History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

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DESCENDANTS OF PETER MONTAGUE.
CHILDREN.
2S7I Laura Belle, b. Dec. 30, 1877.
2872 Ethel Garnet, b. March 24, 1884
2873 John Leonard, b. July 26, 1886.
2874 George Pliilip, b. April 5, 1889.
2875 Kate Ellen, b. Oct. 26, 1891.
2S76 Bessie Lee, b. Feb. 4, 1894.
1897.
Lewis F. Montague, son of James T. [714], b. Feb. 10, 1841, in
Henry Co., Ky. He left his home to go to Leadville, Col., May 10,
1879 and has never been heard of since. It is thought he was killed.
He served four years and five months in the Union army in the late
war. He m., March 16, i860 in Jericho, Henry Co., Ky., Miss Mary 1
C. Williams. She was b. in Hendersonsville, Henry Co., Ky., July i
18, 1837. She resides in Hendersonsville, one mile from Jericho, Ky.
children.
2877. John S., b. March 11, 1861, d. June 28, 1861, in Clay Co., 111.
Hampshire and Kent, and were also in other counties. One of the chief seats of the Cobbs
was Ingoldisthorpe Manor in Co. Norfolk. This Manor has been held by the family of the
Cobbs since the time of Queen Elizabeth. The beautiful mansion house, which stands in a
most inviting situation, commanding the sea, and the Lincolnshire coast is distinguished by
the name of Cobbe Hall. This property in 1781 was owned by Edward Cobb, Esq., Collector
of the customs at Wisbeck in the isle of Ely. His ancestor Martin Cobb, Esq., purchased it
of Roger Townsend in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In the year 1691 there was a Manor
near Cobbe Hall called Paradise. It is possible that Col. Richard Lee may have obtained
the names of his estates in Va. from these places especially as his estate of " Cobbs " on
Dividing Creek, an inlet from the Chesapeake bay was in situation similar to the English
Cobbe Hail, which looked across a bay toward the Lincolnshire coast. Neither of these
English Manors however were ever in the Lee family, though it is found that Margaret dau.
of William Cobbe married Richard Lee of Norwich. [Dr. E. J. L., March, 1893,] Camden,
in his Brit, says the fishermen along the English coast call a sheltered harbor well secured
from winds by rocks and lofty trees, "the Cobbe". Joseph Cobb had a plantation at Eliza-
beth City, Va. in 1624, his age was 25 and he came from England in the ship " Treasoror " in
1613. His wife Elizabeth Cobb, age 25, came in the " Bone Bes." in 1623. The Manor of
Wood Hall in Sandringham Norfolk was a very ancient seat of the Cobbs, certainly dating
back to the time of King Edward III. The last of the Cobbe family in possession was
Jeffrey Cobbe son of William and Mary Cobbe, who was the daughter of Sir Henry Beding-
field of Oxborough. Jeffrey Cobbe married a daughter of Isaac Astley of Melton Constable
and died July 14, 1623, William Cobbe, one of Jeffrey's sons, born 1613, distinguished himself
in the civil war, being a colonel in the army of King Charles I. The arms of this family,
copied from a brass plate in the church of Sandringham were :
" Per chevron, sable and gules,
in chief, two swans proper, repectant, and in base a herring Cobb, naiant, or." In the year
1800 there was a mansion of the Cobbs near the village of Longdon, north of Lichfield in
Stafford, and in the same vicinity was the Manor of " Mount Pleasant " which latter name
was also the name of another estate of Col. Richard Lee in Va. In this vicinity in Stafford,
near the ruins of Chartley Castle there were in 1690 a number of places or manors evidently
in the Lee family, such as Leigh, Lee's Hill, Lea, Lea Lane, Lea Croft, etc. These places
are scarcely twenty miles from Nordley Regis in Shropshire, said to be an old seat of the
Lees.