1596 - 1679

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• Suffix	II Rev.
  Birth	1596	Reculver, Kent
  Gender	Male
  IMMI	1629	in the "Anne" to Massachusetts
  Died	Bef 3 Jun 1679	Barnstable, Barnstable County, Ma
  Buried	Old Barnstable Cemetery, Barnstable County, Ma
  Person ID	I10618	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	11 Jul 2004 00:00:00
  Married	Apr 1631	Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F4847	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Sarah HINCKLEY, b. Abt 22 Nov 1629, Tenterden, Kent, England
  Married	12 Dec 1649	Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.   [1]
  Notes	They had 8 children HHH.
  Children	1. Mehitable COBB, b. 1 Sep 1651, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Ma > 2. Samuel COBB, Sr., b. 12 Oct 1654, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Ma   3. Sarah COBB, b. 15 Jan 1657/1658, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Ma   4. Jonathan COBB, b. 10 Apr 1660, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Ma > 5. Sarah COBB, b. 10 Mar 1662/1663, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts   6. Henry COBB, III, b. 3 Sep 1665, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Ma   7. Mehitable COBB, b. 15 Feb 1666/1667, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Ma   8. Ephraim COBB, b. 11 Sep 1671, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Ma
  Family ID	F4731	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Birth: 1596 in Reculver, Kent and possibly from Southwark, Surrey,England Occupation: 5 JUN 1644 tavernkeeper licensed to draw wine at Barnstable Religion: 8 JAN 1634/35 member #7 at the founding of Scituate Church Will: proved June 3, 1679 1. Henry was brought up in the Church of England, but in his youngmanhood, because of the wrongs tolerated in that Church, broke away fromthe Establishment and joined the Pilgrims. He is said to have united witha Congregational Church in London, of which the Rev. John Lothropp wasthen pastor. He probably came to America in "The Anne" in 1629. He movedto Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1633, and from there to Barnstable,Massachusetts, in 1639. He was Deacon or Ruling Elder in Scituate andBarnstable 34 years. He also held various civil offices, among them thatof Deputy to the General Court of the Colony for several years. Henry andhis 2 wives had 16 children, 3 born in Plymouth, 2 in Scituate and 11 inBarnstable. 2. Enoch Taylor Cobb, Henry's 3rd great-grandson, erected a stone to thememory of Henry in the old Barnstable Cemetery in 1871 with the followinginscription: ELDER HENRY COBB THE ANCESTOR OF THE COBB FAMILY, IN BARNSTABLE DIED IN 1679 ______ ERECTED BY ENOCH T. COBB A DESCENDANT IN 1871.

• Sources

  [S273] [BOOK] Genealogical Notes of Barnstable County, Amis Otis, (Reprint Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc. Baltimore. 1979), 79-52085., Volume 2, p.32. [S274] Hinckleys of Maine, Marlene Alma Hinckley Groves, (Penobscot Press. 1993), 93-84616., p. 11.