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memorialized by the monument at Howards Gap on Interstate Highway I-26, and probably following the massacre of the Hannon family, just a short distance up the river from Wolfe Creek.
Thomas Jackson and his brother Samuel are both listed in the “Stub Entries to Indents,” a list of payments of Claims in S.C. For Revolutionary War service. Book L&N, page 179: “No. 382, L129.16: Issued 1 October 1784 to Mr. Thomas Jackson, late Second Lt. in Ross’s Troop of Myddleton’s Regiment of Sumpters Brigade State Troops, for L141 Sterling being amount pay and bounty due him for his services in that troop, from April 1782, payment to this date.”
In Book O&Q, page 3, Issued 17 Jan 1785, “to Mr. Samuel Jackson for L10.19.7 ˝ Sterling provisions and forage for Militia use in 1780 and 1782.” Also, Book X, Part I, page 161: “Issued 26 Jan 1786 to Mr. Samuel Jackson Sr., for L1.13.5 sterling for Beef and Rations supplied Militia in 1781 as per account passed by Commissioners.”
Probably about the time of the end of the Revolution, both Samuel and Thomas were married. Samuel Jackson married Miss Joanna Foster, and they made their home on the south side of the North Pacolet River, at the old home which they built---probably the same large log house which stood at that location until just the last few years, when it was removed to make way for some other things. They raised a family, some of whom lived at the old home for many years, it being a Post Office for a time, called Jackson Hill, S.C.
Thomas Jackson married Miss Sarah Carson, and they made their home further up the North Pacolet River, and probably even in what is now Polk County, N.C. In his will which was probated in 1826, Thomas Jackson left his “upper place, where I now live” to his son James---and James’ home was in Polk County, N.C., the place now known as the “Bessie Jackson house.” Either that was the Jackson home, or James built it later and did not live at the home which Thomas left to him in his will.
Spartanburg County, S.C. was established in 1785 from the old Spartan District of South Carolina, and Thomas Jackson was selected as one of the first Grand Jurors at that tme. He and his brother Samuel served as Justices of the Peace, jurors, road overseers, and other public offices.