LEWIS, Mary Hannah

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Mary married MOREY, George II on 22 Jan 1683 in Bristol, Rhode Island, United States. George was born on 3 Oct 1658 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States; died on 1 Dec 1713 in Bristol, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States; was buried in Dec 1713. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Edward married COBB, Hannah on 9 May 1661 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of COBB, Elder Henry and HURST, Patience) was born on 5 Oct 1639 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; was christened on 6 Oct 1639 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died on 17 Jan 1729 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Jan 1729 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The name LEWIS is an ancient one in England. In the French it is Louis. "It is from the Saxon leod, the people, and wic, a castle, and signifies the safeguard of the people. The Welsh form signifies a multitude. The original seat of the family in England was in the County Kent."[1] In early colonial records the name is often spelled Lewes. Burke says, "This family derives in a direct male line from Cadivor, prince or chieftain of Divet, a portion of country which comprised Pembrokshire and part of Carmarthenshire. Cadivor flourished about the period of the Norman conquest, and was buried in the priory of Carrnathen. The family bore Arms: Or, a lion rampant, guardant, sable. Crest: A griffin sejeant sable. Motto: Ha persa la fide, ha, Perso Pbanore. Seat: Saint Pierre, near Chestow." [2]

Our American ancestor came from East Greenwich, County Kent, where he was doubtless baptized in the quaint old Saint Andrew's Church the same in which Henry VIII had his daughter Elizabeth christened with great pomp and ceremony.[3] One of the kinfolk has written of Greenwich: "From the heath above the town, a most charming view may be had of the valley of the Thames, and of grand old London. As we gaze over the quaint old city of Greenwich and the domes and towers of London, with the peaceful valley of the Thames lying between, we may well exclaim, What a mighty force must have been at work in the heart of George Lewis to drive him from these homelike surroundings, across the wild ocean to. a still wilder country!"[4]

I. George LEWIS was a clothier by trade, and it is believed he had been an attendant in Reverend Mr. Lothrop's church in London in 1632, and soon after, with wife Sarah and several children, came to New England.[5] He settled first at Plymouth, Massachusetts, and was one of a number dismissed from that church in 1634 "in case they join a body at Scituate."[6] There we find him a member 30 September 1635, and a freeman 14 January 1636. There he built his house on Kent Street, before October 1636, where he and his neighbors were known as "men of Kent," or, as others put it, "Kentish men." [7]

John Lewis, who came to New England in 1635, in the ship Hercules, is believed to have been a brother of George. John also had wife Sarah, and he came with a certificate of character from the mayor and vicar of Tenterden, County Kent. He was in Scituate for a time, and then removed to Boston, where his wife died 12 July 1657. Sons John and Joseph settled in Windsor, Connecticut.[8]

In 1639, George Lewis sold his land in Scituate, and removed, with Reverend Mr. Lothrop and others, to Barnstable, being among the first settlers there. Here he became a planter, there being perhaps little business for a maker of clothing. A list dated 1643, of "males between the ages of 16 and 60 able to bear arms," contains his name. In 1648, he was a surveyor of highways; a juryman in 1649, and a constable in 1651.[9] In religious matters he was a Separatist, usually called Pilgrims to distinguish them from the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It is written of him: "He was an honest goodman, and got his living by his labor; a sincere Christian, living in peace, and avoiding suits at law. He did not hold that the chief end of man was to gather riches, but, rather, to do good, and to train his children in righteous ways to grow to be honest, industrious men, and useful and respected citizens."[10] And one record adds "and his descendants to this day inherit the same good qualities."[11]

It is a matter of note that his children were all well educated, which indicates a family outlook upon life and its obligations very commendable in those days of pioneer struggle.[12] His wife, Sarah JENKINS, whom he married in England, was a sister of Elder Edward Jenkins, one of the early settlers of Scituate, Massachusetts.[13] She died in Barnstable, date not apparent. Either George Lewis married a second time, or Sarah used also the name Mary, for a deed of his, dated 1654, was signed by "Mary his wife." She was living in 1670. He died in Barnstable in spring of 1663, his will being exhibited in Court 3 March of that year. In it he mentions sons Ephraim, George, Thomas, James, Edward, John, and daughter Sarah.[14]

Miss Ida Lewis, called the "Grace Darling of America," is a descendant of George and Sarah (Jenkins) Lewis. She was the daughter of Captain Hosea Lewis, and was born at Newport, Rhode Island, 25 February 1842. Her mother was a daughter of Doctor Aaron C. Willey, of Block Island. Of her, called "philanthropist," it is written:

him, and they were able to leave for Fort Adams after the gale subsided.- National Encyclopedia of American Biography. Miss Lewis was the heroine of eighteen life saving exploits, and the first, woman to receive from Congress a gold medal of the first class. "Lime Rock Lighthouse, the home of this world famous heroine, is within the harbor, and is a short sail from the New York yacht club house. At
high tide an ordinary cat rigged sailboat can not land at Lime rock, and a rowboat must be used, from which a landing is effected by climbing up the face of the perpendicular rock upon a ladder lashed with fetters of iron to the stone." [15]


