Joseph Cobb1

b. circa 1684, d. 11 July 1758
Joseph Cobb|b. c 1684\nd. 11 Jul 1758|p3991.htm|Pharaoh Cobb|d. b 31 May 1701|p4026.htm|Jebrah (—?—) (Cobb)|d. b 20 Feb 1686/87|p5278.htm|Joseph Cobb|b. c 1594\nd. c 1653|p4029.htm|Elizabeth Flinton|b. c 1599|p4030.htm|||||||

5th great-grandfather of William Lemuel Horn Jr.
7th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Horn and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for William Lemuel Horn II
     Joseph Cobb was born circa 1684 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia.3 He was the son of Pharaoh Cobb and Jebrah (—?—) (Cobb).2,3 He married Susannah.1 He probably died by 11 July 1758 either in Northampton County, North Carolina, or Southampton County, Virginia.4
     
     Joseph Cobb moved to Surry County, Virginia, where he appeared on the list of tithables for Lawnes Creek Parish in 1702 and where on 4 October 1706, he made a deed as follows:
Joseph Cobb of Lawne's Creek Parish, Surry, and Joseph John Jackman of same parish, gentlemen, for 1129 lbs. tobacco sold 100 acres on Pocatink Swamp, Surry, which Col. John Lear sold to John Coker of Surry, and 400 acres called "Goose Hill" in Newport Parish [Isle of Wight County], whereon my late deceased father, Pharaoh Cobb, lived, contained in a patent to Joseph Cobb, my grandfather, 4 August 1637, and now in the tenure and occupation of my Mother in Law [step-mother], Mary Cobb, and Arthur Jones, excepting what my father hath legally sold, which said land descended to me from my dec'd. father Pharoah Cobb as heir at law unto him." Wit: Nath Ridley, John Hatch, Joseph Bridger.5,6
     On 19-20 April 1715 by deed of lease and release, Ethelred Taylor of Surry sold to Joseph Cobb of same County 120 acres on Lightwood Swamp in Isle of Wight County between the land of Cobb and Thomas de Loach, mentioning a house "now or late in the possession or occupation of the said Joseph Cobb." Lightwood Swamp fell into Southampton County when it was formed from Isle of Wight in 1749.5,7

     In 1727 Joseph Cobb witnessed the will of William Farecloth. On 20 November 1734, he sold land to John Braswell and wife.8 This transaction on 11 September 1739 by which Joseph sold Taylor the land for five shillings, was witnessed by Joseph's son Benjamin Cobb who was already living in North Carolina.9 Richard Bennett bought land from him 18 March 1739/40, and in that same year it seems that Joseph sold to Ethelred Taylor the Lightwood Swamp land which he had previously bought from him, and moved to North Carolina.10,11

     In 1742 Joseph Cobb proved eight rights in Northampton County, North Carolina, and in 1745 was granted 400 acres in Correroy Swamp.12,13 On 22 February 1746/47 Joseph Cobb of Northampton County, North Carolina, sold to Arthur Stevenson 150 acres in Northampton on the southeast side of Correroy Swamp.14 He and his wife Susannah seem to have sold his other Northampton land by various deeds and conveyed the residue of 250 acres to Benjamin Cobb in 1752.12
Joseph Cobb of Northampton County for 15 pounds to Benjamin Cobb, 250 acres, being part of a patent granted said Joseph Cobb in 1745, beginning next to Benjamin Cobb's land, 11 January 1752/53. Witnesses: Oliver Woodward, William Carter, John Woodward. Signed Joseph Cobb, Susannah Cobb.15,16
     One source states that this is the last record of Joseph in North Carolina and he is thought to have moved to Southampton County, Virginia, where his son Joseph was living. The same source relates that it is difficult to separate references to the two men in Southampton records; that Joseph was probably living in 1760 but by 9 May 1769 his son Joseph appears as Joseph Cobb, Sr.17 A conflicting opinion is that Joseph died in Northampton County soon after the 1752 deed was executed, and the following deed, though it sheds no light on where he died, seems to indicate that he was dead by 11 July 1758.
On 11 July 1758, Stephen Cobb of Northampton County Planter to Thomas Clifton, Jr., of Southampton County, Virginia for 50 lbs. tract of land on south side of Correroy Swamp, 100 acres, also another tract of land on south side of Correroy Swamp bought by Carrolus Anderson, also another tract taken up by Joseph Cobb Sr. and conveyed by Benjamin Cobb to said Stephen, containing together 400 acres. "Have a good right of inheritance."4

Children of Joseph Cobb and Susannah (—?—) (Cobb)

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: 179.
  2. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", 12: 178.
  3. [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), 704.
  4. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", 12: 185.
  5. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", 12: 178, citing D. Bk. I, 1704/1715, p. 48.
  6. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 705, citing Isle of Wight Co. Deed Bk. 2, p. 48.
  7. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 705, citing Isle of Wight Co. Deed Bk. 2, pp. 320-23.
  8. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", 12: 179, citing D. Bk. 4, p. 379.
  9. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", 12: 184.
  10. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", 12: 179, citing D. Bk. 4, 437/8.
  11. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 705, citing Isle of Wight Co. Deed Bk. 4, pp. 379-82.
  12. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", 12: 179, citing D. Bk. 1, 272/311; D. Bk. 2, 77, 402, 464.
  13. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 705, mentioning that this grant is not of record but is mentioned in his deeds.
  14. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 705, citing Northampton Co., N.C., Deed Bk. 1, p. 311, and remarking that "this is signed with the same "I" mark he used in earlier deeds."
  15. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", 12: 184, citing Northampton County D. B. 1, page 77.
  16. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 705, citing Northampton Co., N.C., Deed Bk. 2, p. 77.
  17. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 705.