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Josiah Knowles, aged 20, was washed overboard, Mar., 1844. Samuel H. Paine, an officer, aged 24, sailed from Boston in the ship Eagle Wing, Feb. 4, 1864. Was never heard from.
James Hughes Jr., aged 21, officer of bark Pauline, lost on the voyage from Matanzas to Gibraltar, Sept. 2, 1846. Son of James.
The schooner Altorf sailed for the Banks in the spring of 1845. Was never heard from. Supposed to have been lost the first day out in a white squall. Her crew in part were William S. Hutchins, master, aged 34 ; John Grozier, aged 32 ; James Lombard Grozier, aged 27 ; John S. Rand, aged 39 ; John Small, aged 19 ; Charles Hill, aged 18.
Captain Michael Snow, aged 55, sailed from Turk's Island for Boston, November 8. 1846, in the bark Calcutta ; was never heard from ; supposed to have foundered in the gale of November 25th. Horace S. Merchant, of Barnstable, aged 24, was first officer; Fessenden F. Martin of Danville, Me., was a passenger. Captain Snow was an active, enterprising and intelligent gentleman, and a prominent citizen. His sons are Michael and Isaac Snow, successful business men of New York. March 2, 1846, the new schooner Malvina A. was lost on her passage from Truro to Baltimore Captain Samuel Mayo, aged 26; John Doherty, officer, aged 28; perhaps others from Truro. The Malvina A. was among the first launched from the new shipyard ; was a large, staunch vessel on her second voyage. Her timbers were cut in Truro, and she had been an object of the fostering enterprise of the peo- ple. Her loss with two popular young men was another hard blow, but the sound of the axe and the ring of the anvil were still heard, and other vessels were launched, manned, and
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sailed away. April 26, 1847, Captain Samuel Coan, aged 54 ; Andrew Cassidy, aged 16; Nathaniel Paine, aged 14 ; Daniel Pendegrace, aged 16; William Caty, aged 14; and John Ridley, aged 13, were drowned by the upsetting of a boat at the Pond Landing. Benjamin and Samuel, sons of the captain, were saved. Captain Coan was an old, successful skipper, and highly respected citizen. His vessel, the Brenda, was all fitted for the Banks at Provincetown ; he was coming home to spend a day or two before sailing, when he sailed to that un- explored shore. Died at Port au Prince, 1848, from schooner Abbott Deveraux, Isaiah Atkins Rich, officer, aged 21 ; Calvin Dean Rich, aged 20; sons of Captain Z. Rich. May 11, 1848, William Penn Rich, aged 18, son of Captain Matthias, was washed from the jib boom of schooner J. W. Herbert, near Fire Island. He was a young man with a natural taste for mechanics and chemistry. Some of his experiments indicated talents of considerable ability, if not real genius.
Paul Atkins Jr., aged 16, was lost from schooner Alabama, Oct. 16, 1849. Joshua Small Jr., aged 30, was lost overboard from the packet on her passage to Boston, March 19, 1850. Mr. S. was a carpenter and a schoolmaster ; a young man of much promise. Lewis Collins, aged 21, d. at sea, Sept. 8, 1850. Capt. Isaac Aydelotte, aged 39, lost Sept. 8, 1851. His son, Charles M., aged 10, June 15, 1849. Nathaniel R. Cobb, aged 15, Aug. 12, 1850, William Burton, of schr. Eagle, of Yarmouth, was lost on Truro shore, April 18, 185 1.
Capt. John Kelly, aged about 29, of bark Griffin, supposed to be lost on the coast of Africa, about 1850.
Feb'y 19, 1851, the schr. Joshua H. Davis was lost on her passage from Norfolk to Boston.
Capt. Harvey Small, aged 30; James Livermore, officer, aged 35 ; Michael A. Lombard, aged 20; John Babstock, aged 32 ; John Harper, aged 18. Capt. S. was one of the few men of real worth, that have many friends and no enemies.