CHILDREN:

Mary, born in England; married 16 November 1643, John Bryant, sen., of Scituate, Massachusetts a man active in public affairs and member of General Court 1657, and 1677 . She died 2 July 1655, leaving three sons and four daughters. He married (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. William Witherell, of Scituate. He married (3) Mary, daughter of Thomas Highland, of Scituate. He died 20 November 1684, having been the father of nineteen children.
Thomas, born in England; married 15 June 1653, Mary, daughter of Dolor and Margery (Willard) Davis. Whittemore says they lived at Falmouth, where he died 18 May 1709. Honorable John H. Sheppard, of Boston, writing of this family in New England Historical and Genealogical Register (17: 162 3), says he was one of the first settlers of Swanzey, a selectman there, and was twice married, having two sons and one daughter by his first wife and one son and daughter by his second.
George, born in England about 1629; married 1 December 1654, Mary, daughter of Barnard Lumbar, of Scituate. He died 20 March 1709, aged "about 80," having been the father of seven sons and four daughters.
James, born 1631; married 31 October 1655, Sarah, daughter of George Lane, of Hingham. She was the first white child born in Hingham. They lived in Barnstable where he was freeman 1658, and selectman 1660, 1679, and 1681 (Plymouth Colony Records), and in the militia had the rank of lieutenant. In these days each town had its "select court," and James Lewis was one of three justices for Barnstable. Otis says he was a very prosperous man, every year adding a new field to his estate; educated his children extremely well for the period; was apprenticed as a youth to a blacksmith, and even when he had become distinguished did not consider it derogatory to his character to blow the bellows or swing a hammer. "He was industrious and frugal, and when he could not earn a shilling, was content to earn a penny which he put to good use." A lesson for all in that story. He was the father of ten children, according to one writer; of four sons and two daughters according to another. He died 4 October 1713, aged 82. Headstones which marked his grave and that of his wife, in the old cemetery in Barnstable, were still to be seen in 1895. Among his children was Sarah, born 4 March 1661, who married (1) 6 January 1684, Thomas Lincoln, and (2) Robert Waterman. This Sarah has by some writers been confused with her paternal Aunt Sarah.
Edward, born probably at Scituate; married Hannah COBB.
John, born 2 March 1637/8 at Scituate, being baptized on the 11th. He was of Barnstable in 1670. His wife was Margaret ????. "In the year 1676, the time of that bloody and destructive war with the Indians under 'King Philip,' he was in the battle called 'Pierce's Fight,' which took place in Rehoboth near Mount Hope, the residence of that celebrated sachem. Captain Michael Pierce, of Scituate, commanded the brave band consisting of sixty three English and twenty Cape Cod Indians. They were decoyed by the wily foe into an ambush, surrounded by five hundred Indians, and, after fighting heroically, were nearly all slain, save only eight Englishmen and ten Indian allies who escaped. John Lewis was slain in this battle, which took place on the Sabbath Day, 26 March 1676."[16] He was in his 39th year, and left an only son.
Ephraim, born 23 July 1641, at Barnstable. He was living in 1663. A, writer gives the opinion that Ephraim and Edward of this family referred to one and the same individual[17], but George Lewis mentioned both these sons in his will.[18] For his baptism see ibid. 9: 282.
Sarah, born 2 February 1643/4, was baptized on the 11th, at Barnstable. According to Barnes, she married (1) Jonathan Sparrow. Another[19] says she married 6 January 1684, Thomas Linkhorn- obviously the record of the marriage of her niece Sarah. Philip L. Cobb records her as the wife of James Cobb, the marriage being performed 26 December 1663, adding that James died in 1695, and that they had become the parents of eight daughters and three sons. A fourth authority tells us that Captain Jonathan Sparrow married (1) 26 October 1654, Rebecca, daughter of Edward Bangs; (2) Hannah (Prince) Mayo, daughter of Governor Thomas Prince; and (3) in 698, Sarah (Lewis) Cobb, recording children born to the first and second marriages but none to the third.[20] Still another writer, giving more particular dates, says that Sarah Lewis married (1) 26 December 1663, James Cobb, and (2) 23 November 1698, Jonathan Sparrow.[21]
Some writers[22] ascribe two other sons to the family of George Lewis Nathaniel, born 1645, who married and lived in Swanzey where a son Nathaniel was born in 1673, and where he died on 13 October 1683, and Joseph, born 1647, who married Mary Jones, also lived in Swanzey, and was killed by Indians in King Philip's War, June 1675, leaving a son and daughter.[23] The Lewisiana Magazine, however, discredits the assertion, and claims that the two mentioned belong to another family. Mr. James Savage does not mention Nathaniel and Joseph, but does add a son Jabez, whom he says died, unmarried.

