Jacob
Coombs
Born in Bowdoin, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Joshua Coombs
and Mary (Stickney) Coombs
Brother of
Elizabeth Coombs [half], Joshua Coombs Jr., Stephen Coombs, Mary Coombs, Daniel Coombs, Mary Coombs, Sarah Coombs, Ebenezer Coombs and John Coombs
Husband of
Jerusha (Ridley) Coombs
— married
8 Jan 1778 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Descendants 
Died
at age 77
in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Dec 2016
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Biography
Jacob COOMBS. The Bowdoin, ME, Vital Records,[1] suggests that he was born 12 Jun 1751, but there is no known documentation for this date. He was in Bath, ME, mariner, and was executor of his father’s estate at Bath, ME in 1789:[2]
It appears that Jacob received possession of his father’s homestead at Bath before 1796.[3] On 1 Sep 1797 he sold the 75 acre homestead for $500.00. In that deed he is listed as being of Boston, mariner.[4]
Military Service – Revolutionary War – Jacob was probably a Private Capt. Acter Patten’s co., Col. Samuel McCobb’s regt.; enlisted 6 Jul 1779; discharged 25 Sep 1779; service, 2 mos. 19 days, on Penobscot expedition. Roll sworn to in Lincoln Co.[5][6]
He lived in Boston and had a family. He died there in 1828.[7]
Sources
- ↑ Bowdoin, ME, Vital Records, Volume 1, page 57.
- ↑ Lincoln County, Maine: Wiscasset, ME; Probate Records, Book 4, pages 40, 41, 47, and 48.
- ↑ Lincoln County, Maine: Wiscasset, ME; Registry of Deeds, Book 91, page 41.
- ↑ Lincoln County, Maine: Wiscasset, ME; Registry of Deeds, Book 40, pages 62-B and 63-A.
- ↑ Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of The Revolution, Vol. 3, page 854.
- ↑ Anthony Coombs and Dorcas Woodin of Rochester, Massachusetts -- Their Origins and Descendants, pages 150-151.
- ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2495/images/40400_274790-00193
- Whitney John Coombs. Anthony Coombs and Dorcas Woodin of Rochester, Massachusetts -- Their Origins and Descendants. Baltimore, MD: Otter Bay Books, 2019.
- William Carey Coombs. The Story of Anthony Coombs and His Descendants. Boston, MA: Addison Getchell & Son, printers, 1913, pages 126 & 127.
- "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4W8-2BL : 4 December 2014), Jacob Coombs, 12 Jun 1751; citing BOWDOIN,SAGADAHOC,MAINE; FHL microfilm 962,279.
- "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCDC-6JZ : 28 July 2021), Jacoob Coms, 1778.
- "United States Census, 1810," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2D-W9Z : accessed 29 December 2022), Jacob Coombs, Boston Ward 3, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing p. 331, NARA microfilm publication M252 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 21; FHL microfilm 205,629.
NB - The record of Jacob's 1751 birth is recorded in the Bowdoin, Maine, Vital Records. However, "Bowdoin is supposed to have been settled some years previous to the Revolutionary War, and was known several years under the name of the 'Plantation of West Bowdoinham.' It was incorporated in 1788, when, -- according to Williamson -- it contained about 120 families." [Bowdoin, ME, Vital Records, Volume 1 - Births, page 2.] Therefore, the date of Jacob's birth record, 25 years before the settlement of Bowdoin, is questionable and the location is extremely unlikely.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jacob by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jacob:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jacob by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jacob:
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Here's a marriage record: Coombs, Jacoob, of Gorgge Town, and Jerusha Ridly, Jan. 8, 1778. Truro, Barnstable, Mass.<ref>https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Barnstable/Truro/aMarriagesC.shtml</ref>
I see that the birth record states that Jacob is the son of Elizabeth Pratt, not Mary Stickney. I wonder if Elizabeth got removed during the merge?
Thank you for the Truro marriage citation. It's always great to know the sources.
You are right, the Bowdoin, ME, birth record lists Jacob's mother as being Elizabeth (Pratt) Coombs; however, it lists all of Joshua's children as having been born of Elizabeth Pratt. That appears to have been the result of two issues:
1. No record has been found for the death of Elizabeth (Pratt) Coombs or her daughter Elizabeth. We do know that Joshua and Elizabeth Pratt were married in Middleboro, MA, on 10 Sep 1729 and that baby Elizabeth was born in Rochester, MA, on 23 Feb 1731. That's the last record that we have found for either Elizabeth. However, it is hypothesized that both died shortly after the baby's birth and Joshua followed his brothers, Peter and Anthony, to the Spurwick settlement at Falmouth, MA/ME. We do have the record for Joshua Coombs' intention of marriage to Mary Stickney published at Falmouth on 29 Aug 1736. This marriage intention and its connection were uncovered by Dr. Neil Coombs, probably around 1990. The Newbury, MA, Vital Records list eight children born to Joshua and Mary (but not Jacob).
2. When William Carey Coombs wrote his family book, "The Story of Anthony Coombs And His Descendants" he had no information to suggest that Elizabeth had died and Joshua had remarried, so he listed all of Joshua's children as those born to Elizabeth Pratt (see pages 126-7). When the Bowdoin, ME, Vital Records were compiled they used church records, family Bibles, and other available sources, including private family records. The early Coombs data in the Bowdoin VR is attributed to "Private Source #17" and includes much of the earliest unsourced family data developed by William Carey Coombs. As a result, Elizabeth Pratt is incorrectly recorded as the mother of all of Joshua's children. This is but one example of why I have very little faith in the early Coombs records listed in the Bowdoin, ME, Vital Records.
I know that this sounds a bit confused, but it's taken a group of us a number of years to unravel and straighten out Joshua's family records.