Hannah (Lunt) Cobb (abt. 1791)

Born about 1791 in Gray, Cumberland, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Cobb — married 31 Mar 1822 in Gray, Cumberland, Maine, United States

Died [date unknown] in Pittston, Kennebec, Maine, United States

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Biography

CAUTION: Her lineage was Hannah Lunt (John Lunt, Sen. of Gray, ME., Samuel Lunt, Jun., Samuel Lunt, Sen., Ensign Henry Lunt, Henry Lunt)
N O T
Hannah Lunt (John Lunt, Sen. of Epping, N.H., Samuel Lunt, Skipper Lunt, Ensign Henry Lunt, Henry Lunt)

In the Appendix, pages 267-8, to his book "The Lunt Family in America" T. S. Lunt corrects his misstated lineage error for the children of Samuel Lunt, Jr. and wife Mary (Berry) Lunt whose grandchildren are included this profile. Primary sources, mainly Cumberland County Deeds, support the soundness of his corrections.
The "Lunt Family in America" appendix information, showing his corrections, are not reflected in a significant number of online family tree's.

BIRTH
Hannah Lunt (John, Samuel, Samuel, Ensign Henry, Henry) was born about the year 1791, give or take, at Gray Township where her parents lived. Her parents were John Lunt, Senior and presumed wife Sarah (Weeks) Lunt [T. S. Lunt, Appendix p. 267-8] who would spend the remainder of their lives in Gray after her father purchased Lot No. 43 from the 1st Division in Gray in 1783. [Cumberland Deeds Book 12:150]

The existence John Lunt, Sen. of Gray, Yeoman, and his children, possibly by Sarah Weeks, is established with certainty through the following Cumberland County [Miscellaneous categorized] Deed where John Lunt, Sen. and all his children are named during an official procedure whereby the four living siblings, John Lunt, Jun., Sarah Lunt, Hannah Lunt and Mary Lunt grant assignment of their power of attorney to their brother Joshua Lunt. Their brother William Lunt, a cordwainer of Falmouth was deceased. ^[1] :

On the 22 April 1814 John Lunt [Jun.] of Poland [Gray], Cumberland County, Yeoman and Mary Lunt & Hannah Lunt both of Gray in Cumberland County, Spinsters, & Sarah Lunt of said Gray, Spinster, have severally constituted and do hereby severally constitute and appoint JOSHUA LUNT of said Poland, Yeoman to become our lawful attorney in our name place and stead but to his own use to ask, demand, sue for recover & receive of any persons what were all sums of money or goods to us belonging or which we ought to possess which were of our brother William Lunt, Deceased or of our father John Lunt, [Sen.] [of Gray] Deceasedin whose hands soever the same may be and to recover and receive unintelligible _____ and possession of all and any lands or tenements of which our said brother William or our said Father JOHN LUNT (Sen.) died rightfully possessed; and in our names and for his own use to make sale of such lands tenements or goods and to esecute and deliver sufficient deeds of the same at his pleasure and to do all other things properly to carry this letter of attorney into into full effect in as full and ample a manner as any of us could do if personally present. And we hereby give our said attorney full power to appear in our name place & stead before any Court of other tribunal, to institute and prosecute te(?) final process any suit at law or equally concerning the premises and to substitute under him one or more attornies of the same at pleasure revoke and we do severally covenant with said Joshua that neither of us shall or will ever hereafter revoke the power hereby given to him and that whosoever he or either of his substitutes shall lawfully do concerning the premises we will forever hold good & valid. Witnessed our hands & seals this twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fourteen. ^[1]

MARRIAGE and CHILDREN
Hannah Lunt, daughter of John Lunt, Senior and presumed wife Sarah (Weeks) Lunt married Benjamin Cobb on the 31st March 1822 at Gray, Cumberland County, Maine. Both Hannah and Benjamin are noted as being "of Gray" in the marriage publishment. ^[2] Their marriage was also recorded in the New Gloucester Township records which notes that both Hannah and Benjamin were born in Gray Township and were married by William Proctor. ^[3] Hannah and Benjamin had the following known children:

1. Sarah Jane Cobb, b. Pittston, Kennebec, Maine ^[4]
2. Stephen Cobb, b. 8 Sep 1829, Pittston ^[5]
3. Abbie Maria Cobb, b. 27 Jul 1832, Pittston ^[6]
4. Mary Ann Cobb, b. 27 Julm1832, Pittston ^[7]

DEATH
She is presumed to have passed away at Pittston.

Hannah (Lunt) Cobb was the only daughter of John Lunt, Senior and (presumed) wife Sarah (Weeks) Lunt to have married. Her two sisters, Sarah and Mary Lunt remained "spinsters".

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "Cumberland County, Maine Registry of Deeds [Miscellaneous Documents]" Book 73:145-6. document dated 22 April 1814. Received and recorded (file date) 15 Dec 1815.

   p.145 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3HY-Z8G5?i=80&cat=333246

   p.146 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C3HY-ZC12?i=81&cat=333246

2. ↑ "Gray Town Records, Marriage Publishments: Gray Township Accounts & Records, 1767-1818" Item No. 3. Reprinted (online db) FamilySearch.org FHL Film no. 7595558. image reader 281/629. Note: Marriage publishments, 17 Mar 1822. Both Hannah Lunt & Benjamin Cobb are of Gray. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99NW-38WR?i=280
3. ↑ . "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921" FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H27-ZDT : Sat Mar 09 02:01:10 UTC 2024), Entry for "Benjamin Cobb & Hannah Lunt, who were married 31 Mar 1822 and who were both born in Gray Township."
4. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H27-ZDN : Sun Mar 10 11:43:50 UTC 2024), Entry for Sarah Jane Cobb and parents Benjamin & Hannah Cobb, born 23 Jul 1822, Pittston, Kennebec County.
5. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2H27-6NG : Sat Mar 09 14:17:10 UTC 2024), Entry for Stephen Cobb son of Benjamin & Hannah Cobb, born 08 Sep 1829, Kennebec County.
6. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2QK-8RND : Sat Mar 09 20:10:52 UTC 2024), Entry for Abbe Maria Cobb and parents Benjamin & Hannah Cobb, born 27 July 1832, Pittston, Kennebec County.
7. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2QK-8RND : Sat Mar 09 20:10:52 UTC 2024), Entry for Abbe Maria Cobb and parents Benjamin & Hannah Cobb, born 27 July 1832, Pittston, Kennebec County

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