David Edward “Davey” Jackson (1788 – December 24, 1837) was an
American pioneer, trapper, fur trader, and explorer.
Davey Jackson has often been referenced to as a son of the
American Revolution
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. His father Edward Jackson and his Uncle George Jackson, both served as
Virginian Militia Officers during the Revolutionary War. During the War of 1812, Jackson was commissioned as an Ensign in the 19th Infantry in
Virginia
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.
The family had two other Military Patriots. Genealogy records show that War of 1812 hero and seventh President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was his older cousin. His nephew, Colonel Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, led the victorious battle against the Union at Harper’s Ferry, Maryland, during the Civil War in 1862.
Davey Jackson was born in
Buckhannon
Buckhannon is the only incorporated city in, and the county seat of, Upshur County, West Virginia, Upshur County, West Virginia, United States, and is located along the Buckhannon River. The population was 5,299 at the 2020 United States Census ...
, Virginia (present day
West Virginia
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), on October 30, 1788, into a prominent family. In addition to learning the business, farming, hunting and surveying skills of his father, he was educated at the Virginia Randolph Academy. In 1809, at age 21, he married Juliet Norris and the couple had four children.
In 1822, Jackson saw an ad in a
Missouri
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newspaper, seeking young men to travel the
Missouri River to the
Rocky Mountains
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, to be employed as guides, hunters, explorers and trappers with the Rocky Mountain Trading Company. Although his wife was against the idea, Jackson saw this as a great opportunity to explore and gain wealth. He joined the company, along with many other young men, such as
Jim Bridger
James Felix "Jim" Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century. He was known as Old ...
,
William Sublette
William Lewis Sublette, also spelled Sublett (September 21, 1798 – July 23, 1845), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. After 1823, he became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, along with his ...
, and
Jedediah Smith, while his wife and children remained in Virginia.
For eight years Jackson pursued this adventure, fraught with troubles, including harsh weather, difficult terrain, competition from Canadian, British and French trading companies, and both kindness and treachery from the Native tribes. The company suffered many losses as their beaver pelts were often stolen. Many trappers died under the harsh conditions of life in the Rocky Mountains, or by murder at the hands of competitors or native tribes.
Eventually Davey Jackson, William Sublette and Jedediah Smith formed their own fur trading company, “Smith, Jackson and Sublette.” Jackson often returned to the valley in the
Teton Mountains where he had established his own trapping territory, which Sublette eventually dubbed “Jackson’s Hole.” (Today, the town of
Jackson, Wyoming
Jackson is a town in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 10,760 at the 2020 census, up from 9,577 in 2010. It is the largest town in Teton County and its county seat. Jackson is the principal town of the Jackson, WY-ID Micro ...
, in that valley, bears his name.)
He and his partners sold out in 1830, as the fur trade was declining. Jackson became involved in other expeditions, including to
Santa Fe (in present-day
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ke ...
) and
California
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, both under Mexican control since it had achieved
independence from Spain in 1821.
Jackson returned east, without amassing his fortune. He reunited with his son William Pitt Jackson in
St. Genevieve, Missouri, in the early 1830’s.
On a business trip to Paris,
Tennessee
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in 1837, Jackson became ill with
Typhus Fever
Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus. Common symptoms include fever, headache, and a rash. Typically these begin one to two weeks after exposure.
...
. By December 1837, although gravely ill, he managed to write a letter to his oldest son Edward John Jackson, known as “Ned,” asking him to conclude all his business dealings. He provided his son a thorough written account of all the money that was owed to him, and all the debts he had yet to pay.
Jackson died shortly after that at age 49, on December 24, 1837, in
Paris, Tennessee. He was a long time member of the
Masons. Upon his death Jackson was buried by fellow Masons from Paris, Tennessee, in the Paris City Cemetery,
Henry County, Tennessee
Henry County is a county located on the northwestern border of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and is considered part of West Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 32,199. Its county seat is Paris. The county is named for the Virgi ...
.
Early life
Paternal ancestry
David Edward Jackson was the grandson of John Jackson (1715 or 1719 – 1801) and Elizabeth Cummins (also known as Elizabeth Comings and Elizabeth Needles) (1723–1828). John Jackson was a Protestant (Ulster-Scottish) from
Coleraine,
County Londonderry, Ireland. While living in
London
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, England, he was convicted of the capital crime of larceny for stealing £170; the judge at the
Old Bailey sentenced him to seven years of
indentured servitude in the British colonies of North America. Elizabeth, a strong, blonde woman over tall, born in London, was also convicted of larceny in an unrelated case for stealing 19 pieces of silver, jewelry, and fine lace, and received a similar sentence. They both were transported on the prison ship ''Litchfield'', which departed London in May 1749 with 150 convicts. John and Elizabeth met on board and had declared their love in the weeks before the ship arrived at
Annapolis, Maryland. Although they were sent to different locations in Maryland for their indentures, the couple married in July 1755.
