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Jacos who have served</b></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PHOTOS"><U><B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f00000ff00.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">PHOTOS</b></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#003399" FACE="Arial" ><B> - Misc.</b></FONT></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div>  <A NAME="top"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>   Welcome to the Jaco Jots web site.  This is an adventure into a new field for the creator, so I hope you will bear with me as I experiment, learn, make mistakes and become frustrated.</div> <bR> <div>      It is estimated there are about 500 families within the U.S. headed up by a person with the last name of Jaco.  A majority of the states has one or more.  Some states appear to never had one during a census year or at present, most of these being in the northeast.  With the year 2000 being a census year, much  has been in the media about it.  The first U.S. census was in 1790.  In that one we have found two Jaco families.  The census is mandated by the Constitution, to be conducted every 10 years, on the years ending in 0.  The law also prevents the results of each census from becoming available to the public for 70 years.  Therefore, the censuses from 1790-1920 have been made public, with the 1930 made available in late 2002.  Each of the 14 made public, covering a period of 150 years, has had Jaco families.  Note: The 1890 census burned and has not been made available.</div> <bR> <div>      Were they in the U.S. prior to the 1790 census?  If you guessed "yes" you would be correct.  OK, so how long have they been in the U.S.?  How about since the middle 1600's in Woburn, MA?  We have found Eligezer there listed as a "free man."  That is interpreted at the time to mean he was neither a slave nor an indentured servant.  Also just a few years later it appears a daughter, Deborah, was married there.  Would it make it a little more interesting to learn that her mother-in-law was tried in Salem for being a witch?  And one of her sons, being 16, was sentenced by the town council to six months as an apprentice for failing to report to perform a day's civic work, as each male was required to do one day a month!  We have not been able to find out much more about this early Jaco family.</div> <bR> <div>      Then in the mid-1700's, in Prince George's County, MD (from which 1/2 of Washington, D.C. was formed), we find a John passing away, leaving a will which named his wife and 4 Ryon grandchildren - so we know he had at least a daughter.  Also, a William passed away, not leaving a will or mention of any relations.</div> <bR> <div>      Then we have a skip to the Revolutionary War.  Here we find two, John and William.  Both served in regiments organized in VA, but are claimed by MD as being citizens of that state, when partitioning General Washington to give MD credit for their citizens who were serving in units organized in other states.  John has a military record, but did not apply for a pension.  By 1783 he has moved south to Union District, SC, where he is found in the 1790 and 1800 census.  He married again in Logan Co., KY in 1806 and moved to Warren Co., TN in 1814, where he died.  William did apply for and received a pension.  Within the pension application he states he was born in VA and had lived in VA, OH and was then residing in northern KY, where he died while living with an unnamed son-in-law, and possessed only his clothes and walking stick.  In the 1790 census he is found in Fairfax Co., VA (the other county from which 1/2 of Washington, D.C. was formed).</div> <bR> <div>      From these areas the Jacos generally followed the ongoing southward and westward migration routes, along with their neighbors, to the new frontiers.  John appears to have spread the Jaco name more prolifically than William.  Luke, Thomas, Rueben and Theodore of the northern VA (WV from the 1860's to present) and PA area may well be related to and/or descended from William, but since we have not been able to prove William had any sons we are left with more questions than answers.</div> <bR> <div>      Now, where did the earliest, or these early Jacos come from?  I wish I knew!  I have been tracking them since 1957 and have yet to see the passenger list of that time frame that names a Jaco.  An educated guess would be that they were from the most southern area of England, being Cornwall.  Why there?  Because Jaco was a name found on a number of records there during the first half of the 17th century.  The early 1600's finds births, deaths and marriages in the parish records.  Sometimes the spelling shows as Jaco, Jacco, or Jacoe, even when a couple has children 2 years apart, the name may show up differently.  To confuse matters more, there was Jago and Jagoe, a name that is found also in the U.S.  Too close for comfort!</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Back to the <A HREF="#top" TITLE="Jaco Jots"><U>Top</U></A> of this page (Click on underlined word)</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>