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New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995, pp. 1069-71:
"NICHOLAS JACOB
ORIGIN: Hingham, Norfolk
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown
REMOVES: Hingham 1635
OCCUPATION: Innkeeper. On 7 October 1640 "Nicho[las] Jacobs is allowed to keep an ordinary at Hingham" [MBCR 1:302].
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Hingham church prior to 3 March 1635/6 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 3 March 1635/6 [MBCR 1:371].
OFFICES: Deputy for Hingham to General Court, 10 May 1648, 2 May 1659 [MBCR 2:238, 265, 3:121, 147]. Commissioner to end small causes at Hingham, 4 November 1646 [MBCR 2:166, 3:83].
ESTATE: Nicholas Jacob was granted a thirteen acre homestall in Watertown (probably late in 1633 or in 1634) but was not present for later proprietorial grants; his homestall passed to Robert Daniel no later than 25 July 1636 (grant of Great Dividend on that date, deriving from the proprietorial right in the homestall that had belonged to Jacob) [WaBOP 99, 134]. In his will, dated 18 May 1657 and proved 28 July 1657, Nicholas Jacob made his wife Mary executor and gave her furniture and £30 for use during her life, to be divided among children as rest of estate is to be divided; to Joseph, Hannah and Deborah Jacob £10 apiece to be paid before division of estate "in lieu of what my other children have had before"; remainder to be divided as follows: a double portion to eldest son John, and equal shares to other children, namely Joseph Jacob, Mary Otis, Elizabeth Thackster, Sarah Cushing, Hannah Jacob and Deborah Jacob, with provision for them to pay to their mother during her life [SPR 1:296-97]. The inventory, taken on 12 June 1657, totaled £393 8s. 6d., of which £134 was real estate: "the houses & homelot with the orchard & meadow joining to the lot," £90; "corn land & meadow in the neck with the crop upon it and four acres of meadow at Conehasset," £36; and "the woodlots in the neck," £8 [SPR 2:83-84, Case #161].
BIRTH: By about 1604 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Hingham 5 June 1657 [NEHGR 121:107].
MARRIAGE: By 1629 Mary Gilman [TAG 11:138]. She married (2) Hingham 10 March 1658/9 John Beal [NEHGR 121:109] and died at Hingham 15 June 1681 [NEHGR 121:208; HiVR 53].
CHILDREN:
i JOHN, bp. Hingham, Norfolk, 26 February 1629/30 [TAG 11:138]; m. (1) Hingham 20 October 1653 Margery Eames [HiVR 3]; m. (2) Hingham 3 October 1661 Mary Russell [HiVR 3].
ii MARY, bp. Hingham, Norfolk, 11 May 1632 [TAG 11:138]; m. about 1649 John Otis [SLR 2:161-62].
iii ELIZABETH, b. say 1634; m. (1) Hingham [4] December 1648 John Thaxter [NEHGR 121:21]; m. (2) Hingham 23 March 1690/1 Daniel Cushing [Hingham Hist 2:151].
iv SARAH, b. say 1636; m. Hingham 25 February 1652/3 Matthew Cushing [NEHGR 121:103 (bride's name not given)].
v HANNAH, bp. Hingham 23 February 1639/40 [NEHGR 121:12]; m. (1) Hingham 16 December 1657 Thomas Loring [NEHGR 121:107]; m. (2) after 1679 Stephen French, son of STEPHEN FRENCH [MD 2:140].
vi JOSIAH, bp. Hingham 6 November 1642; bur. there 24 November 1642 [NEHGR 121:15].
vii DEBORAH, bp. Hingham 26 November 1643 [NEHGR 121:16]; m. Hingham 19 February 1663/4 Nathaniel Thomas [NEHGR 121:115].
viii JOSEPH, bp. Hingham 10 May 1646 [NEHGR 121:18]; by about 1672 Hannah Bosworth [Bosworth Gen 201-06].
ASSOCIATIONS: His wife's brother was Edward Gilman, who came to New England in 1638 and settled at Hingham [TAG 11:137-38], and a third Gilman sibling was Bridget, who was mother of Thomas Lincoln, weaver, of Hingham [TAG 11:193-94].
COMMENTS: From the record of Daniel Cushing, who noted all those who had moved from Hingham and vicinity in England to Hingham in Massachusetts, we learn that in 1633 "Nicholas Jacob with his wife and two children, and their cousin Thomas Lincoln, weaver, came from Old Hingham, and settled in this Hingham" [NEHGR 15:25]. The two children who were born in England are clearly John and Mary, so Elizabeth must have been the first child born in New England (on the assumption that the daughters were named in order of birth in their father's will). Even if she were born in late 1633, she would be barely fifteen at her marriage to John Thaxter, but this is the only solution that fits the records. Elizabeth must have been born in Watertown, but Sarah was probably born very close to the date of the move from Watertown to Hingham, and well before the first baptism recorded by Peter Hobart on 7 May 1637. Claims that Nicholas Jacob had an earlier unnamed wife before Mary Gilman apparently derive from a belief that daughter Elizabeth was born before 1629, which would make her age at marriage more reasonable, but which is at odds with all the other evidence."
From The Genealogies of the First Families of Hingham, MA. p. 371
Nicholas Jacob, the ancestor of all the families bearing this surname in Hingham and vicinity, was one of the very few early planters who came to " Bare Cove" prior to the arrival of Rev. Peter Hobart and his company in 1635. According to Cushing's MS., Nicholas Jacob with his wife and two children and their cosen Thomas Lincoln, weaver, came from old Hingham and settled in this Hingham, 1633.
In Sep 1635, he had a grant of a house-lot containing three acres on Town St. , second from the way leading to Broad Cove, which is about where the homestead belonging to heirs of the late William O. Lincoln is located. Other lands were also granted to him at different dates for planting purposes. He was made a freeman 1635-36; was a selectman in 1637; deputy to the General Court 1648 and 1649, and often engaged upon the business of the town. The Christian name of his wife was Mary. She survived him and married secondly, March 10, 1658-59, John Beal, widower.
Nicholas died 5 Jun 1657, proved 25 July following, he gives to "wife Mary, the bed which she usually lyeth upon with all the furniture thereto belonging to dispose of to whom she pleases; also 30 lbs. in money. To my children, Joseph, Hannah, and Deborah 10 lbs. each, in addition to what they already had,..."to eldest son John a double portion,"..... and to the rest of my children, viz,: Joseph Jacob, Mary Otis, Elizabeth Thaxter, Sarah Cushing, Hannah Jacob and Deborah Jacob, equal shares," and everyone of them shall pay to their mother" a stipulated sum, yearly. Witnesses, Edmund Pitts, Thomas Marsh, Matthew Hawke.
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