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Lydia (Leonard) Cobb (abt. 1710 - 1762)

Lydia Cobb formerly Leonard
Born about in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
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Wife of — married 8 Mar 1738 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Died at about age 52 in Province of Massachusetts Baymap
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Biography

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This profile is part of the Cobb Name Study.

Lydia (Leonard) Cobb was born about 1710 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, daughter of Capt. James Leonard III (1677–1764) and Hannah (Walley) Leonard (~1666–1725).

Her siblings were:

  1. Hannah Stone (1687– )
  2. Abigail (Stone) Leonard (1689–~1769)
  3. Capt William Stone (1693–1772)
  4. James Leonard (1699–1771)
  5. Eliphalet Leonard (1702–1786)
  6. Mehitable (Leonard) Perry (~1705–1797)
  7. Mrs. Sarah (Leonard) Danforth (~1709–~1742)
  8. Mary (Leonard) Thayer (~1729–~1814)

Lydia (27) married Capt Thomas Cobb Esq. (32) (Commander of a Taunton Company in the French and Indian War of 1754.) (born in 1705 in Taunton; son of Morgan Cobb and Abigail (Willis) Cobb) on 8 March 1738 in Taunton. Their known children were:

  1. Elizabeth (Cobb) Robinson ( –<1778)
  2. Hannah (Cobb) Crocker (1729–1817)
  3. Abigail (Cobb) Andrews (1731–1815)
  4. Capt. Thomas Cobb Jr. (~1740–1768)
  5. Sarah (Cobb) Paine (1744–1816)
  6. General David Cobb (1748–1830) (General and aide to George Washington during the Revolutionary War.)

Lydia died on 23 October 1762 in Massachusetts, aged 51.

Research Notes

Lydia was a woman of sound character, and of such worth that the Taunton Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution honor her memory in taking her name for their chapter... the Lydia Cobb Chapter.[1]

Sources

  1. ↑ Annals of the Leonard Family compiled by Fanny Leonard Koster, 1911, p110.




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