Notes for Jacob FLYNN

The Descendants of Jacob Flynn of Wilmington, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Notes for Jacob FLYNN

!Birth & Death: Source: _The History of Milford_, by George A. Ramsdell, Concord, N. H.: The Rumford Press, 1901, p. 689.

!Marriage: Sources: Wilmington Massachusetts Town Hall, Middlesex County Town Records, Births, Intentions, Marriages, LDS Film #0761324; _The History of Milford_, by George A. Ramsdell, Concord, N. H.: The Rumford Press, 1901, p. 689; [2] Rowley, Mass. VR, 1:294.

Marriage: [2] Performed by Rev. James Chandler and/or Rev. Isaac Braman, pastors of the 2nd Church in Rowley. (Rowley VR, 1:294).

Surname: Recorded as 'Flinn' in _The History of Milford_, by George A. Ramsdell, Concord, N. H.: The

Rumford Press, 1901, p. 689; recorded as 'Flin' in Rowley VR.

Occupation: Farmer, taverner and trader, (Ramsdell, p. 689).

Residence: Settled in Milford in 1778, on a place later owned by Charles A. Burns, and then by Thomas Bishop (1901), (Ramsdell, p. 689).

Appears on the 1790 Census for Duxbury Mile Twp, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, Roll M637_5, Image 0146. 'Jacob Flinn, 1 [Free white males 16 & over, including heads of family], 2 [Free white males under 16], 2 [Free white females including heads of family], (www.ancestry.com, 13 Sep 2000).
Jacob was included on a list of Resident Taxpayers in Milford, April 1, 1794. (Ramsdell, p. 70)
At a meeting held in August, of 1794, Jacob and others were appointed a committee to properly divide the town into school-districts. (Ramsdell, p. 72)

Public Office: Elected selectman 1794. (This was the year Milford became incorporated.), (_History of Milford, New Hampshire_, 1738-1901, by Ramsell).

Public Office: April 24, 1806, Jacob Flynn voted as district clerk. (He is shown as town moderator for a number of years.), (_History of Milford, New Hampshire_, 1738-1901, by Ramsell).

From _Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution_, (17 Vols.):
Volume 5, page 788: Flinn, Jacob, Wilmington. Capt. Wood's co.; account dated Chelsea, Dec. 31, 1775, of the appraisement made by appraisers appointed by Col. Baldwin of guns taken for public use from men belonging to the 38th regt. (old army), who left the service Dec. 31, 1775, and who had been stationed at Chelsea and Medford; also, receipt dated Chelsea, Feb. 3, 1776, signed by said Flinn and others, for money received of Col. Loammi Baldwin "for guns stopt and prized by the Committee on the 31st day of Dec. last, agreeable to General Orders in the 26th regt.;" also, account of arms retained from soldiers that were going to leave the service [year not given]; also, list of men hired to do turns of service; said Flinn hired by David Jaquith, probably of Wilmington, who was drafted Sept. 17, 1776.
Volume 5 page 814: Flyn, Jacob, Wilmington. List of men in need of blankets, as returned by Capt. John Wood, dated Medford, Aug. 9, 1775; also, Fifer, Capt. Wood's (5th) co., Lieut. Col. Baldwin's (late Gerrish's) (38th) regt.; pay abstract for Sept., 1775, dated Chelsea; also, company return [probably Oct., 1775].

Volume 5 page 814: Flynn, Jacob. Return of Capt. John Harendel's (Harnden's) co., dated May 11, 1775; also, Fifer, Capt. John Harnden's co., Col. Bridge's regt.; receipt for advance pay dated Camp at Cambridge, June 22, 1775, signed by said Flynn and others.

Volume 5 page 814: Flynn, Jacob. Capt. Cadwallader Ford, Jr.'s co. of Minute-men; company receipt for wages dated Wilmington, May 6, 1776.

