The Will of Henery (Henry) Cobb
"The last Will and Testament of Mr. Henry
Cobb made this 4th of April1673 And
exhibited before the Court held att
Plymouth: the third ofJune 1679 on the oathes of Mr. Thomas Hinckley and
Mistris Mary Hinckley his wife as followeth:
I, Henery Cobb of Barnstable though weak
in body yett through the Mercye of God
of
disposing mind and memory and calling to mind the uncertainty of this
Transitory Life; make this my Last Will
and Testament heerby Revoking and
disanulling all former Will and Wills
byword or writing hertofore by mee made;
and doe heerby Constitute and desire to
Comit my soul to God in Jesus Christ who
Gave it and my body to decent burial; when
God shall please to call mee hence;
and astouching my worldly estate which god
hath beyond my deserts bestowed on mee
my
will is to dispose of it as followeth.
Imps. My Will is that all my debts in
Right or Conscience to any man due, shall
be first discharged by my executrix
heerafter Named; in Convenient time out of my
estate; and to his heires and assignes
forever; hee having heertofore payed five
pounds to my son John Cobb for his
Interest therin; and wheras I heretofore Gave
half my Lands att Suconeesett unto my sons
John, James, Gershom and Eliezer
equally to be devided betwixt them which
was with my Consent sold and
exchanged;and forty shillings being in the
hand of my son James for my
brother Eliezer that forty shillings in
pay Currant, with the Marchant; Item,I
will and bequeath my New dwelling house
and all the rest of my Lands both upland
and medow unto Sarah my deare and loveing
wife, during her Natural life, for her
support; and bringing up the Children I
had by her.
Item, my will is that after her decease;
my son Samuell shall have my dwelling
house and two acrees of my upland; and an
acree and a half of my Marsh; which I
bought with his Stock being the one half
of a parcell of Marsh, lying att Sandy
Neck; in partenorship with my son James.
It, I will and bequeath to my sonnes
Samuell, Jonathan and Henery all of the Rest of my lands both
upland and
meddowes, To be equally divided betwixt
them after my said wifes decease, or
sooner if shee see cause; To each of them
their heires and assignes for
ever; Item, I give and bequeath unto my
sonnes John, Gershom and Eliezer
on shilling to each of them; and to my
daughters Mayr, Hannah and Patience to each
of them one shilling out of my estate;
Item, I will and bequeath to my daughter
Sarah my second best bed and furnituretherunto belonging. Item, I
will and
bequeast all the rest of my estate in
whatsoever It be within dores or without
unto Sarah my Loveing wife; whom I doe by
these presents Constiture and eclare to
be my sole execturix. In Witness wherof I
have herunto sett my hand and seale; The
date aforsaid with this word half ente
rlined before In sealeing heerof
Henery Cobb anda seale
In the presence of
Thomas Hinckley Assistant
Mary Hinckley
On further Consideration I the within or
above mentioned Henery Cobb have cause
this Coddicelll to be added to this my Last
Will and Testament viz: my will is
that my son Samuell shall have the onely
two acrees of my upland together with
the Marsh att Sandy Neck with mensioned
after my wifes decease; and all the Rest
of my lands to bequally divided between my
said three sones Samuell, Jonathan
and Hennery as above mentioned.and further
my will is that my son Henery shall
have my new dwellinghouse aftermy wifes decease, and his Pte of
the land aforsaid to
lyemost Convenient to the said house onely my lannds att the Iland
shalbe eually
devided between them, mysaid three sons;
whom I will thatthey shall Give libertie to
my son James to dry thach on one half odan
acree of said Iland; when the English
Corne is taken off in suchplace therof as
they shall Annally appoint, unto him; In
Witness whereof I have heerunto sett my
hand and seale this 22cond day ofFebruary
1678
Henery Cobb and a Seale.
