Rocky Mount
Piney Flats, Tennessee
Originally built by William Cobb.
Served as the territorial capital from 1790 to 1792.
The present house was buiilt in the late 1820s.
Tennessee was admitted to the Union on June 1, 1796. It was initially part of North Carolina.
The Cherokee were indigenous people who lived in the southern Appalachian mountains. European Americans called their towns in eastern Tennessee, the Overhill Towns. The towns included Chota, Tellico and Tanasi.
In 1776, the Cherokee planned to drive settlers out of the Washington District. The settlers were warned and stopped the first attack at Heaton's Station. The second attack was stopped at Fort Watauga. In response to these attacks, the militia burned Tuskegee and Citico.
Pharoah Cobb was born in September, 1752, in Northampton, County, North Carolina. His father was William Cobb.
He married Barsheba Whitehead.
Pharoah and Barsheba's children may have included:
Catherine Cobb (1776, married Julius Connor),
Richard Caswell Cobb (1778, married Rebecca Buckingham),
Arthur Cobb (1780),
William Cobb (1783, married Isabella Cooper), and
Barsheba Cobb (1797, married Absolom Kyle).
He enlisted in a company of volunteers and served four months under Captain Jacob Womack against the Cherokee. In 1777 he served three months as a mounted ranger or spy in Captain Thomas Price's company. He served two months under Colonel Isaac Shelby and volunteered again for two tours in the summer of 1780. He volunteered again and served under Colonel Isaac Shelby and was in the battle of Musgrove's Mill.
In 1778, Arthur Cobb was a grand juryman in Washington County and
Ord that Wm. Been, Jr., Jarrett Gitzgerald, Pharoah Cobb assess all below Iron Mountain as far as the Big Limestone, extending as far North as Browns line, and make returns to William Cobb.
Philip Mulcky vs. Pharoah Cobb. Cavit Disd. by order of pltff.
He died in Hawkins County in 1841.
TVA to Reinter Bodies From Cobb Cemetery
Next Sunday July 13th at 2 p m the TVA will reinter the bodies taken from the Pharaoh Cobb Cemetery at Cobb’s Ford in Hamblen county The place selected by the Cobb family for the interment is the Lee Cemetery just across the line in Hawkins county.
Only 18 people were buried in the Cobb Cemetery Pharaoh Cobb a Revolutionary soldier and his two sons William and Jesse both soldiers in the War of 1812 with their wives and some members of the Read family constitute the group.
It is not known certainly that William Cobb in whose home the Southwest Territory was organized in 1790 by Gov. William Blount was buried here, but all the data available indicates that he was.
At the Lee Cemetery there will be an appropriate service at 2:00 p m Sunday. Any relatives or friends coming either way out the Lee Highway can travel a TVA road from Three Springs. Those coming through Rogersville can come by Melendez Ferry. The service will be in charge of Rev Pharaoh Lee Cobb of South Pittsburg Tenn(from Rogersville Review, July 10 1941)
North Carolina was one of the thirteen original Colonies. It was first settled by small farmers and grew quickly in the mid 18th century.
P. Cobb v. William Cobbs heirs
Hawkins
Land
Incomplete case file. Paroah Cobb of Hawkins county purchased 400 acres of land from his brother William Cobbin what is now Anderson county in 1800. Paroah agreed to pay William 20 shillings of Virginia currency per acre for said land but did not obtain from William in his life time either a conveyance for land or land for a conveyance. During his life time William obtained $787.93 as part of the consideration for the land and since the death of William he has paid to the heirs of William Cobb.
Jonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee was founded in 1779. In 1784, it became the capital of the State of Franklin.
From: Some Tennessee Heroes of the Revolution, Compiled From Pension Statements by Zella Armstrong
Pharoah Cobb applied for revolutionary pension while living in Hawkins County, Tennessee, in 1833. He was born in September, 1752, in Northampton, County, North Carolina. He moved to the Watauga River settlement which later became Washington County, Tennessee. He enlisted in a company of volunteers and served four months under Captain Jacob Womack against the Cherokee Indians. In 1777 he served three months as a mounted ranger or spy in Captain Thomas Price's company. He served two months under Colonel Isaac Shelby and volunteered again for two tours in the summer of 1780. He volunteered again and served under Colonel Isaac Shelby and was in the battle of Musgrove's Mill.
He died in Hawkins County in 1841. His will made in 1823 was probated in 1841. He was a son of William Cobb.
He married Barsheba Whitehead [same name as his mother, a first cousin] and their children were
Catherine [Cobb], born 1776, died 1824, married Julius Connor:
Richard Caswell [Cobb], born 1778, died 1811, married Rebecca Buckingham;
Arthur [Cobb], born 1780, died 1818, married Ailsie Massengale;
William [Cobb], born 1783, died 1839, married Isabella Cooper;
Barsheba [Cobb], born 1797, died 1856, married Absolom Kyle.