The family migrated west across the
Blue Ridge Mountains
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to settle near
Moorefield, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1758. In 1770, they moved farther west to the
Tygart Valley. They began to acquire large parcels of virgin farming land near the present-day town of Buckhannon, including 3,000 acres (12 km²) in Elizabeth's name. John and his two teenage sons were early recruits for the American Revolutionary War, fighting in the
Battle of Kings Mountain
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on October 7, 1780. John finished the war as
captain and served as a
lieutenant
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The meaning of lieutenant differs in different militaries (see comparative military ranks), but it is often ...
of the Virginia militia after 1787. While the men were in the Army, Elizabeth converted their home to a haven, "Jackson's Fort," for refugees from Indian attacks.
John and Elizabeth had eight children. Their second son was Edward Jackson (March 1, 1759 – December 25, 1828); Edward and his wife had three boys and three girls; the second boy being David. Their third son was Jonathan Jackson, father of Thomas, known as
Stonewall Jackson when he served as a
general
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In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OED ...
in the
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
.
Childhood
David Edward Jackson, son of Col. Edward Jackson, was born in
Randolph County Randolph County is the name of eight counties in the United States:
*Randolph County, Alabama
*Randolph County, Arkansas
*Randolph County, Georgia
*Randolph County, Illinois
*Randolph County, Indiana
*Randolph County, Missouri
*Randolph County, Nort ...
in the
Allegheny Mountains
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of what was then part of
Virginia
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and is now in
West Virginia
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. When he was eight, his mother died. His father remarried three years later. In 1801, when he was 13, his family moved west, settling near
Weston, West Virginia
Weston is a city in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 3,943 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Lewis County, and home to the Museum of American Glass in West Virginia and the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum ...
Lewis County, on the
Allegheny Plateau
The Allegheny Plateau , in the United States, is a large dissected plateau area of the Appalachian Mountains in western and central New York (state), New York, northern and western Pennsylvania, northern and western West Virginia, and eastern Oh ...
. Jackson's father and stepmother had nine more children.
Ashley and Henry
left, 240px, Regions of the Missouri River Watershed
Jackson married and moved to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, with his wife and four children in the early 1820s, planning to engage in farming. The town had been founded by French colonists in the late 18th century. His older brother, George, had preceded him to the area and owned a sawmill.
Instead of farming, Jackson responded to
William Ashley's advertisement looking to employ men for his and Andrew Henry's new
fur trade venture. Jackson was probably hired as a clerk.
[Hays, p. 76] In the spring of 1822, Jackson headed up the Missouri River with Henry and 150 other men in a fur trade expedition to Native American tribes on the upper river. A few weeks later, Ashley sent more men, including Jedediah Smith on a boat called the ''Enterprize''. It sank and left the men stranded in the wilderness for several weeks.
Ashley himself brought up an additional 46 men on a replacement boat, and they and the stranded group finally reached
Fort Henry. It had been built over the summer by the first group of 150 men.
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Bodmer ''(1840–1843)
It is not known if Jackson returned to St. Louis with Ashley that fall, or traveled with Jedediah Smith in the spring of 1823. At that time, Major Henry ordered Smith and some other men to go down the Missouri to
Grand River in order to meet Ashley and buy horses from the
Arikara
Arikara (), also known as Sahnish,
''Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation.'' (Retrieved Sep 29, 2011) , but warning him of the Native Americans' hostility to whites. They had recently had a skirmish with men from the
Missouri Fur Company
The Missouri Fur Company (also known as the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company or the Manuel Lisa Trading Company) was one of the earliest fur trading companies in St. Louis, Missouri. Dissolved and reorganized several times, it operated under various ...
. Ashley, who was bringing supplies as well as 70 new men up the river by boat, met Smith at the
Arikara
Arikara (), also known as Sahnish,
''Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation.'' (Retrieved Sep 29, 2011) village on May 30. They negotiated a trade for several horses and 200 buffalo robes. They planned to leave as soon as possible to avert trouble, but weather delayed them. An incident precipitated an Arikara attack on the Ashley party. Forty Ashley men were caught in a vulnerable position, and 12 were killed.
Ashley and the rest of the surviving party traveled by boat downriver, ultimately enlisting aid from Colonel
Henry Leavenworth, Commander of
Fort Atkinson. In August, Leavenworth sent a force of 250 military men, 80 Ashley-Henry men, 60 men of the
Missouri Fur Company
The Missouri Fur Company (also known as the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company or the Manuel Lisa Trading Company) was one of the earliest fur trading companies in St. Louis, Missouri. Dissolved and reorganized several times, it operated under various ...