Oct. 5, 1851, ten years almost to a day from the great gale of Oct. 3, 1841, a storm occurred at the Bay of Chaleurs, which proved more disastrous to life and property than any
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heretofore known on that perilous coast. The Truro fleet, then at its maximum, had for several years fished in English waters. Our vessels were having good fishing on the north side of P. E. Island. The gale came on in the night without warning. With varied experiences, all our vessels reached the harbors of Cascum Peck and Mall Peck, except the Elenor M. Shaw, of whom nothing was ever heard. Her crew were Thomas W. Shaw, master, aged 37; Joseph P. Wells, aged 36; Cornelius Shaw, aged 43 ; his son, Cornelius Jr., aged 16; Aaron W. Snow, aged 32 ; Michael A. Rich Jr., aged 21 ; Timothy Cassidy, aged 18 ; John Bensiah, aged 24 ; John Mcquade, aged 18; John Brine, aged 17; William Clark of Canada, aged 25; Josiah Young, of Orleans, aged 28 ; a Portuguese aged about 20. Captain Shaw was an honor to his craft; I should make no mistake to say an honor to his race. He was a small man, with a great heart and a sound head, that thought for himself, and dared to act up to his own standard of manliness. He was the only citizen of Truro that directly contributed to that charity sent by the U. S. sloop of war Jamestown, to the starving of Ireland. He left two daughters, now living in California.
In the same gale, while gaining the harbor, there were lost from the schooner Nettle, Jeremiah Hopkins, master ; Samuel Paine Hopkins, aged 42; Thomas Smith Dyer, aged 22; Henry Sholes, aged 29. All these were sterling men and val- uable citizens. Most of them were married, with families, and well identified with the prosperity of the town. The funeral services were held in the Congregational church, Jan. 25, 1852.
April 20, 1852, Jonathan Collins, aged 45 ; Daniel Cassidy, aged 23, were drowned attempting to rescue the crew of the English bark Josepha, wrecked near the Highland Light. Of eighteen, only two were saved.
When the cry of " Ship ashore !" was given, Mr. Collins sat at his supper table ; in half an hour he was numbered with the lost. On the beach David D. Smith had passed his watch to a neighbor, and was preparing to join the boat's crew, when the brave young Cassidy arrived, and, thrusting Smith aside,
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because an older man, sprang into the boat. He had been married a few days only, and was the last of three brothers whose names have appeared within the last few pages.
No more daring and self-sacrificing deeds were ever chronicled than hundreds of the volunteer services to save the lives of a brother sailor or perish in the attempt.
September 6, 1854, Captain John Smith, aged 28, of sch. Virginia, was lost on his home passage from whaling in the
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South Atlantic. He was known as a fearless and energetic whaleman, and though a young man when cut off, had made several successful voyages as master. Vessel never heard from. Supposed to have been lost in the September gale or hurricane of that year.
October 15, 1855, Reuben L. Bangs, aged 26, fell overboard in Port Hood. August 25, 1856, Amasa Paine Atwood, aged
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17, was lost overboard. Amos Sellew of Boston, a native of Truro, was drowned near the Pond Landing, October 16, 1856, aged 41 years. Mr. Sellew was engaged landing from the packet on which he was a passenger, an iron fence for his cemetery lot, when the boat sank, carrying him down.
Captain John C. Harding, of bark M. D. Stetson, died in Cienfuegos, Cuba, October 3, 1855, aged 40 years. The body was embalmed, and rests in the cemetery of his native town. Captain Harding died in the prime of life. He was well known in commercial circles as a gentleman of integrity, self- respect and warm sympathies. "Life's fitful fever over, they sleep well " Captain Daniel Warren Welch, of schr. John Smith, died in Aux Cayes, October 20, 1855, aged 31 years. Thomas W. Sanderson, aged 24, officer, d. the same time.
Captain Cornelius Sullivan, aged 40, of brig Anglo-Saxon, d. at Vineyard Haven, June 9, 1855, having been sick all the passage from South America. Captain Sullivan was a native of Ireland ; came to Truro when a boy, and was devoted to the home of his adoption. He was a true sailor, with the ready humor and playful fancy peculiar to his country. Under a rough exterior there was hidden a gentle nature. A kinder or more generous spirit never warmed a manly heart.
Samuel P. Hopkins, aged 20, an officer of ship Santa Rosa, was lost overboard near Cape Horn, January 23, 1857. Wil- liam T. Rich, aged 19, d. at Norfolk, Va., March 27, 1858. John, aged 22, son of Paul Coan, was lost on the Banks, 1858. Jonah Atkins, aged 26, was lost overboard Mar. 19, 1854. Captain Elisha Paine, aged 35, of ship Waban, d. al Calcutta, May, 1858. Captain Paine was a capable and popu- lar man, and stood well in his profession, having won his way by real merit.
