Jackson, Ancel Titus (1845- 1918) = son of Solomon Seaman Jackson and Annie Smithson Titus. He married Abigail Jackson around 1868. They had Gertrude, George A., Lillie, Ancel (1884-1890) and Annie Titus Jackson. They are all buried in the Jericho Friends Burying Ground. |
Jackson, Annie Titus (1873-1953) = daughter of Ancel and Abigail (Abbie) Jackson. Annie married a cousin, Matthew Franklin Jackson on October 10, 1894. But M. Franklin, as he was known, unfortunately died on November 3, 1895 at age 25. They had one daughter, Marion Frances Jackson. Annie and her daughter lived in a house on Broadway (Rte.106-107) with her brother George Ancel Jackson. |
Jackson, Caroline Underhill = see Hicks, Caroline U. Jackson (1872-1978) |
Jackson, George Ancel (Mar 1882-Oct 1946) = son of Ancel T. and Abigail Jackson, members of a large Quaker family in Jericho. George worked as a banker in NYC. He never married and later lived with his sister Annie Titus Jackson, the widow of M. Franklin Jackson. George later served as treasurer of the Jericho Public Schools. An elementary school on Maytime Drive, in East Birchwood was named for him in 1957. |
Jackson, John (1733-1821) = a Quaker, son of John Jackson and Kesia Mott, and great grandson of Robert Jackson, one of the original settlers of Hempstead. John married Charity Tredwell in 1756. They had 4 children. After her death he married Margaret Wright Townsend and they had 5 more children, including Obadiah. He died at age 88. |
Jackson, Obadiah (1774 -1853) = Oldest son of John and Margaret Townsend Jackson. Obadiah married Elizabeth Wright. After her death he married Rachel Underhill (daughter of Adonijah Underhill) in1804. They had William M. (1806-1866) who married Sarah (Sally) Tappan (1807-1885) in 1833. In 1804 his father, John, deeded the land to Obadiah. In August of 1816 the barn was burned by Gilbert Covert who was sent to prison for ten years. A second barn was constructed then, so we know it dates from that year. The property was inherited by the oldest of Obadiah’s sons, William Jackson. Obadiah is buried in the Jericho Friends Burying Ground. |
Jackson, Mathew Franklin (1870-1895) = son of Sidney and Caroline Robbins Jackson. He went by the name M. Franklin Jackson. He married Annie Titus Jackson (daughter of Ancel T. and Abbie [Abigail] Jackson) in 1894. He was the father of Marion Jackson, but died at age 25 just before she was born. |
Jackson, Marion Frances (1895-1982) = daughter of M. Franklin and Annie Jackson, Marion lived in the family house on Broadway in Jericho with her mother, Annie and her uncle, George A. Jackson and aunt, Gertrude Jackson. She never married and the family home was landmarked and moved to Friends Academy grounds in the 1960s. She wrote an article on the Jericho Quakers for the LI Forum magazine. |
Jackson, Phebe Tappan (1803-1889) = daughter of George and Elizabeth Duryea, she married Jacob Jackson. They had three children; Henry Willis Jackson, Sidney Wheeler Jackson and Mary S. Willis Jackson. Phebe is buried in the Jericho Friends Burying Ground. |
Jackson, Rachel = See: Underhill, Rachel Jackson |
Jackson, Richard (1640-) = of Southold, married Agnes Washburne, whose sister, Sarah, was married to Robert Williams. |
Jackson, Robert (16??-1722) = son of Richard Jackson, Robert married Agnes Washburne and had 4 children. Their son John married Elisabeth Seaman. His son Samuel married? Their daughter Martha married Nathaniel Coles and daughter Sarah married Nathaniel Moore. |
Jackson, Sidney W. (1838-1910) = son of Jacob and Phebe Jackson married Caroline Robbins, daughter of Matthew Franklin and Hannah S. Robbins. Their son, M. Franklin married Annie Titus Jackson. |
Jackson, Solomon Seaman (1817-1905) = son of Solomon and Mary, Solomon married Annie Titus. They had five children. After her death in 1865 he married Esther L. Post in 1867. They had a daughter, Caroline Underhill Jackson (1872-?). She married Henry Hicks in 1900. |
Jackson, William (1806-1866) = the son of Obadiah Jackson, married Sarah (Sally) Tappan and they had one daughter Phebe. Phebe married James Malcolm whose family had emigrated from Scotland in 1804. |
Jagger, William (1824-1890) = son of David and Maria Jagger, born in Brooklyn, married Margaret Ketcham (1821-1870), daughter of John and Rebecca in 1851. They had two daughters. He partnered with brother-in-law Isaac Ketcham in the Jericho Cider Mill. When Margaret died, he married Mary Elizabeth Seaman in 1871. See also: Jericho Cider Mills. |
Jericho Cider Mills (c.1800s to date) = what is known as The Jericho Cider Mill had probably been an existing cider mill for some time before the Quaker gentleman, Isaac Ketcham bought the mill in 1860 when he moved a bit west down the turnpike into Jericho. Back then it was called the Ketcham & Jagger Cider Mill because he ran it with his brother-in- law, William Jagger. After Jagger died in 1890, Ketcham sold the mill and business to Benjamin George Doughty, a Quaker from Brooklyn who moved to Jericho. The Doughty family rented the Jackson house (now Milleridge Inn) until they could build a home just north of the cider mill on the Oyster Bay Road (Rte. 106) where it stands today. Benjamin Doughty made sweet cider from russet apples as well as a world-famous alcoholic champagne cider which came to a halt during Prohibition. That secret champagne process died with Benjamin Doughty. His son, John Bodine Doughy and then his grandson, George B. Doughty owned the Jericho Cider Mill until 1938 when he sold it to John Zulkofske. Around 1977, the Jericho Cider Mill was taken over by his son, George Zulkofske who ran it quite successfully for many years with the lp of his family and right-hand man, Joe Esposito. George became ill and sold it to a local fellow fireman, Ted Ketsoglou just before he died in 2016. Ted's son, Kerry is the general manager.
