Sunday, January 8, 2017

New England Colonists, 1600-1700 Cobb-Colby


The ancient Mariner of New England

Cobb

Austin or Augustine, was living at Taunton, Mass. in 1670.
Edward, brother of preceding, was at Taunton in 1657.
Henry, born at Kent, England in 1596, came to Plymouth in 1629, then to Scituate, Mass. in 1633 before finally removing to Barnstable, Mass. by 1639.
John, brother of Henry, was at Taunton in 1659.

 
Cobbett

Josiah was born in England in 1614 before coming to N.E. in 1635. He was at Cambridge, Mass. before going to Hingham, Mass. in 1637 and was also a proprietor of Salisbury, Mass. in 1640.
Rev. Thomas was born at Newbury, Bucks, England in 1608 and came to N.E. in 1637. He went to Lynn, Mass. in 1656 before ending at Ipswich, Mass. afterward.


Cobble

Edward was a resident of Salisbury pre-1652.

 
Cobham

Josiah was living at Salisbury in 1640 before being found at Boston in 1659.

 
Cobleigh

John was a shoemaker who came to Swanzey, Mass. sometime previous to 1635. He is also found at N.H. a decade later.

 
Cochran

William was at Boston in 1684.


Cockerill

William was at Hingham, Mass. in 1635 and is found in Salem in 1661, when he died.

 

Cockerum

William was a mercer who was born in England in 1609. He is found at Hingham in 1637.

 
Coddington

John is found at Boston by 1650.
William was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, England before coming with Winthrop's Fleet in 1630. He went to Boston but went back to England. By 1633, he returned to Boston and is found at Newport, R.I. by 1636.


Codman

Robert was at Salem in 1637.
William was at Portsmouth, N.H. pre-1661.


Codner

Christopher was at Marblehead, Mass. pre-1660.
Edward was at New London, Conn. in 1651 and then at Saybrook, Conn. by 1669.
Peter was a mariner at Boston pre-1674.
Richard is found at Swanzey, Mass. by 1671, when he was married.

 
Coe

Matthew was a fisherman at Portsmouth, N.H. in 1645. He then went to Gloucester, Mass. and ended up at Casco, Maine.
Robert, son of Henry, VIIIth generation from John Coe(b. 1340)was born in 1596 at Thorpe-Morieux, Suffolk, England and came to Watertown, Mass. in 1634. The following year, he went to Wethersfield, Conn. and also became one of the founders of Stamford, Conn. by 1640. He then went to Hempstead, L.I. in 1652, Newtown, L.I. and also was a founder of Jamaica, L.I. in 1658.


A great resource for explanations of old, and forgotten, jobs of Puritan and Colonial New England.


Coffin

Tristram was born at Buxton, Dorsetshire, England and came to N.E. with his mother Joanna(widow of Peter)when he settled at Newbury, Mass. in 1643. Afterward, he went to Salisbury, Mass. and by 1660, he is found at Nantucket, Mass..

 
Coggan or Cogan

Henry was at Barnstable, Mass. in 1639.
John, merchant, was at Dorchester, Mass. in 1632 and then in Boston a few years later.
John, son of Humphrey, was at Boston in 1642.
John was at Charlestown in 1664.

 
Coggeshall

John was a mercer at Roxbury, Mass in 1632. He was born at Essex, England in 1581 and two years later, he is found at Boston. By 1637, he is at Providence, R.I. and one of the founders of Newport, R.I..

 
Cogswell(see Coggeshall)

John, son of Edward and grandson of Robert, was a woolen cloth manufacturer at Westbury, Lehigh, Wiltshire, England before coming to N.E. in 1635. Born in Westbury in 1592, he is then found as a freeman at Ipswich, Mass. by 1636.
John, of Trowbridge, England, was at Pascoag, R.I. in 1652.
Robert was at New Haven, Conn. in 1643, but soon left to an undisclosed location.
Samuel was married at Saybroook, Conn. in 1668.

 

Coit or Coyte

John was a shipwright who was born at Glamorganshire, Wales and granted land at Salem in 1638. He removed to Gloucester in 1644 and finallly to New London in 1650.


Coker

Richard was at Hartford in 1640.
Robert was at Newbury, Mass. in 1634.

 
Colbron, Colburn or Coulborne

Edward was born at England in 1618 and came to Boston in 1635. He then settled at Ipswich and was a pioneer settler at Chelmsford, Mass. before dying in the King Philip's War.
John was at Dedham, Mass. in 1672.
Nathaniel was also at Dedham in 1637.
Richard was at Dorchester, Mass. by 1641.
Robert, brother of Edward, was born at England in 1607 and is at Ipswich in 1635.
William came to Boston in Winthrops Fleet of 1630.

 
Colby

Anthony also came with Winthrop to Boston in 1630. He then is found at Cambridge by 1632, Salisbury in 1634 and Amesbury, Mass. by 1647.
Arthur was the brother of the preceding and at Ipswich in 1637

 

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