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Personal data Jeremiah Jack 

• He was born on November 13, 1750 in Williamsport, Washington Co, MD.Source 2
• He died on January 23, 1833 in Knoxville, Knox Co, TN, he was 82 years old.Source 2
• A child of John Jack and Sarah Shearer
• This information was last updated on January 20, 2009.

Household of Jeremiah Jack

(1) He is married to Martha Gillespie.

They got married before June 9, 1778 at Knoxville, Knox Co, TN.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. John J. Jack  ± 1770-± 1847 
2. Elizabeth Jack  ± 1778-????
3. George Jack  ± 1779-????
4. Margaret Jack  ± 1781-????
5. Sarah Jack  
6. Jane Jack  1785-????
7. Jeremiah James Jack  1787-1862
8. Martha Jack  ± 1788-????
9. James Jack  1790-????
10. Thomas Jeremiah John Jack  ± 1792-????
11. Robert Jack  1794-????
12. Allen Gillespie Jack  1796-????

(2) He is married to Barbara Gillespie.

Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
Name: Jeremiah Jack
Spouse: Barbara Gillispie
Marriage Date: 11 Sep 1817
Marriage County: Greene
Marriage State: Tennessee

They got married on September 11, 1817 at Greene Co, TN, he was 66 years old.Source 3

Notes about Jeremiah Jack

Jeremiah Jack was under Gov. Sevier at the Rev. War Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina. His 1st cousin once removed was Captain James Jack of Charlotte, N.C. who carried the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence to Philadelphia in 1775. Jeremiah Jack Sr. on July 16, 1792 was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Knox County. In 1794 Jeremiah Jack's signature appears on document #7969, Acts, Territory South of the Ohio River printed in Knoxville. The signature of John Jack was on the reverse side of the document. John was perhaps Jeremiah's brother . This document is in the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California. Jeremiah Jack's wife was Martha Gillespie. Martha was the daughter of Col. George Gillespie who had one of the 1st stone houses built in TN, located in Limestone, TN near the log cabin birthplace of Davy Crockett. Davy Crockett's father helped Col. Gillespie clear his land when he settled in Limestone, TN. Nancy Ward, "Beloved Woman", a Cherokee Princess saved the lives of Jeremiah Jack and William Rankin when their upper Nolachucky settlement was out of food. The two settlers went in a canoe down the Tennessee River to trade clothes for corn at the Indian trading center at Chota. They got into a disagreement with the Indians and their lives were threatened. Their rifles were hidden under the clothes to trade in their canoe. Nancy Ward stepped in to help negociate the trade and saved their lives. They loaded up the canoe with corn and returned to their settlement thanks to the intercession of Nancy Ward.

Husband of Martha Gillespie and 2nd wife Barbara Gillespie Hayes.

Bio: HISTORY OF LEBANON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 1791 "IN THE FORK" FIVE MILES EAST OF KNOXVILLE, TENN. BY DR. J. G. M. RAMSEY, Reprint of the 1918 edition with supplementary material. HUBERT HODGE PRINTING COMPANY, INC., Knoxville, Tennessee 1973, Pages 23-24: "Jeremiah Jack came from Maryland, I believe, from Williamsport on the Potomac. He first settled near his wife's brothers, Thos. and Allen Gillespie, on the Nollachucky, as Chucky was called by aboriginies. The immigration to this neighborhood was so great and so rapid as to exhaust supplies of breadstuffs, and Mr. Jack and William Rankin descended the French Broad and Holston, now the Tennessee river, in canoes, well supplied with articles of clothing of domestic manufacture, and adapted to the wants of the Cherokees on the Tennessee. Descending to that unknown country these adventurers penetrated Choto and other villages of the Indians on its banks. After some delay they succeeded in bartering their clothing for as much corn as their canoes could carry, and thus supplied the pressing demands for bread at home. On their return voyage they landed their canoes in the sluice of the Island above the mouth of the French Broad, afterwards known as Jack's Island. He was so pleased with the situation as to remove the rest of his family the next year with all his effects by boat on the French Broad river and settled permanently on the surrounding lands. He was a member of Lebanon church. He was a quiet, inoffensive man and much given to hospitality: raised a large and respected family, was appointed early to the magistracy, saw service in several campaigns against the Indians, was a brave man and a patriot, and about 1825, at a very advanced age, died and was buried in Lebanon cemetery. One of Jeremiah Jack's sons, after his father's death was elected an Elder. He continued to serve the church in his capacity for several years, when with many others of the connection he moved to Alabama and there died. A son of his, John Jack, Esq., is now a deacon of Lebanon Church."

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