The children of Elkanah Cobb and Mary Willard moved farther west to seek their fortunes than most of their cousins. Elkanah died in 1795, and Mary then married Zadock Remington. After his death in 1838, Mary joined her namesake daughter in Indiana.
  1. Gideon Dyer and his wife moved with Matthew Lyon and his party to Eddyville, Kentucky, in 1799.
  2. Joshua moved to western Pennsylvania by 1805, where he apparently married his wife, Nancy Crawford. They moved to Aurora, Indiana in 1818, and on to Greensburg shortly thereafter.
  3. Sarah died in Wells, Vermont, at age 16.
  4. Willard and his wife moved first to Wells, then to Fort Ann, New York in 1824. By 1830 they moved to Indiana, where his older brother Joshua was, then on to Iowa by 1850.
  5. The younger Elkanah apparently moved to Prince Georges Co., Maryland by about 1810.
  6. John moved to Eddyville, Kentucky, where his older brother Gideon was, by 1820.
  7. James seems to have been the vagabond of the family, following his brother older Elkanah to Maryland, then living in District of Columbia, Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Tennessee, probably among other locations.
  8. Mary moved to Decatur Co., Indiana, where her brothers Joshua and Willard were, by 1834 when she married John Butterfield there. They then lived at his home in Centerton, in Morgan Co.
  9. No record of Sophia has been found after her husband died in Rutland Co., Vermont, in 1830.
From Pawlet to the Western Frontier
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  Legend:
 
 Gideon Dyer (1773 - 1834)
 
 Joshua (1776 - 1860)
 
 Willard (1781 - 1855)
 
 Elkanah (1783 - 1818)
 
 John (1786 - ? )
 
 James (1789 - ? )
 
 Mary (1791 - 1859)