Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAilNSTABLE FAMILIES. 173
first born all dying young.
III. Patience, 12tli Jan'y, 1668, married 1694, Jame^ Coleman,
and had eight children. She married 1,0th Sept. 1715,
Thomas Lombard of Barnstable. She died March 30,
174:7, aged 79 years. Her second husband w.a8 95 at his
death May 30, 1761.
IV. Hannah, 28th March 1671, married Joseph Davis March
1695, and died May 3, 1739, aged 68. She left a family
of eight children.
V. James, 8th July, 1673. (See account below.)
VI. G-ershom, 4th August, 1675. (See account below.)
VII. John, 20th Dec. 1677, Mr. John Cobb as he is called on
the records, married 25th Dec. 1707, Hannah Lothrop.
He owned the house now the residence of Mr. David
Bursley, and his son Ephraim resided there within the
memory of persons now living. His children were Ephraim,
born 5th Dec. 1708. He married Margaret G-ardner of
Yarmouth, Jan'y 7, 1729-30. He had also John born 1st
July, 1711, died March 1, 1713, and John again born Oct.
2, 1719, who died May 25, 1736. Mr. John Cobb died
Aug. 24, 1754, aged 77 years, aind his wife Hannah April
3, 1747, aged 66 years.
VIII. EUzabeth, 6th Oct. 1680.
IX. Martha 6th Feb. 1682.
X. Mercy, 9th April, 1685.
XI. Thankful, 10th June, 1687.
The fpm- daughters last named had shares in the estate of
their father at the settlement made in 1696. Their mother married
in 1698, Jonathan Sparrow, Esq., of Eastham, and these daughters
probably removed to that town with her. Mercy was May
24, 1701, a witness to the will of Mu-iam Wing of Harwich. At
the proof of the will Jan'y 8, 1702-3, she is called "now Mercy
Sparrow."
Samuel Cobb, son of Elder Henry Cobb, born in Barnstable
12th Oct. 1654, was a farmer and resided in the lower part of the
town, and built a house on the six acre lot that was his father's in
the new commonfleld. His first house stood on the south-east
corner of the land, on the west side of the lane leading to Indian
lands. He soon after built a two story house, a little farther west
on the same spot where the late farmer Joseph Cobb's house stood.
It was two stories and constructed in the style common in those
days. It was taken down about the year 1805. He married Dec.
20, 1680 Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Taylor, called "tailor"
to distinguish him from another of the same name. He died Dec.
27, 1727 aged 73, and his wife May 4, 1721 aged 66.
Children horn in Barnstable.
I. Sarah, 20th Aug. 1681. She married Feb. 4, 1701-2