Signed sealed and delivered as an addition
to his last Well and Testament within
mensioned
in the presence of us
Thomas Hinckley Assistant
Mary Hinckley
Proved June 3, 1679
Site of the First Church in Scituate, MA
1634
Plaque at entrance to Cemetery:
1636 1976
Men of Kent Cemetery Burial place of many
of the Towns OriginalSettlers who came
from Kent County, England in 1628. This is
also the site of the First Church in
Scituate built in 1634
Scituate Historical Society
First Meetinghouse erected on this lott
Aug. ye 2d and 3d 1636 exercised in
Novemb 10 and 11, 1636 Site of the First
Church in Scituate Marker at Center of
Cemetery:
Erected to the Men of Kent who settled
Scituate in 1628
Large Stone beyond entrance
Anthony Annable
Thomas Byrd
Henry Cobb
James Cudworth
Edward Foster
William Gillson
Timothy Hatherly
Henry Merritt
Henry Rowley
Nathaniel Tilden
Humphrey Turner
"The great Migration Begins:
Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633"
Author: Robert Charles Anderson, Published:
Boston: New England Historical Gene.
Soc, 1995 3 Volumes.
Vog I, pages 392-395:
Henry Cobb: Origin: unknown: Removes:
Scituate 1634, Barnstable 1639
Occupation: Tavernkeeper
Church Membership "Goodman Cob and
his wife were member #7 and $8,admitted at
the founding of Scituate church on 8 Jan. 1634/5 [NEHGR9:279].
"Decemb. 15,
1635 our Brother Cobb was invested into the office of a
Deacon"
at at Scituate [NEHGR 10:37]. Ordained
ruling elder of Barnstable church, 14 April
1670 [Cobb Gen. citing BarnChR 1:1].
Freeman: in the "1633" Plymouth
list of freemen near other admitted on1 Jan.
1632/3 [PCR 1"4]; in 7 March 1636/7 list of freemen [PCR
1:53].Initially
entered in Scituate portion of 1639 llist
of Plymouth Colony freemen, then
transferred to Barnstable section [PCR
8:175,177]. In Barnstable section of 1658
and 29 May 1670 lists of Plymouth
freemen[PCR 5:277, 8:200]. He was a "Freeman".
The first volume of Court Orders of the
Plymouth Colony gives the names of
Freemen of the Incorporation of Plymouth
in New England, 1633. Henry Cobb was
Among the 68 individuals identified as a
freeman.
Education: Signed his name to coroner's
jury findings [PCR 2:147'. Hisinventory
included "books" valued at 24s.
Offices: Deputy for Barnstable, 5 June
1644, 3 June 1644, 3 Mar1645/6, 7 July
1646 [PCR2:72], 95, 104,117, 1:9, 162,
187, 198, 214,4:14]. Coroner's jury, 5
June 1658 [PCR 3:137]. Plymouth petit
jury, 4June 1639, 3 Sept. 1639, 3 Dec
1639, 3 Mar. 1639/40, 1 Sept. 1640, 2Mar.
1640/1, 17 June 1641, 7 Sept. 1642, 6
June 1649, 6 June 1650 [PCR7:12-15, 18,
19,21, 32, 46, 49, 2:140]. Excise
collector for Barnstable, 8 June 1664 [PCR
4:67].
In Barnstable section of 1643 Plymouth
list of men able to bear arms[PCR 8:193].
Committee for defense of Barnstable, 10 Oct. 1643 [PCR2:65].
Estate: Assessed 9s. in the Plymouth tax
lists of 25 Mar. 1633 and 27Mar 1634
[PCR 1:11 29].
[Brøderbund Family Archive #310, Ed. 1,
Census Index: Colonial America, 1607-
1789, Date of Import: Oct 17, 1999,
Internal Ref.#1.310.1.340.17]
Individual: Cobb, Henry
County/State: Plymouth Co., MA
Location: Plymouth
Page #: 253
Year: 1632
[Brøderbund Family Archive #310, Ed. 1,
Census Index: ColonialAmerica, 1607-
1789, Date of Import: Oct 11, 1998,
Internal Ref.#1.310.1.340.16]
Individual: Cobb, Henry
County/State: Plymouth Co., MA
Location: Barnstable
Page #: 258
Year: 1643
Henry Cobb (the Elder)
Barnstable, Massachusetts
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Just about everything we know about Henry
Cobb of Barnstable, MA, comes from the
records of Rev. John Lothrop, a Puritan
preacher who emigrated from London in
1632.
Henry Cobb was the first known Cobb to
emigrate from England to the Plymouth
Colony. Many descendants have long
searched for his English origin and background. In developing this vignette of
the immigrant I have drawn liberally
from the scholarly works of Philip L.
