Sgt. Richard Jacob

On 21 June 1637, Richard Jacob was one of fifty-seven inhabitants of Ipswich who petitioned the Governor, asking that John Winthrop Jr. not be called away from their town [WP 3:432-33].

Richard Jacob, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), IV:28-32.

• ORIGIN: Unknown.
• MIGRATION: 1634 on the Mary & John (on 24 March 1633/4, "Richard Jacob" was enrolled at Southampton as a passenger for New England on the Mary & John [Drake's Founders 70]).
• FIRST RESIDENCE: Ipswich. OCCUPATION: Yeoman [ILR 3:136, 4:445-46].
• BIRTH: By about 1614 (based on date of freemanship and estimated date of first marriage).
• DEATH: Between 6 September 1672 (date of will) and 5 October 1672 (probate of will).

Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), Vol. 2:534.

RICHARD, Ipswich, came, 1634, in the Mary and john; freem. 6 May 1635, m. Martha, d. of first Samuel Appleton, had Richard, Thomas, John, Samuel, Nathaniel, Joseph, Martha, and Judith; but no dates are found; d. 1672, or 4. His sec. w. Joan had been wid. of deac. Robert Hale of Charlestown, and d. 28 Nov. 1681, in 78th yr. at C.

Citations

1. from TORREY: "JACOBS, Richard (-1672?) & 1/wf Martha [APPLETON] (1620-1659); ca 1638?, ca 1636?; Ipswich {Ipswich 171-172; Ipswich Hist. Soc. 15:29; Essex Ant. 4:1; Flagg Anc. 283; Tingley-Meyers 61; Appleton (1873) 5; Boardman Anc. 315; Gen Mag. 8:90; Snow-Estes 2:235; Pope's Pioneers 255; Granberry 154, 263; Davis: Anc. of Phoebe Tilton 51, 77}"
2. from TORREY: "JACOB, Richard (-1672) & 2/wf Joanna (CUTLER?/CUTTER?) HALE (-1688), w Robert; 24 Sep 1662, m cont 6 Oct; Charlestown {Charlestown 452, 547; Cutter 19; Hale (#3) 192; Hinckley Anc. 38; Willard 2:18; Granberry 263; Hale (1952) 290}"

Links

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Richard Jacobs b.England; arrived New England 1634 on the Mary & John with wife and children.Lived inIpswich. Freeman 5-6-1635. Married (1) Martha Appleton, daughter of Samuel Appleton (I) in England. Married (2) Joan ( ?) (Hale) , widow of Robert Hale of Charlestown. She died 11-28-1681, Cambridge. He died 1672/4, Ipswich (source:Archbold Genealogy and Selected Family Records and Memorabilia ; pvt. pub.