Sarah Cobb1,2,3

Family Chart
ID# 2237, (1778 - 1795)
FatherElkanah Cobb4,5,6 (21 Jan 1746/47 - 10 Aug 1795)
MotherMary Willard4,5,6 (abt 1753 - 2 Aug 1842)

Key Events:

Birth: 16 Jul 1778, Canterbury, Connecticut7,8
Death: 15 Mar 1795, Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont9,10
Burial: Mettowee Valley Cemetery, Pawlet, Rutland Co., Vermont11,12
ChartsDescendants of Gideon Cobb
AncestryThe Cobbs of Pawlet, Vermont

Copyright Notice

Narrative:

     
Sally/Sarah Cobb's Tombstone
photo courtesy Janet Muff
Sarah Cobb was born on 16 Jul 1778 in Canterbury, Connecticut.7,8
     She moved to Pawlet, Vermont, with her parents, Elkanah Cobb and Mary Willard, by 1780.13,14,15
     She was probably one of the four females listed in the household of her father, Elkanah Cobb, in the 1790 Federal Census of Pawlet, Rutland Co., Vermont.16
     She moved with her parents to Wells, the next town north of Pawlet, by 1792.17,18
     Sarah died on 15 Mar 1795 in Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont, at age 16.9,10 She was buried in Mettowee Valley Cemetery, now known as the Old Pawlet Cemetery, Pawlet, Vermont.11,12

Citations

  1. [S2395] Land Records, Wells, Vermont, B:99-100, deaths 1782-1811, shows name as Sally Cobb.
  2. [S863] Cobb, History of the Cobb Family, pg 154, citing Pawlet Town Records, shows name as Sarah, and quotes cemetery inscription in which her name is Sally.
  3. [S2247] Births, Marriages and Deaths, Wells, Vermont, bk 1, pg 218-9, shows name as Sally Cobb.
  4. [S862] Births, Marriages and Deaths, Pawlet, Vermont, 1768-1856, pg 5, birth record.
  5. [S2395] Land Records, Wells, Vermont, B:99-100, deaths 1782-1811.
  6. [S500] Findagrave.com, online, memorial #38646766, Sarah "Sally" Cobb, show inscription stating she was daughter of Elkanah Cobb and Mary his wife, and includes photo of stone with same.
  7. [S862] Births, Marriages and Deaths, Pawlet, Vermont, 1768-1856, pg 5, shows date, but last digit of year is unreadable, town, and state.
  8. [S863] Cobb, History of the Cobb Family, pg 154, citing Pawlet Town Records, shows date, town, and state.
  9. [S2395] Land Records, Wells, Vermont, B:99-100, deaths 1782-1811, shows date.
  10. [S500] Findagrave.com, online, memorial #38646766, Sarah "Sally" Cobb, shows date, town, county, and state, and includes photo of stone showing date.
  11. [S2274] Muff, "Fwd: cobb," e-mail to author, 6 May 2009, citing Margaret R. Jenks, Pawlet Cemetery Inscriptions, Rutland County, Vermont (Granville, New York: privately published, 1996).
  12. [S500] Findagrave.com, online, memorial #38646766, Sarah "Sally" Cobb, includes photo of stone.
  13. [S1171] Hollister, Pawlet for One Hundred Years, pg 178, shows Gideon was one of the earliest settlers from Connecticut; pg 40 shows he was a selectman in 1780; pg 39 shows John was a constable in 1780; and pg 179, shows Elkanah moved from Connecticut in 1770 [so apparently he and his wife returned there after their time in Saratoga and Connecticut].
  14. [S862] Births, Marriages and Deaths, Pawlet, Vermont, 1768-1856, pg 5, shows Elkanah's son Willard was born in Pawlet 17 Mar 1781; pg 32 shows Ebenezer's son Darick was born in Pawlet 11 Mar 1780; and pg 85 shows Joshua was married in Pawlet 17 Sep 1781.
  15. [S2267] Land Records, Pawlet, Vermont, 1:266-7, John Fassett, commissioner for the state of confiscated land to Ebenezer Cobb of Stillwater, Albany Co., New York, dated 9 Nov 1779; 1:69-70, John Clark to John Cobb of Canterbury, Windham Co., Conicticut [sic], dated 9 Nov 1778; 1:171, Peter Van Baurer to Joshua Cobb of Stillwater, Albany Co. dated 4 Feb 1780; 1:271-2, Joel Simonds to Joshua Cobb of Pawlett, dated 19 Sep 1781; 1:275-6, Ebenazer Cobb of Pawlett to Joshua Cobb of Pawlett, dated 20 Sep 1781; 2:37, Benjamin Petton to Elkanah Cobb of Pawlett, dated 18 Dec 1783; and 2:65, Nathan Niles to John Cobb of Pawlett, dated 27 Oct 1784.
  16. [S1781] Elkanah Cobb household, 1790 U.S. Census, Rutland Co., Vermont.
  17. [S2395] Land Records, Wells, Vermont, C:272-3, notes of town meeting 6 Mar 1792 at the schoolhouse near Nathan Warram and meeting of authority & selectmen afterwards for the appointment of tavern or houses of intertainment, shows Elkanah nominated for license; C:425, town meeting 14 Feb 1793 at schoolhouse near Elkanah Cobbs does not mention tavern license; notes for 1794 meeting not found; B:423 notes of town meeting 10 Mar 1795 held at school house near Elkanah Cobb's, and meeting of authority afterwards for the appointment of tavern or houses of intertainment, shows Elkanah nominated for tavern license.
  18. [S863] Cobb, History of the Cobb Family, pg 154, shows that in probate proceedings he is called "Elkanah Cobb late of Wells.