Cobb, author of "The Cobb Family" (1907);
Richard Cobb, Harvard professor; and
Richard Cobb, a retired Navy Captain.
However, the hypotheses and conclusions
contained herein are my own. Much is
known on the activities of Henry Cobb, the
Puritan, in the Bay Colony but little
has been done to unravel the specifics of
his origin. There is general agreement
that "The Elder Henry" or
"The Deacon Henry Cobb", came from an area in County
Kent east of the Medway River, which flows
out of the hills of southern Kent
through Maidstone and Chatham and into the
Thames Estuary. It is within this
area that inhabitants are called "Men
of Kent" (Jutish origin); those to the
west of the Medway are known
as"Kentish Men" (Saxon origin). Professor Richard
Cobb, through study and acquaintance with
the Cape Cod descendants of Henry
Cobb, suggests that as a young man Henry
Cobb was "rather short, with blue eyes
and reddish sandy hair." Interesting,
as this description agrees with the
perceived appearance of the Germanic Jutes
who invaded and settled in Great
Britain in the 5th century. The most
visible trail of "Henry the Elder" in
England is found in his relationship with
his church leader, the Reverend John
Lothrop.
.
Lothrop, obviously disenchanted with the
autocratic dogma of the King's Church,
left England in the ship
"Griffin" with his family and some members of his
church for the Plymouth Colony, arriving
there 18 September 1634. Here Henry
Cobb, the Lothrop protege who had been in
the Colony for about five years,
responded to the call of his old friend
and esteemed pastor. He aided the
Reverend in getting his family and church
established in the newly formed town
of Scituate. Lothrop's records published in
the New England Register, Volumes IX
and X, leaves little doubt of Henry Cobb's
membership in Lothrop's London
church: "Uppon January 8, 1634, Wee
had a day of humiliation and then att night
joyned in covenaunt to geather, so many of
us had beene in Covenaunt before. To
Witt. Mr. Gilsonn and his wife, Goodman
Anniball and his wife, Goodman Rowly and
his wife, Goodman Cob and his wife,
Goodman Turner, Edward Foster, Myselfe,
Goodman Foxwell, Samuel House."
Most men of Kent were farmers in an area famous
for hops, fruit and grain. Even
in this age, importance was attached to
the idea of status. The term "Yeoman"was commonly used in legal and
other documents to denote status above "Husbandman" (smaller, less
prosperous farmer) and below that of "Gentleman" (upper middle
class). Yeomen, from whom Henry Cobb was descended, were reasonably well
educated. Some Yeomen sons attended the universities; some became clergymen. A
review of the pedigrees of the Cobbs of Kent and a personal inspection of the
Manor houses at Reculver and Eastleigh Court suggest 16th century
gentry but 17th century Yeomen. Suffice it to say that the emigrant Henry Cobb
did not inherit his father's estate. The major inheritance, by custom, probably
went to Benjamin Cobb, the first-born son. This situation, as well as the
significant influence of Reverend Lothrop, could have given the impressionable
18-year-old Henry Cobb ample justification to seek an apprenticeship in the
shops or pubs of London in 1623, the year that Lothrop
formed his church there
.
The influence of the charismatic Lothrop
on the Cobbs of Reculver must have been
substantial. The Cobb home at Relculver
was about 15 miles from Egerton, Kent
where Lothrop was in residence from
1611-1623. Henry Cobb, the assumed father of
the emigrant Henry, was himself censured
by the establishment. He had become
Lord of the Manor of Bishopstone,
Reculver, Kent, when his father Richard died
in 1582. In the record of the Visitations
of the Archdeacon of Canterbury in
1599 is found the following: "We
present these persons whose names are hereunder
written for they refuse to pay unto a cess
made by divers of our parish for the
reparation of our said church:....Henry
Cobb 3 shillings, 10 pence (owed). The
nature of Henry Cobb's apprenticeship or
trade in London is open to conjecture.
The fact that he came from an area rich in
hops and grain and later in the
Colony he was authorized to dispense wine
suggests the production and/or sale of
ale, the national beverage of the era.
From the Plymouth Colony Record II 73: "5
June 1644, Henry Cobb is lycensed to draw
wine at Barnstable."
