Benjamin Cobb1

b. circa 1755
Benjamin Cobb|b. c 1755|p3919.htm|Captain Stephen Cobb|b. c 1735\nd. Oct 1785|p3261.htm|Patience (—?—) (Cobb)|d. b 18 Nov 1807|p3262.htm|Robert Cobb|b. bt 1705 - 1712|p3973.htm|Mary Deberry||p3974.htm|||||||

2nd great-granduncle of William Lemuel Horn Jr.
4th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Horn and Allied Families
     Benjamin Cobb was born circa 1755.1 He was the son of Captain Stephen Cobb and Patience (—?—) (Cobb).1
     
     Benjamin Cobb moved from Wayne County to Nash County, North Carolina.1 He was probably the Benjamin who was a commissioner to run the dividing line when Wayne County was cut off from Dobbs County in 1779.2

Citations

  1. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia," in Historical Southern Families, Mrs. John Bennett Boddie, editor. (Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1968), 12: 194.
  2. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, comp. and ed., Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1624/5, Fourth Edition, Vol. One, Families A-F (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004), 710, citing The State Records of North Carolina, XXIV (Goldsboro, N.C., 1905), p. 290.