Re: Peter Clubb{klopp/Clobb}of North Carolina
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Re: Peter Clubb{klopp/Clobb}of North Carolina
steven Behr 1/16/08
Update to "the Spanish Alarm of 1748." This probably is old news, but just in case someone reads that date and information, this will help keep them from incorporating it in their research. The dating error just keeps being perpetuated over and over again in databases and family histories, leading many researchers to come to erroneous conclusions.
The accurate date for Capt. Samuel Cobrin's militia company roster is *1756*, NOT 1748. An article rebutting the 1748 date as being impossible was first published in 1993 by Miles S. Philbeck. In 2003, the accurate date of 1756 was established by Kathy Gunter Sullivan through researching North Carolina militia law. In 2008, her findings were published in The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, vol. 34, no. 1 (February 2008): 51-52, and again in 2012 in the Killian Family Newsletter available online (just Google for it).
The militia list of Captain Samuel Cobrin's militia roster was first published in 1904 in The State Records of North Carolina grouped among other military lists that do date in 1748. The 1904 publication created an *incorrect* impression that Samuel Cobrin’s roster also was a 1748 militia company.
The dating error for Cobrin's militia roster was carried forward by Dr. Robert W. Ramsey. Dr. Ramsey, trusting that the 1748 date implied in The State Records was accurate, published an article in 1966 entitled “Captain Samuel Cobrin’s Company of Militia: The First Settlers of Gaston and Lincoln Counties” in Journal of North Carolina Genealogy, vol. 12, no. 4 (Winter 1966): 1773-1779, and vol. 13, no. 3 (Fall 1966): 1926-1933. Lorena Eaker based her conjectures on Dr. Ramsey's article when she published her book "German-Speaking People West of the Catawba River."
1748 is not the correct year for Capt. Samuel Cobrin's Anson County militia roster. 1756 is the correct year.