Robert WHITCOMB

BEF 20 Dec 1629 - 25 Dec 1704

  • BIRTH: BEF 20 Dec 1629, Taunton, Somerset, England [1004]
  • DEATH: 25 Dec 1704, Scituate, Plymouth, MA [1005]
Father: John WHITCOMB
Mother: Frances COGGAN

Family 1 : Mary CUDWORTH
  1.  Robert WHITCOMB
  2.  Mary WHITCOMB
  3.  Elizabeth WHITCOMB
  4.  Israel WHITCOMB
  5. +James WHITCOMB 

                                    _William WHETCOMB _+
                   _John WHETCOMB _|
                  |                |_Dorothy TAYLOR ___+
 _John WHITCOMB __|
|                 |                 _John HARPER ______
|                 |_Ann HARPER ____|
|                                  |_Frances SMYTH ____
|
|--Robert WHITCOMB 
|
|                                   _Henry COGAN ______
|                  _Henry COGAN ___|
|                 |                |_Elizabeth CARYE __
|_Frances COGGAN _|
                  |                 ___________________
                  |_Joan BORIDGE __|
                                   |___________________

[1006] Whitcomb and associated lines from a GEDCOM
file posted to RootsWeb by jdharris@dancris.com.

Source: The Whitcomb Family In America; Charlotte Whitcomb; Minneapolis,
MN, 1904; p. 49-50

Robert Whitcomb. When in 1654 John, removed his family from Scituate,
MA, to Lancaster, MA, Robert remained behind, perhaps in the family of
his oldest sister Catherine Ellmes, who was settled there, she having
been married ten years before. From the fact that Robert remained and
was given real estate, it is reasonable to supppose him to have been one
of the older sons. It is recorded by several authorities that in the
year, 1654, Robert received from his father a half interest in the
Cohasset lands and it is probable that this was recognized as his share
of his father's estate, as in the division of the property after his
father's death he was awarded no part, nor was he mentioned in the will
of his mother.

Events proved that Robert, like his brother- in-law, Rhodolphus Ellmes,
and his neighbors, Gen. Cudworth and family, synpathized with the Quakers
and possibly his inclinations led him to remain with these friends rather
than to accompany his Puritan relatives to Lancaster. It is certain that
six years later he was married by a Quaker preacher in Rhode Island to
Mary, daughter of Gen. James Cudworth, but this marriage being pronounced
unlawful he was remarried by a Puritan preacher, 9 March 1660.

Robert Whitcomb was the first to settle at "Beechwood" in the Beeches,
the family place at Scituate where several generations of Whitcombes
resided.

He seems to have died intestate and there is no record of his children
except in the will of Gen. James Cudworth, who left legacies to four
grandchildren. Another child, Elizabeth, is named elsewhere.

[1004] [S37] Barb Marshall; 1250 Loryn Ln.; Half Moon Bay, CA 94019

[1005] [S38] FHC AF, ver. 4.15, Oct. 1995

[4961] [S15] The Whitcomb Family In America; Charlotte Whitcomb; 1904; p. 50

Nav Bar