Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 175
Elkanah. Scotto above named, was the father of the late
Gen. Elijah Cobb,* whose son Elijah, a merchant of Boston,
died Aug. 1861.
IX. Eleazer, born 14th Jan. 1696, married Reliance Paine Oct.
18, 1724. He occupied the house built by his father.
He died Sept. 21, 1731 aged 35, and his widow married
John Coleman Aug. 5, 1736. She continued to reside on
the Cobb farm till her death, June 11, 1742. The children
of Eleazer Cobb born in Barnstable were, Benjamin Nov.
20, 1725 ; Joseph 28th March, 1727, died 11th Oct. 1737
and Reliance, 30th Sept. 1728, married 1747 Paul Crowell,
Jr., of Chatham; and Patience, bap't 15th Aug. 1731,
married Nathaniel Allen of Barnstable. Benjamin, the
son of Eleazer, married May 29, 1749, Anna Davis, and
had Reliance May 9, 1750 ; Eleazer, Aug. 7, 1752 ; Benjamin,
Jan. 28, 1759, married Persis Taylor of Barnstable,
Nov. 13, 1783, the second marriage recorded by Rev. Mr.
Mellen. He had one son, the present Enoch T. Cobb, and
Joseph, February 19, 1763, known as
a daughter Hannah ;
farmer Joseph, married June 19, 1785, Elizabeth Adams ;
and Samuel April 23, 1765, the latter a tanner and shoe
maker.
X. Lydia, born Dec. 1699, married Ebenezer Scudder, 1725,
and is the ancestor of nearly if not all of the name in
Barnstable.
JonathanCobb, son of Elder Henry Cobb, born in Barnstable
10th April 1660, married March 1, 1682-3, Hope, widow of John
Huckings, and daughter of Elder John Chipman. He resided in
Barnstable till 1703, when he removed to Middleborough, and
from thence to Falmouth, now Portland, Me. His children were,
1, Samuel, born 23d Feb. 1683-4; Jonathan 26th April, 1686;
Ebenezer 10th April 1688 ; Joseph 24th Aug. 1690 ; Lydia 17th
Jan. 1692-3 ; Gershom bap't 7th July, 1695. That this Jonathan
was not the one who removed to Harwich, the following facts
show. His son Samuel married Abigail and had at Middleboro,
Chipman born 5th March 1708-9, and probably others ; at Portland,
Peter, Feb. 1720, and at Manchester, James, born July 7,
1723. Jonathan, son of Jonathan, had by his wife Betty at
Portland Lydia, Aug. 9, 1720 ; Ebenezer, Feb. 19, 1722 ; Mary,
Nov. 8, 1723 ; Deborah, Aug. 14, 1725. Ebenezer, son of Jonathan,
married Mary. He died at Portland Oct. 29, 1721, aged
* I have a genealogy of fhe Cobb family based on the recollections of Gen. Cobb. It
seems to be the same on which Mr. Pratt relied, and frhich has always been noticed. Gen.
Cobb's information respecting his great grandfather is Ter^ imperfect, and of the preceeding
generations mostly if not entirely suppositions. It is certain that Gen. Cobb was a
descendent of Henry of Barnstable. The Truro aud "Wellfleet families probably descend
some from Elisha of Plymouth and some from James Cobb born Sept. 13, 1698, who removed
to Tmro. Elisha Cobb, bom 24th Dec. 1702, married Mary, Harding, and probably removed
to Wellfleet, and Thomas, son of Richard of Hingham to Eastham.