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and trusted officer in the war against Philip. Captain Jacob 

 succeeded to the command of Captain Johnson's company after 

 that officer's death, and directed the defences at Medfield when 

 that town was attacked and partially destroyed Feb. 21, 1676. 

 On this occasion there were with him Lieutenant Oakes and twenty 

 troopers, besides his own foot company of about eighty men. The 

 only Hingham name upon the roll at this time of which there is 

 reasonable certainty, besides his own, is that of Nathaniel Beal. 

 With Captain Wadsworth, Captain Jacob was engaged during the 

 winter in guarding the frontiers from Milton to the Plymouth 

 colony bounds, — Weymouth, Hingham, and Hull, being specially 

 assigned to the latter. The service was an important and arduous 

 one, and these towns were fortunate in having so able an officer 

 assigned to their protection ; it may well be that to this is to be 

 ascribed the small loss sustained from attack by any of them 

 during the two eventful years. He was among the moneyed men 

 of the town, his estate being appraised at X1298. He owned a saw- 

 mill and a fulling mill, besides much land and considerable per- 

 sonal property. He too was a son-in-law of Captain Eames, having 

 married his daughter Marjery. Their son John, a young man of 

 twenty-two years and who had served in the war, was perhaps the 

 onlv inhabitant of Hingham ever killed in the course of military 

 hostilities upon her own soil. Preceding the descent upon the 

 southern part of the town, to be hereafter spoken of, he was slain 

 near his father's house April 19, 1676. Joseph, a brother of 

 Captain Jacob, was also a resident of this part of the town, and 

 Samuel Bacon, who married Mary Jacob, and Peter Bacon were 

 near neighbors. At Liberty Plain, Humphrey Johnson, who had 

 been turned out of Scituate, set up the house which he removed 

 from that town, but only on condition that he should remove it 

 out of Hingham on short warning, as he was a troublesome man. 

 Later he was admonished to accept a fence line quietly. He. 

 however, in part atoned for his short-comings by serving his 

 country in the conflict then going on. His son Benjamin, a black- 

 smith and afterwards proprietor of Pine Tree Tavern, doubtless 

 resided with his father at this time. Other residents of Liberty 

 Plain were James Whiton, whose house was burned by the Indians, 

 and his son James who lived near by, and William Hiliard. On 

 Scotland Street a Scotchman, Robert Dunbar by name, made his 

 home, and from him have descended the Dunbars of the present 

 time. Nathaniel Chubbuck, also one of those whose houses 

 were destroyed on the 20th of April, lived not far away, and 

 probably near or upon Accord Pond. 



On the 25th of February, 1675, it was ordered, on request of 

 Capo. John Jacob, " that his house standing in the pass between 

 this colony and Plymouth be forthwith garrisoned, and such as 

 are his nearest neighbors are to joyne therein." This was the 

 last of the defences of the town of which we have any knowledge, 