November 29, 1859, the fishing schooner Emerald foun- dered nine miles southeast from Chatham. Her crew were Lewis L. Paine, master, aged 37 ; Elisha L., his son, aged 14; Captain Joshua Paine, a brother, aged 56 ; Richard F. Atkins, aged 20; James L. Dyer, aged 17 ; Stephen Hopkins, aged II, son of Atkins, a direct descendant of Stephen of the May-
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flower; Joseph W. Knowles was the only one saved ; he floated on a hatch till picked up by a passing vessel.
Phillip B. Elliott, aged 25, d. on the passage from West Indies August 7, 1859.
March, 1861, schooner A. N. Jefferson was lost on her passage from Truro to Virginia. Her crew were Alden Free- man, master, aged 36; John Pike, officer, aged 44; Joshua H. Holsbury, aged 24 ; Joshua S. Rich, aged 19; William H. Russell, aged 19; John F. Carney, aged 17. Captain Freeman and Mr. Pike were valued citizens ; the young men were active and promising. Charles C. Knowles, aged 38, d. at sea, Feb. 22, 1863.
Schooner Bion was lost on the coast, March 23, 1864. Joseph King, master, aged 34; Ambrose Atkins, officer, aged 48; Ambrose A. Baker, aged 28; James Madison Small, aged 23 ; another not known. Captain King was an intelli- gent and accomplished man, modest and reserved in his inter- course with the world, faithful and honorable in all his rela- tions. His crew were all residents of the Pond Village.
July 5, 1864, John Richard Lee, aged 24, officer of ship Rambler, in a gale off the Cape of Good Hope, fell from the topsail yard, striking the anchor, and was instantly killed. Upon the arrival of the ship at Falmouth, England, Captain Carlton notified the mother of Mr. Lee of the loss of her son, and spoke in the highest terms of the unfortunate young officer who had been in the same ship several voyages. David F., aged 12, son of Andrew Cobb, drowned October 23, 1863.
Captain George Kelley, aged about 35, of bark Ida, died on the Island of Hayti, 1865; he was in good business, and rapidly rising in his profession. Atkins Hughes Childs, aged 32, lost from schooner Elvarado, on the Grand Bank, in the spring of 1867. September, 1867, schooner Etta S. Fogg was lost returning from a whaling voyage. Captain Alexander Thompson, aged 27 ; his wife, Mary Linnell, aged 25 ; his brother, Charles G. S. Thompson, officer, aged 25. Her fate was never known. Captain Joseph Smith Hopkins, aged 38, of brig E. H. Rich, d. August 31, 1871, eleven days out
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from London to New York ; was buried at sea ; son of Caleb Hopkins, lost with the Coral Rock.
But his sleep in the heart of the ocean Is sweet - and all is well ; Though no funeral train attended, Nor tears at his burial fell, God brooded over his dying, And made him a royal tomb,
Where the choiring stars in golden bars Rang anthems through the gloom.
Captain Daniel A. Knowles, aged 29, Samuel H. Wharf, aged 27, William S. Hopkins, aged 27, and Aaron Gibson, were lost March 31, 1868, going or returning from Virginia in the oyster busi- ness ; September 3, 1870, schr. Annie C. Warner was lost on Georges, with all on board. Atkins Rich master, aged 44, his son Atkins, aged 12, Enoch H. Rich, aged 43, William H. Greenough, aged 51, Wil- liam Sparrow, aged 18, James Smith Mayo, aged WRECK OF THE HAMBURG BARK FRANCIS. 18, son of Richard L., and ten others, names unknown. Cap- tain Wilhelm Kurtland, aged 36, of the Hamburg bark Francis, was lost on Truro shore, December 28, 1872. Captain Leon- ard S. Lombard, aged 48, d. at Mobile, March 17, 1875 ; Eben Wilbur Lombard, aged 31, a pilot, was lost near Plymouth in the winter of 1876 ; Stephen A. Hatch, aged 23, washed over- board off Oak Bluff, March 31, 1879; Captain Thomas Sellew Stevens, b. September 29, 1829, was several years master of ship Cowper of Boston, became a merchant in Yokohama. Fitted out a vessel for salmon catching to Northern Japan. Was capsized from a boat on a sand-bar, and drowned on his 50th birthday, 1879; March 23, 1880, William. Emery Myrick, aged 17, was drowned from a dory in Cape Cod Bay.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
GENEALOGY.
