Mary (Spilman) Cobb

Wife of Samuel Cobb — married 2 Aug 1813 in Gallatin, Kentucky, United States

Biography

NOTE: there are two ref given by someone, one is the 1810 census for Mary Spilman and the other is the 1820 census. That she is listed by name indicates she was the head of household, since in both those census only the head of household was named.

Enumerators of the 1810 census were asked to include the following categories in the census: name of head of household; number of free white males and females in age categories: [0 to 10], [10 to 16], [16 to 26], [26 to 45], [45+]

The 1820 census called for the name of the family head; the number of free white males and females in age categories [0 to 10], [10 to 16], [16 to 18 (males only)], [16 to 26], [26 to 45], 45+

The Mary Spilman we want is married in 1813. The Mary Spilman listed in the 1820 is unlikely to be also Mary (Spilman) Cobb barring a divorce.

It is possible that the Mary Spilman of 1810 had a daughter named Mary Spilman. There is in the 1810 Census on fw age 10 to 16, who could have been named Mary and who might then have married Samuel Cobb.

Research Notes

We have a likely suspect for this woman, Widow of William Spilman, b. in Virginia, who d. 1810 in Gallatin, Kentucky, USA BURIAL Mount Tabor Cemetery Trimble County, Kentucky, USA FaG #139209280

It does not however place us any closer to the Mary Spilman who married Samuel Cobb but it does seem to fit right into the 1810 and 1820 census information including that the 1810 Census had listed just above Mary Spilman's line one Thomas Spilman

• William was Born abt. 1750, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (THOMAS?) SPILMAN of King George and Westmoreland Co., VA

• Grandson of William SPILMAN and Margaret (FRANK) SPILMAN.

• William SPILMAN married in October 1775, at King George Co., Virginia to Mary BROWN, daughter of Thomas and Sarah BROWN.

They had children:

1. Thomas SPILMAN (1777-1838) m. 1798 Nancy BRENTON;
2. Sarah B. SPILMAN (1781-1827) m. 1797 Robert BRENTON;
3. Nancy (1783) m.1802 Thomas HENSLEY;
4. Charles SPILMAN m. Polly WRIGHT;
5. James SPILMAN m. Louise STRATTON;
6. Phobe m. 1815 Charles GILLUM;
7. Martha Frank SPILMAN m. Mason WIGGINTON;
8. Elizabeth BROWN SPILMAN m. Sidney WIGGINTON.
9. Zachariah SPILMAN (1796-1875) m. 1822 Nancy CONOVER;
10. Ezekiel SPILMAN m. 1825 Elizabeth CLEM;
11. Fielding W. SPILMAN m. Agnes COLEMAN;
12. William SPILMAN (1800) m. Mary "Polly" CLEM;

• VIRGINIA MAGAZINE, Vol.22, p.310; Gallatin County, Kentucky Will Book A, p.166; Book B, p.314; Melville, Malcolm L. THE SPILMAN PAPERS (Forestville, California 1965); Brenton, Chester F., DESCENDANTS of WILLIAM SPILMAN and MARY BROWN (Privately published, Spokane, Washington: 1980).

According to s descendant, Ethel (SPILMAN) MOORE (1885-1980), the SPILMANs were Episcopalians, members of the Old Brick Church at Little Fork, Culpeper County, Virginia.

• Francis, James, and William SPILMAN all served in the Revolutionary War in the Company of Capt. John ROGERS under General George Rogers CLARK in the Illinois campaign. Francis SPILMAN was a sergeant of Cavalry and the other two men served as infantry soldiers. The last pay abstracts of a troop of light Dragoons under Capt. John ROGERS shows that Francis and James served for the same identical period October 1781 to January 1782 and were paid off within a day of each other. - WILLIAM AND MARY QUARTERLY I, vol.8, p.103; Brumbaugh's REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS, p.212.

(Note also that father and uncles of Nancy BRENTON who married 1798 to Thomas BRENTON, born 1777, also served in this campaign under George Rogers CLARK.) See also: George M. Waller's "George Rogers Clark and the American Revolution in the West," INDIANA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY (March 1976), v.72, pp.1-20. --- Thomas BROWN in his will, proved March 26, 1790 at Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co., VA, bequeathed to his "son-in-law, William SPILMAN, one hundred and seventy acres of land lying in the County of Lincoln and the south side of Kentucke river cornering on a tract of land of mine of five hundred fifty acres which I purchased of John CRAGGE and known by the name of Horse Shoe Bottom." See: FAG #142333513; THE SPILMAN PAPERS (Forestville, California 1965), pp.343-349; SPILMAN vs. LEWIS, File 239 (1819), Fredericksburg, Virginia District Court. --- On 28 May 1798, James SPILMAN deeded brother WILLIAM SPILMAN, land in Culpeper County, Va. which was willed to him by his father, Thomas SPILMAN. A witness to the deed was Francis "Frank" SPILMAN. ---

• William SPILLMAN and Mary SPILLMAN his wife deeded property in Gallatin County, Kentucky to Thomas JONES on 11 May 1808. Deed Bk.C, p.250.