There was a second apple cider mill just to the south on the Oyster Bay Road (Rte. 106) which was opened about 1875 by John J. Hicks. He made cider vinegar as well as cider. That mill was handed down to a grandson, Harry Tappan who installed electric apple presses. In 1938, when Tappan died, John Zulkofske bought both cider mills and combined them into the single operation which we see today.
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Jericho Farm = name of M. S. Burrill estate. It was sold out of the family and in 1953 it became the Meadowbrook Country Club. |
Jericho Friends Burying Ground = this is the name originally given to Quaker cemeteries, but is not so common today. The Jericho Quaker (or Friends) Burying Ground has been in use since 1790 and has about four hundred graves today. Originally it was not deemed proper to mark the graves with an ornamental stone, but it was finally decided to be a necessity to mark the locations of the graves. Elias and Jemima Hicks’ tombstones have quite probably been moved from their original locations. The burials and grave locations have now been documented to the best possible accuracy. See: The Quaker Cemetery at Jericho, NY, 2002. JPL, LI Coll. [R 925.5 H] |
Jericho Friends Meeting House and School House (1788- present) = To get their own Meeting House in 1787 members of the Jericho Preparative Meeting voted to build a house 36 feet by 33 feet, costing 300 pounds. The committee was Fry Willis, Elias Hicks, Adonijah Underhill, William Jones, John Willis, Edmund Willis, Thomas Willets and Jacob Willets. Their petition was approved on May 17, 1787 and the building was probably completed in 1788. In 1792 a Quaker schoolhouse was built near the front gate. Used for many years, until the Jericho Public School was established, today it serves as the caretaker’s cottage. In 1818 a porch was added on the south side to provide shelter from the elements at the two entrances. Iron stoves were added later to provide heat in the Meeting House and a horse and wagon shed was built near the road. |
Jericho General Store = George Tappan was the proprietor of the first documented General Store in Jericho in 1859. His store was a simple wing built on his house which was located just north of where Jericho Turnpike crossed Broadway. For the very first time the Jericho Post Office was moved from a private home into the General Store where it would be located for the next one hundred years. In 1895, the General Store/Post Office, owned by Augustus Remsen burned to the ground. In 1897, Samuel J. Underhill built a new grocery store with his partners, Roy Hicks and Irving Place at the intersection of Jericho Turnpike and Broadway. This building became Jericho's General Store/Post Office for the next 60 years. It was the hub of the community where people came for provisions, gossip and their mail. If someone didn't show up for several days another person would check on their well-being. Roy Hicks was the proprietor and Postmaster from 1915 to 1920. Percy Remsen took over the store in 1920. He managed it until 1943. After WWII, Sosnow and Schwartz, developers of East Birchwood, built a shopping center on Broadway with a Walbaum's supermarket and a free-standing, new red brick Post Office next door. The old General Store, most of the commercial buildings and some homes were demolished in the late 1950's for the road widening project on Route 106/107, marking the end of an era in Jericho. |

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Jericho Garage = See: Halleran's Garage |
Jericho Historic Preserve (1972 - to date) = See: Historic Preserve, Jericho |
Jericho Hotel = See: Powell’s Hotel |
Jericho Jewish Center (1955 – today) = located at 430 North Broadway, Jericho. It is the oldest and largest conservative synagogue in Jericho, founded in 1955. Charles Widlitz was the first president, Jack Grazi was the first Rabbi and Cantor. |
Jericho Middle and High Schools = This large school campus evolved from the 8-room brick elementary school built on this site in 1938. That brick building had been built directly behind the second Jericho Public School on Cedar Swamp Road that had been condemned by NY State as a fire trap because it was a 2-story, wooden frame building and had no fire escapes. By 1951 the enrollment in this 8-room grade school had doubled. Pupils upon graduation went to Hicksville, Westbury or Friends Academy for High School. More elementary schools were built in Jericho to accommodate the growing enrollment. In 1956 Hicksville announced they would no longer accept High School students from Jericho so plans for their own High School began with an addition of a ninth grade to the Robert Seaman School. It took three years to convert the Cedar Swamp School into a Middle School and a High School. The expansion cost more than $3 million dollars and the campus comprised 42 rooms on 15 acres. It went through another expansion in 2002 and has been named one of the top High Schools in America. |
