G2G: Calling All Revo War mavens - hero needs sourcing

Question

You know who you are.  I found this guy on a nicely written SAR membership app.  Go get 'em.

... and while you're there, check out Lt Col Sam'l McCobb and Lt. Col. Dummer Sewall.

Answer 1

Found/ added a few related sources.

Comments

Chris - good job.  Your sources added important info that led to expanding his family.  I took a stab at a category. American Revolution categories are hard. 

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I added some for Col. Sewall as well, b, m, d and military.

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Samuel McCobb has a WT profile, but not identified as a Revo War colonel - he was a busy guy.  I added his war records, a sticker, and a category.  McCobb and Sewall are both linked to John Decker in his SAR app. section.

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Source: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State, Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the revolutionary war. A compilation from the archives, Volume 10, Wright and Potter Printing Co., , Boston, Massachusetts, 1902, p. 441-2

McCoBB,  Samuel,  Georgetown. Captain of a company of Minutemen ; service,  7 days, probably on the alarm of April 19, 1775;

: reported  enlisted  April  24,  1775 ;  

:also, list  of  men  returned  as  serving  on  main  guard  under  Lieut.  Col.  L.  Baldwin  at Prospect  Hill, dated  July  16,  1775;  

: also Captain, in Col.  John  Nixon's  (5th) regt.; muster roll dated Aug. 1, 1775;  engaged  May 17, 1775; service, 2  mos. 19  days;

: also, company return dated Camp at Winter Hill,  Oct.  7, 1775 ;  

: also,  Captain,  Col. Joseph  Frye's  regt. ;  list  of  seacoast  officers  stationed  at  Falmouth,  Casco Bay; commissioned  Jan. 1, 1776;  

: also,  official  record  of  a  ballot  by  the  House  of Representatives,  dated  Jan.  23,  1776,  for  officers  to  command  the  six  regiments  to be  raised  to  serve  before  Boston  until  April 1, 1776;  said McCobb chosen Major, Col.  John  Robertson's  (Robinson's)  regt. to be  raised in Middlesex and Lincoln counties; appointment  concurred in by Council  Jan.  23, 1776;  

: also, official  record of  a  ballot  by  the  House  of  Representatives,  dated  Jan.  30,  1776,  for  field  officers of  the  several  regiments  in  Lincoln  Co. ;  said  McCobb  chosen  Colonel,  1st  Lincoln Co.  regt.  of  Mass.  militia; appointment concurred in by Council  Feb. 8, 1776; reported  commissioned  Feb.  8,  1776; 

:  also,  official  record of a ballot of the House of Representatives, dated  June 7, 1777 ; said McCobb chosen Colonel of a regiment to be raised in Cumberland and Lincoln counties for  service on expedition to St.  John's river, N.S., under Brig. Gen  Moses Little;  appointment  concurred in by Council June 11, 1777;  reported commissioned June  10[?],  1777;  

: also, list of men raised in Lincoln Co. to serve in the Continental Army, returned as received  of said McCobb, Superintendent for said county, by Theophilus Batchelder, at Georgetown,  May 28, 1778, to be conducted to Fishkill and  delivered to Brig. Jonathan  Warner,  Commissioner;  

: also.  Colonel, 1st  Lincoln Co. regt.. Brig. Gen. Charle  Cushing'  brigad ; general return of  Mass. militia made by Adj. Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, dated  July  5, 1779;  

: also, returns of militia under Gen. Lovell, dated Majorbagaduce, July  31, and Aug.  12, 1779,  showing effectives in detachments under said McCobb and others;  

: also.  Colonel, Gen. Lovell's brigade; service from June 24, 1779, to Sept.  26, 1779,  3 mos.  2 days;  

: also.  Colonel, Lincoln Co. regt.; regimental return made by Lieut. Col. Dummer Sewall,  dated Georgetown, Nov. 19, 1779; commissioned Feb. 14, 1776;  

also,  Colonel;  engaged April  25, 1781; discharged Dec. 1, 1781; service, 7 mos.  5 days, in  Eastern department

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added to his profile.

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At least it all confirm's his promotion/rank as Colonel

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This is interesting: Majorbagaduce ... Major?, a place?

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That's how it's written in the text   and ...

Majabigwaduce was the Penobscot name, meaning “large tideway river,” for what is now known as the Bagaduce River at and above Castine. (in Maine) 

Penobscot Expedition on July 25, 1779 was the largest American naval expedition of the war. The fighting took place on land and at sea around the mouth of the Penobscot and Bagaduce rivers.

Learn something new every day! 

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Ow, my brain hurts.