Lieut. Jacob Straw
Cause of his death was cancer. General Notes: (per History of Hopkinton by C.C.Lord) Jacob was one of the Masonian grantees in 1750 owning one lot in the township. He was a carpenter and joiner.( Per Biographical Review) he came from Rowley MA c 1740-1750 and secured 50 acres of land upon which he errected some small buildings and then sold them to such advantage that he was able to purchase 200 acres on Sugar Hill. (Lord) states he sold and moved to Sugar Hill and purchased 200 acres where Seth Straw (his grandson ) now lives on the Weare side of the line between Weare and Hopkinton. (Lord) goes on to say he sold again and purchased 300 acres in Hopkinton now (1890) occupied by Horace Straw, Sullivan Flanders and others. He had six sons and six daughters and died at the age of 78 of cancer. He is buried in West Cemetery in Hopkinton and his Revolutionary War Record may be found in the Archives in Boston.Aug 1777 he enrolled in Capt John Hale's Company, Col. Gerrish's Regt that was called out to reinforce General Gates. Dec 15, 1788 was part of a committee of 12 men to consult and agree on a place for the Meeting House. On Dec 22 they voted not to move it..three days later the house was burned. On Dec 11 1794 it was "voted to consider Lt. Jacob Straw as innocent of burning the meeting house in February 1789 or accessory there to.." (per Little's History of Weare) Jacob Straw of Salisbury, MA went to Sugar Hill and built his house near the middle of the East side of Lot 93, range 7. In company with Wm Rowell he built a saw mill, 1768, on Cilley Brook that ran through his land. They had two ponds to get a supply of water. Abner Hoit/Holt of Hopkinton was the millwright and in 1774 bought the farmland. The mill ran until 1790 when it went down. Jacob was said to have owned a clepsygra (water clock) and an excellent sundial. (In later years a sundial was unearthed from the soil on the farm along with a brass ink stand that belonged to Jacob.) Jacob also ran a potash works on Sugar Hill as early as 1774..(farmers who burned cord wood sold the ashes and traders took them in in exchange for goods) potash could be made into "salts" and pearlash which was shipped to Boston and sold for $100 - 200 per ton. Jacob signed the ASSOCIATION TEST for Hopkinton. Names and dates of birth of his children per Ellen Straw Thompson genealogy of 1897. His death and burial info also per Ellen Straw Thompson. Additional sources include DAR records and Biographical review Vol XXI (1897) DAR records give his DOD as 1820 Events • Alt. Birth: Alt. Birth, 21 May 1734. • Alt. Birth: Alt. Birth, 21 May 1734, Salisbury, MA Or South Hampton, NH. • Alt. Death: Alt. Death, 5 Nov 1807, Hopkinton, NH Bur West Cemetery. Jacob married Lydia Ordway, daughter of Joseph Johnson Ordway and Mehitable Burbank, in 1759. (Lydia Ordway was born on 4 Aug 1740 in Rumford (Concord), NH, died on 5 Nov 1815 in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire and was buried in Stumpfield Cemetery Contoocook, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA.) Marriage Notes: www.findagrave.com |
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