COBB, James

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• Name	COBB, James
  Birth	14 Jan 1634	Plymouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
  Christening	15 Jan 1634	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Feb 1695	Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
  Death	6 Feb 1695	Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
  WAC	12 Jun 1919	SLAKE
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  Father	COBB, Elder Henry ,   b. 1596, London, Kent, England London, Kent, Englandd. 3 Jun 1679, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, British Colonial America (Age 83 years)
  Mother	HURST, Patience ,   b. Jan 1610, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlandsd. 4 May 1648, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 38 years)
  Marriage	Apr 1631	Plymouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F26217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	LEWIS, Sarah ,   b. 2 Feb 1643, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 11 Feb 1735, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	26 Dec 1663	Massachusetts
  Family ID	F26502	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
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  Search billions of records on Ancestry.com Harrison Genealogy Repository Edward COBB 14 Jan 1633 - ABT 4 Oct 1675 Repository ID Number: I23757 Original Submitter (General Source): [S1040] BIRTH: 14 Jan 1633, Swanage, Dorset, England DEATH: ABT 4 Oct 1675, Taunton, Bristol County, MA, USA CHRISTENING: 26 Nov 1636, Swanage, Dorset, England Father: William COBB Mother: Dorothy SAVIE Family 1 : Mary HOSKINS MARRIAGE: 28 Nov 1660, Taunton, Bristol County, MA, USA + Edward COBB Notes ENGLISH ORIGINS OF AUGUSTINE COBB who settled about the year 1670 in TAUNTON MASSACHUSETTS by Duane P. Cobb, Westhampton Beach, Long Island New York, son of Mortimer Howell Cobb (not dated) (sent to me by Jim White of Dunwoody, Ga) [extracted with some ommissions by Barbara Petty]:- The basic difficulty encountered was the destruction of the early Taunton records by fire in 1838. There existed no record in Taunton giving the slightest indications of the origins of either John, Edward, Augustine or William Cobb, all of whom came to Taunton between 1651 and 1694. In 1914, when I became interested in this problem, I soon was convinced that its solution was hopeless if it depended on direct American proof. Considering the matter, I concluded that the only possible method to follow was to gather the few undisputed facts known about the Taunton Cobbs, and by induction, guess where their English homeland ought to be, and in that locality search for records to locate them..... In 1914, the only facts known to me about the early Taunton Cobbs were: 1. John Cobb, a blacksmith, came to Taunton about 1651, and received many land grants. He married a second time in 1676, and died in 1690, leaving a mill, naming his 'now wife' and three sons: John, Morgan and Samuel. A deed of record in Bristol County disclosed that John Cobb was the uncle of Augustine Cobb. 2. Augustine Cobb, John Cobb's nephew came to Taunton about 1670, married, and had six children there, and named his sons Morgan and Samuel. 3. Edward Cobb came to Taunton before 1657, who from certain indications seemed related to John and Augustine (Savage says he was probably brother to Augustine). 4. The given names of all the Taunton Cobbs wer either Norman, Catholic, or family names. None of them is suggestive of Puritan nomenclature. 5. Taunton was settled, for the most part, by immigrants from Southwestern England. From these meager facts, I came to the following conclusions: 1. That the Taunton Cobbs came from a locality in England royalist in its politics, and devoted to the Established Church [Ch.of Eng.]. (None of them emigrated during the Great Puritan Exodus between 1630-1640) 2. That the Taunton Cobbs had a common ancestor, named Morgan Cobb, as an uncle and nephew had each named his first son Morgan. 3. That the Cobbs of Taunton probably came from Southwestern England. 4. That if a locality could be found in Southwestern England, in an orthodox Church of England Parish Royalist in sentiment, where the family names of Cobb and Morgan were common in 1600, interesting disclo- sures might possibly result. In an attempt to verify these conclusions, I confirmed my investigations to the Counties of Somerset, Dorset and Devon. Nothing was found throwing any light into the darkness until I examined Hutchins' History of Dorset, a monumental work, and there, in the Parish of Wool, I found the conditions above stated: A Royalist orthodox Parish with Morgan and Cobb common family names. This brought my researches to a pause, for it meant the search of the Wool Parish Registers, and to pursue such trivial inquiries in England while she was fighting for her existence was not to be thought of. However, there was one chance that I could take here. There is a book entitled 'An Index to Old Dorset Wills and Administrations' a copy of which is in the New