Captain Jacob Wellman

Mr. Wellman was called "Captain" and "faithfully discharged all the duties pertaining to many offices which were conferred upon him." On 15 July 1782, he wrote a letter to his brother, Rev. James Wellman, in which he indicated how rapidly his wife was failing. In the same letter he said "Sister Elizabeth is as harty as any body. Brother has willed her the keeping of one cow and two sheep on the farm and one acre of the field southwest of the Barn and the orchard north of the house, and to live in the house. She is to have the privileges thereto belonging during her unmarried life and no longer. Sister Wellman does very well and sister Brown is well; that parish is yet to be a Destrict and the name of it is Lynnfield."

Capt. Wellman purchased a proprietor's right in the township of Lyndeborough, N. H. in 1742 and removed to the new town. He was the first clerk of the Parish and Church in Lyndeborough and signed the records thus: "Jacob Wellman, Society Clerk."

He was assessed at Lynn End in 1741, 53. but his name does not appear there in any later lists.

Jacob Wellman, gentleman, was commissioned Ensign of the Tenth Company in the Sixth Regiment of Militia in the Province of New Hampshire, 12 Oct. 1764, by Benning Wentworth, Captain-General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire in New-England (extract from Commission).