Amy Allen1,2,3

Family Chart
ID# 11926, (1778 - 1856)
FatherCaleb Allen1,4 (abt 1748 - 24 Sep 1804)
MotherPhebe Curtis1

Key Events:

Birth: 3 Dec 1778, Pawlet, Vermont5,6,7
Marriage: before 1805, Capt. Willard Cobb (17 Mar 1781 - 23 Jan 1855)8,9,10
Death: 27 Aug 1856, Iowa11
Burial: White Cemetery, Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co., Iowa12,13
ChartsDescendants of Gideon Cobb

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Narrative:

     Amy Allen was born on 3 Dec 1778 in Pawlet, Vermont.5,6,7
     She was probably one of the three females listed in the household of her father, Caleb Allen, in the 1790 Federal Census of Pawlet, Rutland Co., Vermont.14 She was probably one of the two females age 16 to 25 listed in the household of her father in the 1800 Federal Census of Pawlett, Rutland Co., Vermont.15
     Amy married Capt. Willard Cobb, son of Elkanah Cobb and Mary Willard, before 1805.8,9,10
     On 20 May 1805 Amy and Willard sold 13½ acres, 20 rods of land in Pawlet to Daty Allen, her brother, who owned the adjacent property, for $750. No record of them acquiring it has been found. The fact that this is the only one of his many deeds that includes her suggests she may have inherited it.8
     She was probably the female age 26 to 45 listed in the household of her husband, Capt. Willard Cobb, in the 1810 Federal Census of Pawlet, Rutland Co., Vermont.16
     By 1820 Amy and Willard had moved from Pawlet to Wells.17,18 She was probably the female age 26 to 45 listed in the household of her husband in the 1820 Federal Census of Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont.17
     They moved to Fort Ann, New York in 1824, where he built a store house at Polley's Landing before they moved on to Indiana.19,20 (See map.)
     Willard and Amy moved their family to Indiana, near where his older brother Joshua was living, about 1827.21 Amy was probably the female age 40 to 50 listed in the household of her husband in the 1830 Federal Census of Decatur Co., Indiana.22 She was probably the female age 40 to 50 listed in the household of her husband in the 1840 Federal Census of Decatur Co., Indiana.23
     Amy and Willard moved to Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co., Iowa, in 1846 with their daughters Parolina and Sarah. He bought several pieces of property. One included a cabin, where they lived until they could occupy the house on another. That house had been built by Mr. Jolly, a minister, who was moving by ox team to Oregon the next year with his family. Their daughter Marietta and her husband, William Samuel Dart, moved to Oskaloosa at the same time.24,25
     She and Willard appeared on the 1850 Federal Census of Mahaska Co., Iowa, enumerated 13 Aug 1850, reporting real estate valued at $500. Their children Parolina and Sarah were listed as living with them.26
     Her husband died on 23 Jan 1855 in Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co., Iowa.27,28
     Amy appeared on the 1856 State Census of Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co., Iowa, in the household of her daughter Marietta and her husband, William Samuel Dart.29
     Amy died on 27 Aug 1856 in Iowa at age 77.11 She was buried in White Cemetery, Oskaloosa, Mahaska Co., Iowa.12,13

Children:
     Children with Capt. Willard Cobb:

Citations

  1. [S3427] General Index to Vital Records of Vermont, birth record for Ame Allen, prepared by Pawlet town clerk.
  2. [S11793] William S. Dart household, 1856 Iowa State Census, Mahaska Co., Iowa, Oskaloosa, shows name as Amy Cobb.
  3. [S500] Findagrave.com, online, memorial # 39527465, Amy Allen Cobb, includes tombstone photo showing name as Amy, wife of Willard Cobb.
  4. [S1171] Hollister, Pawlet for One Hundred Years, pg 179.
  5. [S3427] General Index to Vital Records of Vermont, birth record for Ame Allen, prepared by Pawlet town clerk, shows date town, and state.
  6. [S2328] Willard Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Mahaska Co., Iowa, shows age 72 and state, as Vermont.
  7. [S500] Findagrave.com, online, memorial # 39527465, Amy Allen Cobb, includes tombstone photo showing age 77 yrs 8 mo 24 days at death 27 Aug 1856.
  8. [S2267] Land Records, Pawlet, Vermont, 6:326, Willard Cobb and wife Amy to Daty Allen, 20 Feb 1807.
  9. [S862] Births, Marriages and Deaths, Pawlet, Vermont, 1768-1856, pg 25, birth records for children, show parents as Willard and Amy Cobb, the earliest being born 19 Jan 1807.
  10. [S500] Findagrave.com, online, memorial # 39527465, Amy Allen Cobb, includes tombstone photo showing her as his wife.
  11. [S500] Findagrave.com, online, memorial # 39527465, Amy Allen Cobb, shows date, and includes tombstone photo showing same.
  12. [S500] Findagrave.com, online, memorial # 39527465, Amy Allen Cobb, includes tombstone photo.
  13. [S11718] Phillips, Proud Mahaska, pg 248, shows he and his wife buried there.
  14. [S11719] Caleb Allen household, 1790 U.S. Census, Rutland Co., Vermont.
  15. [S11720] Caleb Allen household, 1800 U.S. Census, Rutland Co., Vermont.
  16. [S2330] Willard Cobb household, 1810 U.S. Census, Rutland Co., Vermont.
  17. [S2329] Willard Cobb household, 1820 U.S. Census, Rutland Co., Vermont.
  18. [S2233] Paul and Parks, History of Wells, Vermont, pg 79, shows he moved to Wells in 1821.
  19. [S1171] Hollister, Pawlet for One Hundred Years, pg 179, shows that he "built the the store house at Polley's landing in Fort Ann. Thence he went west."
  20. [S2233] Paul and Parks, History of Wells, Vermont, pg 79, shows he moved to Fort Ann, N. Y. in 184.
  21. [S11844] Reuben R. Cobb obituary, The Indianapolis Journal, shows he moved to Indiana seventy years before.
  22. [S2331] Willard Cob household, 1830 U.S. Census, Decatur Co., Indiana.
  23. [S2327] Willard Cobb household, 1840 U.S. Census, Decatur Co., Indiana.
  24. [S11718] Phillips, Proud Mahaska, pp 247-8.
  25. [S11793] William S. Dart household, 1856 Iowa State Census, Mahaska Co., Iowa, Oskaloosa, shows Amy, and Emma had been in the state 10 years.
  26. [S2328] Willard Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Mahaska Co., Iowa.
  27. [S500] Findagrave.com, online, memorial # 39527609, Capt Willard Cobb, shows date, town, county, and state. Creator of memorial reports a stone was present and data was from the stone.
  28. [S2380] Kennedy, "Re: The Cobb Family," e-mail to author, 17 Jan 2007.
  29. [S11793] William S. Dart household, 1856 Iowa State Census, Mahaska Co., Iowa, Oskaloosa.
  30. [S862] Births, Marriages and Deaths, Pawlet, Vermont, 1768-1856, pg 25.
  31. [S2328] Willard Cobb household, 1850 U.S. Census, Mahaska Co., Iowa, shows them apparently living as parent and child.