Edward LEWIS

II. Edward LEWIS married 1 May 1661, at Barnstable, Massachusetts, Hannah, daughter of Elder Henry and Patience (Hurst) COBB. She was born survived her husband. "They lived at Barnstable, on, the northeast side of a pond known first as Rowley's, then Lewis's, and later, Hathaway's. His house was in a field, and probably built by him. He was allotted meadow land near Dunn's field, where he settled later. His home at Hathaway's Pond was afterwards owned by an eccentric and witty man named Matthew Lumbert, and occupied by his son in law, Joseph Cobb, who had a daughter supposed to be bewitched. The house became noted by their curious gymnastic feats."[24]

Edward Lewis and his three sons were called "South Sea Men" in 1697. He was a farmer, and surveyor of lands, a respected and honest citizen, and of good moral character. He lived at peace with his neighbors, among whom were Dolor Davis and John Linnel, to whom he was related by marriage, and whose land was near his in the easterly part of We quaquet meadows.

His will, dated 22 February 1703, was proved 6 April of that year, following his death on 28 March, aged nearly seventy years. In the document he mentions five sons, Eleazer having died, and his only daughter Hannah. He gave all his real estate to his youngest two sons, Shubael and Isaac, on condition that they support their mother. She survived him over twenty five years, dying 17 January 1729, at the age of ninety years, three months, and two days.[25]

CHILDREN:

Hannah, born 24 April 1662; living unmarried in 1703.
Eleazer, born 26 January 1664/5; died unmarried before 1703.
John, born I January 1666; married Elizabeth HUCKINS.
Thomas, born March 1669; married Experience Hopkins, 28 September 1698. They had two daughters and three sons.
Ebenezer; living in 1703; married April 1691, Anna Lothrop, and had four daughters and seven sons.
Shubael; married 8 December 1703, Mercy, daughter of Joseph Lumbar. He died early, and his widow married, 1719 or 1720, Nathaniel Baker.
Isaac; joined church 1743; died 25 January 1761.

John LEWIS

III. John LEWIS, born 1 January 1666, at Barnstable, Massachusetts, married 4 June 1695, >Elizabeth HUCKINS, born 1 October 1671, daughter of John. and Hope (Chipman) Huckins.[26] They lived at Cooper's Pond, and in 1697 he was known as one of the "South Sea Men." He was deacon of the church at Barnstable.

He died at Barnstable, 8 March 1738/9, aged seventy three, and his wife died 12 July 174 1, aged. seventy years. His will, dated 5 August 1736, proved 25 April 1739, names wife and all the children, giving his real estate to sons John and Shubael, 920 in money to Edward, and to John five shillings, and one third of the dock at Cooper's Island, "he having received most of his portion." To all the others he left legacies, also.

CHILDREN: [27]

Edward, born 6 September 1697; married 14 May 1719, Rebecca Lothrop; moved to Guilford, Connecticut, and later to Litchfield, Connecticut.
Thankful, born 6 December 1698.
John, born 28 April 1700; married 6 October 1726, Mary Hopkins, of Harwich, Massachusetts. He was dismissed to the Third Church of Windham, Connecticut, on 3 July 1743, and his wife, on 8 November 1747. They bad two sons and three daughters.
Elizabeth, born 28 August 1701; married 2 April 1724, Jabez Snow, of Harwich, Massachusetts.
James, born 4 July 1703; married (1) 5 March 1727, Abigail Taylor, of Yarmouth. He married (2) 2 April 1742, Bethia Hathaway. He is said to have been insane a part of his life.
Gershom, born 30 December 1704; married Mary MALTBY.
Shubael, born 29 December 1705; married 5 June 1735, Widow Mary Snow, of Harwich. He was dismissed 28 March 1738 to East Church. There were two daughters and one son.

Gershom LEWIS

IV. Gershom LEWIS, born 30 December 1704, in Barnstable, Massachusetts, lived for a while in Guilford and Farmington, Connecticut. There is on record in probate files, the will of one Ebenezer Steele, of Farmington, proved on 6 November 1722, which has this interesting passage: xceeding joy, to the only wise God, our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and praise, both now and forever, Amen. Manual of the First Congregational Church, Guilford, 1875, 13.) One hundred years after its organization, Gershom Lewis and "Mary Maltby Lewis, wife of Gershom" were listed among the 133 members who comprised the church at Guilford, 1 January 1746, under the ministry of Reverend Thomas Ruggles, jr.[28]

About 1750, Gershom and Mary Lewis removed to Litchfield, Connecticut, where the old records call him "from Guilford, a native of Cape Cod."[29] Here they died, he on 18 October 1766, aged 62, and she many years later, about 1793, "in the 86th year of her age." Their gravestones of red sandstone are still standing in Litchfield's East Burying Ground, where also a number of their descendants are interred.

