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Patience Hurst

-1648

 



Patience is named in the will of husband Henry Cobb (see Henry Cobb page) Henry Cobb family Bio. p.52-53, The Hamlin Family a Genealogy of James Hamlin of Barnstable Massachusetts 1639-1902, by Hon. H. Franklin  Anderson, 1902.

Patience, wife of Henry Cobb, buried, May 4, 1648, the first that was buried in our new burying place by our meeting house. The second wife of Henry Cobb was Sarah Hinckley, daughter of Samuel and Sarah Hinckley. She had come over with her parents from England in 1634, settling in Scituate, afterwards removing to Barnstable. Her brother, Thomas Hinckley, became governor of Plymouth Colony and was a prominent man. Mr. Lothrop gives the following particulars of interest. Henry Cobb and Sarah Hinckley married by Mr. Prince Dec. 12, 1649. Sarah the wife of Henry Cobb, and the wife of Samuell Mao joined to the Congregation in my house, January 20, 1649. p.17,  A History of the Cobb Family, 1907