Maria Cobb1,2,3

Family Chart
ID# 17638, (1803 - 1849)
FatherJohn Cobb4,5,6 (21 Oct 1744 - 16 Dec 1815)
MotherMary Fuller7,5,6 (25 Nov 1762 - 16 Mar 1849)

Key Events:

Birth: 27 Aug 1803, Pawlet, Vermont8,9,10
Marriage: about 1823, Rev. Samuel Griswold (25 Oct 1795 - 18 Jan 1875)11,12,13
Death: 27 Sep 1849, North Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut14,8,15
Burial: Old Stone Church Cemetery, East Haven, Connecticut1
ChartsDescendants of Gideon Cobb
AncestryThe Cobbs of Pawlet, Vermont

Copyright Notice

Narrative:

     Maria Cobb was born on 27 Aug 1803 in Pawlet, Vermont.8,9,10
     She was probably the female under age 10 listed in the household of her father, John Cobb, in the 1810 Federal Census of Orwell, Rutland Co., Vermont.16
     She was named an heir in the will of her father dated 10 Sep 1815, to receive an equal share with her brother Horace and her sisters of the furniture left to her mother after the mother's death, plus at age 18 or her marriage furniture equal to what had been advanced to her sister Abigail.17
     Maria married Rev. Samuel Griswold, son of Sylvanus Griswold and Maria Dennison, about 1823.11,12,13
     According to a contemporary account "She was remarkably strict in her observance of the Sabbath; in her attention to personal piety and to all relative duties, and in her readiness to perform cheerfully whatever she regarded as God's requirement. She was active in promoting Female Pray meetings, Maternal Associations, Moral Reform, and all other great benevolent enterprises." Then it continued "During the last ten or twelve years of her life, she suffered much from excruciating pain; and for the last four years was mostly helpless in consequence of paralysis."18
     Maria died on 27 Sep 1849 in North Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut, at age 46.14,8,15 She was buried in Old Stone Church Cemetery, East Haven, Connecticut.1

Children:
     There were no children with Rev. Samuel Griswold

Citations

  1. [S7898] The Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions, vol 14 section 303, East Lyme, pg 4, inscription for Maria Cobb Griswold.
  2. [S2270] Muff, Extracts from early Vermont probate records, citing Part 1, pg 83, which cites 10:387-90, shows her name, as Maria, mentioned in her father's will.
  3. [S863] Cobb, History of the Cobb Family, pg 154, shows name as Mary.
  4. [S2270] Muff, Extracts from early Vermont probate records, citing Part 1, pg 83, which cites 10:387-90, shows her named in her father's will as his daughter.
  5. [S863] Cobb, History of the Cobb Family, pg 154.
  6. [S4601] Griswodl, The Griswold Family, England–America, pg 176.
  7. [S2270] Muff, Extracts from early Vermont probate records, citing Part 1, pg 83, which cites 10:387-90, shows the girl named in her husband's will as his daughter.
  8. [S4601] Griswodl, The Griswold Family, England–America, pg 176, shows date, town, and state.
  9. [S863] Cobb, History of the Cobb Family, pg 154, shows date.
  10. [S7898] The Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions, vol 14 section 303, East Lyme, pg 4, inscription for Maria Cobb Griswold, shows age 46 at death 27 Sep 1849.
  11. [S7898] The Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions, vol 14 section 303, East Lyme, pg 4, inscription for Maria Cobb Griswold, shows her as his wife.
  12. [S4601] Griswodl, The Griswold Family, England–America, pg 176, show she was married nearly 15 years.
  13. [S863] Cobb, History of the Cobb Family, pg 154, shows married.
  14. [S7898] The Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions, vol 14 section 303, East Lyme, pg 4, inscription for Maria Cobb Griswold, shows date.
  15. [S4599] Maria C. Griswold entry, 1850 U.S. Census, mortality schedule, New London Co., Connecticut, shows month and year.
  16. [S1172] John Cobb household, 1810 U.S. Census, Rutland Co., Vermont.
  17. [S2270] Muff, Extracts from early Vermont probate records, citing Part 1, pg 83, which cites 10:387-90.
  18. [S4601] Griswodl, The Griswold Family, England–America, pg 176, from a quoted section attributed to "Westbrook, Ct., Dec. 11, 1849."