CHILDREN, all, but the last, born at Guilford:[30]

John, born 2 October 1736; died 30 October 1758.
Gershom, born 31 May 1738; died 21 January 1739.
Nathaniel, born 22 October 1740; married Esther TUTTLE.
Mary, born 19 December 1742; married 13 January 1763, Jacob Smith, jr., of Litchfield.
Elizabeth, born 11 November 1745; died 19 August 1767, "in the 21st year of her age."
Ozias, born 6 October 1749 or 1750; married 7 January 1773, Lucy Bigelow, born 8 November 1752, at Hartford, Connecticut, daughter of Daniel and Abigail Bigelow. He died 8 March 1812, at Litchfield, and she, 19 April 1840. He was a grand juror 1773, and was a signer, on 9 March 1789, of the pledge of the first temperance society in the United States. There were three daughters and one son.
Reuben, born at Litchfield, 22 March 1753; married Patience Bidwell.

Nathaniel LEWIS

V. Nathaniel LEWIS, born in Guilford, Connecticut, 22 October 1740, was in the French and Indian War in 1762, under Captain Archibald McNiel.[31] He married at Litchfield, Connecticut, 16 January 1767, Esther TUTTLE, daughter of Eliphalet and Desire Tuttle[32], descendant of William Tuttle, early immigrant to New Haven.

In the first year of the Revolutionary War, Nathaniel Lewis served as sergeant, in a Litchfield company under Captain David Welch.[33] In 1776, he deeded sixteen acres of land in the southwest part of Goshen, Connecticut, with a dwelling house thereon, to David Welch, and soon after moved to Wells, Rutland County, Vermont.

"In 1780, or a little later, the first Methodist preacher visited Wells. His name is not remembered, but he inquired for the poorest family in town, and was directed to the home of Nathaniel Lewis. Here the first meeting was held, and soon a small class was formed, of which Mr. Lewis was appointed class leader." [34]

In October 1781, Nathaniel Lewis served in Captain Abel Merriman's Company, Colonel Thomas Lee's Regiment, of Vermont Militia, marching on one of their tours to Castleton, to prevent Sir John Johnson's threatened raids down through the Mohawk Valley.[35]

In his old age, he and his wife went to western New York, Chautauqua County, to live with or near some of their children. Their descendants in that locality have held annual reunions for nearly half a century. A letter from the president of their Family Association, dated Ashville, New York, June 25, 1922, says of Nathaniel; "He came to the town of Harmony, New York, with his youngest son, Miles, and died on the farm next to my old homestead, and was buried on the Daniel Carpenter farm just east of Blockville. His wife was buried on the lot of her son Miles, in the Blockville Cemetery. Their resting places are unmarked." In the summer of 1922, the compiler visited this locality, and on 22 August called on Mrs. Bouton, a granddaughter of this youngest son, Miles. She lived near the town of Ashville. She had served the Lewis Family Association many years as secretary; had suffered, some years before our visit, a slight paralysis, which prevented her from speaking rapidly or easily, but she conversed pleasantly, revealing a mind keen, clear, and alert, and acquainted with current events. Our visit with her was very enjoyable, and resulted in our obtaining considerable information concerning our common ancestor. "In the back end of a farm, near Blockville," she said, "in the woods, years ago there used to be a stone to mark the grave of Nathaniel Lewis, but it is gone, now. . . . I used to have an aunt Elizabeth, who was named after my grandfather's sister, Elizabeth. She was the one who was the mother of the wife of Joseph Smith, the great Mormon." Hemenway, in Vermont Historical Gazetteer (3: 1194), indicates that Nathaniel Lewis was a very poor man in Wells. He did accumulate some property, however, for it is pointed out that there are tax receipts in existence, and deeds of transfers of land. He left no will, apparently, and his estate did not pass through probate courts, as he evidently preferred to divide it by deeds of gift among his children. Physicians, county judges, and members of Congress have been numbered among his descendants.[36]

CHILDREN: (From papers of the Lewis Family Association and data furnished by descendants.)

