• The Jacobson family sailed to America in 1863 on the ship John J. Boyd.  The ship manifest shows their surname as "Jacobsen.

   

John Riggs Murdock Company (1863)

• Age at Departure: 4

Sources

• Jacobs, Henry Peter, Brief history of Henry Peter Jacobs [by Pearl Jacobs Green], in Nora Crystal Hall Lund, Biographies Collection, [ca. 1950-1983], reel 2, 4-6.