Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson

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Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson (1745-Nov.2,1781) was the mother of US President Andrew Jackson. She was born in Carrickfergus Antrim, Ireland. She was the daugther of Francis Cyrus Hobart Hutchinson of Owthorpe Nottinghamshire,England. and his wife Margaret Lisle of Royston, Yorkshire, England. She was the great grandaugther of John Hutchinson. She married Andrew Jackson in Carrickfergus,Antrim, Ireland in 1765. With her husband Andrew, she emigrated to America from Northern Ireland in 1765. She and her husband Andrew settled in the Waxhaws area, of what was then North Carolina. She died during the American Revolutionary War from cholera, contracted while nursing Continental soldiers, as a nurse on a prison ship of the British.

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