The last Chapter. Passing Generations. True Honor. Promises. Ancestry. System. Atkins. Atwood. Long Measure. Avery. Bangs. First Comers. Baker. " Hon. est Nicholas." Chapman. Collins. Cobb. Post Admiral. Cole. Cook. The first Bark. Davis. Dyer. The Doctor's Knack. Freeman. Race Characteristics. Gross. Judge Hinckes. Hinckley. The Governor and Poet. The good Deacon and Judge. Harding. Higgins. Hopkins. Knowles. Lombard. An ancient Race. Mayo. Mulford. Newcomb. Paine. Doomsday Book. Pike. Purington. Rich. Rider. Ridley. Savage. Small. Smith. Snow. Stevens. Treat. Vickery. Young. Coan. Lewis.
W E have come at last to the final chapter of our his- tory. It has already overrun our prescribed limit. We have become familiar with the names on these pages : we have seen generation after generation come upon the stage, take their places and pass away, just as we shall soon do. If wise we can tell how little we shall be missed and how little the world will care for us in a practical sense when we are gone. But there is a sense in which the departed are held in honor and the best part of man is that which best honors his fathers. It expands with our religion and our enlightenment. We have now to fulfill our promise of giving to a greater or less extent a history of every known family of Truro. It would be a waste of words to indicate that in a work of this kind that could be otherwise understood than simply indicating the origin of the family name and its first representatives in our native land. As a rule, our ancestry were directly from Eng- land, and, as has been observed, the best of the English head and heart made up the settlers of the Old Colony.
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When possible, we have shown the early branches of the family, but as will be seen, by the rapid increase of families, this could be followed to a moderate extent only except in a few cases. The work, however, of preparing this chapter is almost incredible. If ten times more complete than the present, we should still have abundant reason for saying unsatisfactory as applied to an exhaustive work; but in this connection we trust we shall meet the expectation of our friends and those most interested. When possible, from our partial and irregular report, we have followed the system adopted by the N. E. Historic and Genealogical Society, now in practice.
ATKINS .- An old English name. I have learned nothing of its origin or history. Henry was in Plymouth before 1641 ; Eastham, not later than 1653 ; m. Elizabeth Wells, 1647, who d. 1661 ; 2d., Bethiah Linnell, 1664. A large family; sons, Samuel, b. 1651, killed Philip's War ; Nathaniel, b. 1667, m. Winifred -, 1693 ; Bethiah and Winifred are to this day in the Truro family, the last sometimes spelt Winnet.
The children of Nathaniel and Winifred were Nathaniel, b. 1694, m. Mary --: Henry, b. 1696; Bethiah, b. 1698 ; Joshua, b. 1702, m. Rebecca Atwood, 1722 ; Isaiah, b. 1704, m. Hannah Cook; Elizabeth, b. 1704.
Children of Joshua and Rebecca Atwood, m. 1722. Isaiah, b. 1723, m. Ruth Hinckley, 1746; Joshua, b. 1725, m. Martha Harding, 1743; Joseph, b. 1727; Deliverance (or Dilla), b. 1729; Rebecca, b. 1733; Bethiah, b. 1736; Jane, b. 3738; Elizabeth, b. 1740; Paul, b. 1742; Mary, b. 1745; Samuel, b. 1748, m. Ruth Lombard.
Children of Isaiah and Hannah Cook, m. 1724. Benjamin, b. 1726; Hannah, 6. 1728; John, b. 1730, lost at sea 1754; Silas, b. 1732; Nathaniel, b. 1736; Mary, b. 1738; Isaiah, b. 1740; Henry, b. 1743, m. Mary Lombard, 1768; Zac- "heus, b. 1745, m. Mehitable -, 1772.
ATWOOD .- Deacon John Doane sold his house at Plain Dealing (Plymouth) in 1636, which he held in common with John Atwood, late of London, for £60. Stephen Atwood, Eastham, 1644, m Abagail Dunham. This must have been among the very first marriages in Eastham. It is inferred that Stephen of Eastham was a son of John of Plymouth. The first child of Stephen was named John, another inference. Other sons were Aldad and Medad. A. m. Anna, daughter
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of Mark Snow. Stephen is the ancestor of all the Cape race. "At a meeting of the proprietors of Pamet Lands, July, 1703, granted to Machal Atwood 3 or 4 acres of land, near the swamp, above Thomas Newcomb." Machal m. Johanna Harding. From this marriage evidently came the family at North Truro and probably Provincetown. Son Nathaniel, b. 17II, daughter Rebecca, b. 1704, m. Joshua Atkins. The Wellfleet Atwoods were a large family. Settled on Bound Brook Island and Pamet Point; from these came the other families of Truro. They were a tall, muscular race. It used to be said that ten Atwoods would make more long measure than any other family on the Cape, the Bassetts excepted. Machal m. Prudence - Harding(?) Children in part :
i. Joseph, b. 1701, m. Lydia Deane, 1721.
ii. Rebecca, b. 1704, m. Joshua Atkins, 1722.
iii. Machal, b. 1706, m. Elizabeth Ireland, 1727.
iv. Prudence, b. 1709, m. Elisha Parker, 1725.
v. Nathaniel, b. 171 I.
vi. Apphiah, b. 1713, m. Isaac Snow, 1739.