What better place than an English pub in
the 17th century to keep abreast of
politics, religion, and emigration. Henry
Cobb of London must certainly have
been aware of a number of significant
events, viz.: That in 1604, in a
declaration at Hampton Court, James I said
of the Puritans,"I shall make them
conform themselves or I will harry them
out of the land or else do worst." Henry
must have known the story of an
undereducated group of separatists called
"Pilgrims" who sought refuge
first in Amsterdam and subsequently in Leyden,
Holland; and the unwillingness to be
assimilated into the Dutch culture, made
their way to Plymouth in 1620 aboard the
Mayflower. (Of the 101 passengers on
the first voyage of the Mayflower, 35 were Leyden Pilgrims, the others mainly
merchants and adventurers.)
Phillip L. Cobb, historian, said of him:
In 1628, the Puritans of Henry Cobb's
sect began their mass exodus. John
Winthrop, a strong and able leader, in 1630
led nearly 1000 Puritans with their cattle
and horses to settlements in the
Massachusetts Bay Colony. In general the
Puritans were a wealthier and better
educated class than the Pilgrims but they
shared their deeply religious
convictions. It was shortly after the
Winthrop departure that Henry Cobb, at age
24, made his move, probably in the ship
"The Anne" in 1629. Other possible ships
include "Mayflower II" and the
"Little James," which also arrived at Cape Cod in
1629. Phillip L. Cobb, historian, said of
him: "Elder Cobb was not a man of
brilliant talents. He was a useful man and
an exemplary Christian." Richard
Cobb, educator, found the immigrant Cobb
to be: "kindly, helpful, but adverse to
making trouble or having any part of it;
sensible, rather shrewd, but non
assertive. Probably like many of his
descendants on Cape Cod, he was independent
but sluggish in thought, conservative and
sentimental in feeling, and outwardly
diffident, inarticulate. Certainly he held
general respect, and he does not
appear to have excited envy."
Professor Cobb said in his character analysis of
Henry, the emigrant, that he was
"sensible, shrewd, adverse to making trouble or
being a part of it." How accurate
this assessment of the man seems to have been.
Cobb didn't linger in London long enough
to be jailed in the famous "clink" with
the zealous Lothrop and his followers in
1632. When the great Civil War of 1642
came about to settle the question of supremacy
between King and Parliament, High
Church and Puritans, Henry Cobb is found
saving souls and selling wine in
Massachusetts. Henry Cobb landed at the
then nine-year-old Plymouth settlement
in 1629. Upon arrival, he was soon to find
old friends and other "Men of Kent"
of the same political and religious
persuasion. Thus he was readily assimilated
into the community. Within two years of
his arrival (1631 ) he married Patience
Hurst, daughter of James Hurst (inter
alia) the local tanner. Hurst was a man of
some consequence in Plymouth. He was a
deacon of the church and, with men of the
caliber of Captain Miles Standish, was
trusted with appraisal of estates of the
deceased. Both Hurst and Cobb were
"Freemen." The first volume of Court Orders
of the Plymouth Colony gives "the
names of Freemen of the Incorporation of
Plymouth in New England, 1633." James
Hurst and Henry Cobb were among the 68
individuals identified as freemen. Freemen
were never in the majority. In 1743
there were only 233 among a total of 634
males. To be a freeman in the Plymouth
Colony, you had to be unindentured, no
younger than 21 years, of good reputation
and "orthodox in the the fundamentals
of religion." Patience Hurst Cobb bore her
husband Henry seven children--two boys in
Plymouth, three girls in Scituate and
two boys in Barnstable.
Patience died 4 May 1648. In typical Cobb
tradition, Henry continued to marry
well. On 12 December 1649, Henry married
Sarah Hinckley, the daughter of Samuel
and Sarah Hinckley. The Hinckleys were a
particularly prominent family. Sarah
added eight more children to the Cobb
Clan. Henry Cobb spent only a few years in
Plymouth where land was now at a premium
with little room left for growth. As
early as 1628 some of his friends from
Kent--among them William Gillson, Anthony
Annable, Edward Foster and Henry Rowley--
became interested in the less heavily
timbered land at Scituate, about 20 miles
to the north of Plymouth. Cobb
followed; "In Scituate was
constructed before September, 1634, and was the
seventh built in that county by the
English." (Deane's History of Scituate,
page238.) Afterwards he sold it to a Mr.
