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William Jamison [Male]
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From WikiDoc - No know relationship to Thomas Allen Jamison of 1811
Thomas Jamison (1752/1753 ©ØO 27 January 1811) was an Irish-born surgeon,government official , mercantile trader and land owner of New South Wales,Australia.
Jamison was born in the seaside village of Ballywalter, on the ArdsPeninsula, County Down, i n 1752 or the very beginning of 1753. (He wasbaptised a Presbyterian on 10 January of the lat ter year.) Ja mison camefrom tough Scots-Irish stock: his parents were William Jamison and Ma ryJamison (nee Fisher). He married as a young man and joined the Royal Navyin 1780 in order t o advance himself in the world. In 1787, he was sent toPortsmouth, southern England, and assi gned to H.M.S. Sirius as anassistant surgeon. The Sirius was to act as the armed naval consor t tothe convict transport ships and supply vessels making up the First Fleet.The fleet's miss ion was to establish a strategic British penal colony inNew South Wales, on the east coast o f Australia. Jamison arrived safelywith the flee t at its final destination, the future Cit y of Sydney, inJanuary 1788. Soon afterwards, the commander of the First Fleet, GovernorArthu r Phillip, dispatched a band of convict settlers and naval personnel - including Jamison - t o Norfolk Island, which lies in the PacificOcean, roughly half way between Australia and Ne w Zealand. Here they wereto plant an ancillary colony.
Jamison was appointed surgeon to the Norfolk Island colony, a role thathe performed with succ ess. The island's remoteness from Sydney enabledhim to live openly with a convict mistress an d enrich him self by tradingin pork and wheat. Jamison remained on the island until 1799, whe n he wasrecalled to Sydney. Fearing that his career had stalled, Jamison went onleave and sai led for England. While t here, he cultivated a number ofinfluential patrons. In 1801, he wa s appointed Surgeon-General of NewSouth Wales by the British Government, replacing William Ba lmain.[1]
Jamison came back to Sydney in 1802. He proved to be a dilligent andcapable principal surgeon , although his work was hampered by a paucity ofsupplies and assistants. Nonetheless, in 1804 , he led the team whichperformed the first successful vaccination of children against smallpo xin the colony. He also published Australia's first medical paper. In1805, Jamison receive d a 1000-acre grant of lan d on the Nepean River,west of Sydney, where he raised livestock. L ater, he acquired another1300 acres of rural land at South Creek and on the Georges River.
Jamison possessed a hawk-like visage, a shrewd mind and a pepperypersonality. Following his r eturn from England, he became a magistrate aswell as a major player in a string of lucrativ e mercantile v entures.This was in defiance of government regulations which prohibited public officials from engaging in business enterprises. Jamison's extensivecommercial activities bro ught him into conflict wit h the colony's newgovernor, the authoritarian William Bligh (of Mu tiny on the Bounty fame),who sacked him from the magistracy in 1807, claiming that the Irishm anwas not of "upright" character and " inimical to the government". In1808, Jamison joined fr oces with other disaffected colonists to oustGovernor Bligh in a military coup d'etat known c olloquially as the RumRebellion. Jamison served as Naval Officer (the forerunner of Collector of Customs) in the colony's temporary, rebel government. He was alsorestored to the magistrat es' bench. This enabled him to take part in thecommittees whi ch interrogated Bligh's support ers and scrutinised hisprivate papers. (For more information about his role in the issurectio n,see the article, "Dr Thomas Jamison: from Rum Rebel to Sydney Customs' Chief", by Stephen G ibbes, in the Australian Customs History Journal,Number Six, December 1994, pages 6-9.)
Jamison left Sydney for London in 1809 to testify against Bligh at anofficial inquiry into th e former governor's overthrow. He leased aresidence in Portman Square, but died there unexpec tedly on 27 January1811, before he could give evidence to the inquiry. According to familyres earch, Jamison was buried in the grounds of the Anglican Church of StMary, Paddington Green , London. Jamison's wife, Rebecca, whom he had leftbehind in Ireland, survived him by 27 year s. She received a governmentpension but only after prolonged lobbying by her son.
Alas, Jamison's headstone has vanished from St Mary's churchyard and theexact location of hi s grave is lost. The Jamison Centre in Canberra bearsThomas' name, however, as does Jamisonto wn near Penri th - the site ofhis first land grant.
Footnote: Thomas sired a number of bastard children. His legitimate sonby Rebecca, Sir John J amison (1776-1844) - a brilliant EdinburghUniversity-educated Doctor of Medicine and a forme r naval surge on whohad seen action at Trafalgar - came to New South Wales in 1814 to takeove r his father's property. Sir John had been knighted by England'sPrince Regent in 1813 in reco gnition of his medical ac hievements whileattached to the Baltic Fleet. He went on to becom e one of early Sydney'smost significant landholders, public figures and political reformers . SirJohn established a showpiece agricul tural estate called Regentville inthe Penrith distr ict. During the 1820s, he constructed a stone mansion onthe estate where he pursued the lifes tyle of a wealthy English squire.Sir John died at Reg entville in 1844. At the time of death , he was inseriously reduced circumstances as the result of a severe drought andattendant eco nomic downturn which were affecting the colony. The Jamisonline, h owever, has been perpetuat ed to this day through the descendantsof Sir John's numerous children and grandchildren. Si r John's career,like that of his father Thomas, is dealt with in the Australian Dictionary o f Biography, Volume Two, edited by Douglas Pike, pages 10-13.
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Unless there are more than one Rachel, I believe these parents cannot be correct due to the age difference in the parents and the children. Rachel Jane would have been too old to have been the mother of Sarah, i.e. Rachel b. 1741 Sarah b. 1797 = 53 or 56 years old.
Jim Savage of Clinton, Mississippi 39056-4551 records that:
Sarah was born circa 1794 in Dixon Springs, Smith county, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Thomas Jemison and Rachel Jane McCullock. She married William H. Cooper in Tennessee circa 1812 . Sarah died circa 1844 in Bedford County, Tennessee.
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Some records indicate married to an Unknown Payne?
Another record indicates married to Jesse Greenberry FRAZOR
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Bethesada Cemetery, Bet. Conway & Carthage, MS
No children so she left considerable land holdings & slaves to Thomas Jamison Cooper
Mary "Polly" Jamison is supposed to have run an inn on Old Robinson Road near where the road crosses the Natchez Trace. She had no children and left much of her very considerable land holdings and slaves to her nephew Thomas Jamison Cooper, son of her deceased sister, Sarah Frances Jamison Cooper. Her will was probated in Leake Co, MS 11 Aug 1856, Will Book 1, p. 8-11. Sh e is buried in Bethesda Cemetery which is located in Leake Co, MS, between Conway and Carthage several miles off the main highway and not easy to locate. Her gravestone is a huge marbles lab, approximately 3 ft by 7 ft which lies flat onthe grave. Her nephew, Thomas J. Cooper, sent a team to Meridian, MS for the stone and the trip took a week. The event was often told about in the family.
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