Elizabeth, born 19 November 1767; married Isaac HALE.
Nathaniel, born 27 May 1769, at Litchfield; married 11 February 1790, at Wells, Vermont, to Sarah (Hart) Cole. They moved to Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Had twelve children. He died 26 October 1860 at Amboy, Illinois, aged 91 years, his wife preceding him on 8 November 1852, aged 77. They are buried in Temperance Hill Cemetery, near Amboy.
John, born at Cornwall, Connecticut, 3 October 1770; married 7 May 1797, at Wells, Vermont, by Reverend Sylvester Hutchinson, to Rhoda Hall. They had six children. He died in 1860, aged 90 years.
Enos, born at Goshen, Connecticut, 16 May 1772; married 13 April 1799, at Wells, Vermont, Eunice, daughter of Peter and Sarah (Glass) Button. They moved to Harmony, New York, in 1832; were the parents of four children. He lived to be 88 years old.
Esther, born at Goshen, Connecticut, 31 May 1774; married 18 August 1791, at Wells, Vermont, Anthony Cole. She was the mother of ten children, and died at Magnolia, Wisconsin, aged 80 years.
Jehial, born at Goshen, Connecticut, 20 August 1776.
Molly, born at Litchfield, Connecticut, 9 January 1779.
Reuben, born at Wells, Vermont, 13 January 1782; married there, Deborah, daughter of Captain William and Phebe (Woodward) Potter. He was a physician; removed in 1816 to Strykersville, New York. She died in 1826 and he married (2) He died in 1834, aged 52. There were eight children.
Amos, born in Wells, Vermont, 7 April 1785; married there, 28 March 1809, by the Reverend Shubael Lamb, to Keziah, daughter of Lieutenant David and Abigail (Pray) Ward. They were divorced in 1830, and he moved to Harmony, New York, in 1832.
Miles, born at Wells, Vermont; married and lived in Harmony, New York. There are many descendants.

Elizabeth LEWIS

VI. Elizabeth LEWIS, born 19 November 1767, at Litchfield, Connecticut, was married at Wells, Vermont, 20 September 1790, to Isaac HALE, and moved to Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.

For continuation of this family line please see the HALE biography.

SOURCE: The Ancestry & Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale by Audentia Smith Anderson (1926)

Footnotes
(Directory of Ancestral Heads of New England Families, F. R. Holmes, cxlix.)
(Heroes of the. Revolution, Whittemore, 62.)
(Lewisiana Magazine 4: 10: 157.)
(Ibid.)
(New England Genealogies, Cutter, 4: 1954.)
(Hingham Genealogies 2: 440.)
(Smith with Collateral Lines, Hannah S. Barnes, 1916, 35.)
(New England Genealogies, Cutter, 1: 23.)
(Ibid. 4: 1954 5.)
(Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Otis, 2: 116.)
(Smith with Collateral Lines, 3 5.)
(Ibid. 3 5.)
(Heroes of the Revolution, Whittemore, 62.)
(Heroes of the Revolution, 62.)
(Lewisiana Magazine 10: 5: 73.)
(New England Historical and G'enealogical Register 17: 162.)
(New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3: 271)
(Ibid. 6: 185.)
(New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2: 195)
(Americana 22: 1: 113.)
(New England Historical and Genealogical Register 17: 162.)
(New England Genealogies, Cutter, 4: 1995)
(History of Scituate, Deane, 303.)
(Smith with Collateral Lines, Barnes, 41.)
(Barnstable Families, Otis 2: 120, 127.)
(Smith with Collateral Lines, Barnes, 42.)
(Smith, with Collateral Lines, Barnes, 42.)
(Ibid. 23.)
(Register of the Inhabitants of Litchfield, Woodruff, 131.)
(Smith with Collateral Lines, Barnes, 44.)
(Connecticut Historical Society Collections 10: 2: 339.)
(East Haven Register, Dodds, 157)
(Lewisiana Magazine 8: 8: 117.)
(Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Hemenway, 3: 1194, 1204.)
(Vermont Revolutionary Rolls 467.)
(Hemenway, 3: 1204.)

George married JENKINS, Sarah Mary in 1626 in Greenwich, Kent, England. Sarah (daughter of JENKIN, Thomas and JACOB, Margaret) was born on 15 Nov 1603 in Brenchley, Kent, England; was christened on 15 Nov 1653 in Edwards Isle, England; died on 26 Mar 1654 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States; was buried in Apr 1654 in Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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His parents and origins are unknown. He arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1632 on "the second boat.". He married first to Patience Hurst, daughter of James Hurst, before June 7, 1632, when their son John was born. Patience arrived in Plymouth with her father in 1631.

Henry and Patience moved to Scituate in 1634 and Barnstable in 1639. Henry was a Tavern Keeper and was licensed to draw wine at Barnstable June 5, 1644.

Henry and Patience were member numbers #7 & #8 at the founding of Scituate church on January 8, 1634/5. On December 15, 1635 he was invested into the office of Deacon at Scituate. He was ordained ruling elder of Barnstable church April 14, 1670.

He was educated and signed his name to coroner's jury findings. His inventory included books valued at 24s. He was admitted Freeman on January 1, 1632/3. His offices included Deputy for Barnstable, Coroner's jury, Plymouth petit jury and Excise collector for Barnstable. He was on the 1643 list of Plymouth men able to bear arms and on the committee for defense of Barnstable October 10, 1643.

