Samuel Jackson

Samuel Jackson (1755-1836) was a currier and leather cutter in Little Windmill Street, London. He served as a deacon in the Baptist meeting at Unicorn Yard, Southwark, from the early 1780s until 1811. He audited the church’s financial accounts in 1785, and served as a Protestant Dissenting Deputy as well as a Messenger to the Particular Baptist Fund in 1807. He was a subscriber to the BMS in 1800-1801 and 1804-1805, at that time living in Hackney. In 1813 he served as a lay representative from Unicorn Yard to the first Committee in London of the newly established Baptist Union. Bristol College Library has a photocopy of a letter from Jackson, then living at 68 Lombard Street, London, dated 28 May 1795, to the Rev. Richard Furman, Baptist minister in Charleston, South Carolina (shelfmark G96, Box T). See Universal British Directory (1791), 1/2:191; Unicorn Yard Church Book, 1719-1820, Angus Library, Regent's Park College, Oxford, f. 262r, 333r; BMS Periodical Accounts, vol. 2, p. 205, and vol. 3, p. 134; Seymour J. Price, “The Early Years of the Baptist Union,” Baptist Quarterly 4 (1928–1929): 53-60; 121-131; 171-178.121-122; Ernest A. Payne,  “The Necrologies of John Dyer,” Baptist Quarterly 13 (1949-1950),  308-309.