, and a number of
Lakota Sioux warriors, enemies of the Arikara. They intended to subdue and punish the Arikara. After a botched campaign, Leavenworth negotiated a peace treaty.
Either David Jackson or his brother George had been appointed commander of one of the two squads of the Ashley-Henry men in this military expedition.
[Hays, p. 77]
Smith, Jackson & Sublette
Little is known about Jackson's movements until just after the 1826
Rocky Mountain Rendezvous
The Rocky Mountain Rendezvous was an annual rendezvous, held between 1825 to 1840 at various locations, organized by a fur trading company at which trappers and mountain men sold their furs and hides and replenished their supplies. The fur compa ...
, a major gathering of trappers and traders. It is presumed he was at the first, 1825 rendezvous held on
Henrys Fork of the
Green River Green River may refer to:
Rivers
Canada
* Green River (British Columbia), a tributary of the Lillooet River
*Green River, a tributary of the Saint John River, also known by its French name of Rivière Verte
*Green River (Ontario), a tributary of ...
, but he may not have been at the one held in 1826 at
Bear River in
Cache Valley. Soon after the rendezvous, Ashley, along with his party taking back the furs, traveled with Smith and
William Sublette
William Lewis Sublette, also spelled Sublett (September 21, 1798 – July 23, 1845), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. After 1823, he became an agent of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, along with his ...
to near present-day
Georgetown, Idaho
Georgetown is a city in the Bear River Valley in Bear Lake County, Idaho, United States, at the center of a farming area between the river and the mountains to the east. It was settled by Mormon pioneers on the route of the Oregon Trail and was ...
. There, Jackson and the other men bought out Ashley's share of the Ashley-Smith partnership.
As a partner, Jackson took on the role of field manager, possibly because of his similar role when working for Ashley. That fall, Jackson, Sublette, and
Robert Campbell trapped along the
Snake River system, then moved up into the upper Missouri and over the
Great Divide to the headwaters of the
Columbia River.)
Jackson and his party traveled south to
Cache Valley, where they spent the rest of the 1826-1827 winter. He was at the 1827 rendezvous at Bear Lake, then returned to St. Louis, Missouri, which had become a center of fur trade, with Sublette for a short time.
[Hays, p. 80]
Jackson returned to the fur country for the 1828 rendezvous, after which he traveled with a party to the
Flathead Lake,
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
region, where they wintered.
The next spring, Smith found him along the Flathead River. The two partners and their men trapped down to
Pierre's Hole
Pierre's Hole is a shallow valley in the western United States in eastern Idaho, just west of the Teton Range in Wyoming. At an elevation over above sea level, it collects the headwaters of the Teton River, and was a strategic center of the fu ...
, where they joined Sublette. The rendezvous that year (1829), was held near present-day
Lander, Wyoming
Lander is a city in Wyoming, United States, and the county seat of Fremont County. It is in central Wyoming, along the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River, just south of the Wind River Indian Reservation. It is a tourism center with several nea ...
. Jackson is thought to have returned afterward to the upper
Snake River region in northwest Wyoming, then traveled east to spend the winter with Smith and Sublette along the
Wind
Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few ho ...
and
Powder
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rivers. Jackson returned to the upper Snake in the spring of 1830, then returned to the Wind River Valley for the annual rendezvous.
At the rendezvous, Smith, Jackson and Sublette sold out their interests in the fur trade to a group of men who called the firm the
Rocky Mountain Fur Company
The enterprise that eventually came to be known as the Rocky Mountain Fur Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1822 by William Henry Ashley and Andrew Henry. Among the original employees, known as "Ashley's Hundred," were Jedediah ...
. The three partners returned to St. Louis, having made a tidy profit in their enterprise.
Trip to Santa Fe
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By early 1831, Jackson was in southeast
Missouri's lead belt, attending to his personal affairs and those of his brother George, who died on March 26, 1831. On April 7, he returned to St. Louis to meet with his partners for a trade trip to
Santa Fe, which was controlled by the Spanish.
[Hays, p. 86] The caravan of wagons left St. Louis on April 10, 1831, traveling down the
Santa Fe Trail. To save time, the group decided to take the "Cimarron cutoff," at the risk of not finding water for two days. Smith went missing while looking for water, but the caravan continued on, hoping he would find them.
Upon reaching Santa Fe on July 4, 1831, the members of the trading party discovered a Mexican merchant at the Santa Fe market offering several of Smith's personal belongings for sale. When questioned about the items, the merchant indicated that he had acquired them from a band of
Comanche hunters. Smith had encountered and been killed by a group of Comanche. His death resulted in Jackson and Sublette reorganizing their partnership.
