Lydia Cobb

Biography

Lydia Cobb was a part of a loyal and patriotic family. Lydia was the daughter of James Leonard and his wife Hannah (Walley) Stone Leonard.

Lydia married Captain Thomas Cobb about 1737. Thomas was the commander of a Taunton Company in the French and Indian War of 1754.

Thomas and Lydia had seven children. Their son, David (September 14, 1748 – April 17, 1830), was an General and aide to George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Their daughter Sally married Robert Treat Paine, who was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Lydia "was a woman of sound character, and of such worth that the Taunton Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution honor her memory in taking her name for their chapter... the Lydia Cobb Chapter" - from Fanny Leonard Koster's book cited below.

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Lydia (Leonard) Cobb (1710 - 1762)

Lydia Cobb formerly Leonard

Born 1710 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Mass Colony

Daughter of James Leonard and Hannah (Walley) Leonard

Sister of Hannah Stone [half], Abigail (Stone) Leonard [half], William Stone [half], James Leonard, Eliphalet Leonard, Mehitable (Leonard) Perry, Sarah (Leonard) Danforth and Mary (Leonard) Thayer [half]

Wife of Thomas Cobb — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Mother of Hannah (Cobb) Crocker, Abigail (Cobb) Andrews, Thomas Cobb, Sarah (Cobb) Paine and David Cobb

Died 23 Oct 1762 at about age 52 in Massachusetts

Leonard-2497 created 7 Dec 2012 | Last modified 4 May 2021

Sources

Emery: Emery, Samuel Hopkins. History of Taunton, Massachusetts: From Its Settlement to the Present Time, Syracuse, NY, D. Mason & Co., 1893. On Googlebooks
"Annals of the Leonard Family" compiled by Fanny Leonard Koster, 1911, p110.
Find-A-Grave: Lydia Leonard Cobb

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