This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xgk.2ACEB/7780 Message Board Post: Hello! I am doing research on the family of my 82-year-old mother, Ruth Louise Jackson Sinclair (Mrs. John P. Green) of Waltham, Massachusetts. She now lives in southern New Jersey. Her great-grandfather was Willard Cross Jackson. He was born in 1810 in Gorham, New Hampshire and died in 1876 in San Jose, California. We would very much like to correspond with the descendants of Willard C. Jackson's brother, Moses Jackson, Jr. Moses Jackson, Jr. was born October 23, 1813 in Gorham, New Hampshire and died Decvember 4, 1887 in Bradley, Maine. On December 18, 1838 Moses Jackson, Jr. married Elizabeth A. Johnson in Bradley. Elizabeth Johnson Jackson died in 1880 in Bradley. Moses and Elizabeth Jackson are buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Bradley. At the time of his death Moses Jackson, Jr. had the following children: (1) Lizzie Jackson (Mrs. Buxton) of Cumberland, Maine (2) Lovica J. Jackson (Mrs. Frank Gray) of Lynn, Massa- chusetts (3) Moses Jackson born 1848 Bradley, Maine; died October 7, 1900 Bradley He was a farmer and a lumberman. (4) William A. Jackson born 1850 Bradley, Maine; died October 13, 1907 Bradley (5) Joseph L. Jackson born 1854 Bradley, Maine; died August 14, 1923 Bradley Recently my mother and I learned that Moses Jackson, Sr., the father of Moses Jackson, Jr.and Willard Cross Jackson, was arrested in Norridgewock, Maine in May 1815 for possession of counterfeit bank notes that he knew to be counterfeit and that he planned to put into circulation. Moses Jakcson, Sr. was born in 1789 in Newry, Maine and was married to Lovica (or Lovisa) Clemmons. In June 1815 Moses Jackson, Sr. entered the State Prison in Charlestown, Massachusetts because Maine was still a part of Massachusetts. He was supposed to serve a life sentence, but he was pardoned by the governor of Massachusetts on October 18, 1818 and Moses Jackson, Sr. left the prison. Moses Jackson, Sr. supposedly then went on a sailing ship from Boston, Massachusetts to Matanzas, Cuba. In Cuba he is supposed to have married, had children and died. My mother and I would very much like to know if this story about Moses Jackson, Sr. is true. We cannot find that he died in the United States. His wife, Lovisa Jackson, was listed as a widow living with two young sons in Shelburne, New Hampshire (next to Gorham) in the 1820 United States Census. The only one of her brothers and sisters still living, my mother would like to learn as much as possible about her Jackson family. Thank you for your kind assistance with our genealogical research. Sincerely, Susan M. Grady 6330 Hillcrest Place Alexandria, Virginia 22312 Home tel. (703) 941-4435