Andy Jackson: North Carolinian or South Carolinian?

Historians have never reached consensus on the question of where Andy Jackson was born. Andrew and Betty Jackson immigrated with two young sons from Ireland. They bought two hundred acres of North Carolina in the Waxhaw district that straddled the border of the Carolinas. Andrew died unexpectedly in the ninth month of Betty's pregnancy. She could not operate the farm by herself so she took refuge with her sister, Jane Crawford, who lived in South Carolina. Another sister, Peggy McCamie, lived about a mile from the Crawfords, across the border in North Carolina.

Jane Crawford was an invalid and Betty was able to do housework and cooking to pay room and board for her two boys and herself. However, as her due date drew near, she betook herself to the home of Peggy McCamie. On March 15, 1767, Andy Jackson was born in North Carolina.

Historians have always known that Andy was born at either the Crawford or the McCamie home but the record does not explicitly state which. It doesn't need to. No sane woman would choose the home of an invalid over the home of an able-bodied woman as the birthplace of her baby. Andy Jackson was born in North Carolina.