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HENRY COBB
PATIENCE HURST, daughter of JAMES HURST
Henry Cobb married first Patience Hurst. He married second Sarah Hinckley on 12 December 1649 [VRMB]
Patience, the wife of Henry Cobb, died on 4 May 1648 in Barnstable. [VRMB]
The first meeting of the New Plymouth Colony General Court took place on 1 January 1632/3 (all court dates are old style). Henry was already a freeman by then. All governments need revenue and one of the courts first acts was to order the collection of taxes. The taxes, collexted in corn, ranged from nine shillings for most of the households to three pounds and 11 shillings for Isaac Allerton. Henry was one of those assessed nine shillings. [NBS1]
By an order of 2 January 1633/4, he paid a tax of nine shillings. [NBS1]
The first ruling elders of the First Church in Scituate were Nathaniel Tilden and Henry Cobb. Elder Cobb moved to Barnstable in 1639 or 1640 and Elder Tilden died in 1641. No successors were appointed. [SDS, 90]
Henry was on a 1633 list of freemen in Plymouth and also on a 7 March 1636/7 list. [NBS1]
The court made a grant of a plantation called Seppekann for a township and congregation on 22 January 1638/9 to a committee of eight men, including Henry, who were to dispose of the land. [NBS1]
Henry was appointed to a committee to find a place for the defense of the people of Barnstable on 10 October 1643. [NBS2]
He was on the committee for the town of Barnstable on 5 June 1644, 3 March 1645/6, 7 July 1646, 1 June 1647. [NBS2]
Henry was licensed to draw wine at Barnstable on 5 June 1644. [NBS2]
He was on a trial jury on 6 June 1649.[NBS2]
Children of Henry Cobb and Patience Hurst, all but Hannah recorded in Barnstable as the children of Mr. Henry Cobb. [VRMB]
i. John Cobb was born on 7 June 1632 in Plymouth. He married Martha Nelson.
ii. James Cobb was born on 14 January 1634 in Plymouth.
He or his nephew James might be the James and wife Sarah, where dismissed to the church in Eastham during Mr. Russell, Sr.'s ministry. [VRMB]
iii. Mary Cobb was born on 24 March 1637 in Scituate. She married Jonathan Dunham on 15 October 1657 in Plymouth. [VRMP][JEB] He died on 17 December 1718, age 85. [HTMM] He married first Mary, the daughter of Philippe Delano, on 29 November 1655. [HTMM]
iv. Hannah Cobb (possible daughter) the daughter of [missing], was baptized on 5 October 1638 in Scituate. [VRMS]
v. Patience Cobb was born on 9 March 1641 in Barnstable.
v.i Gershom Cobb was born on 10 January 1644 in Barnstable. He was buried on 24 June 1675 in Swansea. [VRMW][HTMM] He married Hannah Davis. [HTMM]
Gershom was a constable in Middleborough in 1671. [HTMM] He was on the Grand Enquest in 1674. [HTMM]
Gershom was in Swansea at the first attack of the Indians on that town in King Philip's War. He was killed along with eight others and was buried with them. [HTMM]
Gershom's brother John administered his estate. It was divided equally among his siblings, except that John received a double share. [HTMM]
vii.Eleazer Cobb was born on 30 March 1648 in Barnstable.
Children of Henry Cobb and Sarah Hinckley, first four recorded in Barnstable as the children of Mr. Henry Cobb. [VRMB]
viii. Mehitable Cobb was born in September 1651 in Barnstable and was buried there on 8 March 1652.
ix. Samuel Cobb was born on 12 October 1654 in Barnstable.
x. Sarah Cobb was born on 15 January 1658 in Barnstable and was buried there on 25 January 1658.
xi. Jonathan Cobb was born on 10 April 1660 in Barnstable. Deacon Jonathan Cobb died on 15 August 1728, age 68 in Middleborough. [HTMM] He may have married Hope Unknown. This Hope died on 26 "Jy." 1728, age 76 in Middleborough. [HTMM]
Jonathan Cobb and Hope Cobb were probably members of the first church in Middleborough by 1708. [HTMM]
He might be the Jonathan Cobb whose wife Sarah was dismissed to the church in Middleborough on 3 June 1703. [VRMB]
xii. Henry Cobb ?
Henry Cobb was dismissed to the church in Stonington on 5 November 1705. [VRMB]
xiii. Sarah Cobb married Samuel Chipman.
References:
NBS1. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, vol. 1, Court Orders, 1633–1640 (Boston: William White, 1855).
VRMB.Vital Records of Barnstable (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002): 690 (births of the first 11 children, death of Patience, marrige of Henry and Sarah), 709 (dismissals).
VRMS. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850, 2 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909), vol. 1: 84.
VRMP. Lee D. van Antwerp and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993): 662 (marriage of Mary)
VRMW.Vital Records of Swansea, Massachusetts: To the Year 1850 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992), 409.
HTMM. Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleborough, Massachusetts (New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1906), 38 (Gershom), 42–42 (Mary), 639–86.
SDS. Samuel Deane, History of Scituate (Boston: James Loring, 1831).
JEB. Mrs. John E. Barclay, "Notes on the Dunham Family of Flymouth, Mass.," The American Genealogist 30 (1954): 143–55.
Last revised: 10-Dec-2022