Born in Stonington, New London, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Daughter of Henry Cobb III
and Mary (Babcock) Cobb
Sister of
Nathan Cobb, Susannah (Cobb) Stanton, Mary (Cobb) Noyes, Ebenezer Cobb Sr., Oliver Cobb, Elkanah Cobb Sr, Eunice (Cobb) Pendleton, Sarah (Cobb) Brown and Anne (Cobb) Ward
Wife of
Acors Sheffield Sr.
— married
25 Nov 1761 in Kingston, Kings County, Rhode Island
Descendants 
Mother of
Lois (Sheffield) Cutler, Sarah (Sheffield) Fanning, Acors Sheffield Jr. and Casandra (Sheffield) Pendelton
Died
at age 82
in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Aug 2013
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Contents |
Biography
Sources
- 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 Lois is a Mayflower descendant (John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley).
Acknowledgments
- Thank you to Lawrence Chesebro' for creating WikiTree profile Cobb-3016 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.
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Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup J1c8a, FTDNA kit #651455, MitoYDNA ID T11752 [compare] - Corey Lewis :
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