Arthur Cobb1

Arthur Cobb||p4003.htm|Joseph Cobb Jr.|b. bt 1705 - 1712|p3993.htm|Catherine Whitehead|d. 1769|p3996.htm|Joseph Cobb|b. c 1684\nd. 11 Jul 1758|p3991.htm|Susannah (—?—) (Cobb)||p3992.htm|Arthur Whitehead||p3997.htm||||

1st cousin 5 times removed of William Lemuel Horn Jr.
1st cousin 7 times removed of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Horn and Allied Families
     Arthur Cobb was the son of Joseph Cobb Jr. and Catherine Whitehead.2 He married Susannah (—?—).3
     
Additional Data
Arthur Cobb was deeded 300 acres in Southampton County, Virginia, by Joseph Cobb Sr., 9 May 1769, with restriction that he never sell it during his lifetime,4 and another tract, 8 April 1771. Witnesses were William Cobb, Frederick Cobb and Pharaoh Cobb.5

Arthur Cobb fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain 7 October 1780 near the North and South Carolina border.1 He moved to Washington and Sullivan counties, Tennessee, and then to Mississippi where he purchased Apple Island 24 January 1789 and was a resident near the Spanish line of West Florida.6

Children of Arthur Cobb and Susannah (—?—)

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: 182.
  2. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", 12: 181.
  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), 708.
  4. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 707-8, citing Southampton Co. Deed Bk. 4, pp. 157-58.
  5. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 707-8, citing Southampton Co. Deed Bk. 4, pp. 357-59.
  6. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 708, citing Walter Lowrie, ed., Documents, Letgislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, in Relation to The Public Lands, I (Washington, 1834), p. 567.
  7. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 708, citing Mississippi DAR, Family Records, Mississippi Revolutionary Soldiers (n.p., 1956), p. 61.