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Capt. Henry Cobb II

Born 27 Apr 1737 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut

Ancestors

Son of Henry Cobb I and Jemima (Morse) Cobb

Brother of Elizabeth Cobb, Samuel Cobb, Noah Cobb, Mary Cobb, John Cobb and Asa Cobb

Husband of Deborah (Reed) Cobb — married before 1766 in North Carolina

Husband of Rachel (Wilson) Cobb — married 1780 in Bertie Co., North Carolina, USA

Descendants

Father of Jemima (Cobb) Thaxton, John Clesh Cobb Sr., Jesse Cobb, William Cobb, Henry Cobb III, George Wilson Cobb, Wilson Henry Cobb, Lucendrella Cobb, Samuel Cobb, Rachel Cobb and Azariah R. Cobb

Died Jul 1794 at age 57 in Pendleton, Anderson, South Carolina, USA

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Biography

Capt. Henry Cobb II served with Civil Service, North Carolina during the American Revolution.

Henry Cobb II is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A023458.

Henry was born to Henry Cobb and Jemima Morse in 1737 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut, American Colonies. The family moved to Caswell County, North Carolina by 1746, which is when and where his mother died. Henry was only 9 at the time. His father died when he was 18.

He married Deborah Reed by age 29. She died when he was 35 and he married 5 years later to Rachel Wilson. Henry died in 1794 at 57 years old.

Five Cobb Brothers

^[1] Henry Cobb and Jemima Morse Cobb along with their five sons, Samuel, Henry, Noah, John and Asa, left CT around 1742. And appear on the tax rolls of Orange County, NC in 1755.

In 1761, Samuel Cobb recorded a land grant on County Line Creek for 487 acres, and it may be that all five of the brothers shared this same tract, which was transferred in 1765 to Henry Cobb.

This is about time that Samuel Cobb and Asa Cobb moved on to Old Ninety-Six District in South Carolina, In 1770, Henry Cobb sold off 238 acres of this tract to Matthew Lovett and John Williams.

Caswell County was created in 1777 from Orange County, and the First Tax List of Caswell County shows John, Henry and Noah Cobb as land owners. According to some records that I have read, a homesteader would stake a claim, live on it for two years and then have a survey made and apply for a land grant. This may have been the case as in 1788/89, Henry and Noah applied for and received a land grant in Caswell Co., NC. The brothers John, Henry and Noah are listed in the NC State Census of 1786. Sometime after this and before the first Federal Census was taken in 1790, both John and Henry moved to join Samuel and Asa in South Carolina. Noah remained NC and his will was proved in Caswell County in 1808.

This area along the upper Saluda River of South Carolina was Cherokee land until 1784, after the Revolutionary War, when land was granted to settlers. It was then in the judicial district of Ninety-Six, later attached to Abbeville County. In 1791, the Washington District was created and was composed of Pendleton and Greenville counties. Washington District was short lived, and in 1798 Pendleton and Greenville again became districts. In 1826, Pendleton District was divided into Anderson and Pickens Counties.

The 1790 census of Pendleton District, SC, shows as heads of households: Asa Cobb, John Cobb, and Henry Cobb. Across the Saluda River in the Greenville District, was Samuel Cobb and his son, Humphrey Cobb. Henry and John remained in the Laurens Co. SC area. Samuel and Asa, as well as other members of the Turkey Creek Baptist Church, moved to Owen County, KY in 1795. Asa remained in Owen Co. KY for only a few years before moving on to Fentress Co. TN.

Marriage

Henry married his first wife, Deborah Reed, before 1766 in N.C. She died there in 1775. They had had at least five children: Jemima, John, Jesse, William and Elizabeth.

Rachel Wilson became his second wife around 1780. They had had at least seven children: Henry, George, Wilson, Lucendrella, Samuel, Azariah, and Rachel.

Military

^[2] Henry joined the Caswell Co. NC Regiment as Captain under Col. William Moore in the Revolutionary War.

^[3]Cpt. Henry Cobb served just prior to and during the American Revolution.

