Sketch of the Life of Gen.
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Excerpt from Sketch of the Life of Gen.: Andrew Jackson, Late President of the United States, Interspersed With Numerous Personal Anecdotes, Illustrating His Character and Public Services His Birth and Parentage. General Andrew Jackson was born on the 15th of March, 1767, in Waxhaw settlement of South Carolina, where his parents had settled two years before. The family from which Jackson was descended, was originally from Scotland, and formed a part of one of those bands of colonists by which the policy of England endeavored to establish permanent rule in Ireland after she had destroyed the national independence of that unhappy country. His grandfather whose name was Hugh Jackson, was a linen draper, near Carrickfergus, and had four sons, of whom the youngest, Andrew, was the father of the General. The oppression and misrule of the British government drove Andrew from his native country in 1765, and with his wife and two sons, Hugh and Robert, he sought an Asylum in the Waxhaw settlement, in South Carolina. There, on the 15th of March, 1767, Andrew Jackson was born, his father dying shortly afterwards, leaving his mother possessed of a new farm, without slaves, and with three young sons to bring up and educate. With means so moderate, Mrs. Jackson aimed to give her two eldest sons only a common-school education, but ambitious to see Andrew in the church, she place him at a proper age in the Waxhaw Academy, and he had made considerable progress in his studies when the ravages of the revolutionary war approached the settlement. The Jacksons and friends and neighbors named Crawford, who had emigrated with them from Ireland, though of Scottish descent, felt the wrongs of their country as keenly as the natives, and now that they found the same bloodthirsty tyranny that had driven them across the Atlantic, ruthlessly pursuing them to their new home in this western world, the spirit of resistance became overwhelming. They were thus fully prepared to unite in the sacred cause of American independence, and deserve honorable mention amongst the thousands of Irishmen who, according to the testimony of every historian contributed so materially by their zeal and valor to the separation of the colonies from the empire of Great Britain. His Services in the Revolutionary War. When the war of the revolution first broke out in 1775, Jackson was but eight years old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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