Capt Gideon Cobb Sr.

• BIRTH 11 Mar 1691 Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
• DEATH 22 Feb 1759 (aged 67) Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
• BURIAL Carey Cemetery, Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 11527618 bio Feb. 10, 2013 by Don Blauvelt

Capt. Gideon Cobb, eldest child of Henry Cobb and Lois Hallet(t), b. of record Apr. 11, 1691 at Barnstable, Mass. He d. Feb. 22, 1759 at Canterbury, Conn., his gravestone read, transcribed and recorded prior to 1900 and printed in NEHGR 70(1916)46.

His given name on his gravestone is inscribed as "Gedion," an obvious transposition by the stone cutter for the usual spelling of the name Gideon, his name "Gideon" the name associated with him in the Canterbury and Stonington town and church records. Gideon was fourteen years old when his father Henry,2 Cobb (Henry,1) moved this branch of the Cobb family from Barnstable to Stonington, Conn. ["Henry Cobb dismissed to Chh in Stonington under the Pastoral care of Rev. James Noyes 9r (Nov) 5, 1705." (West Barn. Church Rec.)]

On Sept. 25, 1717 at Canterbury, Conn., Gideon m. Margaret Fish, dau. of the late John Fish, Jr. and his wife Margaret of Stonington, and stepdau. of Sgt. Samuel Cleveland of Canterbury. The Stonington record of the marriage misstates Margaret's surname as Cleveland whereas the Canterbury Church record of the marriage correctly states her maiden name as Fish. Gideon Cobb and "Margrett his wife" were admitted to the Stonington 1st Church on Oct. 19, 1718, and dismissed to the church at the "Canada" Society [aka Hampton, Conn.] June 12, 1726, where Margaret was admitted to the church at Hampton on July 31, 1726. Both were admitted to the church at Canterbury, Conn. in 1737.

Gideon Cobb and Margaret Fish had two known children, the eldest, Gideon Jr., born and bapt. of record at Stonington. Their second child, son Elkanah, is not of birth or baptism record at Stonington due to being during the time between the death of Rev. James Noyes and his successor when visiting pastors occasionally supplied the Stonington Church pulpit, but infrequently baptized children during their supply visits.

• i. Gideon Cobb, Jr., b. July 8 (bp. Oct. 19), 1718 at Stonington, Conn., d. July 25, 1798 at Pawlet, VT; m. Nov. 5, 1739 at Canterbury, Conn., Abigail Dyar (q.v. Dyer), dau. of Col. John Dyar and Abigail Fitch, and grdau. of Maj. James Fitch and Alice Bradford (Maj. Wm.,2 Gov. Wm.,1 of the Mayflower and Plymouth Colony), b. Apr. 10, 1718 at Canterbury. Nine children of the family.

• ii. Capt. Elkanah Cobb, b. on or after Oct. 28, 1722 at Stonington, d. Oct. 27, 1818 at Canterbury, Conn., Æ 96; m. 1) Aug. 23, 1749 at Canterbury, Sarah Ensworth, dau. of Nehemiah (Texel,1) Ensworth and Abigail Davenport, b. on or aft. Nov. 3, 1731 at Canterbury. She d. Nov. 2, 1754 at Canterbury, Æ 23. Three children of the family, two dying in infancy. He m. 2) Dorothy Shepard who d. Mar. 18, 1802, Æ 69. There are no recorded children by 2nd wife Dorothy.

Inscription
In Memory of Capt.
Gedion Cobb he
died feb. 26, 1759
in ye 68th year of
his age.

On the day Gideon died he was 67 years old, and Ætatis (i.e., Æ, "Aged," in the XX year of his Age) 68, indicating he was b. after Feb. 26, 1690/91. His recorded date of birth on Apr. 11, 1691 in the Barnstable, Mass. town records confirms his Ætatis age at death as inscribed on his gravestone.

Parents
Henry Cobb 1665–1725
Lois Hallett Cobb 1672–1726

Spouse
Margaret Fish Cobb 1695–1775 (m. 1717)

Siblings
Eunice Cobb Gallup 1693–1759
Henry Cobb 1710–1772

Children
Gideon Cobb 1718–1798

Notes

Gideon is a Mayflower descendant (John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley).

References

[1] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11527618/gideon-cobb

[2] HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 316, 372
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