AVERY .- The history of the Avery family given in John Avery, need not be repeated here. Job2 first mentioned, is the only one of the old minister's children that settled at Truro. A great many casualties seemed to follow the family.
He was born 1713, m. about 1742, Jane Thatcher. Nine children : John, Ruth, Elizabeth, Job, b. 1749, m. Jerusha Lombard, 1771; Samuel, Jane, Thatcher, George, taken prisoner by the Indians, James. The children of Job3 and Jerusha Lombard were nine. Nancy, b. 1771, Ephraim and Samuel, lost at sea, Mary Combes, Job, Jerusha, Peter L., b 1793, m. Elizabeth Chapman, d. 1863, Elizabeth and John.
BANGS. - The progenitor of this family was Edward, b. in Sussex Co., Eng., 1592. Was a fellow passenger with Nicholas Snow in the Ann, 1623, and joined the Pilgrims ; was reckoned among "the first comers," who were entitled to the division of 1627, who joined the company of ten to whom fell by lot the " great white-back cow." Contributed one sixteenth of the forty-ton bark, and was superintendent of building ; m. Lydia Hicks; d. 1678. From that marriage came all the
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family of this name, probably in New England, representing eminent men in various callings and professions of life. The three youngest daughters were m. the same day; from his son, Captain Jonathan, was descended Tristam Burgess, the dis- tinguished orator of Providence. Jonathan was one of the orig- inal proprietors at Truro. Perez, b. about 1763, d. 1830 ; m. Thankful Rich Lombard ; was one of the original Methodists ; raised a large family, embracing the Provincetown name. Few of the name now in Truro.
BAKER .- A name common to the English race, and has many branches. Rev. Nicholas, ordained minister of Scitu- ate 1660, d. 1678 ; grad. St. John's, Cambridge, 1631. Cotton Mather calls him " Honest Nicholas Baker of Scituate, he was so good a logician that he could offer up to God a reasonable service ; so good an arithmetician that he could wisely number his days, and so good an orator that he per- suaded himself to be a Christian." 2d son, Samuel, was ad- mitted a freeman at Barnstable, 1677; 3d son, Deacon John, m. Anna Annable, 1696. It is thought most of the Cape name came from this family. There has been several differ- ent families in Truro. The Richard Baker branch came, I conclude, from Wellfleet.
CHAPMAN .- Saxon, cheapman ; a purchaser or merchant; in German, Kauffman. Several families came from Southwalk, in Surry, to New England. Ralph left England, 1635 ; John admitted Boston 1684; Isaac at the head of a large family in Dennis. Lieutenant Samuel b. about 1760, in Philadelphia, sent when a youth to Cambridge, England, to school ; trained in the military school and joined the English army, and fought in the Revolutionary War ; m. Hannah, daughter of Lewis Lombard, b. in Truro, 1763. It is not certain whether he first met Miss L. in Nova Scotia, and removed to Truro, or moved from Truro to Nova Scotia, on account of being a Britisher. Was a jovial and popular old officer with marked personalities. He lived at East Harbor, near the Head of the Meadow. Children :
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i. Abraham, b. 1790, m. Mary, dau. Constant Hopkins.
ii. Lewis Lombard, b. 1793, drowned 1811.
iii. Samuel2, b. 1793, d. 1768.
iv. Elizabeth, b. 1796, m. Peter Avery.
Mr. Abraham Chapman, the father of the Provincetown family, was a pleasant Christian gentleman ; died in a good old age in Provincetown.
COLLINS. - Joseph, son of Henry, starch maker, aged 29 ; wife, Anna; children : Henry, b. 1630, Joseph, b. 1632, and Margary (a name continued in the family to this day), em- barked from Ireland, 1635 ; settled in Lynn. A member of Salem Court, 1639; d. 1687. Son Joseph, b. 1632, moved to Eastham, m. Ruth Knowles about 1653. John, son of Joseph and Duty Knowles, b. 1674.
