Joseph Coombs Jr. (1728 - 1803)

Born 1728 in Loudoun, Virginia

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 12 May 1803 at about age 75 in Georges Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Joseph Coombs was born in 1728, based on his age at death inscribed on headstone.^[1]

Joseph died May 12, 1803, in Fayette county, Pennsylvania and is buried in the churchyard of the Mount Moriah Baptist Church.^[1]

Research Notes

Parents

No primary sources are available about Joseph's parents. Contradicting secondary sources indicate that Joseph was a son of Joseph Coombs and Mary Edwards,^[2][3] or Thomas Coomes and Elizabeth Wharton.^[4] Since all other known children of Thomas and Elizabeth were born in Maryland, and all known children of Joseph and Mary were born in Virginia, it is most likely that this Joseph was the son of Joseph and Mary.

Children

About 1750, in Virginia, Joseph married Anne Davenport. Children of Joseph and Anne may include the following:

1. John Coombs, born November 5, 1753.
2. Jesse Coombs, born before 1760. Married Sarah (or, possibly Rachel Bowell)
3. Nancy Ann Coombs, born 1760.
4. Joseph Coombs, born prior to 1764. Died 23 Apr 1784.
5. William Coombs, born abt 1763.
6. Hannah Coombs (Find A Grave: Memorial #42686273), born July 15, 1766, in Fayette City, Pennsylvania, died June 3, 1829, in Charlestown, Clark county, Indiana, ^[5]
7. Sarah Coombs, born January 23, 1770.
8. Mary Coombs, born before 1788. Married Unknown Gray

Possible Sources

Coombs, Richard - Anne Shercliffe family data - Kracha. CITING THIS RECORD The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:S1SG-2NS : accessed 2017-01-12), entry for Joseph /Coombs/. PEDIGREE RESOURCE FILE.

Notes

Will of Joseph Coombs

In the name of God amen. I Joseph Coombs of George Township, Fayette County and State of Pennsylvania being weak in body but in perfect mind and memory thank be given to god; but calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in a Christian, decent burial at the discretion of my executors and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life. I give and dispose of the same in the following manner and form - first after my just debts and reasonable expenses are paid - I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Ann one third of all my personal estate also her bed and bedding for her to dispose of at her will and one third of my land during her natural life. Secondly I give and bequeath to my son John to his heirs and assigns one hundred and fifty acres strict measure of my plantation where on I now live to be laid of as convenient as it can at the upper end where he now lives. Including lands adjoining of Getzsondiver on the Morgantown road. Third I give and bequeath to my son William his heirs and assigns one hundred acres strict measure of my plantation whereon I now live. Including the field that he cleared. Fourth I give and bequeath the remainder of my plantation at my wife Ann's decease to be equally divided between my daughter Nancy Carr, Hannah Carr, Sarah Reed, Mary Gray and my granddaughter Ann Coombs but if the said Ann Coombs dies without an heir of her own body, her part is to be equally divided between my four daughters and the two thirds of my personal estate not disposed of to be equally divided between my four daughters and my granddaughter Ann Coombs to have one bed and bedding also my son John must pay one hundred pounds in trade to the six sons of Jesse Coombs deceased to be equally divided among them and their heirs to be paid in seven years after my decease at the rate of ten pounds the first year, then fifteen pounds every year till paid. I do there by constitute and appoint my son John Coombs and Thomas Carr, executors of this my last will and testament and I do hereby revoke and disannul al other wills ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament. My witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three -- these words in the twenty third --- at my wife Ann decease enterlived before signed.

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Signed sealed and declared by the above named Joseph Coombs to be his last will and testament in presents of us

Thos. Bowell Robert Hannah

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Christian Get-------

Fayette County SS

The 16th day of June Anno Domino 1803 before me the subscriber register for the probate of wills and granting letters of administration in and for said county personally ----Thomas Bowell and Christian Getz------ tow of the sub scribing witnesses to the foregoing last will and testament and on their solemn oaths or affirmations did declare that they saw and heard the testator acknowledge the foregoing _______ of writing to be his last will and testament that at the time of doing the same he was in his right mind to the best of their judgment the no undue influence has been used or any later will made by the deceased to the best of their knowledge or belief. Given under my hand and seal of office same day

Alexander McClean, Register

Registered and compared the 16th day of June 1803

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Find a Grave: Joseph Coombs (1728-1803)
2. ↑ Coombs, Jan Gregoire: Page 86
3. ↑ Combs-Coombs Ec.: Sarah Combs in entry for Joseph Combs II, direct link (http://www.combs-families.org/combs/families/c-jos1728.htm), accessed 27 Feb 2021.
4. ↑ https://www.geni.com/people/Joseph-Coombs/6000000011692748638
5. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3L93-XTT

• "Combs-Coombs Ec." website, Combs-Coombs Ec. (http://www.combs-families.org/combs/).
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 February 2021), memorial page for Joseph Coombs (1728–12 May 1803), Find A Grave: Memorial #23959897, citing Mount Moriah Baptist Cemetery, Smithfield, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by The Ancestor Hunter (contributor 46853198) .
• Coombs, Jan Gregoire. Coombs Family History (Janet Pulvermacher, Middleton, Wisconsin, 2013)

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Anonymous Anonymous for creating Coombs-374 on 13 Jul 13.