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Andrew Jackson's Relation to McKemie - [BIO 026]

Assorted information submitted here by Terry Bruner

From "Tennessee Cousins"

by Ray. Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore 1971

General Andrew Jackson

Through the long years the writer of these notes has made a considerable study of the life and parentage of Andrew Jackson, including many different accounts, adopted and used repeatedly by his biographers, and is thoroughly convinced that all of them are founded upon erroneous traditions, practically none of them first hand, and all at variance with the few records that are to be found bearing on the subject. The statements that follow are my conclusions based on my own personal research, and I am not so egotistical as to believe that they will be accepted by the descendants of General Jackson at this late day, or by the writers and followers of the writers who have, heretofore written on the subject. It is my privilege, however, to give the views I entertain and to state briefly my own ideas on the subject, and no one will be required to accept or adopt them, if they think otherwise.

Jackson was born March 15, 1767, at the home of either James Crawford or George McKemie, just over the line from the Mecklenberg County, North Carolina in what is now Lancaster County, S.C., though his parents' home was on Liggett's Branch, on the waters of Beaverdan Creek in lower Mecklenberg County, North Carolina, a few miles away. The death of his father, Andrew Jackson, Sr., had occurred only a few days before. This account is obviously correct, and that he was the third son of Andrew Jackson, Sr., and his wife Elizabeth Hutchinson is beyond dispute. Both George McKemie and James Crawford had married sisters of his mother and were his uncles therefore by marriage.

Ancestory and Origin of General Andrew Jackson

page 678
Gen. Andrew Jackson was born in the Southern part of Mecklenberg County, North Carolina, about five miles from the supposed birth place of James K. Polk.

His parents were Andrew Jackson and Elizabeth Hutchinson

There were six Hutchinson sisters, all of whom, at about the time of the birth of Gen. Andrew Jackson, lived in the general vicinity of the home of the Jacksons. They were:

1. Elizabeth Hutchinson m. Andrew Jackson, Sr.
2. Margaret Hutchinson m. George McKemie
3. Jane Hutchinson m. James Crawford
4. Mary Hutchinson m. John Leslie
5. Sarah Hutchinson m. Samuel Leslie (or Lesley)
6. Grace Hutchinson m. James Crow

Excerpts from Andrew Jackson: An Epic in Homespun

By Gerald W. Johnson

Page 13
"The time was March, 1767. The woman in the case was the Widow Jackson, relect of the late Andrew Jackson, pioneer farmer. But the place has been for generations, and still is, the subject of endless and acrimonious dispute between two sovereign commonwealths.

"Within a few hundred yards of the farmhouse where George McKemey lived ran the boundary line between His Majesty's Provinces of North and South Carolina. On March 15, 1767, Mrs. Jackson, widowed a few weeks earlier, bore a son in George McKemey's house. But was the boundary line, less than a quarter of a mile away, to the east of that house, or west of it? The boundary line between the two Carolinas at that point runs almost north and south. The boy who was born that night thought that the line was east of the McKemey farmstead, and the belief sixty years afterward sharpened with the poignant eloquence of his appeal to "fellow citizens of my natvie State" when South Carolina threatened dissolution of the Union. But James Parton, investigating in 1859, was convinced by such documentary evidence as existed, supplemented by the testimony of aged residents of the region, that the line lat west of George McKemey's house, and that the boy was born in North Carolina.

Page 15
"In a rude farm-wagon they brought his body [Andrew Jackson Sr.] down to old Waxhaw church yard and buried it there without a stone to mark the place. The family came down at the same time, and never saw their hard-won home on Twelve Mile Creek again. Mrs. Jackson had relatives in South Carolina to whom she turned. A brother-in-law, who lived close to the church, realizing that she was in no fit condition for the ordeal of travel over the roads that then existed, all inwittingly saved his name from oblivion by offereing her shelter. For he was George McKemey, and in his house a few nights later was born the boy who was named Andrew, after the dead linen draper."