John4 (Joseph3, Joseph2, Henry 1), b. 1674, m. Hannah Doane; 12 children, of whom Jonathan5, b. 1682, m. Elizabeth Vickery; removed to Truro. Benjamin5 b. 1687, m. Sarah ; removed to Truro; were the fathers of the Truro family.
Children of Benjamin, b. 1687, and Sarah, m. about 1707 :
i. Ruth b. 1709.
ii. Richard b. 1710, m. Sarah Lombard, 1732.
iii. Lydia, b. 1712, m. John Rich, 1727.
iv. Benjamin, b. 1713, m. Jerusha.
v. Jonathan, b. 1715, m. Jane.
vi. Hannah, b. 1720.
vii. Mary, b. 1722, m. John Pike, 1754, d. 1758.
viii. Joseph, b. 1724, m § Phebe Knowles, 1743, a large family ; Joseph
ix. Sylvanus b. 1727. 2 m. Jerusha Snow, Deborah m. John Kenny.
Here lies buried the body of MR. BENJAMIN COLLINS of Truro, who departed this life December 23d, 1756, in the 70th year of his age.
Here rests the body of MRS. SARAH COLLINS, wife of MR. BENJAMIN COLLINS, who died April ye 2d, 1759, in the 73d year of her age.
Benjamin,5 b. 1713, m. Jerusha. Nine children, which give the familiar names to which we are used. Mercy, b. 1737; Jerusha, b. 1739; Hannah, b. 1741 ;
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Richard, b. 1743, Benjamin, b. 1745, m. Rachel Lombard, 1772; Joanna, b. 1746; , Treat, b. 1748; Sylvanus, b. 1752 ; Micah, b. 1755. The North Truro families sprang from Jonathan and Elizabeth Vickery.
COBB OR COB. - Henry was at Plymouth, 1632, at Scituate the next year ; one of " The Men of Kent." Belonged to Mr. Lothrop's church ; was among his first members in Barnstable ; made a Ruling Elder 1670. Mr. Lothrop says : "Patience, the wife of Henry Cobb, buried May 4, 1648, the first that was buried in our new burying-place by our meeting-house." This was the old graveyard at West Barnstable or Great Marshes.
Mr. C. was twice married. First wife, Patience, seven children; second wife, Sarah Hinckley, sister of Governor, seven children. The Truro branch were from Eastham, which seems a different family. Mr. Pratt says, "Jonathan Cobb was in Eastham before 1670 ; his brothers Eleazer, Hughes and Sylvanus, came early to America; later came Benjamin." Isaac, son of Benjamin, was Post Admiral in Yarmouth, England. As Jonathan, son of Henry of Barnstable, was b. 1670, and had no brothers Sylvanus, Hughes, or Benjamin, among his four- teen, the inference is that the Cobbs of Eastham and Truro were from Yarmouth, England. Both branches have been large and very respectable. James, son of Elder Henry, of Barnstable, m. Sarah Lewis, 1663; son James, b. 1673, m. Elizabeth Hallet, 1695; son James, settled in Truro. I have no account of his marriage.
Thomas was probably among the first of the name in Truro, and his children cover the leading names of the family, which has never been large, and connected mostly with South Truro. He married Mercy -. Children : Thomas, b. 1720, m. Ruth Collins ; Richard, b. 1722; Tamsin, b. 1724 ; Joseph, b. 1726; Freeman, b. 1728; Elisha, b. 1730; Betty, b. 1732; Sarah, b. 1735.
COLE. - Job and Daniel, brothers, b. England about 1615. 1640, Job married at Duxbury, Rebecca Collins, or Collier ; came to Yarmouth. Daniel was accepted townsman at East- ham, 1649; deputy to General Court, 1654; selectman, 1668 ; d. 1699. From them probably descended all of this name on the Cape and in Me.
Daniel m. Ruth Snow. Son Israel, b. 1653, m. Mary Rogers, 1679; was among the proprietors of Truro, 1689; intimately interested in all the town interests ; one of the largest landowners. Children, Hannah, b. 1681; Isaac, b. 1685; William, b. 1683. Isaac m. Elizabeth -. Children, Elizabeth, b. 1717 ; Mercy, b. 1719; Prudence, b. 1721 ; Isaac, b. 1723; Joseph, b. 1734. Were never a large family in Truro, and have but few representatives ; more at Wellfleet.
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