Person:Jacob Dana (1)

"Jacob Dana served in King Philip's War; was admitted to the Cambridge Church, Feb 7,1696/7; lived at Cambridge on the old homestead. He also took part in the settlement of Pomfret, Conn., with other men of Cambridge, Newton and Roxbury, and may have resided there for a time, as his estate had to pay a bill of 14 s. 6 d., Oct. 15, 1714, for setting up a minister in Pomfret.

Patience Dana was appointed administratrix of his estate, Jan. 23, 1698/9. She gave the regular bond, with Benjamin and Daniel Dana, sureties, having Samuel Phipps, the register, and John Winchester, a neighbor, as witnesses. The inventory showed an ordinary amount of household goods and farm implements, cattle and other "moveables;" 5 acres of land by the house and an orchard on it; 22 acres at Mashamoquet (Pomfret, Conn.), described later as "remote wilderness land." His father speaks in a petition of having furnished his "foure sons with armes." For Jacob's share in his father's estate see agreement of the heirs in 1690, given under Richard Dana."
Source: : Dana, Elizabeth E. "The Dana Family In America" : 1956

1. ↑ Births, in Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
   Vol. 1 p. 186.

   DANA, Jacob, s. of Richard and Anna, [born] Feb. 2, 1654