He married second to Sarah Hinckley on December 12, 1649. She was the daughter of Samuel Hinckley and his wife Sarah Soole. Sarah Hinckley was the sister of Thomas Hinckley who was the Governor of Plymouth Colony from 1681 to 1692.

Henry's will was written April 4, 1678, and proved June 3, 1679.

CHILDREN WITH 1ST WIFE PATIENCE HURST:

1. John Cobb, who married 1st Martha Nelson and 2nd Jane Woodward

2. James Cobb, who married Sarah Lewis

3. Mary Cobb, who married Jonathan Dunham

4. Hannah Cobb, who married Edward Lewis

5. Patience Cobb, who married 1st Robert Parker and 2nd William Crocker

6. Gershom Cobb, who married Hannah Davis

7. Eliezer Cobb

CHILDREN WITH 2ND WIFE SARAH HINCKLEY:

8. Mehitable Cobb, who died young

9. Samuel Cobb, who married Elizabeth Taylor

10. Sarah Cobb, who died as an infant

11. Jonathan Cobb, who married Hope (Chipman) Huckins, daughter of John Chipman and widow of John Huckins

12. Sarah Cobb, (2nd of that name) who married Samuel Chipman

13. Henry Cobb Jr., who married Lois Hallett. Lois was the daughter of Joseph and his wife Elizabeth (Gorham) Hallett.

14. Mehitable Cobb, no further record

15. Experience Cobb, no further record

SOURCE INFORMATION:
(1) Robert Charles Anderson. Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, MA, USA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
Description:
The Great Migration Begins aims to provide comprehensive biographical and genealogical information, derived from a broad survey of primary and secondary sources, on all immigrants to New England between 1620 and 1633.

(2) U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900; Source number: 1630.006; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1; Source number: 528.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RGI.

(3) American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI); Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library.

(4) Family Data Collection Deaths; Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.

(5) Passenger and Immigration Lists index, 1500s-1900s; Place: Plymouth, Massachusetts; Year: 1632; Page Number: 392; Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: Filby, P. William, ed.. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006.

Family links:
Spouses:
Patience Hurst Cobb (1610 - 1648)
Sarah Hinckley Cobb (1629 - 1687)*

Children:
John Cobb (1632 - 1714)*
James Cobb (1634 - 1695)*
Mary Cobb Dunham (1637 - 1677)*
Hannah Cobb Lewis (1639 - 1729)*
Patience Cobb Crocker (1641 - 1727)*
Mehitable Cobb (1651 - 1652)*
Samuel Cobb (1654 - 1727)*
Sarah Cobb (1658 - 1658)*
Jonathan Cobb (1660 - 1728)*
Sarah Cobb Chipman (1663 - 1743)*
Henry Cobb (1665 - 1725)*

*Calculated relationship

Inscription:
ELDER
HENRY COBB
THE
ANCESTOR
OF THE COBB
FAMILY IN
BARNSTABEL
DIED IN 1679
___________
ERECTED BY
ENOCH T. COBB
A DECENDANT
IN 1871

Burial:
Lothrop Hill Cemetery
Barnstable
Barnstable County
Massachusetts, USA

Created by: Shari Hanson Frey
Record added: Jun 29, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 38873918

