Cemetery: North Cemetery, Portsmouth New Hampshire

Jacob owned shares in the ships Hero, Amphitrite and Portsmouth, and the brig Diana.1

"Jacob Sheafe was born at Newcastle, Oct. 21, 1715, where he resided for 27 years. In 1740 he married Hannah Seavey, whose home was on the beautiful spot where the house of Mr. Eben L. Seavey now stands, at the head of Seavey's Creek, on the road leading from Sagamore Creek to Wallis's Sands. She was here born May 4, 1719. The name of Hannah's father we do not know—she had a brother Paul, the father of late Major Mark Seavey, who lived for many years at 65 Congress street. 'Sampson's Point,' at Little Harbor, was but a short distance from Newcastle, and Mr. Sheafe sometimes came to Portsmouth that way. On one occasion in a shower he took refuge in the farm house of Mr. Seavey, where for the first time he saw Hannah. He liked Hannah so well that he felt inclined to visit there in pleasant weather also, and finally she became Mrs. Sheafe."

"In 1742 he purchased the house and lot of land next west of the brick school house in State street, on which Mr. George M. Marsh's house and the Episcopal chapel now stand. It had probably been the residence of Rev. John Emerson, who died in 1732, as Mr. Sheafe purchased it of his widow, for £550. How many years he resided here we have no record, but probably his house on the opposite side of the street was not built until twenty or thirty years after. He died in 1791, at the age of 76. His wife died in 1773, at the age of 54." 6