Volume 5 page 814: Flynn, Jacob. List of men agreed upon by Selectmen, Committee of Safety, and Commissioned Officers, Aug. 15, 1777, to be enlisted or drafted to reinforce Northern army.
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"October 28, [1827], died, Jacob Flynn, aged seventy years. He resided in the north-west part of the town on the place more recently owned by John Rand. In addition to the business of farming, he at different times in his life was engaged in business as a taverner and trader. He was also repeatedly elected to town offices and engaged in the settlement of estates." (Ramsdell, p. 185)
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Obituary, published in the "Farmer's Cabinet" newspaper, Saturday, Nov. 3, 1827:
In Milford, on the 28th ult, of a consumption, Jacob Flinn, Esq. He retained his senses to the last; and was aware for many months, that he was then suffering his last sickness. But sustained his lot with the same equanimity of mind, that he would meet or transact the affairs of this life. He appeared to possess a perfect confidence in the merits of an allsufficient Saviour. -- By his death a gap in society is left, that will be much felt. He had raised himself by his own merit and exertions to a sphere of usefulness; and had for a long time justly sustained the confidence of his fellow citizens. He had transacted more town business, than any other man in the place. His primary education was derived from the school of the Revolution. He was first a Clerk in the Commissary Department in the office of Gen. Frazer [probably the office of John Gizgage Frazer, Assistant Quatermaster General, see http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/RevWar/risch/chpt-2.htm, History of the Army Quatermaster Corps] and enjoyed a daily and personal intercourse with him. Afterwards he was a musician in the line. For a quarter of a century, or more he was a selectman, generally the first in his town; and for about a third of a century was a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum.
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Obituary published in the "New Hampshire Patriot" newspaper, Concord, N. H., Nov. 12, 1827 (as recorded in LDS Film #0015566, Item 6, p. 16):
In Milford, N. H., Oct. 28, Mr. Jacob Flinn. He was a Soldier in the Revolution, being first a clerk in the Commissary Dept. in the office of Gen. Frazer, later he was a musician in the line. He was selectman for more than 25 years.
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Administration of Jacob's Estate (Jacob Flinn, 1827, Docket 03391, Nashua, New Hampshire):
To the Honorable Clifton Claggett Judge of Probate of Wills &tc. Respectfully Shows. Abigail W. Flinn of Milford that her Husband Jacob Flinn Esqr died lately Intestate and has left Real and Personal Estate within the County of Hillsboro. The Right of Aministration devolving on her. She declines the trust and begs leave to nominate David Stiles of Temple as a suitable person for said Trust and prays your honor that he may be appointed accordingly. [Signed] Abigail W. Flinn November 15, 1827.

A LIST of all the claims against the estate of Jacob Flinn late of Milford in said county, deceased, represented insolvent, agreeable to the report of the Commissioners thereon, accepted the 26 day of May Anno Domini 1829.
Creditors' Names. Claims. Proportion. Dolls. Cts. Dolls. Cts.
Simeon Foster 115 43 32 32 Simeon Foster 66 95 18 75 Phinehas Stinson 10 17 2 85 Elisabeth Patch 56 88 15 93 Savinia Carter 55 52 15 55 Milford C.&W. Facy. Corporation 1 05 29 B. Hutchinson Come of Pews B.M. 27 50 7 70 Jacob Flinn Jr. 38 47 10 77 Nathan Green 552 146 16 Joshua Butler 113 60 31 81 Benja Osgood 17 68 4 95 Abiel Lovejoy 1 13 31 Abiel Holt 37 79 10 58 Elisabeth Patch 13 84 17 88 Ebenr Batcheldor 111 73 31 28 Noah Foster 12 26 3 43 David W.G. Means 57 87 16 20
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Amt. Claims 1309 87 Amt Pro. 366 76
Hillsborough, ss. E. Parker Esq, Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. for said county, To David Stiles admr. on the Estate of the said Jacob Flinn Whereas the Commissioners on said estate have presented to me on oath a List of all the Claims allowed by them, against the same, amounting in the whole to the sum of 1309 Dollars and 87 Cents; and whereas upon the final settlement of your account of administration, the real estate (excepting the widow's dower) having been sold according to law, the proceeds accounted for, and such debts and charges as the law directs having been deducted, there appears to be in your hands a balance of 366 Dollars and 76 Cents: Now, therefore, the said Commissioners having certified to me in their report, that they complied with my order of notice, and it having been made to appear to me, that the creditors have been notified accordingly, you are hereby directed to distribute the above balance of 366 Dollars and 76 Cents among the creditors aforsaid according to their several Claims, by paying to each of them the proportion to each of their Claims above respectively annexed. Given under my hand at AMHERST, this 30th day of June Anno Domini, 1829. [Signed] Edmund Parker J.P.
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[Flynns in New England] The proprietors records of Sudbury, Middlesex County, Mass., begin with a list of fifty-six Grantees and Settlers who went to the Sudbury Plantation about 1638 or 1639, one of whom was Thomas Flynn, who received a grant of a town lot in that part of Sudbury now called Wayland in 1639. His name was recorded variously, Flynn, Flyn and Flinn and once as Mr. Flint, but a local historian, apparently surprised at the fact that others besides Englishmen were in the settlement at that early day, conjectures it may have been written by mistake for Thomas Joslyn or Islyn. (History of Sudbury, Mass., by Alfred S. Hudson, p. 26, Sudbury, 1889.)

Yet, in a later work by the same author, entitled Annals of Sudbury, Wayland and Maynard,Sudbury, Mass., 1891, he reproduced the list of original grantees, in which both names appear as Thomas Joslyn and Thomas Flynn; and in the History of Middlesex County, By D. Hamilton Hurd, p. 378, Philadelphia, 1890, among the first settlers at Sudbury the names, Thomas Joslyn and Thomas Flynn, are also listed. Sudbury town records contain the original Plan of Settlement, showing that House Lot No. 4 was assigned to Tho. Flinn, between John Loker and John Haynes; the earliest known map of that region shows the location of the first Roads and House-Lots in Sudbury, with the name, Thomas Flynn, next to the Meeting-House Lot, and such careful chroniclers as those employed by the New England Historic-Genealogical Society also list him as Thomas Flynn. (New England Historic-Genealogical Register, Vol. 60, p. 357.)

