Mary (Cobb) Melcher (1737 - 1825)

Born 24 Jun 1737 in Barnstable, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Melcher — married about 1757 in Falmouth, York, Maine District, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 12 May 1825 at age 87 in Gorham, Maine

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Biography

Mary Cobb was born in 1737 to Nathan Cobb and Bethiah Harding Cobb probably in Eastham, Massachusetts.^[1] Her father died before 1741 and her mother remarried. Her step-father John Freeman took the family to Gorham, Maine.

In 1757, Mary married Joseph Melcher and they moved to Brunswick, ME.^[2] She died in 1825 and was buried with her husband in Maquoit Cemetery in Brunswick, ME.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VQDD-X2K : 4 December 2014), Mary Cob, 24 Jun 1737; citing , EASTHAM, BARNSTABLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 905,406.
2. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HVK-B7W : 27 December 2014), Joseph Melcher and Mary Cobb, Marriage 04 Oct 1757; citing Division of Vital Statistics, State Board of Health, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,002,650.

• Source S96 Type: Web Site, Text: James Cobb Family Group Record, FamilySearch Ancestral File v4.19, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Ancestral File number JVN5-3L, http://www.familysearch.org.
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• Source: Find A Grave: Memorial #38211545 accessed on 18 Nov 2019
• Source: Hugh Davis McLellan, History of Gorham, ME, (Portland, ME: Smith & Sale, 1902), 301-302

Acknowledgements

Profile was created through import of Morris_gedcom.ged on 11 June 2010.