Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

170 GENEALOGICAL NOTES OP BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Eastham ; Eleazer iu Hingham Sylvauus north of Boston and
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Benjamin, whose sou Isaac was Port Admiral of Yarmouth, England.
Jonathan was a descendant of Henrj' and born in Barnstable.
Eespecting Benjamin, the document quoted by Mr.
Pratt, says he settled near Rhode Island, which is very doubtful.
Descendants of Augustine were in that vicinity. The Eleazer and
Sylvanus he named were probably both descendants of Henry.
No Eleazer settled in Hingham. The earliest of the name in that
town was Richard who is called of Boston. He had a son
Thomas born 28th March, 1693, probably the one of that name
who settled in Eastham, and married Mary Freeman, before 1719.
A Thomas Cobb, Sen'r, died in Hingham Jau'y -i, 1707-8.
Edward Cobb was of Taunton in 1657, married at Plymouth,
28th Nov. 1660, Mary Haskius, and died 1675, leaving a son
Edward. His widow married Samuel Philips.
Augustine Cobb was of Taunton in 1670, and had Elizabeth,
born lOtisFeb. 1771 ; Morgan, 29th Dec. 1673 ; Samuel, 9th Nov.
1675 ; Bethia, 5th April, 1678 ; Mercy, 12th Aug. 1680 ; and
Abigail, 1684. Gen. David Cobb, one of the aids of Washington
in the army of the Revolution is a descendant from Augustine.
John Cobb of Taunton from 1653 to 1677, Mr. Boylies says,
came from Plymouth, if so, he was a son of Henry of Barnstable.
A John Cobb who appears to have been a resident in Taunton,
administered on the estate of his brother'Gershom who was killed
at Swanzey by the Indians, June 24, 1675. Mr. Savage thinks
there were two John Cobbs ; but 1 prefer the authority of. Mr.
Baylies. There is only one entry on the records, that favors the
supposition that there were two John Cobbs, and that after careful
examination, I think is an error of the town clerk of Taunton.
Elder Henrj' Cobb married in 1631, Patience, daughter of
Dea. James Hurst, of Plymouth. She was "bui-yed May 4, 1648,
the first that was buryed in our new burying place by our meeting
house." (Lothrop's Church Rec.) He was married to his second
wife, Sarah, daughter of Samuel Hinckley by Mr. Prince, Dec. 12,
1649. He died in 1679, and his wife Sarah survived him.
In his will dated April 4, 1678, proved June 3, 1679, and in
the codicil thereto dated Feb. 28, 1678, he gives his great lot of
land in Barnstable to his son James, the latter paying Elder Cobb's
John £5 for his interest therein. Names his sons John, James,
Gershom and Eleazer, to whom he had theretofore given half his
lands at Suckinesset,— gave his "new dwelling house"* and all
* "His new dwelling house." lam inclined to the opinion that Elder Cobb sold liis
stone house to Nathaniel Bacon, in his life time and that the house to which he refers was
on his "great lot," and that it was afterwards owned by son Oames and grandson Gershom.
In 1823, Mr. Josiah Childs a descendent in the female line pointed out a post to me in his
fence, and said fifty years ago I mortised that post from a timber taken iVom the house of the
first G-ei-shom Cobb, and said that fi-om information he had obtained fi-om his ancestors, the
house was OTer one hundred years old when consequently was built in the life time of the
Klder. That house stood on his "great lot," near tlie ancient pear tree now standing.
(See account of 3d f Icrshom Hall.)