There is no mistaking how the name was recorded; it is perfectly plain in each instance. It disappeared from the town records about 1645, indicating that Thomas Flynn removed from Sudbury, and it is possible that he relocated at Concord. The will of Thomas Flynt of Concord was proved in Middlesex County in 1654; in the eighteenth century probate records of that County there are numerous entries of people of the name and although it has been suggested that possibly this Thomas Flynt and Thomas Flynn were the same identical person, there seems to be no way of definitely proving that such was the fact. There was a Flynn family at Malden in Middlesex County, at which place the marriage of Patrick Flinn and Mary Winsled was recorded on July 2, 1713, (Vital Records, Malden, Mass) and in an old burying ground at that place there is a stone on which is engraven this inscription: Mary Flyn, wife of Patrick, in her 27th year. Died May 24, 1720. The marriage of Patrick Flynn and Prudence Ward was recorded at Malden on July 20, 1721, (Ibid.) and in 1749 the Probate Court of Middlesex County appointed a guardian for Joshua Flinn of Malden. [Too bad he missed Jacob's enlistment information...] Not until 1778 does the name again appear in the town or county records, in which year a Patherick Flinn enlisted for the war in Captain Nathaniel Maynard's company of the Fourth Middlesex County Regiment and was credited to the town of Sudbury. However, it is clear that he could not have been descended from Thomas Flynn, because Patrick Flinn's enlistment papers say that he was a transient, late from Ireland. Flinns and Griffins appear in the vital records of the adjoining town of Wayland down to the early years of the last century. The marriage of Ann Flinn and Samuel Haynes was recorded at Wayland on October 18, 1804. (_Pioneer Irish in New England_, by Michael J. O'Brien, LL.D., New York, NY, P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1937, pp. 154-156.)

[Flynns mentioned in New England records]: - George Flinn Newburyport, Mass. 1707 - John Flynn Gloucester, Mass. 1719 - John Flynn Boston, Mass. 1725 - Mary Flynn Boston, Mass. 1722 - Patrick Flynn* Malden, Mass. 1713 - Darby OFlynn Boston, Mass. 1700 (_Pioneer Irish in New England_, by Michael J. O'Brien, LL.D., New York, NY, P. J. Kennedy & Sons, 1937, pp. 297 & 305.)

Possible parents for Jacob:
- FLINN, Thomas, mar. Hannah CALDER, Oct. 2, 1746. Estate--Taxed 1739, 1748, 1756. (Charlestown, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), p. 1:349) - John Flin & Eliza. Brown, intention published (?) Mar. 22, 1753. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 6) - John Flin & Eliza. Brown, married, Apr. 5, 1753. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 376)

Other FLINs, FLINNs, FLYNs & FLYNNs:
- Patrick Flyn & Prudence Ward, married by Mr. Cheever, Presp., June 20, 1721. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), City Doc. No. 150, p. 100) - John Flin & Rebeccah Charret, married May 30, 1729. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), City Doc. No. 150, p. 166) - Richard Barber & Mary Flinn, married Jan. 21, 1772. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 431) - Thomas Flinn & Ann Lowe, married July 15, 1773. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 338)
- Michael Flinn & Lettice Stevens (forbid) [must be an intention], Feb. 2, 1774. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 434)
- Dennis Flin & Elisabeth Marshall, married Apr. 10, 1774. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 339) - Michael Flinn & Elizabeth Saunders, married Jan. 15, 1775. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 436) - Edmund Flinn & Jane Dwire, married Aug. 4, 1792. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 463)
- John Danl. Boden say Bowen & Abigail Flinn say Fullie, married Sept. 5, 1793. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 464)
- Joseph Flinn & Katy Green, married by Rev. Wm. Walter, Apr. 25, 1797. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 158) - Jonathan Bunford & Ann Flinn, married Dec 10, 1797. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 469)
- John Flinn & Margaret Treboe, married Apr. 25, 1798. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 470) - William Flinn & Elizabeth Woodcock, married July 14, 1799. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), Vol. 30, p. 472) - Mary daughter of Patrick and Prudence Flyn, Born 17 Jun3 1722. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), City Doc. No. 43, p. 155) - Martha daughter of Patrick and Prudence Flyn, Born 30 December 1723. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), City Doc. No. 43, p. 160)
- John Son of Patrick and Prudence Flyn, Born 8 November 1725. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), City Doc. No. 43, p. 170) - Nathan Son of Patrick and Prudence Flyn, Born 15 September 1727. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), City Doc. No. 43, p. 181) - Harriot, daughter of Thomas Flinn and Nancy his Wife, Born 31 January 1779. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), City Doc. No. 43, p. 329) - Thomas Son of Thomas Flinn and Nancy his Wife, Born 8 January 1783. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), City Doc. No. 43, p. 332) - George Calder Son of Thomas Flinn and Nancy his Wife, Born 8 February 1785. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), City Doc. No. 43, p. 334) - William Son of Thomas Flinn and Nancy his Wife, Born 9 September 1789. (Boston, Mass. VRs, (Search & ReSearch CD), City Doc. No. 43, p. 338)

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