Jack, Matthew (b. , d. ?)

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Text: 4 DEC 2002

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Bloomfield, Somerset, Maine

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Mount Pleasant, Racine, Wisconsin

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Fairfield, Somerset, Maine

Note: Note: Captain James Jack was killed in the Revolutionary War and his eldest son, James, at age 17 took his father's place in the War.

James Jack is listed as a witness for the will of John James Kilgore, born 1660 in Ireland. The Kilgore's also lived in Cumberland County. James Jack's sister, Elizabeth Jack born abt 1919 in Ireland, had married James W Kilgore born between 1701-1720, son of John James Kilgore.


Will Book B Page 242. Will of James
JACK
I, James Jack of Newton Tp, Cumb Co Pa on this Sept 30, 1776 will
as follows:
To My wife Jane Jack bed, furniture, Saddle, Wheel, Pot & all
profits of the plantation during widowhood. She to school our young
children in customary manner & if she marries to have 20.
To my son John by [sic] black coat & Jacket of Seggathy & no more
as he has already recd his share.
To my daughters "Elinors" two sons viz Alexander & James Jack
Scroggs sons of James Scrogs [sic] on their mothers acc't viz to
Alexander 5 & James Jack 7 & no more.
To my daughter Elizabeth now wife of Wm McFarland 5 & no more.
To my daughter Mary wife to John Hanon 1 & no more.
To my 3 sons Patrick, James & Andrew one share & a half of the
remainder of my Estate.
To my daughters Jane, Agnes, Margaret, Synthia, Jemima & Hannah the
remainder of my Estate, Directs Andrew to be put to a trade. John
Bowman & Wm Standt to be Excs
James Jack (Seal) Witnesses William Tomson, John Thompson Jane
Jack (Seal) & James McGafog. Proven Nov 7, 1776.

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Note: BIOGRAPHY: Stephen married sisters, First Lois Ellis and then Elizabeth"Betsey" Ellis

Note: BIOGRAPHY: Thomas married his first cousin Susan, daughter of Zaccheusand Temperance Burgess of Sandwich

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Note: BIOGRAPHY: Founder of the commercial house of B. Burgess & Sons, was one of the oldest and most esteemed merchants of Boston. He commenced business in Sandwich in 1802 and represented his native town in the Legislature as early as 1812 and many years after. As soon as the war closed he transferred his business to Boston, and opened a very active and lucrative trade with Cuba (sugar merchant) and from that time forward prosecuted it with great energy, enterprise and success until he retired from business. He founded one of the leading houses in the Cuba trade in the country. He was the first to open and foster trade with the now flourishing port of Cienfuegos, and he had the honor, too, of taking the lead in abolishing spirit rations on board of our merchant ships, and the mode of ding it was characteristic of the man, he having not only given the men extra pay instead, but extra fare besides. His example was soon followed by the rest of the mercantile community.

He retained his homestead in Sandwich on the very spot where his ancestors, before him, had resided since 1638.He was one of the directors of the Merchants Bank, one of the directors for the whole period of the first chapter of the Equitable Insurance Company, and director of the Cape Cod Railroad Company to his death.

1860 Census shows Grandson Benjamin Burgess Abe living with Benjamin and Mary

Census: Date: 1860
Place: Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Note: After marrying Ellen Jervis, they settled on a small farm in Ardstraw,County Tyrone, Ireland, near Newton Limavaddy, 1711, emigrating later to the New World and settled in Chester County, Pennsylvania. where he died in 1726.

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Text: 4 DEC 2002