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INDEX OF INDIVIDUALS

FAMILY TREE WHITE

FAMILY TREE BROOKE

UNIDENTIFIED PHOTOS

WIFE

1st Patience Hurst

2nd Sarah Hinkley

CHILDREN with Patience Hurst

1. John Cobb b. 07/Jun/1632

2. James Cobb b. 06/Jan/1634

3. Mary Cobb b. 24/Mar/1637

4. Hannah Cobb b. 05/Oct/1639

5. Patience Cobb b.  bef. Mar/1641

6. Gershom Cobb b. 10/Jan/1644

7. Mehitable Cobb b. Abt 1647

8. Eliezer Cobb  b. 30/Mar/1648

CHILDREN with Sarah Hickley

1. Mehitable Cobb b. 01/Sep/1652

2. Samuel Cobb b. 12/Oct/1654

3. Sarah Cobb b. 15/Jan/1658

4. Jonathan Deacon Cobb b. 10/Apr/1660

5. Sarah Cobb b. 10/Mar/1663

6. Henry Cobb b. 03/Sep/1665

7. Mehitable Cobb b. 15/Feb/1667

8. Experience Cobb b. 11/Sep/1671

Henry Cobb was brought up in the Church of England but in his young manhood broke away from the establishment and joined the Pilgrims. He is said to have united with a Congregational Church in London, of which the Rev. John Lothrop was then pastor. He probably came to America in "The Anne" in 1629. Around 1633 he moved to Scituate, Massachusetts. Later he moved to Barnstable, MA. Henry and his two wives had 16 children, 3 born in Plymouth, 2 in Scituate and 11 in Barnstable according to the "History of the Cobb Family" by Phillip Cobb.

According to "Truro-Cape Cod" by Shebnah Rich, "Patience, the wife of Henry Cobb, buried May 4, 1648, the first that was buried in our new burying-place by our meeting-house." This was the old graveyard at West Barnstable or Great Marshes.

Taken from "A History of the Cobb Family" by Philip L. Cobb, 1907

WILL of Henry Cobb was made the 4th of April 1673 and exhibited the 3rd of June 1679.  "Item I will and bequeath my Great Lott of Land in Barnstable unto my son James Cobb for his Interest therein; and wheras I heertofore Gave half my Lands att Suconeesett unto my sons John  James  Gershom  and Eliezer equally to be devided betwixt them which was with my Consent sold and exchanged; and forty shillings being in the hand of my son James for my son Eliezers part thereof; My Will is that my son James pay unto his brother Eliezer that forty shillings in pay Currant, with the Marchant; Item I will and bequeath my New dwelling house and all the Rest of my Lands both upland and meddow unto Sarah my deare and loveing wife, during her Naturall life, for her support; and bringing up the Children I had by her

Item my will is that after her decease; my son Samuell shall have my dwelling house and two acrees of my upland; and an acree and a hlf of my Marsh; which I bought with his Stock being the one half of a parcell of Marsh, lying att Sandy Neck; in partenorsip with my son James   Item I will and bequeath to my sonnes Samuell  Jonathan  and Henery all the Rest of my lands both upland and meddowes, To be equally devided betwixt them after my said wifes decease, or sooner if shee see cause; To each of them theire heires and assignes for ever; Item I give and bequeath unto my sonnes John  Gershom   and Eliezer one shilling to each of them; and to my daughters Mary  hannah and Patience to each of them one shilling out of my estate;  Item I will and bequeath to my daughter Sarah my second best bed and furniture therunto belonging.  Item I will and bequeath all the Rest of my estate in whatsoever It be within dores or without unto Sarah my Loveing wife; whom I doe by these presents Consitute and declare to be my sole exequitrix.".

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