Born before in Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of Samuel Appleton
and Judith (Everard) Appleton
Sister of
Mary Appleton, Judith Appleton, John Appleton, Samuel Appleton II, Sarah (Appleton) Phillips and Judith (Appleton) Rogers
Wife of
Richard Jacob
— married
1638 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
Samuel (Jacobs) Jacob, Thomas (Jacobs) Jacob, John (Jacobs) Jacob, Richard (Jacobs) Jacob, Judith (Jacob) Hasey, Nathaniel (Jacobs) Jacob and Joseph Jacob
Died
after age 38
in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Mar 2011
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Biography
Martha (Appleton) Jacob immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Martha Appleton was baptised on April 12, 1620 in Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, England. Her family traveled to New England in the winter of 1636 and they made a home at Ispwich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.[1] Martha married Richard Jacob;[2] they had eight children together before her death in 1659,[3]
- Samuel, b about 1639
- Thomas, b about 1641
- John, b about 1644
- Richard, b about 1648
- Judith, b about 1650
- Nathaniel, b about 1653
- Joseph, b about 1655
- Martha, b about 1658
Sources
- ↑ Mahler, Leslie. "Confirmation of the Parentage of Judith Everard, Wife of Samuel1 Appleton of Ipswich, Massachusetts." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 160. Boston, MA: April 2006. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) By Subscription. Page 109.
- ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH5X-K74 : 24 January 2020), Richard Jacobs,
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH5P-XMJ : 10 November 2020), Martha Jacob, 8 Sep 1659; citing Death, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007010724.
- Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society (The Ipswich Historical Society, Ipswich, Mass., 1907) Vol. 15, Page 29
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