Initially, he was with neighbors Hart and Rice, also members of the Orange County Militia in 1771, where he served as an ensign (State Records of North Carolina by Walter Clark, Vol XXII, p 416, Payroll of Capt. Nathaniel Hart's Company of the Orange Regiment of Militia that were in the late Expedition against the Insurgents of this province).

It is also recorded in the 'Revolutionary Army Accounts, Vol. XI, p. 73, Folio 2, that Henry Cobb was paid 102 pounds Specie by William Moore, Commissioner of the Confiscation for Hillsborough District, Cert. No. 165, Receipt No. 223, dated January 11, 1782. This will establish that Henry Cobb, not only served in pre-revolutionary Colonial Militia, but also made his contribution to the Revolutionary War.

Henry Cobb commanded a company of NC minutemen 20 Sept 1775, (formerly an ensign of NC Militia Regiment in 1771, battling insurgents) NOTE- An Ensign in the Colonial Militia was the officer who carried the Regimental Banner.

After the War

Sometime between 1784 and 1785, he moved his family to Pendleton, Anderson Co., South Carolina. Henry died in Pendleton in 1794.

Timeline

1737 Apr 27 - Birth - Pomfret, Windham, CT^[4]

Marriage #1: Deborah Reed

bef 1766 - Marriage to Deborah Reed - North Carolina, American Colonies

1766 - Birth of daughter Jemima Cobb - Yanceyville, Caswell, North Carolina

1767 - Birth of son John Clesh Cobb - Orange Co., North Carolina

1769 Feb 2 - Birth of son Jesse Cobb - Yancyville, Caswell, North Carolina

1771 - Served as Ensign with Orange Co. Militia

1774 - Birth of son William Henry Cobb - Orange, North Carolina

1775 Apr 19 - Revolutionary War begins at Lexington and Concord

? - Birth of daughter Elizabeth Cobb - Orange, North Carolina (Note, birth year is not documented, as records were destroyed in a fire. She could also be a child of Rachel Wilson)

1775 - Death of wife Deborah Reed - Yanceyville, Caswell, North Carolina

1775 Sep 20 - commanded a company of North Carolina minutemen

Marriage #2: Rachel Wilson

1780 - Marriage to Rachel Wilson - Bertie Co., North Carolina, USA^[5] Note: Date not given

1780 U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820^[6] - Caswell County, North Carolina - Name on a petition 1 Dec 1780, to the “board of War” from the inhabitants of Caswell Co. on behalf of George Graham being released from prison.

1781 Oct 1 - Birth of son Henry Cobb - Caswell, North Carolina, USA

1782 - Capt. under Col. William Moore in Revolutionary War^[7]

1783 Sep 03 – End of American Revolutionary War

1783 Nov 18 - Birth of son Wilson Cobb - Caswell Co., North Carolina, USA

1784 - Birth of son George Washington Cobb - Caswell, North Carolina, USA

c 1785 - Birth of daughter Lucendrella Cobb - Pendleton, Anderson, South Carolina, USA (She died in 1789)

1786 - Birth of son Samuel Cobb - Pendleton District, South Carolina, USA

c 1788 - Birth of daughter Rachel Cobb - Pendleton, Anderson, South Carolina, USA

1790 Mar 19 - Birth of son Azariah R Cobb - Pendleton District, South Carolina, USA

1790 Federal Census^[8] - Pendleton, South Carolina, United States
- Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 6 (William, Henry, George, Wilson, Samuel, Azariah); 16 and over: 2 (Henry and son Jesse or John)
- Free White Persons - Females: 3 (wife Rachel, Rachel and Elizabeth)
- Number of Slaves: 11

1794 Jul - Death - Pendleton District, South Carolina, USA

Sources

↑ $Ancestry Record
↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 11 Mar 2018), "Record of COBB, HENRY", Ancestor # A023458.
↑ H Cobb Family
↑ Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) $Ancestry Record
↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 $Ancestry Record 7836 #250053
↑ U.S. Census Reconstructed Records $Ancestry Record 2234 #53913
↑ Revolutionary War Soldiers for NC and SC [1]
↑ "United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHKF-B5M : accessed 3 January 2020), Henry Cobb, Pendleton, South Carolina, United States; citing p. 9, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 11; FHL microfilm 568,151.