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Research of Duane Cobb, via Jim White of Dunwoody, Ga. (q.v) from NEW

JERSEY- A HISTORY (no other info avail re: that book) citing D.W.

Hoyt: OLD FAMILIES OF SALISBURY, Vol. I, p. 190; Charles N. Sinnett:

ANCESTRY OF JOHN COBB, OF TAUNTON; Pierce: CONTRIBUTIONS;

BIOGRAPHICAL, GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL, p. 143 -

Edward Cobb, the second, was born in Taunton, Mass., about 1661, and

died at the same place not earlier than 1733, as there is a record on

February 22 of that year of a deed to his son of fifteen acres of

land, 'in the northerly part of his homestead.' Taunton records show

he married, December 18, 1689, Sarah Hackett, daughter of William and

Sarah (Barnard) Hackett. She was born at Salisbury, Mass. on Feb. 8,

1667. Their children were: 1. Ebenezer, 1. Mary, who married Seth

Dean. After the death of Edward Cobb, his widow married (second)

Samuel Phipps. ...............

MARRIAGE: Taunton Vital Records - Cobb, Edward (Cob) and Sarah Hackit,

Dec. 18, 1689.* *Intention not recorded

No record in Taunton of birth or death nor any birth records of his

children. However there is just enough information in the published

records that there is a problem with the above info about his wife

being Sarah, daughter of William and Sarah (Barnard) Hackett of

Salisbury. First of all there was another Hackett family who lived

right in Taunton and they had a daughter Sarah born 13 Jul 1661. This

was the family whom Savage recorded as Jabez Hackett, of Lynn in 1644,

rem. to Taunton, there had a son John, b. 26 Dec. 1654; Jabesh, b. 12

Sep 1656; Mary, 9 Jan 1660; (Sarah); Samuel, 29 Jul 1664; and Hannah,

25 Jan 1667. There is also a record of the death of one 'Cobb, Sarah,

w(ife of) Edward, Aug. 13, 1726, a(ge) 66.' There is no marriage

recorded for a Sarah Cobb to Samuel Phipps. Rather there IS a marriage

of a Mary Cobb, widow, to a Samuel Phillips! The marriage record

reads: 'Cobb, Mary [T.P.R. Cob], wid., and Samuel Phillips [T.P.R.

Samuell Philips], May 15, 1676.* [Cobb, wid., and Samuell Phillipps,

P.C.R.]. *Intention not recorded' Now, that widow who m. Samuel

Phillips is very likely to have been the mother of this Edward, and

wife of first Edward, who died in 1675! The Sarah, daughter of Jabez

was of right age to have been the wife of this Edward, and since it

did not say she was a wid. of, but rather w(ife). of, I'm inclined to

think that Duane Cobb got the information about these two wives

confused; and assigned the incorrect parents to Sarah Haskett in

addition to that. Where he got the information that Sarah was the

daughter of the Salisbury man is not clear. I am going to assign the

daughter of Jabez Haskett to this Edward until I can further clarify

this, as the published vital records seem to back me up in my

thinking. [BP]

A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND by

James Savage, Vol. I, pub. 1860, p. 413:

COBB, Edward, Taunton, br. perhaps of the preced.(which was Augustine

and this Edward being father of this subject), sw. fidelity. 1657, m.

28 Nov. 1660, Mary Haskins, prob. d. of William, and d. 1675, leav.

EDWARD....

Note: Apparently our Cobbs were non churched while living in Taunton

as there is very little about this family in the surviving vital

records of that town. The other family of Cobbs is quite visible

however and our family does not fit into that line as can be easily

seen. This marriage seems to be the only recorded event and some other

items mentioned above. This link (between Edward and his son Ebenezar)

is the weakest link in the chain of Cobb lineage. Other sources may

have been found in the above mentioned items listed from the New

Jersey history. Town histories are notorious for giving erroneous

information which gets accepted as the absolute truth until verified

against cold recorded facts.

Also some early Taunton records were destroyed by fire in 1838.

ROCKAWAY RECORDS OF MORRIS COUNTY NEW JERSEY FAMILIES by J. Percy

Crayon, 1902, call # R929.37497 at Dalton Ga. Lib., Gen. Sect. (sent

to me by Jim White of Dunwoody, Ga., p. 277 -

Edward Cobb and Wife Mary Hoskins: Edward (2) and John. Edward (2) had

a son Ebenezer, born May 6, 1696, died 1769, and a daughter Mary who

married Seth Dean and had sons: Ichabod, Paul and Silas. She married

(2) John Rosher; (3) Nicholas Stephens. Edward Cobb (2) gave his son

Ebenezer fifteen acres of land in Taunton, dated Feb. 22, 1733, being

the northerly part of his homestead.