Archibald Jacoway

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The Jacoway Family History (Preliminary Edition)

Archibald Jacoway

• He was born March 20, 1783.
• He was born April 6, 1783 (according to his tombstone).
• He was of Scottish descent and emigrated to North Carolina from Scotland.
• He was a native of Ireland and moved first to North Carolina.
• (Does anyone know who originally discovered the following information on the Jaque brothers?) Three brothers, named Archibald, User, and Johnathan Jacque (later spelled Jacoway) came to America from France in the early 1730s. Archibald was a plantation owner and trader, User was a magistrate of some kind, while Johnathan was a clergyman, of what denomination no one is certain, since the three branches divide with the Presbyterian, the Baptist, and Methodist. Archibald, perchance with a roving nature, left his brothers.
• The name Jakoway and Jackways are English. Baptismal - "the son of Jaques", variants of the French Jaques. Jackaway is the American version.
• The 1860 census asked where people's parents were born. Archibald's children gave the following answers:
  • Benjamin J. Jacoway (died in 1861) no answer
  • Joanna Jacoway Stewart, no answer
  • Nancy Jacoway Barrier, both parents born in Kentucky
  • Rebecca Jacoway Copeland, no answer
  • Elizabeth Jacoway Mathews, no answer
  • William U. Jacoway, both parents born in North Carolina
  • John G. Jacoway, both parents born in North Carolina
  • Sally Jacoway Allen, both parents born in North Carolina
  • Samuel W. Jacoway (half brother, only two years old when his father died), father born in Kentucky, mother unknown.
• As far as is known, three is no documented proof to any of his supposed birthplaces.
• He is the first known Jacoway. The earliest record with his name on it is his marriage bond of 1804. He always spelled his surname "Jacoway" in every known instance except in the military records concerning his service in the War of 1812, and on his 1813 Kentucky Land Grant, when his name was recorded as Archibald Jackaway. In the 1830 census, his son Benjamin J. Jacoway's name was spelled Jackaway by the census taker and at one time Archibald and in 1840, another son's, John G. Jacoway's, name was spelled Jackoway. It would seem that Archibald and his sons might have pronounced (spelled?) their surname with a "k" in it. These are the only known times when an early-day Jacoway had his surname spelled differently than Jacoway.
• Archibald's parents and the spelling of their surname are unknown. Jacoway may have previouisly been spelled:
  • Jaque(s) : Jaque/way(s) : Ja/qua(s) : Ja/quay(s)
  • Jacque(s): Jacque/way(s) : Jac/qua(s) : Jac/quay(s)
  • Jac/way(s) : Ja/ca/way(s) : Ja/ka/way(s) : Jack/a/way(s)
  • Jak/way(s) : Ja/ca/way(s) : Ja/ke/way(s) : Jack/e/way(s)
  • Jack/way(s) : --- : Ja/ko/way(s) : Jack/o/way(s)
  • Jake/a/way(s) : Jay/ca/way(s) : Jay/ka/way(s) : Ja/co
  • --- : Jay/ce/way(s) : Jay/ke/way(s) :
  • Jake/o/way(s) : Jay/co/way(s) : Jay/ko/way(s)
• In May 1763, a Reeves Jackaway was mentioned in Augusta County, Virginia records. (This county was heavily populated by Scotch-Irish.)
• In the Revolutionary Army, there was an Allen Jackway of Halifax or Warrenton County, North Carolina, and a Samuel Jackaway (or Jackaways), a James Jackway, and a Samuel Jackway (or Jackways) served in Virginia.