Rowley, and built on a lot he owned
on"..Kent Street, House numbered
32." The land owners of Kent Street are
referred to collectively as the "Men
of Kent", giving further credence to the
idea that Henry, and many of his brethren,
were from Kent originally.
In September 1634, Reverend Lothrop and
family, who had just arrived in the
colony, were welcomed to Scituate by Henry
Cobb, friend and follower. For his
good deeds and loyal and faithful service,
Henry Cobb was "invested with the
office of deacon" by Reverend Lothrop
on 15 December 1635. On the 8th of January
following (1634/5) Mr. Lothrop made this
entry in his records: "We had a day of
humiliation and then at night joined in
covenant togeather, so many of us as had
been in Covenant before; to witt, Mr.
Gilson and his wife, Goodman Hannibal and
his wife,Goodman Rowley and his wife,
Goodman Cob and his wife, Goodman
Foster,myself, Goodman Fokwell and Samuel
House."
The settlement at Scituate was not to last
long, however. Disputes broke out
around land allotments. In 1637/8, a
petition that included Henry's signature,
found its way to the General Court
complaining that they (the signers)
had..."such small proporcons of lands
there alloted them that they cannot
subsist upon them." (1) By 29
November 1638, Lothrop's congregation was
observing a Day of Humiliation "as
alsoe for our further Succcesse in our
Removeall." On 3 January 1636/7, Mr.
Timothy Hatherly had petitioned the Court
"in the behalf of the Church of
Scituate.... That the place [Scituate] is too
streate for them to reside comfortably
upon and that the lands adjacent are very
Stony and not convenient to plant
upon," and he requested permission for the
"said Inhabitants of Scituate"
to search for lands to settle elswhere unless
other lands could be given them which
would allow more comfortable subsistence
at Scituate. The court approved this
reuest on 12 January 1638/39 with a grant
of land at a place clled Sippican (today
Rochester) to Mr. Thomas Besbeech,
James Cudworht, William Gilson, Anthonly
Annable, Henry Rowley, Edward Foster,
HENRY COBB , and Robert Linnell [p.62] as
a committee for the seating of a
township and congregation. However, no
town was founded there at this time, and
apparently the grant was revoked by the
court, or rejected by the grantees.
There is some evidence suggesting the the
dispute was settled for a time. Henry
himself received a new allotment, but when
it was proposed that the Church
remove to Sippican (now Rochester, MA)
Henry, a Deacon of the Church at that
time, was one of the committee members
referred to in a grant for a township.
Later, in 1639, when it was decided
instead to move the Church to Mattakeese,
now Barnstable, MA., he was one of those
responsible for choosing the proper
location for the new town. In this new
town, named Barnstable, the first
Independent Congregational Church of that
name in the world was established, and
Henry Cobb was elected an elder, or Senior
Deacon, almost immediately. He was
also a town officer and served on numerous
committees. His signature can be
found on petitions, court reports, wills
(as witness) inventories of estates, et
al. He served as a deputy to the Colony
Court, and on April 14, 1670, he was
ordained as a Founding Elder of the
Church, a position he would hold until his
death. His house-lot in Barnstable contained
seven acres, and was situated at a
little distance north from the present
Unitarian meeting-house. His great lot so
called, contained three-score acres,
besides which he was the owner of several
smaller lots in Barnstable and was one of
the proprietors of the common lands in
that town; he also owned lands in
Suckinneset, now Falmouth, Mass. His name
appears in a list of men able to bear arms
in the Colony of New Plymouth, town
of Barnstable, in 1643.
Barnstable with its great stretch of salt
marsh showed promise for an"overplus"
from raising cattle which was not
attracting English capital. Here in
Barnstable, an area similar in climate and
topography to his homeland in Kent,
Henry Cobb found his place. The first
house which he built in Barnstable was
similar to those built by the two other
deacons, Thomas Dimmock and William
Crocker. The lower story was constructed
of stone, while the upper or second
story was built of wood. They were
fortification-houses, and were intended to
serve the double purpose of dwellings and
as places of refuge for the
inhabitants should the Indians prove
treacherous or hostile. Deacon Cobb's
house, as I understand it, was built on
his seven-acre lot in the eastern part
of Barnstable. He was a farmer or planter,
and probably devoted considerable
attention to the raising of cattle, as his
"great-lot" was a good grazing farm,
as were also the two lots in the common
field, which he however occupied chiefly
for planting lands as the soil was rich
and productive. Some have supposed that
he sometimes worked at the trade of a
mason, and built his own houses, as his
first house was of stone and five
generations of his descendants in Barnstable
were masons or brick layers.
