Most of the children of Joshua Cobb and Hannah Edgerton moved west, initially to New York and then to Pennsylvania. Starting about 1850 several families moved on to Wisconsin and Illinois. Joshua and Hanah moved to Vernon, New York, by 1820, apparently following several of their children and their spouses.
  1. Abigail and her husband moved to Vernon, New York, by 1810, then moved back to Pawlet by 1840.
  2. Abiah and her husband moved to Moriah, New York by 1820.
  3. Polly and her husband may have been the first to move to Vernon, arriving by 1810. They moved one county south to Lenox by 1850.
  4. Drusilla and her husband moved to Genesee Co., in western New York with his family about 1812. They moved to Crawford Co., Pennsylvania in 1835.
  5. The younger Joshua remained in Pawlet until his wife died in 1845, then moved to Lima, Wisconson, apparently with his daughter Rachael and her husband.
  6. Hannah and her husband moved to Genesee Co, New York, where her sister Drusilla and her husband were, by 1830. By 1850 they joined Drusilla and her husband who had by then moved to Crawford Co., Pennsylvania.
  7. Welthyan and her husband seem to have been the vagabonds of this family, moving to Washington Co., New York, just west of Vermont, by 1820. They moved to Almond, in western New York by 1830, and to several nearby communities in the following years, perhaps as a result of his calling as a minister. By 1860 they moved to Fayette Co., Illinois.
  8. Simeon moved to Vernon by 1820, apparently taking his parents with him. He and his wife moved to Madison Co. as his sister Polly and her husband did. In 1855 he and his wife moved to Whitewater, Wisconsin, near where his brother Joshua had settled. Simeon undertook an adventuresome trip west at age 66 (see map) and died enroute in Salt Lake City.
  9. No record has been found of their youngest daughter, Claracy, after 1810.
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