Obs. [f. JACOB + -ITE.] A descendant of Jacob, an Israelite; also applied to the 17th-c. Puritan refugees. (See N. & Q., 9th ser. III. 323.)
1658. Sir F. Gorges’ Amer. painted to the Life, I. xxiii. 46. Jaccobbites. Ibid., III. ii. 200. Hearing that prophane Esau had mustered up all the bands … to come against his brother Jacob, these wandering race of Jacobites deemed it now high time to implore the Lord.
