Ambrose COBB (BIRTH: 1729, York County, VA
m Sarah HOWELL (BIRTH: 1734, Halifax)
Posted by: Dolores Phifer
Date: November 22, 2004
Hello. Our COBBS/COBB line first came to VA in 1664... into the Williamsburg area. His wife was a WHITE. They later moved up to Henrico. They were members of the Bruton Church there in Williamsburg where they helped to build it and he and his descendents and related kin served on the vestry there for many, many generations. In fact, many are buried there. Then, some of their descendents moved into Halifax, then to Lunenburg. The first COBBS/COBB here was Ambrose COBBS and his maternal uncle was Rev. Robert HUNT… the first rector of Jamestown who baptized Pocahontas. Rev. Robert HUNT and his brothers Stephen HUNT arrived here in 1607 and his brother Thomas HUNT arrived here in the second ship in 1608. The early COBBS/COBBs intermarried for many generations with the descendents of Pocahontas among other great surnames like PHILLIPS, FRITH, BEACH, LONG, JACOBS, and SMITH. These family lines attended Bruton Church together and some lines even went back to Kent England together.
One of the well established clues that a person may be American Indian is that you will not find much information, some you may not even have a last name recorded for one who is a mixed-blood American Indian. It is usually more evident when you know more about the females before the one in question... Like in Sarah HOWELL's case. Also, In Sarah HOWELL's case... some family members won't list her last name and others will. Unless one of us can find more on her buried in old family records... we may never learn more about her. And, if someone does have info on her... they may not want the world to know that she was an American Indian mixed-blood Cherokee. And, dad's mother's father was a mixed-blood himself... Tsalagi ( Bird Clan and Wolf Clan), Creek, Muscogee, Calusa, Seminole, Narragansett, Lenape (NJ Turkey Clan), Napuchee, and Shawnee.
Dad's grandmother made him promise that he will not another generation pass without knowing their heritage, to know who they were, and to be proud of it. Dad made that promise to his grandmother and dad made me make the same promise as well. Dad made all of seven kids promise that, as well as the six grandkids.
So, right now... that's all that I have...
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