Thomas and Laura Jackson come to live at Jackson’s Mill.
Following the death of both his father and mother, young Thomas Jackson and his sister Laura came to live with the Jackson family at Jackson’s Mill, where their father had grown up. When the children arrived, they found a sprawling property of nearly 1,500 acres. On the property was both a grist and sawmill, as well as cultivated fields and large tracts of wooded lands which were utilized for the sawmill operation. Living there now was a branch of his father’s family—Tom and Laura’s paternal grandfather, Edward—had raised this family following the death of his first wife, before his death a few years earlier. They were Thomas and Laura’s half relations, including six step uncles, two step aunts, and a step grandmother, Elizabeth Brake Jackson, who was Edward’s second wife and mother of the Jackson’s living there at the time. There were also a number of enslaved persons living there as well.