in North Carolina at that time within half mile of
Mechanics sent for to attend to Mrs. jackson on
the night of Andrews birth and she who received
jackson in her at the house of George Mechanics
in North Carolina. So her grandsons James Faulkner
Thomas Faulkner and John Latham and Others certify
that they have often heard their grandmother, Mrs.
Sarah Leslie say. And John Latham has often heard
his mother, Mrs Sarah Latham the daughter Of Sarah
Leslie assert that she too present with her mother
the night of Andrew Jacksons birth and in the
fact that it was at George Mechanics, in North Caro-
lima so Benjamin Massey, Esq, James, Thomas, and
Samuel Faulkner and others have often heard her say
the same. Mrs Elizabeth McWhorter, who lived in
North Carolina within mile of George Mechanics,
also sent for assistant the night OF Andrew
Jacksons BIRTH and present and said that be was
born at George Mechanics, in North Carolina. She
also took her George McWhorer, lad little over
five years of age with her the next day to visit Mrs
Jackson at Mechanics, and he, though small remembers
the occurrence. This is the recolecons and statement
of Samuel McWhorter, the grandson of Mrs McWhor.
ter of what he has often heard his father and his grand
mother relate There certificates of Mrs. Jane Will
son and others who corrobOrate Samuel McWhorters
statement There is also one from old James Faulkner
and David Ewing, corroborating Mrs. Lathams
statement, and MIR. Ewing also states that his
mother lived in South Carolina within two
miles of George Mechanics when jackson
born, and that it was at George Mechanics, as he
had often heard his mother say, in n orh Carolina
These affdavits partly taken by James D. Craig,
Esq, native of South Carolina, and nearly all the
witnesses from the State of South Carolina. Mrs
Leslie Mrs. Latham, Mrs. Cowsar the Faukners, John
Latham and wife, Agnes B. Massey, John Carnes John
Porter Thos and VIM. Cureton, all lived in South Car
DINA. David Ewing also raised there, and James
Faulkner, junior. And the three Faukners and John
Latham the second cousins and nearest living rea-
tons of General jackson in the world and all as
honest and truthful General jackson himself was,
and is Samuel McWhorter and his father and grand
mother, and indeed every other person whose adavs
were taken in this They all persons of intei-
gence, good standing and moral worth
But it is said General jackson thought and said he
was born in South Carolina. There can be no doubt
that he thought SO and said too. But he did not
know the facts here presented and which file
with Gov. D. L. Swan, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
and which also in the possession of Mr. JAS Parton
of New York. who is writing life of Jackson, he
would neither have thought so nor said what he did.
He WrOte>a letter to Col Jas. 81. Witherspoon, in
which he said he born at Crawford's, in South
Carolina and, if Mr.. James's conversation with Mr..
W. Marshal Anderson of Circlesvile, Ohio, is worthy
of credit, Gen. jackson also Sald in reply to question
OF said Andersons father as to "where he was born
II was born at sea- Now taking this to be true, it
only shows that General Jackson kley nothing of the
place of his birth. And the strong probability is that
he did not know. His earliest associations recoec-
ted by him, connected with the Crawford place in
South Carolina. And therefore he thought that was
the place where he born his mother telling
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