Nicholas Jacobs

Abt 1604 - 1657  (53 years)

• Name	Nicholas Jacobs
  Born	Abt 1604	Hingham, Norfolk, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	5 Jun 1657	Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, American Colonies
  Person ID	P44552983	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2010

  
  

  Father	Richard Jacobs,   b. Abt 1579, Hingham, Norfolk, England
  Mother	Winifred Chamber,   b. Abt 1579, Hingham, Norfolk, England
  Family ID	F3274	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Gilman,   b. Aft 1590, Hingham, Norfolk, England ,   d. 15 Jun 1681, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, American Colonies  (Age 90 years)
  Children	1. John Jacobs,   b. 1 May 1646, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, American Colonies ,   d. 9 Feb 1708, Bristol, Rhode Island  (Age 61 years)
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2019
  Family ID	F520	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Nicholas and Mary came to America aboard the ship Elizabeth Bonaventure, of which John Graves was the Master, in 1633, which departed from Yarmouth, England and landed in Boston. Nicholas is mentioned in "Early Settlers of Hingham, Massachusetts," by John D. Long, from he book "History of Hingham, Massachusetts," published in 1893. He is listed among the founders of Hingham in 1635, along with Clement Bates. In fact, according to Soloman Lincoln, the town's historian, writing in 1827: "...there were inhabitants here as early as 1633, and among them Ralph Smith, Nicholas Jacob[s] with his family..."