Hi Forrest, The Jacksons have been 'done' over and over. Your problem is figuring out what is crap and what is not. The man whose research is least likely to be wrong works at the New England Historic Genealogical Society -- I forget his name. ANyone know? He has spent his life researching presidents. If you google (www.google.com) you'll find a huge amount of stuff like this: http://www.presidentsusa.net/jackson.html Popularizers like Billy Kennedy also have published on him but Billy is not always right and he never footnotes his stuff so it's a 'dead end'. He contradicted himself on some of my ancestors in the same book. Still he's great to read! Billy covers Jackson in "The Scots-Irish in the Carolinas". The Jacksons were from Antrim, ariving 18 months before Andrew was born. His mother was related to the McAMIE family, which is where I did a wee bit of research on them. From one source (Clan McCord) Andrew Jackson was born just a few miles into South Carolina at Waxhaw, just south of Mecklenberg County, North Carolina. His mother was close to relatives such as the McAmis (McCamish, McCamis) family and the Crawford family who lived just inside the North Carolina line a few miles away and attended the same church as McCord family members who lived there. {not tru, not McCamish -- which was the surname I was researching....} In "OUR BRANCH OF THE LESSLIE FAMILY IN THIS COUNTRY SINCE 1750" By John Nathaniel Lesslie The Lesslie family first came to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In 1756 war began between France and England for the possession of all the northern part of the country and Canada. ...So on account of the Indian depredations life became unsafe in Pennsylvania. They began the treck down the Wagon Road to the "Garden of the Waxhaws". In 1757 all except John Lesslie and his family came to Lancaster County, South Carolina to what is known as the Waxhaws. In 1765 Mr. Jackson and Elizabeth came from Antrim, Ireland to America in company with a Hutchinson Brother. They landed in Charleston and made their way up the river to their relatives in LancasterCounty, South Carolina. The Jacksons settled on land near the headwaters of Twelve Mile Creek, about eight miles from the other family members. The others settled on either side of Waxhaw Creek. Andrew Jackson II died after being injured lifting! a log. He died within 48 hours. He is buried in Waxhaw graveyard. The grave is marked. At the time of his death, his wife Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson was pregnant with her 3rd child, Andrew Jackson III, the future president of the United States of America. On the night he was born Elizabeth and her sister sent for another sister, Sarah Hutchinson Lesslie, to serve as mid wife. Along with her came he daughter of 7 years, Sarah. (Later Sarah Latham) The same book says In 1755, Mckemie, Sam Lesslie, John Lesslie, James Crawford, James Crow and their families came to America and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In 1757 all except John Lesslie and his family,on account of the French and Indian War, came to Lancaster County, South Carolina to what is known as the Waxhaws. In 1765 Mr. Jackson and Elizabeth came from Antrim, Ireland to America in company with a Hutchinson Brother. They landedin Charleston and made their way up the river to their relatives in Lancaster County, South Carolina. To Sarah and Samuel Lesslie were born nine children: John, who migrated to Henderson County, Tennessee, Robert, who went to Kings Mountain, York County, SC; William, who made his home in Abbeville; Samuel, who married Nandy Allison about 1770-1775. In 1800 they left Lancaster County and went first to Oconee or Pickens and later to Alabama then to Arkansas. Sarah married Mr. Latham. Mary became the wife of James Faulkner.Jane was unmarried. There w! ere two other children (no record or name)…… Anyway, further research convinced me they were McKemies, not McCamishes (who aren't usually from Antrim but from Down and Tyrone....). Some of the Lesslie stuff might be wrong too -- but it gives you a notion of how many families are connected to the Jacksons and if you can tie yours in -- most likely they are also Antrim people. A lot of Lancaster/Cumberland Co Ulster Scots had ties and estates in the Carolinas. This I learned from reading will abstracts <grin>. Too bad you are a Forrest and not a Forrester as I have FORRESTERs but they came straight from Ayr about 1800 and intermarried with the Ulster Scots of Western PA. On my website I have a photie of a possible pre 1800 Forrester tartan. It was brought over by my MARTIN/FORRESTER ancestors. It is very very alergi-fying due to the natural dyes. I call it the "toxic tartan" : http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~merle/Family/Tartan.htm Highly sacred, no one was allowed to touch it when my mother was a child. However that could be because it's radioactive <grin>!!!! There are not a lot of 18th century setts around. Jackson genealogy http://www.presidentsusa.net/jackson.html Linda Merle ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Forrest Plumstead" <fplum1@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:35:49 -0600 >I feel like I just fell off the pumpkin wagon. I just found out that Andrew Jackson Sr, father of President Andrew Jackson came from Ulster. Anybody have additional information on this family. (including traditions(sorry couldn't resist<VBG> ;-) ) > >I'm working on a connection between my wife's family and the Andrew Jacksons. > >Forrest Plumstead fplum1@gmail.com >Researching the following Surnames: >Bushouse, Plumstead, Risser, Schroeder, Senne, Thayer, >Quaker Families: Coppock, Heald, Hobson, Hollingsworth, Potts, Ross, Watt >Plumstead and Associated Families: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fplum/ >Military Kool Lynx: http://geocities.com/fplum/ >Ham Radio WB5HQO http://forrest.3h.com/main.html > > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net