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Jericho – the name = Jericho is a hamlet located in the town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County. It was “founded” in 1648 when Robert Williams, of Hempstead “purchased” nine square miles of land from the Native Americans. To verify his ownership Robert actually lived in Jericho and convinced his widowed sister-in-law, Mary Washburne Willets, to settle here as well. The area was called the “Williams Plantation,” “Lewsum,” “Lusum,” “The Farms,” and “Springfield” or the “Springs,” at various times and in assorted documents. The name Jericho was made official in 1692 making it one of the 4 “Bible” towns of Long Island – along with Bethpage, Babylon and Jerusalem, now called Wantagh. |
Jericho Plank Road Company = In 1852 the NY State Legislature passed the Plank Road Act. The Jericho Turnpike Corporation reincorporated itself into the Jericho Plank Co. and hired Nelson & Co. to regrade the road. By 1869 it was proclaimed to be the best turnpike in Queens County. |
Jericho Public Library (1962-to date) = founded in 1965 after the first two propositions were defeated in 1960 and 1961. Ruth S. Lang headed a group of volunteers who got the Jericho School Board to put the referendum to a vote and it passed. Franklin National Bank donated an old modular building to use until land was purchased and a permanent structure was built in 1971. The Absolute Charter was granted in 1970. Dottie Mills was hired as librarian and Director and the new building was dedicated on December 10, 1972. The first Board of Trustees were Morton Thielle, Hy York, Ruth Lang, Florence Irving and Irving James. In 1984-1989 the building was almost doubled in size. By excavating down a new entrance lobby, Meeting Room, Children’s Room, Theater and Technical Services department were added along with custodial and storage space. The driveway no longer went under the building but alongside the southern wall. The catalog cards were replaced by an online catalog in 1995, soon followed by personal computers for public use. Today the library, equipped with the latest technology available, offers professional friendly public services, cultural events, children’s and teen events, and programs and meetings for all ages. |

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Jericho Public Schools = the first 2-room, Jericho Public School was established around 1870, on the west side of the Oyster Bay Road (Rte. 106). In 1907, a 4-room, 2-story wooden frame school went up on Route 107, Cedar Swamp Road. The third public school was built behind the second in 1938/40. It was an 8-room one story brick building. It was added on to in 1952. In 1954, the Robert Seaman Elementary School was built with 16 rooms. In 1957, the George Jackson Elementary School was built with 22 rooms. The High School on Cedar Swamp Road began operations in 1957 with 42 rooms. In 1960 seven rooms were added to the Jackson School and the 16-room Robert Williams School (aka South parkway School) was built. That was followed, a year later in ’61, by the Cantiague Road Elementary School. In 1977, after a drop in enrollment the Robert Williams School was leased to become the Soloman Schechter Hebrew School. It became another Nassau BOCES School in 2019. |

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Jericho Turnpike = the main route from the old Fulton Ferry in Brooklyn, through Jamaica to Jericho. The Turnpike left private hands and was made “public” in 1890. The road was extended to Suffolk County, to the Nissequogue River near Smithtown, around 1875. The dangerous “Death Curve” in Jericho was straightened by building a new road south of the Quaker Meeting House in 1927. The Old Jericho Turnpike road is still there today – a two lane road circling around between the Jericho Quaker Meeting House and the Malcolm property and heading north to Route #106. |
Jericho Turnpike Company = incorporated on March 20, 1813, six years after the first 15-mile Jamaica to Rockaway stretch was completed. They charged a toll or user fee. It was dirt plowed to the center of the road with ditches for runoff – hence the name “Highway.” Stones were removed and planks were laid where the road was muddy. The Turnpike Company lasted almost to 1890. |
Jones Fund for the Support of the Poor = In 1836 a Quaker and resident of Oyster Bay, Samuel Jones established a $30,000 fund to support the poor and indigent of the town as was a practice of many Quakers. The trust had 5 trustees charged with maintaining a “Poor Farm” in Brookville. In 1914 it was moved to a modern facility in Hicksville, called the Jones Institute. In 1982 it was then moved to Bayville and called Jones Manor on the Sound. The facility was closed in 2015. More information may be found at the Oyster Bay Historical Society at 20 Summit Street in Oyster Bay. |