Huldah Norton1,2

Family Chart
ID# 17641
FatherWilliam Norton3
MotherSarah [surname unknown]3

Key Events:

Marriage: 22 Dec 1768, Windham, Connecticut, William Cobb (21 Oct 1742 - 1792)4,5
ChartsDescendants of Gideon Cobb

Copyright Notice

Narrative:

     Huldah married William Cobb, son of Gideon Cobb and Abigail Dyer, on 22 Dec 1768 in Windham, Connecticut.4,5
     No evidence has been found of William and Huldah in Pawlet, Vermont, so it seems they did not move there with his parents and brothers. A 1907 family history reported that they lived in Windham Co., Connecticut, so perhaps they returned there from Stillwater, New York, if indeed his wife and children ever joined him in New York.6
     
Research Note, Feb 2022:
Huldah's parents are identified solely based on one, supposedly well-researched, source. No other record of them has been found. Several online trees claim, without documentation, that she was the daughter of Matthew Norton and Mary Daggett, born 16 Apr 1729 in Edgartown, Massachusetts. If that is correct, how she came to be married n Windham, Connecticut is a mystery. No evidence has been found that her parents or any if her siblings ever lived there. If she was their daughter, she apparently died before her father, in 1779, as she does not appear with her then-living siblings in his will.7,8

Children:
     Children with William Cobb

The names William and Sarah Cobb were not uncommon in the region. While a number of records with those name have been found, none other than their birth records are identifiable as William and Huldah's children.
  • William Cobb9,2 (18 Sep 1769 - )
  • Sarah Cobb9,2 (30 Oct 1772 - )

Citations

  1. [S2250] White, The Barbour Collection, Windham Vital Records, pg 88, citing vol 2 pg 176, marriage record.
  2. [S863] Cobb, History of the Cobb Family, pg 153.
  3. [S2606] Hall, Descendants of Governor William Bradford, pg 258.
  4. [S2250] White, The Barbour Collection, Windham Vital Records, pg 88, citing vol 2 pg 176, shows date.
  5. [S863] Cobb, History of the Cobb Family, pg 153, shows date.
  6. [S863] Cobb, History of the Cobb Family, pg 153, shows he lived in Windham Co., Connecticut.
  7. [S2606] Hall, Descendants of Governor William Bradford, pg 258, shows her as daughter of Wm. Norton and Sarah ____.
  8. [S2184] White, John Howland of the Mayflower, pp 163-4, shows Huldah as daughter of Matthew Norton and Mary Daggett, birth date, not in father's will or estate settlement, and parents born, lived, and died in Edgartown.
  9. [S2250] White, The Barbour Collection, Windham Vital Records, pg 88, citing vol 2 pg 176.