Eunice (Cobb) Pendleton (1748 - aft. 1790)

Born 3 Nov 1748 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Sylvester Pendleton — married 11 Apr 1773 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, British Colonial America

Descendants

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Biography

• Eunice Cobb was born in 1748, on either August 3 or November 3, in Stonington, CT, to Henry Cobb and Mary Babcock.
• She married Sylvester Pendleton on April 10 or 11, 1773, in Stonington, CT.
• They had 6 children: Allen (1776), Polly (1778), Sylvester (1779), Freelove & her twin, Eunice (1785), Nancy (1788)
• Her husband died in Stonington in 1788, at age 40.
• She did not remarry, and was still living in Stonington, CT (in a household of 8) in 1790, but does not appear in the 1800 census.

Sources

• Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. Vol. 111, Stonington. Ancestry.com.
• Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection). Ancestry.com.
• Brian Pendleton & His Descendants, 1599-1910. Pp. 132-133. Published 1910.
• 1790 Federal Census. New London, Connecticut. Ancestry.com.

• History of the Cobb Family Author: Phillip L. Cobb Publication: Cleveland, 1907. page 81 #33. (https://archive.org/stream/historyofcobbfam0103cobb#page/80/mode/2up)

33. HENRY COBB (Henry2, Henry1), b. Apr. 13, 1710, at Stonington, Conn. He married Mary, daughter of Col Oliver and Susannah Babcok of Westerly, R. I. She died in 1760, and he married, Mar. 2, 1758, Prudence Champlin. He was a farmer, as was his father. He died about 1772. Information concerning this family was furnished by Sanford E. Cobb.

Children:

82. i. NATHAN, b. June 12, 1734.

ii SUSANNAH, b. Nov. 15, 1736; mar. Oct. 15, 1760. Azariah Stanton at Stonington. She mar. (2) May 29, 1774, Jeremiah Tenney. (Ston. Ch. Rec.)

iii. LOIS, b. Oct. 24, 1737; mar. Nov. 25, 1761, Achos Sheffield.

iv. MARY, b. Feb. 15, 1740; mar. Jany. 24, 1760, Thomas Noyes, son of Rev. J. Noyes.

83. v. EBENEZER, b. Mar. 30, 1742.

vi. OLIVER, b. Mar. 13, 1744; died young.

84. vii. ELKANAH, b. Mar. 6, 1746.

viii. EUNICE, b. Aug. 3, 1748; mar. Apr. 11, 1773, Sylvester Pendleton.

ix. SARAH, b. Sept. 30, 1750; mar. Feb. 14, 1771, Andrew Brown, and lived in Albany county.

x. ANNE, b. June 4, 1756; mar. Jonathan Ward.

Notes

Note Eunice is a Mayflower descendant (John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley).

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Lawrence Chesebro' for creating WikiTree profile Cobb-3020 through the import of LarryChesebro'Cobb.ged on Aug 13, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Lawrence and others.