Scope and Content Note
The papers of Ebenezer Jackson (1763-1873) span the years 1784-1873 with the greater part dated 1792-1837. The collection primarily contains correspondence but also includes property records, financial and tax records, a military commission, and a poem. The correspondence is chiefly the letters of Jackson to his wife, Charlotte Fenwick Pierce Jackson, and his son, Ebenezer (1796-1874), relating to Jackson's operation of the Fenwick and Tattnall plantations near Savannah, Georgia, property which belonged to his wife at the time of their marriage. Topics include Jackson's views as a New Englander running a Southern plantation with enslaved workers, family relations with the enslaved people of the plantation, Jackson's involvement in the Yazoo land claims, local history of Savannah and the surrounding area, relations with the allied Tattnall family, especially Josiah Tattnall (1795-1871), and national events including the Southern response to Shays' Rebellion and fears of a British attack on Savannah during the War of 1812. Other letters include those of Francis Johonnot Oliver to Ebenezer Jackson (1796-1874).