[
]
California
While in Santa Fe, Jackson partnered with David Waldo, to journey to California to sell the merchandise he had transported from Missouri. Waldo convinced him of the viability of traveling to California to purchase mules, and to drive them back to Missouri to sell, to yield more profit. Jackson and Sublette traveled to Taos
Taos or TAOS may refer to:
Places
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* Taos County, New Mexico, United States
** Taos, New Mexico, a city, the county seat of Taos County, New Mexico
*** Taos art colony, an art colo ...
where Jackson met Ewing Young
Ewing Young (1799-February 9, 1841) was an American fur trapper and trader from Tennessee who traveled in what was then the northern Mexico frontier territories of Santa Fe de Nuevo México and Alta California before settling in the Oregon Country. ...
, who had traveled between Santa Fe and California the previous year. He persuaded Jackson that his knowledge of the area would be indispensable to Jackson and Waldo in the mule venture. It was decided Jackson would take a group of men directly to California, and travel through the area buying mules. Young and his group of men would trap along the way to California, and meet up with Jackson in time to drive the mules back to Santa Fe. Jackson left for Santa Fe on August 25, 1831.[Hays, p. 90]
On September 6, Jackson's group left Santa Fe. Members of the group included, Jackson and his slave, Jim; Jedediah Smith's younger brother Peter, Jonathan Trumbull Warner, Samuel Parkman, and possibly David's brother William Waldo; Moses Carson, brother of Kit; and four other men. Several weeks later, they reached Tucson, Arizona
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, and went on to the Gila River, which they followed to the Colorado River
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. They crossed the Colorado River and the Colorado Desert, reaching San Diego
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in early November.
Jackson traveled up the California coast as far north as the lower end of the San Francisco Bay. By the end of March, 1832, when he met with Young in Los Angeles
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, he had purchased only 600 mules and 100 horses rather than the more than 1,000 they had planned. In May, the two groups drove the animals to the Colorado River, reaching it at its floodstage in June. After 12 days, they had the animals swim across. Jackson's and Young's parties again split; Young to take $10,000 of Jackson/Waldo cash and property and return to California and continue trapping and buying mules to drive back later. Jackson took possession of the skins which Young had trapped to that point.[
Due to the summer heat, many of the mules died on the way back to Santa Fe, which the party reached in the first week of July. Jackson sold part of the herd of animals in Santa Fe. Ira Smith, another Jedediah Smith brother, had traveled to Santa Fe to meet Peter. Ira and Jackson headed back to St. Louis with the remaining animals.
]
Later years and death
Upon his return to Missouri, the 44-year-old Jackson began to have health problems. He spent his remaining years trying to put his financial affairs in order. He had never heard from Ewing Young, after leaving him with the substantial amount of cash and property at the Colorado River, but was never healthy enough to return to California to try to collect payment. In January 1837, he finally was able to travel to Paris, Tennessee, to try to collect money on some investments he had made there. While there, Jackson contracted typhoid fever
Typhoid fever, also known as typhoid, is a disease caused by '' Salmonella'' serotype Typhi bacteria. Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. Often there is a gradual onset of a high fever over several ...
. He lingered for several months and died on December 24, 1837.
Young's later years
Ewing Young left California for Oregon in 1834. With the money and property secured from Jackson, he had capital for several ventures.[Hays, p. 103] In February 1841, Young died without any known heir and without a will.[ Probate court had to deal with his estate, which had many debtors and creditors among the settlers.][ Bancroft, Hubert and ]Frances Fuller Victor
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''History of Oregon''
San Francisco: History Co., 1890 Doctor Ira L. Babcock
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was selected as supreme judge with probate powers to deal with Young's estate. The activities that followed Young's death contributed to the creation of a provisional government
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in the Oregon Country.[
]
Jackson's legacy
* Jackson Lake, and Jackson Hole
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, a valley in Wyoming
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are named for David Jackson.[ The town of ]Jackson, Wyoming
Jackson is a town in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 10,760 at the 2020 census, up from 9,577 in 2010. It is the largest town in Teton County and its county seat. Jackson is the principal town of the Jackson, WY-ID Micro ...
, in turn, derives its name from the valley.
*The Hoback Basin, a braided floodplain of the Hoback River
The Hoback River, once called the Fall River, is an approximately -long tributary of the Snake River in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It heads in the northern Wyoming Range of Wyoming and flows northeast, northwest, and then west through the Bridge ...
where Bondurant, Wyoming is located, was once known as Jackson's Little Hole.
Notes
Citations
References
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*Jackson, John C., ''Shadow on the Tetons: David E. Jackson and the Claiming of the American West,'' Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 1993.
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Santa Fe Trail
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