A genealogical profile of Henry Cobb

Birth: Henry Cobb was born in England about 1607, based on
the estimated date of his first marriage.
Death: He died between February 22, 1678/9, and June 3,
1679.
Ship: Unknown, 1632
Life in England: Nothing is known of his life in England.
Life in New England: Henry Cobb first appeared in the
Plymouth records in the 1633 list of freemen. He and his wife
were among the first members of Rev. John Lothrop’s church in
Scituate, having moved there before September 1634. When
Rev. Lothrop removed to Barnstable, the Cobbs were among
the congregation that accompanied him. In 1635 Henry Cobb
was made a deacon in the church, and in 1670 he was ordained
the ruling elder. Henry Cobb served as a deputy to the
Plymouth court for a number of years, as well as on many juries.
On June 5, 1644, he was licensed to draw wine at Barnstable,
and therefore kept a tavern.
Family: Henry Cobb married (1) Patience Hurst by 1632 and
had seven children. She was buried on May 4, 1648, in
Barnstable. He married (2) Sarah Hinckley on December 12,
1649, in Barnstable and had eight children. She died before
March 2, 1679/80.
Children of Henry and Patience Cobb:
• John was born in Plymouth on June 7, 1632. He married
Martha Nelson in Plymouth on April 28, 1658, and had five
children. He died in Plymouth on February 21, 1714/5.
• James was born in Plymouth on January 14, 1634. He married
Sarah Lewis in Barnstable on December 26, 1663, and
had eleven children. She married (2) Jonathan Sparrow on
November 23, 1698 as his third wife.
• Mary was born in Scituate on March 24, 1636/7. She married
Jonathan Dunham in Plymouth on October 15, 1657, as his
second wife and had six children. He died in Edgartown on
December 18, 1717.
• Hannah was born in Scituate on October 5, 1639. She married
Edward Lewis in Barnstable on May 9, 1661, and had
four children.
• Patience was born about March 15, 1641/2, in Barnstable. She
married (1) Robert Parker in August 1667 as his second wife
and had eight children. He died by March 2, 1684/5. She
married (2) William Crocker after June 1, 1685. She died on
October 23, 1727.
• Gershom was born in Barnstable in January 1644/5. He died,
unmarried, during King Philip’s War, and was buried in
Swansea on June 24, 1675.
• Eliezer was born in Barnstable about March 30, 1648. He was
living on Barnstable in 1703, apparently unmarried.
Children of Henry and Sarah Cobb:
• Mehitable was born in Barnstable on September 1, 1651. She
was buried there on March 8, 1651/2. Can't be burried before birth
• Samuel was born in Barnstable on October 12, 1654. He married
Elizabeth ______ (possibly Taylor) on December 20,
1680 ,and had ten children. She died on May 4, 1721. He died
on December 27, 1727.
• Sarah was born in Barnstable on January 15, 1658, and was
buried ten days later.
• Jonathan was born in Barnstable on April 10, 1660. He married
Hope (Chipman) Huckins as her second husband on
March 1, 1682/3, and had six children.
• Sarah was born in Barnstable on March 10, 1662/3. She married
Samuel Chipman in Barnstable on December 27, 1686,
and had ten children.
• Henry was born in Barnstable on September 3, 1665. He
married Lois Hallet in Barnstable on April 10, 1690, and had
four children. He removed to Stonington, Connecticut, about
October 9, 1715.
• Mehitable was born in Barnstable on February 15, 1667.
There is no further information. Experience was born in
Barnstable on September 11, 1671.There is no further information.
For Further Information:
Robert C. Anderson. The Great Migration Begins. Boston: New
England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
Robert C. Anderson. The Pilgrim Migration. Boston: New
England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.
Mrs. John E. [Florence] Barclay.“Notes on the Dunham Family
of Plymouth, Massachusetts.” The American Genealogist 30
(1954): 143-55.Philip L. Cobb.A History of the Cobb Family,
Part 1. Cleveland, 1907. Amos Otis. Genealogical Notes of
Barnstable Families. Barnstable: F.B. & F.P. Goss, 1888. Revised
by C. F. Swift. Reprint. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing
Company, 1979.
A collaboration between PLIMOTH PLANTATION and the
NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY®
Supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services
www.PlymouthAncestors.org

Plymouth Colony Records IV Part I - 23
The last will and testament of Mr. Henry Cobb made 4 April 1673 and exhibited before the Court held at Plymouth, 3 June 1679 on the oaths of Mr Thomas Hinckley and Mistress Mary Hinckley, his wife as followeth:
I Henry Cobb of Barnstable though weak in body yet through the mercy of God of disposing mind and memory and calling to mind the uncertainty of this transitory life; I am desirous according to my duty to set things in order before I go hence, and therefore do make this my last will and testament hereby revoking and disannulling all former will and wills by word or writing heretofore by me made; an do hereby constitute and declare this to be my last will and testament in manner and form following, viz. After my desire to commit my soul to God, in Jesus Christ who gave it and my body to decent burial; when God shall please to call me hence; and as touching my worldly estate which God hath beyond my deserts bestowed on me, my will is to dispose of it as followeth:
Imp: My will is that all my debts in right or conscience to any man due, shall be first discharged by my executrix hereafter named; in convenient time out of my estate; Item I will and bequeath my great lot of land in Barnstable unto my son, James Cobb and to his heirs and assigns forever; he having heretofore paid five pounds to my son, John Cobb for his interest therein; and whereas I heretofore gave half my lands at Suconeesett unto my sons, John, James, Gershom and Elezer equally to be divided betwixt them which was with my consent sold and exchanged; and 40 shillings being in the hand of my son, James for my son, Eliezer's part thereof my will is that my son, James pay unto his brother Eliezer that 40 shillings in pay current with the merchant; Item I will and bequeath my new dwelling house and all the rest of my lands both upland and meadow unto Sarah, my dear and loving wife, during her natural life for her support; and bringing up the children I had by her.
Item my will is that after her decease, my son, Samuel shall have my dwelling house and two acres of my upland; and an acre and a half of my marsh; which I bought with his stock being the one half of a parcel of marsh, lying at Sandy Neck; in partnership with my son, James. Item I will and bequeath to my sons Samuel, Jonathan and Henry all the rest of my lands both upland and meadows, to be equally divided betwixt them after my said wife's decease or sooner if she see cause, to each of them, their heirs and assigns forever; Item I give and bequeath unto my sons, John, Gershom and Eliezer one shilling to each of them, and to my daughters, Mary, Hannah and Patience to each of them one shilling out of my estate; Item I will and bequeath to my daughter, Sarah my second best bed and furniture thereunto belonging. Item I will and bequeath all the rest of my estate in whatsoever it be within doors or without unto Sarah, my loving wife; whom I do by these presents, constitute and declare to be my sole executrix. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal; the date aforesaid with this word half enterlined before insealing hereof. Henry Cobb and a seal. In the presence of Thomas Hinckley, Assistant and Mary Hinckley.
On further consideration I the within or above mentioned Henry Cobb have caused this codicil to be added to this my last will and testament viz. my will is that my son, Samuel shall have only two acres of my upland together with the marsh at Sandy Neck within mentioned after my wife's decease; and all the rest of my lands to be equally divided between my said three sons Samuel, Jonathan, and Henry as above mentioned.
And further my will is that my son, Henry shall have my now dwellng house after my wife's decease, and his part of the land aforesaid to lie most convenient to the said house only my lands at the land shall be equally divided between them my said three sons, whom I will that they shall give liberty to my son, James to dry thatch on one half of an acre of the said land; when the English corn is taken off in such place whereof as they shall annually appoint, unto him; in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 22nd day of February 1678. Henry Cobb and a seal. Signed sealed and delivered as an addition to his last will and testament within mentioned in the presence of us. Thomas Hinckley, Assistand, Mary Hinckley