York Public Library. By examination of this Index, I could find out whether any Morgan Cobb living in Dorset died early in the 17th century leaving a will. Greatly to my gratification, and confirming the correctness of my method, the Index disclosed the wills of Morgan Cobb and Alice Cobb, his wife, probated respectively in 1620 and 1624 in the Peculiar Court of Corfe Castle, which had a restricted probate jurisdiction within the Parish of Corfe Castle, whose Rector was the Surrogate. Corfe Castle on the Isle of Purbeck is only five miles from Wool, and subsequently, I secured copies of both wills which appear in the text. (I do not have them) I have told this story at some length, because, by reason of the method pursued, to obtain the expected result i.e. the location of a Morgan Cobb in England seems to me to have great evidential weight in proving that this Morgan Cobb of Corfe Castle, Dorset, England was the common ancestor of the Taunton Cobbs. Ibid, p. 22 - Statement of Fact - The Cobbs of Corfe Castle and Swanage County Dorset, England Morgan Cobb, a resident of the Parish of Corfe Castle County, Dorset, England, died there suddenly on May 4, 1620 nuncupative will which was duly proved in the Peculiar Court of Corfe Castle, by his best vice to his son (in law) Samuel Cobb, small cash legacies to his children (not naming them), and his whole residiary estate to his wife, (not naming her) whom he appointed sole Executor. The proof of the will shows that his wife was Alice Cobb, who was duly appointed Executor. Alice Cobb died after November 13, 1624, the date of her will, and before January 1, 1624/5 (the date of its probate) at Corfe Castle leaving a will which was duly probated in the Peculiar Court of Corfe Castle, and provided as follows: After the usual formalities, she directs her body to be buried as near as may be to her husband, who was buried in the churchyard of Corfe Castle, and small legacies follow to the poor and Church of Corfe Castle. She them leaves legacies to her sons, relatives and friends of which we will abstract these drawing definite family relationships: Her four sons: Nicholas, Richard, William and John Margery, wife of her son Nicholas Cobb Samuel Cobb, her son-in-law Morgan and Solice, her grandchildren, son and daughter of Samuel Cobb. She states that her son John is a minor, and appoints guardians for him, and leaves him her entire residuary estate making him sole Executor, under the guidance of his overseers and guardians, her friends Gervase Russell, the minister, and John Perce. She bequests the shop tools half and half to her sons Nicholas and John, directing them to make certain quarry tools for her son William. The two wills show beyond question that Morgan Cobb, the testator of 1620, and his sons Nicholas and John were blacksmiths. Luckily the Registers of the Parish of Swanage are intact and in fairly good condition from the year 1561, and a few years ago, the Parish Record Society published them. These registers disclose the following facts: Swanage County, Dorset, England Marriages 1619 June 1 Nycholas Cobb and Margaret Leed 1629 May 7 John Cobb and Margery Gover 1630 July 13 William Cobb and Dorathie Savie 1650 April 2 Dorothy Cobb, widow, and Henry Vye Baptized 1619/20 January 24 Mary Cobb Child of Nicholas and Margaret Cobb Children of John and Mary Cobb 1633 April 22 Bridgett Cobb 1638 Sept. 15 Ursula Cobb Children of William and Dorathie Cobb 1630 September 18 William Cobb 1633 January 6 Augustine Cobb 1636 November 26 Edward Cobb 1646 June 6 Phineas Cobb Burials 1619 January 30 Mary Cobb Daughter of Nicholas Cobb 1642 June 29 Ursula Cobb Daughter of John Cobb 1651 November 22 Bridgett Cobb Daughter of John Cobb 1648 November 25 William Cobb, Sen. The Parish of Wareham, Dorset, bounds the Parish of Corfe Castle in the northwest. Wareham itself being about five miles distant, and the Parish Church of Wool some six miles northwesterly from Corfe Castle. At the time, 1641, when the Parliamentary Protestation Oath was tendered to all males over 18, we find William Cobb and John Cobb at Swanage, Nicholas Cobb at Corfe Castle, and Samuel Cobb and Morgan Cobb at Wareham. The following statements are based on documents either in the archives of the Old Colony Historical Society (Taunton), recorded in Bristol County, or appear in the Colony Records. (See also John Cobb and Augustine Cobb) Edward Cobb Edward Cobb appeared in Taunton as early as 1657 when he took Oath of Fidelity. Afterwards many grants of land were made to him by the Town along the Plymouth Path. He married November 28, 1660, Mary, daughter of William Haskins. Edward died in 1675, apparently intestate leaving his wife, Mary, and two children, Edward Jr. and John Cobb III. An inventory of the Edward Cobb estate taken, October 4, 1675 and witnessed by John Cobb and Austin (Augustine) Cobb. Savage takes note of Augustine and Edward by stating 'Edward Cobb was brother perhaps of Augustine.' Notes Item I Grants of land to Edward Cobb along Plymouth Path. are noted in Proprietory Records of Taunton Item II