Abigail Cobb

Her tombstone reads: "In memory of Abigail Wife of Ens, Morgan Cobb died January 30th 1765 in the 81 year of her age".

From Paine Ancestry. The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration ... By Sarah Cushing Paine. Whitman ancestry - Page 93. GoogleBooks

“ The subject of the Willis and Cobb relationship has been very much of a problem, by reason of Judge Mitchell's guess that Benjamin Willis's daughter " Susanna” married Gen. David Cobb's grandfather, while it was found that Morgan Cobb’s wife was Abigail, and no record of their marriage could be found. Neither was there any list of Benj. Willis's children brought forward till the discovery of the above deeds in the preparation of this volume.”

“ It is noteworthy that this couple had sold a fifteen acre lot of land in Bridgewater to Nathan Willis, July 18, 1701; it may have been this very lot, now confirmed to them in the final adjustment of titles, for the latter deed was not recorded till June 9, 1737.”

“ No list of the children of Morgan and Abigail (Willis) Cobb has been found. It is believed that their son Thomas was born about the year 1705.”

Paine, Sarah Cushing, and Charles Henry Pope. Paine Ancestry: The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Including Maternal Lines. (Boston, Mass.: S. C. Paine, 1912) p. 90. GoogleBooks

Morgan Cobb married bef 18 Jul 1701 Abigail, d/o Benjamin Willis and Susanna Whitman. On that day they sold land confirmed to Abigail by the settlement of her father's estate.
DEED OF Division. “ This Indenture made the twelfth day of March Anno Domini one thousand Seven hundred & Thirteen ffourteen in the thirteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne of Great Britain &c. Queen, By & Between Thomas Willis of Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England the Eldest Son of Benjamin Willis of sd Bridgewater late Deceased on the one part, & Susanna Willis Widow Relict of gd Benja Willis, Together with Morgan Cob Sen" - of Taunton in ye County of Bristol in ga Province and Abigail his Wife, whose Maiden name was Abigail Willis ye Eldest Daughter of gd Benjamin Willis Deceas. Together with Nathaniel Woodward of sd Bridgewater & Elizabeth Woodward his Wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Willis the Second Daughter of gd Benja Willis Deceas". Together with Experience Willis the third Daughter of ga Benjamin Willis Deceased Together with Benjamin Willis ye son of gd Benjamin Willis Deceasd on the other Party Witnesseth ",

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Abigail is Not listed as a child of Benjamin Willis at https://archive.org/details/historyofearlyset00mitcch/page/364 there is no other sign of a daughter Susannah Willis.

• Reference: We Relate

Rounds, H. L. Peter. Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687-1745. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987) 14:175.

• Will of Morgan Cobb "ye Eldest of that name in Taunton," gentleman, "Being now advanced to old age," dated 8 Apr 1751, probated 10 Dec 1755.
• Wife Abigail.
• Sons: Benjamin Cobb of Norton, Thomas Cobb, Jonathan Cobb of Taunton, William Cobb of Norton & David Cobb (decd?).
• Daughters: Abigail Shove widow of Benjamin Shove & Susannah wife of George Hodges of Norton.
• Granddaughter Mary Cobb daughter of my son David Cobb "over and above What I have Given said Son in his Life Time."
• Grandson Jonathan Shove.
• Exors: Wife & son Jonathan.
• Witnesses: Nehemiah Hopkins, James Williams & Hannah Knap.
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Children include

1. Benjamin Cobb Abt 1701 - 1763
2. William Cobb Est 1715 - 1802
3. Susannah Cobb

References

• Reference: We Relate
• Reference: Find-A-Grave
• Reference: Archive
• Morgan Cobb in the Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991. Bristol County (Mass.) Probate Records 1690-1881; Author: Bristol County (Massachusetts). Register of Probate; Probate Place: Bristol, Massachusetts. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, database on-line. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. AncestryImage names wife Abigail.