Charles Jackson

The New Netherland Ancestors of

CHARLES JACKSON



State Supreme Court Justice




	    __Edward Jackson1
	   |
       __JONATHAN JACKSON5
      |    |
      |    |     __Edmund Quincy2
      |    |    |
      |    |__Dorothy Quincy1
      |         |
      |         |     __Josiah Flynt3
      |         |    |
      |         |__Dorothy Flynt2
      |              |
      |              |     __Thomas Willett3
      |              |    |
      |              |__Esther Willett3
      |                   |
      |                   |__Mary Brown3
      |
CHARLES JACKSON4
      |
      |__Hannah Tracy5



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Biography of CHARLES JACKSON

 
Charles, jurist, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 31 May 1775; died in Boston, 13 December 1855, was graduated at Harvard in 1793 with the highest honors. He studied law in the office of Chief-Justice Theophilus Parsons, and was admitted to practice in his native place in 1796. In 1803 he removed to Boston, where he became a partner of Judge Samuel Hubbard, and attained a high rank at the bar. From 1813 until 1824 he was judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and in 1820 he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention. He was chairman of a commission to codify the state laws in 1833, and drew up the second part of the "Revised Statutes." He aided in introducing several important reforms into Massachusetts legislation, especially in reference to debt and credit. He published a treatise on "Pleadings and Practice in Real Actions," which is a recognized authority on the law of property (Boston, 1828).
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Flint, Edward F., S.M., and Gwendolyn S. Flint, Flint Family History of
       The Adventuresome Seven, Volume II.  Baltimore:  Gateway Press, Inc.,
       1984.  607-608.
   2.  Ibid., p. 578=579.
   3.  Ibid., p. 569-570.
   4.  Ibid., p. 718-719.
   5.  Ibid., p. 654-655.

 

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