He was elected to the State Legislature consecutively from 1781 to 1787; and acted, for many years, as one of the magistrates of the county, showing the general acceptance with which his services were held.  He died in 1813, aged about seventy years, and is buried in Goshen graveyard, Gaston county, N.C.  His descendants by the first wife, Mary Jack, were:  1.  Margaret, married Judge Samuel Lowrie; 2.  Lillis, married Capt.  James Martin; 3.  Robert W., married Louisa Moore; 4.  Mary, married, 1st.  James J. Scott, and 2nd.  General John Moore; 5.  Annie, married John Sumter, (nephew of Gen. Sumter.) His descendants by the second wife, Margaret Reily, were:  1.  Eliza 2.  Evaline; 3.  Amanda, married Dr. J.C.  Rudisill, of Lincolnton.

Descendants of Judge Lowrie and Margaret Alexander were:  1.  Mary, married Dr. David R. Dunlap, of Charlotte; 2.  Eliza, died unmarried; 3.  Margaret, do.; 4.  Lillis, married B. Oates; 5.  Robert B., married Ann Sloan; 6.  Samuel, married Mary Johnson.

Margaret Jack, fourth daughter of Patrick Jack, married Samuel Wilson, of Mecklenburg. (For his descendants, see “Genealogy of Samuel Wilson, Sr.”)

Lillis Jack, the fifth and youngest daughter of Patrick Jack, married Joseph Nicholson.  He left the State, and is reported as having a family of six children, but of their subsequent history little is known.

Colonel Patrick Jack, a brave and meritorious officer under the Colonial Government, and during the Revolutionary war, was the son of Charles Jack, who lived on the Conococheague river, near Chambersburg, Pa., and was probably the brother of Patrick Jack, of Charlotte, N.C., whose family history has just been given.

Colonel Jack lived an active and adventurous life, and was born about 1730.  He was much engaged, when a young man, in assisting to subdue the Indians in Pennsylvania, and commanded a company of Rangers, under Generals Braddock and Washington, in the Indian and French war of 1755.  He also commanded a regiment, and participated actively in the Revolutionary War.  He was in the Cherokee country many years anterior to the Revolution.

He was at the massacre of the garrison in Fort London, on the Tennessee River in 1760, and was one of three persons who survived, his life having been saved through the influence of the Indian chief, Atta-kulla-kulla, the “Little Carpenter.”  He had three children; Mary, Jane, and John Finley Jack.  John was educated at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.  He studied law, and emigrated to Knoxville, then the capital of Tennessee, where he soon acquired eminence, and a lucrative practice in his profession.  He afterward removed to Rutledge, in Grainger county, East Tennessee, where he associated himself in the same profession with his brother-in-law, the late General John Cocke, a son of General William Cocke, one of the distinguished characters in the early history of Tennessee.  He took a prominent part in the politics of the country, filled the offices of Circuit Clerk, State’s Attorney, served several times in both branches of the Legislature, and was finally elected Circuit Judge, which position he held for many years.  When the infirmities of old age impeded his activity and usefulness, he retired from public life to his plantation near Bean’s Station, East Tennessee, where he ended his days.