Henry continued as church deacon and right
hand man to Reverend Lothrop from
1635-1670. In 1670, he was elevated to the
office of ruling elder, in which
position he remained until his death in
1679. Cobb took a modest, yet not
unimportant part in the government of his
town of Barnstable. For a time he was
one of three men chosen to manage the
affairs of the town. He was Deputy of
Barnstable from 1659-1662. For many years
he also represented the town at the
General Court at Plymouth. Old records
inform us that Henry Cobb, among others
was an early taxpayer in Plymouth Colony.
On January 2, 1632/3 he was rated with
a tax of nine shillings, and again January
1633/4, he was rated with another tax
of nine shillings. This we ascertained
from published lists of the first
recorded colonial taxes, which according
to a preface to the lists, were "to be
brought in by each person as they are
heers under written, rated in Corne, at vi
s.Pr.bushell, at or before the last of
November next ensuing to such place as
shall be hereafter appointed to receive the
same." We infer that Henry Cobb,
soon after his coming to Plymouth united
with the church there, of which the
ruling elder and preacher was William
Brewster, as he was dismissed from that
church, with his wife and others Novermber
23, 1634, "in case they joyned in a
body att Scituate," which they did,
soon after the establishment of that town,
when the church was organized. Amos Otis,
Esq., of Yarmouth, Mass., says in one
of his historical papers published in the
Barnstable Patriot, that in the autumn
of 1633, Henry Cobb "went to
Scituate, then a new settlement." From Scituate
Henry Cobb removed to Barnstable, about
the close of the year 1639.
Elder Henry Cobb died in 1679; the records
do not give his age. (NOTE-Rev.H.W.
Cobb, of Wheaton , Illinois says he was
83, according to Henry E. Cobb of
Newtonville, MA.) In the ancient cemetery
on Lothrop's Hill, in Barnstable,
within an enclosure about six feet square,
surrounded by stone posts and iron
rails, is his grave with that of his first
wife. In the center, between the two
graves, stands a plain simple granite
shaft about six feet in height from the
base, on the front of which has been
engraved the following inscription to his
memory: Elder Henry Cobb the ancestor of the
Cobb Family in Barnstable. Died in
1679 --- Erected in 1871, by Enoch T.
Cobb, a descendant. The precise date of
his death is not known. His will, dated
April 4, 1678, and the codicil thereof,
dated Feb. 28, 1678/9, his estate, after
inventory, was found to be seven pounds
in debt . His will was probated in June,
1679, showing that he died between the
months of February and June. "The
promise of Abraham has been fulfilled in this
man, his posterity areas numerous,
figuratively, as the sands of the seashore
that is that they cannot be number"
(Massachustetts Historical Collection,
Second Series Vol. IV., page 247.)
Henry Cobb had two sons while living in
Plymouth. John, who eventually returned
to Plymouth, was born in 1632; and James,
who would live in Barnstable and
follow his father's footsteps more
closely, was born in 1634. Henry had two
daughters in Scituate; May and Hannah; and
in Barnstable, Patience, Gersom (who
was killed by Indians in the King Phillips
War) and Eleazer. His wife, Patience,
died in Barnstable, on May 4, 1649, and
was the second person to die in
Barnstable. According to Rev. Lothrop, she
was "...the first that was buried in
our new burying place by our meeting
house." Henry owned about eighty acres in
Barnstable. The homestead itself covered
only seven acres, and much of it was
swamp, or marshland. It was not one of the
more desirable parcels and was
situated between land owned by Thomas
Huckins and George Lewis. Henry refers to
his Marsh in his will. His original house
of wood was replaced by one of stone.
Apparently only the three Deacons built
houses of stone, as they were reponsible
for sheltering the townspeople in time of
Indian attacks or other disasters.
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