• In Wilkes County, North Carolina (which is the county where Archibald was married in 1804) between 1783 and 1786, Samuel, John, and Mary were bound-out. Their parents were Samuel (who was deceased by 1778) and Elizabeth Jacway, Jakway, or Jackway. In the same county in 1778 or 1779, Elizabeth Jackoway swore that she was pregnant and that the father was Spencer Humpreys. the document called for him to be apprehended and brought forth to answer the charge. It is not known if these two subsequently married each other. Back then, if this woman who had an illegitimate child in 1779 or 1780 were to begin and keep up a promiscuous life, she would probably have been run out of the county before she could have a second illegitimate child three years later (the year when Archibald was born). Elizabeth Jackaway (or Jacway, or Jakway, or Jackway) could have been Archibald's grandmother, aunt, older sister, or cousin.
• He was a "bound-out-boy", received a very fair English education, was very good in mathematics and wrote a good hand.
• He was a strict member of the Presbyterian Church. (This the national church of Scotland.)
• Marriage bond made in Wilkes County, North Carolina, on Dec. 29, 1804, between him and Mary Susanna Gil(b)reath. (Scottish ancestry.)
• On Mar. 30, 1805, he bought 150 acres in Wilkes County for $100 cash.
• On Mar. 12, 1806, their first child, Benjamin Jones Jacoway (Sr.) was born and was a native of Buncombe County, North Carolina (just to the west of Wilkes County) and was of Scottish-Irish extraction. Another sources says he was of Irish descent, his ancestors having come from County Cork, Ireland.
• On Jul. 22, 1806, he was issued a state grant on 205 acres of land beginning at a locust (tree) near Long Shoal Creek in the county just to the north of Wilkes County, which is Ashe County.
• In 1807, when he sold his land in Wilkes county, he was living in Ashe County.
• On July 14, 1808, Joanna Jacoway was born in Kentucky.
• On June 5, 1810, Nancy Jacoway was born in Kentucky.
• In 1810, they were living in Knox County, Kentucky.
• On Aug. 3, 1812, Rebecca Jacoway was born in Kentucky.
• In the year 1813, he served in the Canadian Army under General Harrison. He was in the Battle of Detroit and Quebec.
• Kentucky Land Grants: Archibald Jackaway, 150 acres - date of survey, Nov. 22, 1813, Knox County - water course: Marsh Creek (this land was part of the land ceded in 1805 by the Cherokees).
• On Sept. 13, 1814, Elizabeth Jacoway was born in Kentucky.
• On July 15, 1816, William Usrey Jacoway was born in Kentucky.
• On July 26, 1818, John Garrett Jacoway was born in Kentucky.
• Pioneer Families of SE Kentucky (by W. E. Kozee), p. 207: At the first court proceedings of Whitley County (which was created in 1818 from part of Knox County), Capt. Jacoway's Company of Militia was mentioned.
• On July 15, 1820, Sally Jacoway was born in Kentucky.
• In 1820, they wer eliving in Somerset, Whitley County, Kentucky. Later that year they moved by pack horse to Bass, Jackson County, Alabama. they bought two claims on a small tract of land, about 2 or 3 acres each.
• In 1830, he bought a patent on 157.88 acres, for which he paid $1.25 per acre, or $197.35.
• In 1834, he bought a parent on 79.53 adjacent acres for which he paid $1.25 per acre, or $99.41.
• 1837, he volunteered and went to Florida to fight under Jackson in the Seminole War. The company was made up near Bass (at Bellefonte). He was elected Captain, James Caperton, 1st Lieutenant. W. U. Jacoway enlisted under his father, Archibald Jacoway. He left for the war in November 1837 and served until April 1838.
• On Aug. 12, 1840, his (first) wife Susanna died.
• On May 31, 1841, he married Sarah Malone.
• On Oct. 28, 1841, he married Elizabeth Spence.
• On Sept. 30, 1842, Samuel Wesley Jacoway was born at Bass, Alabama.
• He was a pious man, and tried to do his duty.
• He died a planter, Aug. 13, 1844, in Bennett's Cove, and is buried at John Caperton's Pleasant Grove Church, three miles above Bass (near the Tennessee line).
• Every living Caucasian (white-skinned person) born with the surname Jacoway is descended from him (either through his first, third, or fourth son).