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Bob,
I can help you with this line. I see you have a marriage for one of the children of the marriage; I have had her siblings but no spouses or descendant info from those children of Elijah & Martha Cobb. Your posting adds one marriage to this family. Refer to the two following family group sheets.
Family Group Sheet 1
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Husband: Elijah Cobb
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Birth: aft 1740
Death: Burial:
Marriage: 6 Jun 1781 Tiverton, Newport Co., RI, USA
Father: Elijah Cobb (1713-1780) (See parents' sheet below)
Mother: Katharine Danforth (1714-1770)
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Wife: Martha Brownell
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Birth: Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI, USA
Death: Burial:
Father: George Brownell ( - )
Mother:
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Children
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1 F Wait Durfee Cobb
Birth: 24 Apr 1782 Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI, USA
Death: Burial:
Marriage:
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2 F Katharine Danforth Cobb
Birth: 9 Aug 1783 Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI, USA
Death: Burial: Marriage:
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3 F Martha Brownell Cobb
Birth: 6 Aug 1785 Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI, USA
Death: Burial: Marriage:
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4 F Rachel Cobb
Birth: 13 Aug 1794 Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI, USA
Death: Burial: Marriage:
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5 M Elijah Cobb
Birth: 13 Aug 1794 Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI, USA
Death:
Burial: Marriage:
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FAMILY NOTES
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Marriage (6 Jun 1781): [He was "of Dartmouth" then](1)
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HUSBAND NOTES: Elijah Cobb
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General: [Mentioned but not named in will of Hannah (Allen) Danforth as "the son of my dau. Cobb"]
[He was likely the Elijah Cobb who was listed as one of several Justices of the Peace in Portsmouth, RI from 1786 - 1791]
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SOURCES
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Marriage: James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rhode Island, 1636 - 1850; First Series (Providence: Narragansett Historical Publ. Co., 1892 and later), Vol. IV.
Newport County (1893), p. 14.
Childrens' births: Vol. IV. Newport County (1893), p. 64
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Family Group Sheet 2
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Husband: Elijah Cobb
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Birth: abt 1713 Taunton, Bristol Co., MA, USA
Property: 7 Oct 1760 - Land in Norton sold to Simeon Cobb of Norton, Bristol Co.
Death: bef 1780
Burial:
Marriage: aft 1738
Father: Morgan Cobb (1680-1769)
Mother: Sarah Harvey (1683-1752)
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Wife: Katharine Danforth
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Birth: 31 May 1714
Death: 5 Mar 1770 Taunton, Bristol Co., MA, USA
Burial:
Father: Samuel Danforth (1666-1727)
Mother: Hannah Allen (1668-1761)
Other spouse: Thomas Hodges (1709-1737) [1st spouse]
Marriage: abt 1736 Taunton, Bristol Co., MA, USA
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Children
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1 M Elijah Cobb
Birth: aft 1740
Death: Burial:
Spouse: Martha Brownell ( - )
Marriage: 6 Jun 1781 Tiverton, Newport Co., RI, USA
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2 F Martha Cobb
Birth: aft 1740 Taunton, Bristol Co., MA, USA
Death:
Burial:
Spouse: Benjamin Borden (1740-1816)
Marriage:
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FAMILY NOTES
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Marriage (aft 1738): Stated as second marriage for each, but if so, who was first spouse of Elijah? (not found)
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HUSBAND NOTES: Elijah Cobb
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Property (7 Oct 1760): Book 44, p. 433; land by right of mother Sarah Cobb dcd.
Death (bef 1780): [from son's marriage in 1781: "Dr. Elijah, of Dartmouth, son of Elijah, dec."]
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WIFE NOTES: Katharine Danforth
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Birth (31 May 1714): (1)
Death (5 Mar 1770): (1)
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SOURCES
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1. John J. May, Danforth Genealogy. Nicholas Danforth, Of Framlingham, England, and Cambridge, N. E. (1589 - 1638) and William Danforth Of Newbury, Mass. (1640 - 1721) And Their Descendants. (Boston, Mass.: Charles H. Pope, 1902.), p. 36.
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Prepared 4 May 2009 by:
Paul Cobb
File Manager: Barnstable and Boston lines (Works in Progress)
<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cobb/>
[The Taunton line is on the web there too]
Researching Mass. lines!
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