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<br /> United States Department of the Interior
<br /> National Park Service
<br /> National Register of Historic Places
<br /> Continuation Sheet
<br /> Jacob Jackson Farm / Maple Hill
<br /> Section number_,..8 Page _.,3 Orange County, NC
<br /> colony or the state.'
<br /> Chamberlain apparently died in Pennsylvania. He left no will in Orange County and his
<br /> estate was settled in Pennsylvania in 1793. His executor, Joshua Chamberlain of Lancaster
<br /> County, Pennsylvania, sold the Orange County, North Carolina land holdings to William
<br /> Chamberlain of Chester County, Pennsylvania, on February 28, 1794.8 Less than one year later,
<br /> on January 7, 1795, the 381 acre tract granted to James Taylor in 1753 was purchased by Isaac
<br /> Jackson,'believed to have been the Revolutionary War veteran and Regulator who, along
<br /> with thirteen others, was outlawed in 1768 by Governor William Tryon's decree that his
<br /> actions be given "due notice by all Officers of Justice and others concerned therein." 10 The
<br /> price of the parcel, five hundred pounds, was expensive for the time and may indicate the
<br /> presence of a building of some value on the land but, if so, no record has been left describing it
<br /> or its location. The land was a strategic purchase for Jackson, who owned surrounding acreage
<br /> on three sides and in this way was able to consolidate the majority of his holdings in a single
<br /> tract.
<br /> Two sources give differing accounts of the property during the next twenty-seven years.
<br /> One alleges that between 1796 and 1802, Isaac Jackson divided the 381 acres into three parts,
<br /> selling approximately equal parcels to William Pickett and Levi Jackson and selling or giving
<br /> to Jacob Jackson the subject tract consisting of 133 acres more or less." Deeds conveying titles of
<br /> their respective lands to William Pickett and Levi Jackson are among early Orange County
<br /> records but no legal instrument could be found that transfers any parcel of land directly from
<br /> Isaac to Jacob Jackson.
<br /> A second source, a Jackson family genealogy, states that Jacob Jackson inherited land
<br /> from his father, James Jackson. This conveyance is recorded. The will of James Jackson, filed in
<br /> 1822, stipulates that "I (James Jackson), allow my son, Jacob Jackson, the privilege of living on
<br /> the plantation where he now lives his life time by paying unto my executive [sic] fifteen
<br /> barrels of corn and ten bushels of wheat yearly and, at his decease, the said plantation is to be
<br /> 'Ratcliff, Clarence, North Carolina Taxpayers,Vol. 1,,1701-1786,Vol. 2, 1679-1790, Baltimore, Genealogical
<br /> Publishing Co., 1986.
<br /> Browning,Letter.See also Deed dated'February 28,1794,Book 5,pp.366-8,Orange County Register of Deeds
<br /> Office, Hillsborough, NC.
<br /> 'Browning,Letter.See also Deed dated January 1,1795,Book 5,pp.403-4,Orange County Register of Deeds
<br /> Office Hillsborough, NC.
<br /> "Powell, William S., ed., Correspondence of William Tryon and Other Select Papers. Raleigh, NC, Division of
<br /> Archives and History, 1981,p. 199.See also Clark,Waiter,State Records of North Carolina.Goldsboro,Nash Bros.,
<br /> 1907,p.71.
<br /> "Browning, Letter.
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