Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Richard Jackson
Abt 1562 - 1625 (~ 62 years)-
Name Richard Jackson [1] Birth Abt 1562 Braithwell, Yorkshire, England 
[2] Gender Male Death Between 10 Jul 1624 and 10 Feb 1625 [2] Person ID I2071 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 18 Sep 2025
Father James Jackson, b. of Braithwell, Yorkshire, England d. Bef 1 Mar 1603 Family ID F1268 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Pettinger, b. Bef 12 Sep 1561 d. Bef 1623 (Age < 61 years) Marriage 1 Dec 1591 Doncaster, Yorkshire, England [2] Children + 1. Susanna Jackson, b. Abt 1594 d. Aft 18 Apr 1656 (Age ~ 62 years) Family ID F594 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Nov 2024
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Notes - He was schoolmaster in his native Braithwell and then, after 22 Spr 1590, in Tickhill, Yorkshire. By 1598 he and his wife had settled in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, home of the Brewster family; on 27 Apr 1598, they and the Brewsters were cited for "resortinge to other churches in sermon and service tyme."
In 1607 a warrant was issued to arrest him and William Brewster for Brownism, but the bearer of the warrant was unable to locate either of them. After further brushes with the law, Richard disappears from English records after August 1608. He reappears in July 1623, when he wrote the first of two surviving letters to his brother Robert Jackson, Clerk of the Sewer Commissioners in Spalding, Lincolnshire, indicating that he was back in England, having been in "Holland". No trace has been found of his life, or that of his wife, in the Netherlands, either among the separatist exiles or anywhere else, although an Elizabeth Pettinger married John Hennings in Leiden in 1610, and Elizabeth's sister Dorothy Pettinger married Henry "Crallens" of England in Amsterdam in 1613, with Edward Southworth witnessing both unions. The last letter Richard Jackson wrote to his brother Robert was endorsed 10 July 1624, and he is unmentioned in Robert's 10 Feb 1625 will.
- He was schoolmaster in his native Braithwell and then, after 22 Spr 1590, in Tickhill, Yorkshire. By 1598 he and his wife had settled in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, home of the Brewster family; on 27 Apr 1598, they and the Brewsters were cited for "resortinge to other churches in sermon and service tyme."
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Sources - [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020.
- [S7905] Sue Allan, Caleb Johnson, and Simon Neal, "The Origin of Mayflower Passenger Susanna1 (Jackson) (White) Winslow." The American Genealogist 89:241, Oct 2017.
- [S4249] The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020.