Cemetery: North Cemetery, Portsmouth New Hampshire

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(notice from the "New Hampshire Gazette) "Notice — The person who took a gun out of Dr. Hall Jackson's entry is requested to return the same to George Dame, or he will be prosecuted as a thief. Dr. Hall Jackson's residence, in its present modernized form, is still in existence at the northeast corner of Court and Washington streets." 6

"We have before us a letter in the hand-writing of Doctor Hall Jackson, dated at the Essex Hospital, Dec. 17, 1773, at which time he was a small pox patient. It was on his return that arrangements were made for 'a general inocculation in Portsmouth.' 6

"1764: The small pox was very prevalent in Boston, and from the continual intercourse, which was kept up between that place and this, both by land and water, there was great danger of its being brought here, and communicated to the inhabitants. To prevent which, the selectmen had a fence built across the road at Great Swamp, and a small house erected, to smoke all persons and baggage, coming from Boston by land. After they were thoroughly cleansed by the guard set there for the purpose, they received certificates, and were permitted to pass. The same caution was used in relation to all vessels from Boston, which were required to perform quarantine, and every prudent method was adopted to destroy the infection.
Doctor Hall Jackson resided in Boston two or three months, and carried several classes safely through the disorder by inoculation; a large number went there from this town, to put themselves under his care." 10

"1782: March 25th. The town gave permission to the Physicians, Ammi R. Cutter, Joshua Brackett, Hall Jackson, and John Jackson, to open a hospital on Henzell's Island, under such rules and regulations as shall secure the town from danger, provided said hospital shall be no expense to the town." 10

"1797: On the 28th of September, died Doctor Hall Jackson, after a short illness, in the fifty-eight year of his age. In visiting some patients, his sulkey was overset, whereby several ribs were fractured, and a fever ensued, which terminated his life. Doctor Jackson was born in this town, and received the first rudiments of his education in the public schools here. He studied they theory of physic and surgery, under the direction of his father, Doctor Clement Jackson. After completing his studies here, he went to London, and attended lectures in the public hospitals there, to perfect himself in surgery. Upon his return to this country, he opened an apothecary's shop, but his practice as a physician soon became so extensive, that he was obliged to relinquish in a great measure, his business as a druggist, and attend almonst entirely to his profession. As a physician, he was skilful; as a surgeon, eminent. No operation of importance was performed for many miles round, without consulting him, and seldom without his aid. He had great experience in the small pox; and many hospitals, which were established for inoculating with that disorder, were committed to his care, and he was remarkably successful in conducting his patients safely through the disease. In the obstetric art he obtained high reputation, and was frequently applied to for advice and assistance in difficult cases, by persons who did not generally employ him. He frequently performed the operation of couching, and always with success. Harvard College conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Medicine; and he was elected an honorary member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. He was Grand Master of the Free and Accepted Masons in New Hampshire, at the time of his decease. His sprightly talents, lively imagination, and social habits, rendered him an agreeable companion; facetious and pleasant in conversation, his friends enjoyed in his compnay 'the feast of reason,' with the flow of wit; and the several societies of which he was a member, found their entertainment greatly heightened by his presence." 10

He was born in this home in Hampton.