c GENEALOGICAL RECORDS .-

 THE ROBERT JACKSON FAMILY

 There were three families of Jacksons that care to Tanpa
 during what may be termed the pioneer days, but that which is
 the subject of this sketch has be6n here the longest. In fXct,
 its members may legitimately claim to belong to the very "f'rst
 family" of Tampa, except, perhaps, the Coller family, rrith e
 daughter of which their ancestor intermarried.
 This first family was founded by Robert Jackson, who vas
 a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, having been born thdre
 in 1802. He was a son of Robert and Luphemia (Parker) Jackdon.
 Robert Jackson, sr., was also a native of 'hiladelphia. He Iwas
 a civil engineer, and vwas employed in some important government
 work, among which was the construction of Fort Moultrie, on
 Sullivan's Island, in Charleston harbor, which fortification
 figured prominently in Revolutionary history, as aell as inthe
 story of a greater struggle, that of the War Between the St tes.
 Robert Jacwson, who was the founder of the Jackson family
 in Tampa, came .ierc in the capacity of a hospital steward, ,r
 interne, with the United States troops Earrisoning Fort Brooke,
 in the year 1834, in the same year that the territorial legosol
 latura of Florida organized the County of Hillsborough, and'
 gave it the name,;that it has borne ever since.
 After the 'close of the Indian ;.ar in 1835, Dr. Robert
 Jackson resigned from the military service and became a civil-
 ian. He established his home on a commanding and salubrious
 spot near the point marking the junction of the _illsborough
 river and the bay of the same name. Here all of his numerous
 family were brought up. In the course of years and the gr:rh
 of the city this tract became very valuable, covering, as it
 idid, much of the beautiful residential section of :^yde Park
 He afterwards became judge of probate of the county o
SHillsborough. He was highly esteemed as a physician, and
 long as he lived, though not engaging in -active practice, ws
 Soften consulted by other practitioners. He was one of the Fore-
 most citizens of the ante-bellum Tampa. He died just at t
 closing of the Civil War, on March 2, 1865. His wife survived
 until 1907, when she died at the ripe old age of ninety-two
 years, universally respected an4 beloved, .
 In 1835 he married Nancy Coller, a daughter of the vr
t first white family, in point of time, that settled in all is
I region. (See Coller family.)
 The fruit of this marriage was a large family of chi3drel,
 consisting of five ons and three daughters. The sons are evli
 Oscar, who married Estelle Bruton, of Bainbridge, Georgia, and
 soon after the conclusion of the Civil "ar, through whibh e