--- The will of William SPILMAN of Gallatin Co., Kentucky, was made 14 March 1810 and proved 14 May 1810. (WB. "A", p.166): "In the name of God Amen: I, William SPILMAN, being weak in body but sound in mind and judgment do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament. In the first place I give unto my beloved son Thomas SPILMAN one acre of ground at the northeast corner of the tract I now live on so as to include the spring he now makes use of and agreeable to the way I have heretofore marked the same off to him. "Item: I give to my grandson William SPILMAN who is son to my son William SPILMAN deceased five shillings. "Item: I give to my daughter Sarah BRINTON five shillings. "Item: I give to my daughter Nancy HENSLEY five shillings. "Item: I bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary SPILMAN the remaining part of my personal estate during her natural life or widowhood for the purpose of raising my children that is now with us, to wit: Charles SPILMAN, James SPILMAN, Michael SPILMAN, Wesley SPILMAN, Pheby SPILMAN, Zachariah SPILMAN, Fielding SPILMAN, Ezekiel SPILMAN, Martha Frank SPILMAN, Elizabeth Brown SPILMAN, and after the death of my wife Mary SPILMAN my will and desire is that all my estate, both real and personal, be equally divided between my last named ten children that is now with us. Further my will is that if any of the last named ten children should decease without issue that their share of my estate should go equally to the surviving part of the ten children last mentioned, and I further declare it to be my will that if my wife shall marry that my executors shall proceed to divide my personal estate between her and the last named ten children as the law in that case shall direct. And as there is a debt due to me from the estate of Thomas BROWN my wife's father for two hogsheads of tobacco which I lent him some time previous to his death, the weight of one twelve hundred and forty, the other one thousand and thirty-eight, the price of which was twenty shillings per hundred which I have never received anything for and also all that may be coming to my wife of her father's estate, my will and desire is that the aforesaid property named in this item be equally divided amongst the whole of my children and I hereby constitute and ordain my trusty friends Jesse CANNILL, Senr., Presley GRAY, David OWEN, Thomas SPILMAN, James SPILMAN, & Michael SPILMAN executors to this my last will and testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord 1810. - William SPILMAN [seal]" Witnesses to this will were Henry BRINTON, Daniel BARBEE, Peter ROBERTZ, and Michael MILLER. - Gallatin County Will Book A, p.166; Melville, Malcolm L. THE SPILMAN PAPERS (Forestville, California 1965), p.22-30,347-348; Carl Bogardus, GALLATIN COUNTY ESTATES (1985), p.34. (Note: Ezekiel SPILMAN, Martha Frank SPILMAN and Elizabeth Brown SPILMAN, named in this will, and minors in 1814, might have been grandchildren of William SPILMAN, maker of the will, and children of his deceased son, William; however, Mary (BROWN) SPILMAN calls them her son and daughters in her will of 1821. - William L. DECOURSEY.) --- William SPILMAN died, 1810, in Gallatin Co. (now Trimble County), Kentucky. His wife died ca.1822. "They are buried in a cemetery adjacent to the old Mount Tabor Methodist Church built about 1805 by Reverend Henry BRENTON (near the present Wesleyan Methodist Church." --- A bond dated 9 August 1813, in the matter of the estate of William SPILMAN, was signed by Thomas SPILMAN, Sebia HOLT, and John CLINE. Thomas SPILMAN was named Executor of the will of William SPILMAN. - Gallatin Co., Kentucky Will Book A, page 244. David OWEN, Sr., was named guardian of Zachary SPILMAN and Fielding Wood SPILMAN, infant orphans of William SPILMAN, deceased. Bond: David OWEN, David OWEN, Junior. Samuel COBB was named guardian of Ezekiel SPILMAN, Martha Frank SPILMAN and Eliza Brown SPILMAN. Bond: Samuel COBB and James ANDERSON. Recorded 13 Sept. 1813. Gallatin Co., Kentucky Will Book A, pages 244-248. On 22 Sept. 1813, Charles SPILMAN, James SPILMAN, Thomas SPILMAN, Samuel COBB, William STRATTON, and David OWENS were named in the settlement of the estate of William SPILMAN. --- On 12 September 1814, snother William (X) SPILMAN and Martin HOAGLAND posted $500 bond as executor and administrator. "The above bound William SPILMAN guardian of Ezekiel B. SPILMAN, Martha F. SPILMAN, and Elizabeth B. SPILMAN, orphan children of William SPILMAN. Recorded September 12, 1814." The identity of the "William SPILMAN" named here as guardian of the the minor children of this William SPILMAN is unknown. --- Thomas SPILMAN was the executor of the estate of William SPILMAN on 17 September 1820. - Gallatin Co., Will Book B., p.225. --- About 1820, Martha Frank SPILMAN and Elizabeth Brown SPILMAN, youngest daughters of William and Mary (BROWN) SPILMAN, married brothers, Mason and Sidney WIGGINTON (See Melville's SPILMAN PAPERS, p.28). According to Raleigh Travers Green in his GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES ON CULPEPER COUNTY, VIRGINIA, the SPILMAN and WIGGINTON families belonged to the Episcopal Church in Culpeper County, and members of both families belonged to the board of vestrymen (pt. I, p.113).

Sources

1810 Gallatin, Gallatin, Kentucky, United States https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2H-1WJ reading FWM - 1, 2, 3, 0, 0 |FWF - 2, 1, 0, 0, 1

1820 Gallatin, Kentucky, United States https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHG7-HJ8

Acknowledgements

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