Some records list him as Joseph instead of Jacob, and both names are listed in the Ancectral File. Birth recorded in Windham and Mansfield, Mass - spent early part of his life there. He had 8 children with Mary
United with Mansfield Church, 10 or 19 Sept 1732. Left Mansfield in 1760, one of first settlers of Norwich, VT (NH?) with Ebenezer Smith and Samuel Slafter (his brother-in-law), also from Mansfield, CT.
NOTE: A fourth generation decendent of his was the Governor of New York, Reuben E. Fenton.