SGEPNALOGICAL RECORDS

 THE JOHN JACKSON FAMILY


 John Jackson, the founder of this family in Tampa, and
 in America, was the son of Hugh and Ann (Corcoran) Jackson, of
- Ballybag, County Monaghan, Ireland, where their son John was
born. His parents never came to America. They had another
son, Thomas, who also inigrated to America. He was accidental-
ly drowned on the Manatee River while on a fishing trip. He
was unmarried.
 John Jackson arrived in America in 1841, and settled
 first in the City of New Orleans, where he became an assistant
 civil engineer. Later he went to live on the Manatee river
 near where the town of Palmetto now stands. He entered from
 the government a large tract of land in that neighborhood in
 1843. He took up his residence in Tampa in August, 1847.
 Mr. Jackson, being a skilled civil engineer and a land
 surveyor, was entensively employed by the United States govern-
 ment in surveying government lands in Florida, from his first
 residence hee, and for manyyears after. His official super-
 ior in that work was Colonel Butler, of the corps of engineers
 of the United States Army. It was in honor of this officer
 :that Lake Butler, now in Pinellas County, bIbtformerly in Hills-
 Iborough, was named. It is probable that another Lake Butler
 situated in Bradford County, in the northeastern part of the
 state, received its name in the same way.
 St. -Augustine was the headquarters of the surveyor gen-'
 eral's office at this time, and on the occasion of a visit upon
 official business by Mr. Jackson, he met there Miss Ellle Naher,
 to whom he was introduced by Colonel Butler. This lady he maf-
 ried on the 22nd of July, 1847.
 Mrs. Jackson was the daughter of Robert and Catherine
 ,(Qigley) abher, of Killenaule, County Tipperary, Ireland, whe$r
 she was born. Mrs. Jackson had a brother and a sister who came
 to Tampa. The brother, Edward, afterwards removed to Key West.
 The sister, Kate, died unmarried.
 In the same year, 1847, the county seat of Hillsborougb
 County was established at Tampa, and the national g verment
 donated to the county one hundred and sixty acres of land lydip
 north of and adjoinig the military post of Fort Brooke for a
 county seat. '
 John Jackson was n ployedt ay to l his off and in the sapne
 year, 1847, made the first survey. Thia-embraced the land
 ii within tie following boundaries Whiting street on tha
 lolth 'Unezrunning tharou the .tier oft bloks lying be
 iorg ia1eioe Streets 9on the ast,. line apputz


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