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Cobb family researchers:
After finding new information about my Cobb family who came 'from' Virginia'
I am hoping there is someone who recognizes some piece of this information
to help point me in the correct direction for the names and information
regarding parents of two Cobb men named William and Thomas who arrived in
Kentucky after the 1810 Census and said they were 'from' Virginia. It is
presumed they sailed/floated down the Ohio River from Virginia.
What I am telling now is probably WAY TOO MUCH information but hopefully
something will ring a 'family story' bell.
I am a Cobb descendant who claimed his father was born in Virginia and who,
we have learned, was probably born in the 1780-90 timeframe.
We learned that there were two Cobb men, William and Thomas who
sailed/floated down the Ohio River from Virginia about 1812-13 into Henry
County, KY. I have information on both these men from the 1820 Census
onward, but nothing about their parents or where they were born.
These two Cobb men may have been looking for work on the large Peter Kinder
farm located along "Bullskin creek, a branch of Brashears creek. Peter
Kinder he paid £100 English pounds for the acreage. For the next 31 years
they lived on Bullskin creek; reared their children; and saw their
grandchildren come along as the years passed by.â (NOTE: This property is
located along the Shelby County / Henry County line and at the local price
for land, $2 per acre, he would have purchased acreage covering the northern
part of Shelby County and some of connecting Henry County.)
The John Bear/Barr family was living on this farm also as John Bear married
Peter Kinder's daughter (as his second wife) in 1803.
This farm is where one of these men, and we believe this is where William
Cobb met and married Hester Barr/Bear (daughter of John Bear from
Pennsylvania).
Both Cobb men followed John Bear from Henry/Shelby Counties, KY to property
he purchased across the Ohio River in Milton, Jefferson County, Indiana.
They apparently lived and worked on the Bear farm where they both appear in
the 1820 Census Prior to the 1820 Census, Thomas married also however, I
have no information on his wife's name or his two daughters. The 1820 Census
of Jefferson County, IND shows William with one son, a wife and three
daughters. Thomas Cobb is shown with a wife (unknown) and two daughters - no
sons.
William Cobb's son, John Cobb was born 19 May 1814 shortly before the family
moved to Milton, IND. John Cobb was my great-great grandfather. I have his
life story and am searching for his parents/ancestry.
What we do know from our DNA testing is that our Cobb family descends from
the same family line as that of Ambrose Cobbs who settled in Virginia in the
1600s. Did our Cobb family descend directly from Ambrose or from possibly
another Cobb family related to Ambrose in England? This has not been proven.
Thank you for reading this and hopefully you will have some information I
can use to find the parents of these two Cobb men. I have heard family
stories about my Cobb family since childhood and have been researching this
family since the 1940s - and I have the hope of finding this family soon - I
am now 81 and have no idea how many years of research I have ahead of me.
Margie Hinton in California
[1]http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/n/Margie-Hinton/index.html
References
1. http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/n/Margie-Hinton/index.html