Jacob Hemingway (1683 - 1754)

Born 6 Dec 1683 in New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Ball) Hemingway — married 3 May 1711 in East Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 7 Oct 1754 at age 70 in East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Jacob Hemingway is credited as being "Yales First Student", known at the time as the Collegiate School.

Burial: East Lawn Cemetery, East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA

Sources

• Judith Ann Schiff, (2004, May/June), Yale's First Student, Yale Alumni Magazine, retrieved from http://archives.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2004_05/old_yale.html
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Pierponts of North Haven, Conn., The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass., 1921) Vol. 75, Page 90
• Weeks, Lyman Horace. Prominent Families of New York (The Historical company in New York, 1897) Page 451
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Inscriptions on Tombstones in New Haven, Erected Prior to 1800 (1882) Page 573: see footnote
• Dodd, Stephen. The East-Haven Register, In Three Parts (A.H. Maltby & Co., 1824) Page 126 & Page 151 & Page 171
• Find A Grave memorial #21900740
• Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence (subscription). CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Vol. Yale page 8
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1885) Vol. 1, 1701-1745 With Annals of the College History. Page 22-6
• Newton, Clair Alonzo. The Massachusetts Hemenway Family, Descendants of Ralph Hemenway of Roxbury, Mass.,1634. (Naperville, Illinois, 1943) Vol. 1, Page 4

• Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/9WL1-VGL

• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4VPG-RNZM : 7 January 2020), Jacob Hemingway, 1683.

• "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:78XL-F1W2 : 14 April 2022), Jacob Hemingway in entry for Ledia Ball, ; citing Marriage, East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 004145783.

• "Connecticut, Charles R. Hale Collection, Vital Records, 1640-1955", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F78N-W2J : 16 September 2020), Jacob Hemingway, 1754.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGS-8QRB : 3 August 2020), Jacob Hemingway, ; Burial, East Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Old Cemetery; citing record ID 110304121, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110304121/jacob-hemingway