Deacon Jacob Eliot

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Deacon Jacob Eliot

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Widford, Hertfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: April 28, 1651 (44-45)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Son of Bennett Eliot and Letteye Elliot
Husband of Margery Eliot
Father of Dea. & Capt. Jacob Eliot, Jr.; Hannah Frary; John Eliot; Abigail Wyborne; Susanna [Hobart] Downes and 4 others
Brother of Sarah Curtis; Deacon Philip Bennet Eliot; Reverend John Eliot, "The Indian Apostle"; Lydia Wight; Deacon Francis Eliot and 3 others

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About Deacon Jacob Eliot

From Records Relating to the Early History of Boston, Volume 5 By Boston (Mass.) Registry Dept. Page 62 GoogleBooks

"Mr. Bowditch is, perhaps, over-critical in respect to Eliot street. That street was laid out in 1740 through lands belonging to the descendants of Jacob Eliot, who was one of the brothers of Rev. John Eliot, the "apostle to the Indians." ...

From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 23 Page 336 GoogleBooks

Jacob1 Eliot, brother of Rev. John, had sons Jacob* and Asaph* (of whom Asaph had an only son John,' b. 1683).

Family

From Genealogy of the Eliot family Author Eliot, William H. (William Horace), 1824-1852,Porter, William Smith, 1799-186. Page 33 Archive.Org

Jacob' Eliot was admitted freeman at the same time with Rev. John, March 6, 1632, and died in 1651. His wife, Margery , died in 1661.

Mr. Jacob Eliot was a dea- con of the Boston church ; and one of the fifty-eight who were ordered to give in all their arms of every kind, and ammunition, to Mr. Cane, under the penalty of £10, for being concerned with Mrs. Hutchinson in disseminating her doc- trines.

His children were

  • I. Jacob, bom Dec. 16, 1632. He was a captain in Boston, and died in 1693, aged 61.
  • II. John', born Dec. 28, 1634.
  • iii. Hannah*, born Jan. 29, 1636.
  • IV. Abigail", bom April 7, 1639.
  • V. Susanna', born July 22, 1641. She married, Dec, 1662, Peter Hobart of Hingham.
  • VI. Sarah'.
  • VlI. Asaph', b. Oct. 25, 1651. He had children, Elizabeth, b. Feb. 1, 1679 ; and John, b. Dec. 18, 1683.
  • VIII. Frary', (daughter.)
  • IX. Mehitabel'.

Not the child of Martin Sanders of Braintree

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Deacon Jacob Eliot's Timeline

1602
September 21, 1602
Widford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1606
September 21, 1606
Church of St. John the Baptist, Widford, Hertfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
September 21, 1606
Widford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
September 21, 1606
Widford,Hertfordshire,England
1606
Widford, Hertfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
1632
October 16, 1632
Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1634
December 28, 1634
Boston, Suffolk, MA
1637
January 29, 1637
Boston, (Present Suffolk County), Massachusetts Bay Colony
1639
April 7, 1639
Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1641
July 22, 1641
Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony