Person Page 222

Margaret Fish^1,2

Parents

Key Events:

• Margaret Fish was baptized on 18 Aug 1695 in Stonington, Connecticut.³
• She married Capt. Gideon Cobb, son of Henry Cobb and Lois Hallet, on 25 Sep 1717 at her step-father's home in Canterbury, Connecticut, by Rev. Samuell Esterbrooks.^4,5,6
• Margaret died on 30 May 1775 in Canterbury, Connecticut, at age 79.^7,8
• She was buried in Canterbury Green, Windham Co., Connecticut, where her epitaph reads "In Memory of M^rs Margret Cobb Wife to Capt^t Gedion Cobb. she died Nov^r 30^th 1775 In y^e 82^d year of her age."^9,10

Citations

1. Roser, Susan E., Early Descendants of Henry Cobb, pg 304, shows that she was born Margaret Fish, but apparently used the surname Cleveland when her mother remarried after her father's death. Citing as baptismal record, Richard A. Wheeler, Records of the Congregational Church in Stonington, Connecticut, 1674-1874... (Norwich: 1875), pg 200, and Richard A. Wheeler, A History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Conn. From Its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, with a Genealogical Register of Stonington Families (New London, Connecticut: 1900, reprint Baltimore: 1977), pg 372 (errs, "April"); and as marriage record, Lucius B. Barbour, Barbour Collection, reprinted Lorraine C. White, editor (Genealogical Publishing Co.: Baltimore) 55 vols., 2:20, Records of the Congregational Church in Canterbury, 1711-1844 (Hartford: 1932), pg 96, and Stonington, Connecticut Vital Records pg 101.
2. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 80, citing Early Connecticut Marriages, 1:121, shows name as Margaret Cleaveland, and shows Oscar Cobb stated that her real surname was Fish, but after her father died her mother married Samuel Cleavland and she was brought up as Margaret Cleaveland.
3. Roser, Susan E., Early Descendants of Henry Cobb, pg 304, citing baptismal record, Wheeler, Records of the Congregational Church in Stonington, pg 200, and Wheeler, A History of the Town of Stonington, pg 372 (errs, "April".)
4. Roser, Susan E., Early Descendants of Henry Cobb, pg 304, citing Barbour, Barbour Collection, Canterbury, Connecticut Vital Records, 2:20; Records of the Congregational Church in Canterbury, 1711-1844 (Hartford: 1932), pg 96; and Stonington, Connecticut Vital Records pg 101, shows date, at "Serjant Cleaveland," town, state, and officiant, and notes the marriage was also recorded at Stonington.
5. White, Lorraine Cook, The Barbour Collection, Stonington Vital Records, pg 101, citing vol 2 pg 20, shows date and officiant, who is "of Canterbury."
6. Cleveland, Edmund Janes; Cleveland, Horace Gillette, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, vol 1 pg 44, shows date, at "Serg. Cleaveland's," and town.
7. Roser, Susan E., Early Descendants of Henry Cobb, pg 304, shows town, and citing "Inscriptions In The Carey Cemetery, Canterbury, Conn.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 70[1916]:46, provides transcription of epitaph which includes date.
8. Cobb, Philip L, History of the Cobb Family, pg 80, citing Sanford E. Cobb and E. G. Cobb, shows date.
9. Cleveland, Edmund Janes; Cleveland, Horace Gillette, Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, vol 1 pg 44, shows place.
10. Roser, Susan E., Early Descendants of Henry Cobb, pg 304, citing "Inscriptions In The Carey Cemetery, Canterbury, Conn.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 70[1916]:46, provides transcription of epitaph.