Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

COBB.
ELDER HEISTEY COBB.
Elder Henry Cobb the ancestor of the Cobb Family of Barnstable,
was of Plymouth in 1632, of Scituate in 1633, and of
Barnstable in 1639. According to the Eev. Mr. Lothrop's records,
Goodman Cobb's dwelling house in Scituate, was constructed
before September 1634, and was the seventh built in that
town by the English. He afterwards sold this house to Henry
Rowley, and built on his lot in Kent Street, house numbered
thirty-two on Mr. Lothrop's list. Mr. Deane in his history of
Scituate says he was one of the "men of Kent," and that in addition
to his house lot, he owned eighty acres on North River,
which was afterwards the farm of
John James.
Ephraim Kempton, and then of
On the 23d of November, 1634, Gi-oodman Cobb and other
members of the church at Plymouth "were dismissed from their
membershipp in case they joyned in a body att Scituate." On the
8th of January following, Mr. Lothrop makes the following entry
in his records :
' 'Wee had a day of humiliation and then att night
joyned in covenannt togeather, so many of us as had beene in
Covenannt before ; to witt, Mr. Gilson and his wife, Goodman
Anniball and his wife, Goodman Rowley and his wife, Goodman
Cob and his wife, Goodman Turner, Edward Foster, myselfe,
Goodman Foxwell and Samuel House." The two last named may
have been a part of the company who arrived in the Griffin with
Mr. Lothrop ; but the others had been in the Colony several years.
It is probable that many of them had been members of the Congregational
Church in London, and that this meeting was a reunion
under their old Pastor of those who had before been "in
convenannt togeather." Goodman Cobb was a leading and influential
member, and for forty-four years was either the senior deacon,
or a ruling elder of the church.
When it was proposed that the church remove to Sippican,