Henry married HURST, Patience in Apr 1631 in Plymouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Patience (daughter of HURST, James Jacob and THURSTON, Catherine) was born in Jan 1610 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands; died on 4 May 1648 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America; was buried on 4 May 1648 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George married FORMAN, Denise. Denise (daughter of FORMAN, Clement and BALDOCK, Margery) was born on 26 Aug 1579 in Brenchley, Kent, England; was christened on 26 Aug 1579 in Brenchley, Kent, England; died on 10 Jan 1626 in Kent, Kent, England; was buried on 10 Jan 1626 in Brenchley, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Thomas married JACOB, Margaret in 1603 in Greenwich, Kent, England. Margaret was born about 1581 in Folkstons, Kent, England; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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HURST, Deacon James - I53812
Contents

1 William HURST
1.1 Patience HURST
2 Footnotes

William HURST
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The name HURST is derived from a Saxon word signifying a wood a grove.

I. Of the family here considered, the first to come to New England was James HURST, who was in Plymouth in 1632, if indeed not earlier. According to an article in Boston Transcript, 27 July 1927, he came with a party of thirty five persons, from Leyden in 1629, in a ship called the Mayflower, whether the same one which came in 1620 or not is apparently a matter for conjecture.

He was a tanner by trade, and built the first tannery in the Colony. [1] His name is frequently found in Plymouth records as appraising estates, taking inventories, witnessing wills or deeds, etc. [2] It also appears in a list of Plymouth "males between 16 and 60 able to bear arms," in 1643. [3] He was one of the purchasers of Dartmouth, 7 March 1652, and received allotment there of "one whole share," in 1654. His "meddow" is mentioned in 1657. [4]

He was a member of the Plymouth Military Company [5], and also, for, many years a deacon of the church. [6] He married, probably in England, Catherine THURSTON. [7] Charles Thurston, of Plymouth, in 1643 [8], may have been her brother or other relative.

Deacon James Hurst died in Plymouth in 1657, his will being drawn on the l0th of December of that year, and inventory taken on the 24th. In his will he appoints his wife executrix, gives her his house, names no children but several grandchildren, all of whom were children of his daughter Patience, wife of Elder Henry Cobb. [9]

The will of Widow Catherine Hurst, whose name, written poorly in early records, has been variously interpreted Gartend and Gartherew, was proved 30 May 1670, and John Cobb appointed to administer the estate of his grandmother. [10] A correspondent in Boston Transcript (28 February 1923) says he had always believed that the wife of James Hurst was Patience Faunce.

CHILDREN:

PATIENCE, born probably in England; married Henry COBB.
Charles


Patience HURST

II. Patience HURST, born in England, married in Plymouth April 1631, Henry COBB.

For continuation of this family line please see the COBB biography.
SOURCE: The Ancestry & Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale by Audentia Smith Anderson (1926)

Footnotes
(Genealogical Dictionary of New England, Savage, 2: 506.)
(Mayflower Descendant 1: 82, 198; 4: 186; 6: 174.)
(New England Historical and Genealogical Register 4: 255.)
(Mayflower Descendant 4: 186, 187.)
(General Register Society of Colonial Wars 1899 1902, 677)
(Smith with Collateral Lines, Barnes, 40.)
(Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth, Davis, 158.)
(Savage 4: 296)
(Ibid. 2: 506.)
(Mayflower Descendant 18: 2 5 1.)

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James married THURSTON, CatherineEngland. Catherine was born in 1577 in Plymouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died in , , Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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