Marriage of Edward Cobb and Mary Haskins in Plymouth Colony Records. Item III In the disposition of Edward Cobb's Will, see many deeds of Record, Bristol County Item IV With respect to witnesses of Inventory of Edward Cobb's intestate properties, see Plymouth Printed Records, Vol. 3, p. 72. At end of these pages is 'ERRATA' The biography of William Cobb as exhibited (following page - I don't have BP) may well have lived in Sandringham, England. However, William Cobb, the direct forefather, was born in Corfe Castle, Dorset, England (died 1649, The Swanage Register), married Dorathie Savie and sired Augustine and Edward Cobb, the Immigrants who were in Taunton, Mass before 1657. William Cobb had four sons and William Jr. and his brother Phineas presumably lived and died in Corfe Castle. There is no record showing that William Sr. and Dorathie had any daughters. Morgan Cobb of Sharnborok, Beds, removed to Corfe Castle and married Alice of Swanage who was named in a noncupitive Will that included Morgan's youngest son, a minor, [see Duane Phillips Cobb's monograph 'The English Origins of Augustine Cobb(Ibid)). The minor John Cobb married Margery Gover and removed to Taunton Mass in 1651 and uncle of Augustine and Edward. THE 'BLACKSMITH' COBBS OF TAUNTON, MASS by Capt. Mortimer H. Cobb (not dated) refers to COLONIAL FAMILIES IN AMERICA, Vol. X, p. 219 & ff. Bar. VII and COLONIAL & REVOLUTIONARY FAMILIES IN AMERICA, Vol. XI, bottom of 230 and ff 'The Cobb Line' infer that Augustine and Edward Cobb had grants of land in Sharon and Stoughton. The matter of land grants were the only points where the genealogists were in agreement. Edward was a minor until 1657. (See also BOSTON TRANSCRIPT, May 16, 1937 which probably contains some erroneous information. It is numbered 3387.1. Cobb. under initials F.S.P. April 13, 1937. Sir Thomas Cobb of England was executed at the Tower of London as an adherent of the Sutart cause; his property was confiscated by the Government an dhis two daughters sent to convents on the Continent; his two sons, Augustine and Morgan, were also sent to the Continent,' - BP) In THE 'BLACKSMITH COBBS' (see above) - Parenthetically, the difference with reference to the English forebears of Augustine and Edward (Cobb) are most interesting. (1) Somehow Colonial Families in America's Sir Thomas Cobb, beheaded Tower of London, belonged to the Elder Henry Cobb of Plymouth and Barnstable. At all events, Henry's American aristocracy's stationery bears arms (gives description omitted here). With the information Duane Cobb had dug up at Corfe Castle and Swanage, Dorset he approached (a) Office of Heraldry to learn a dozen or more varied Arms of Cobb existed (b) the Publishers of Burke's Landed Gentry who gave him reasonable assurance Dorset Cobbs came from Sharnbrook, Beds. under pressures from the Stuart regime: William 1 Cobb c. 1440-1507 had Edward 2 d. 1579 who was born in Sharnbrook, Beds and was the probable father of Morgan 3 Cobb who was a blacksmith in Corfe Castle and died there in 1620 leaving widow Alice - and had four children including William 4 and John 4 Cobb, later in 1651 blacksmith of Taunton, Mass. and uncle of Augustine 5 and Edward 5 of Sharon (?) and Taunton, Mass. Burke also said at the time of William 1 Cobb that branch bore - Gules, a chevron wavy between three fishes naiant, argent, on a chief of the last three shovelers sable, beaked and legged, or. - Crest - A shoveler sable, beaked and legged, or. And so by 1925, the rather comples full achievement of 'The Blacksmith Cobbs' hung alongside the austere Howell Arms - Gules, three towers, argent. Content now was my revered, respected, social and very undemocratic Victorian mother. (However, Burkes is somewhat notorious for incorrect information - BP) Capt. Cobb sums up by saying the following: It is hoped that all this information viewed from obvious fact 'The Blacksmith Cobbs' was a close knit, churchly, and finally in most of its branches well-to- do, that Augustine('s) date of being in America can be placed early enough to place him among the Founders of this great country. Birth: Swanage, Dorset, Eng. Parish Regr. ROCKAWAY RECORDS OF MORRIS COUNTY NEW JERSEY FAMILIES by J. Percy Crayon, pub. 1902, call # R929.37497, Dalton (Ga) Library, sent to me by Jim White of Dunwoody, Ga. pp. 276-7 - NOTE: In this article by Crayon, he erroneously mixes up the two John Cobbs, son of Henry of Barnstable, and John Cobb, uncle of our Edward, one of the three immigrant Cobbs to Taunton Mass. He states the following about our Edward - Edward, born 1633, took the oath of allegiance 1657, married Mary, daughter of William and Ann (Hynd) Hoskins, Nov. 28, 1660, removed to Taunton, died there 1675. His widow married (2) Samuel Phipps. (Thomas Hamm, archivist and asst. prof., Earlham College, Richmond Indiana, a descendant, gives a birth date of 14 Jan 1633/4 for this Edward) Part of the above is correct. He did marry Mary Hoskins, but she married secondly Samuel Phillips, not Phipps. This is the second source I've seen for Mary's mother's maiden name.