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Last name Jackson
First name Halliday
Display name Halliday Jackson
Birth date 1771
Death date 1835
Birth place Newgate
Death place Darby
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Friends meeting, New Garden Friends meeting, Darby Friends meeting, Concord Quarterly Meeting of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes Quaker who instructed the Seneca in industrial subjects and kept journals. In 1798 with two other young men, went to the Cornplanter Indian reservation and made a settlement at Genesingutah. Married Jane Hough at Philadelphia Meeting in 1801; certificate fro New Garden to Darby in 1803. Appointed an elder to Concord Quarterly Meeting of Friends in 1815. Married Ann Paschall, Quaker minister and widow of Thomas, in 1833. Author, "The Civilization of the Indian Natives" (pub. 1830). Indian Committee of PYM.

Mentioned in:

Halliday Jackson's Book [of Corrrespondence], Genesinguhta, 1798-1800

Halliday Jackson's Journal, 1806

Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country

Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793

Joshua Sharpless's Journal Into Indian Country, 1798

Some Account of Rachel Coope (Journal A)

Some Account of Rachel Coope (Journal B)

Account of I. Coates, J. Sharpless, & J. Pierce, visits to Indian Reservation, NY

Joel Swayne Diary