Frank Parker Hudson's 2 volume work on Wilkes County GA -- which had about 40 per cent of the total population in early Georgia before the county government entities were expanded by land from new Indian cessions and by early counties being split into additional counties -- lists around a dozen Cobbs (spelled Cobb, Cobbs, and Cob) in several Georgia militia districts between 1785 and 1805 (the period covered by the book from tax records). The names for this period in Wilkes: Abiel, Absalom, Col'o, Daniel, Ezekiel, J., James, John, Racheael, Samuel, W'm, and Zeikall (probaby same as Ezekiel, enumerated by a different speller). I know there were Cobbs in NE Georgia in later years. Cobb is a prominent name in early Georgia and Ty Cobb, the baseball player was, I believe, a Georgian. The Wilkes County set is a standard for study of early genealogy in Georgia, since it essentially substitutes for the censuses, missing for the years 1790, 1800, and 1810, they apparently having beendestroyed when the British burned Washington in the War of 1812. The author, monitors this newsletter and it's possible he may say whether he still has copies for sale: a 2-vol. work totaling close to 3,000 pages and weighing around 10 pounds total. When I bought mine he was selling both volumes for somewhere around $50. Harold Hopkins

Harold et al Saw your post re Cobb, not my family but I have a gedcom on J. S. COBB family if you want it I will send as attachment to you. Don't remember who it is from or who did the research but there is about 11 pages of COBBs and related folks Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: "HHopkins" <hhopkins3@cfl.rr.com> To: <GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 11:40 PM Subject: [GEORGIA] Cobb in early Georgia > Frank Parker Hudson's 2 volume work on Wilkes County GA -- which had about > 40 per cent of the total population in early Georgia before the county > government entities were expanded by land from new Indian cessions and by > early counties being split into additional counties -- lists around a dozen > Cobbs (spelled Cobb, Cobbs, and Cob) in several Georgia militia districts > between 1785 and 1805 (the period covered by the book from tax records). > The names for this period in Wilkes: Abiel, Absalom, Col'o, Daniel, > Ezekiel, J., James, John, Racheael, Samuel, W'm, and Zeikall (probaby same > as Ezekiel, enumerated by a different speller). I know there were Cobbs in > NE Georgia in later years. Cobb is a prominent name in early Georgia and Ty > Cobb, the baseball player was, I believe, a Georgian. > > The Wilkes County set is a standard for study of early genealogy in Georgia, > since it essentially substitutes for the censuses, missing for the years > 1790, 1800, and 1810, they apparently having beendestroyed when the British > burned Washington in the War of 1812. The author, monitors this newsletter > and it's possible he may say whether he still has copies for sale: a 2-vol. > work totaling close to 3,000 pages and weighing around 10 pounds total. > When I bought mine he was selling both volumes for somewhere around $50. > > Harold Hopkins > > > > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > >