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Halliday Jackson
1771–1835
A Quaker minister and writer from Pennsylvania, he is remembered for vivid firsthand accounts of visits among the Seneca at the turn of the nineteenth century. His work preserves a rare record of religious life, travel, and cross-cultural contact in the early United States.
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About the author
Born on August 31, 1771, Halliday Jackson was a member of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, associated with New Garden in Pennsylvania. Archival sources describe him as a Quaker minister who later lived in Darby, and note that he joined a Friends mission to the Seneca from 1798 to 1800.
Jackson wrote journals, memoranda, and other accounts based on those travels and later visits, including material connected with Tunesassa, Cattaraugus, and broader efforts by Quakers to work with Native communities. His writings are now preserved in several archives, where they are valued as firsthand documents of early nineteenth-century religious and cultural encounters.
He married Jane Hough in 1801, and archival records note that they had twelve children. Halliday Jackson died on February 9, 1835.