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The People Who Lived on the Land that is Now Redstone Arsenal, page 220
could remember the name of the father of Amanda Jacobs. Since Amanda Jacobs was Everett Horton's mother, identifying Burwell Jacobs, Sr. as his grandfather adds one more generation back on the family lineage that was compiled during the Horton family interviewing. This tie also connects the Horton and Jacobs family lines. A Burrell Jacobs was in America as early as 1790, evidenced in the page copied below. NOTE: The name has appeared spelled as both Burwell and Burrell.
An excerpt from the 1790 Richland County, South Carolina census (p. 145).
The researcher consulted John P. Rankin, and he explained the following:
Enumerators of the 1790 census were asked to include the following categories in the census: name of head of household, number of free White males of sixteen years and older, number of free White males under sixteen years, number of free White females, number of all other free persons, number of slaves, and sometimes town or district of residence. The categories allowed Congress to determine persons residing in the United States for collection of taxes and the appropriation of seats in the House of Representatives. This first United States census schedules differ in format from later census material, as each enumerator was expected to make his own copies on whatever paper he could find.
An excerpt from the 1850 Madison County census record documents the children of Burrell Jacobs. Amanda Jacobs was 11 years old, which puts her birth date at 1839. Her race is shown as “M”, which stands for mulatto. The names and ages of her siblings recorded in the census were added to the Jacobs lineage diagram.
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