Pharoah Cobb1

Pharoah Cobb||p4045.htm|Benjamin Cobb|b. bt 1705 - 1712\nd. b 18 Jan 1809|p3994.htm||||Joseph Cobb|b. c 1684\nd. 11 Jul 1758|p3991.htm|Susannah (—?—) (Cobb)||p3992.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
     Pharoah Cobb was the son of Benjamin Cobb.1
     
Additional Data
640 acres on the east fork of Knobb Creek in Washington County, Tennessee, were entered by Pharoah Cobb, 2 November 1778. This land was near a "conditional line of Benjamin Cobb."2

Benjamin Cobb obtained a grant for 600 acres on Knobb Creek south of the Watauga River, in Washington County, Tennessee, 11 July 1788, for fifty shillings per 100 acres.3 He sold this land to his son Pharoah on 20 December 1789,4 and on 27 February 1792, Pharoah conveyed same to his brother William.5

Benjamin Cobb traditionally lived with his son Pharoah Cobb in Carter County, Tennessee, between 1796 and 1799, and accompanied the latter to his new home at Cobb's Ford, Hawkins County, Tennessee, in 1799.6

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: 187.
  2. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", 12: 186, citing Grant No. 838; Entry No. 566; Bk. 64, page 338.
  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), citing Washington Co., Tenn., Deed Bk. 5, p. 46.
  4. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, citing Washington Co., Tenn., Deed Bk. 5, p. 20.
  5. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", 12: 186, citing Vol. 4, page 703, Bk. 5, page 46, N.C., Grant No. 836; Deed Book 5, pages 20, 22, Washington County, Registrar's Office.
  6. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 707.