Jacob Curry Mitchell (c. 1672 – December 21, 1744) was an American deacon who became prominent in what is now Yarmouth, Maine.
[1] He married twice, to Deliverance Kingman (daughter of John Kingman and Elizabeth Edson), firstly, then in 1701 (after moving to Kingston, Rhode Island) to Rebecca Cushman, with whom he had at least four children: Jacob III (born 1696), Rebekah (1704), Seth (1705) and Isaac (1715), the latter named for his father-in-law.
[2] The same year, Mitchell and four other local men—Samuel Seabury, James Parker, Gershom Rice and Phineas Jones—were tasked with the management of the new town of North Yarmouth, Maine.
[3] The Mitchell garrison home, built a year before the meetinghouse, was located at the rear of today's Holy Cross Cemetery in Yarmouth.
[4] A stockade used during the Indian wars, a tunnel was built from the home's cellar to the nearby Royal River.