Elizabeth Flinton1

b. circa 1599

7th great-grandmother of William Lemuel Horn Jr.
9th great-grandmother of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Horn and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for William Lemuel Horn II
     Elizabeth Flinton was born circa 1599.1,2 She probably married Joseph Cobb circa 1624 in Virginia.1
     
Additional Data
Elizabeth Flinton departed on the Bonny Besse from the Port of London and arrived in Virginia in August 1623.3,4

In the muster taken "of the living in Virginia" on 16 February 1623/24, Pharow Phlinton, Joane Flinton and Elizabeth Flinton appear living "at the Elizabeth Cittye." Elizabeth was probably Pharaoh's sister.1,5

In the census of settlers taken in Virginia, 7 February 1624/25, Joseph Cobb made his muster in Elizabeth City County where many of the settlers were then living because of fear of the Indians. His muster included himself Joseph Cobb, aged 25, in the "Treasoror", 1613, Elizabeth Cobb, aged 25, in the "Bone Bes", 1623, and John Snowood, aged 25, vessel and year of arrival not stated.1,6,7

Elizabeth Cobbs was mentioned in her husband Joseph Cobbs's will dated 1 March 1653/54 in Isle of Wight County.8,2 Click to view image

Elizabeth and Pharoah Cobbs of Isle of Wight County [mother and son]. 7 March 1656/57. They moving, sold to Samuel Haswell land where he liveth.9,10

Whereas Pharaoh Cobbs and Ann his wife by their deed dated 10 April 1671, confirmed to George Williams a tract of land in L.P. [Lower Parish, Isle of Wight County, Virginia] which land was sold by Pharaoh Cobbs and Elizabeth, his mother to Saml. Haswell and is now in the possession of Richard Reynolds, Jr., and Eliz. his wife the dau. of the said George Williams and lawful inheritrix. Now, we Richard Hutchins and Elizabeth. His wife, the dau. of Joseph Cobbs, Jr., dec. the eldest son of Joseph Cobbs, Sr., dec. for 1000 lbs. tbco. sell to Richard Reynolds, Jr., and confirmed by Richard Hutchins and wife Eliz. of Western Branch Nansemond County. 10 April 1671.11,10

Children of Elizabeth Flinton and Joseph Cobb

Citations

  1. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia," in Historical Southern Families, Mrs. John Bennett Boddie, editor. (Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1968), 12: 173.
  2. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, comp. and ed., Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia 1607-1624/5, Fourth Edition, Vol. One, Families A-F (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004), 702.
  3. [S587] Virtual Jamestown, Introduction - 1624/5 Muster Databases, online <http://www.virtualjamestown.org/Muster/introduction.html>.
  4. [S550] John Bennett Boddie, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County Virginia; A history of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, during the Seventeenth Century, including abstracts of the county records (Chicago: Chicago Law Printing Company, 1938), 173.
  5. [S589] The Living and Dead in Virginia, Feb. 16, 1623, online <http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/e/a/…>.
  6. [S587] Virtual Jamestown, Introduction - 1624/5 Muster Databases, online <http://www.virtualjamestown.org/Muster/introduction.html>, search term cobb%.
  7. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 53, 702.
  8. [S550] John Bennett Boddie, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County Virginia, 520.
  9. [S585] Benjamin C. Holtzclaw and Mrs. Myron J. Taylor, "Cobb of Isle of Wight County, Virginia", 12: 522, citing Isle of Wight Book A.
  10. [S606] John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 704.
  11. [S550] John Bennett Boddie, Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County Virginia, 613.
  12. [S588] Judith McGhan, indexed by, Virginia Vital Records from The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1984). Records of Isle of Wight County, from TQ, Vol. IX (1827), 116-122, 236.