This covers a number of local counties. Don't vouch for the information in the N & O COBB, WASHINGTON AND GRIST WASHINGTON, GRIST FAMILIES Found at DAR - lost note on which folder but probably Jesse Cobb The notes indicated there were thirteen pages of this Bible but there were only three in the folder submitted by the North Riding Chapter Much of this is not readable on the copy FIRST PAGE John Washington and Elizabeth Cobb were married on Monday 29th April 179? In the evening by candlelight John Cobb Washington son John & Elizabeth his wife was born on 24 December 1801 between 4 & 5 oclock AM James Augustus Washington son of John and Elizabeth his wife was born on the 30th of July 1803 between ??? oclock PM First name not readable Elizabeth next name not readable daughter of John and Elizabeth was born 23rd December 1805 about 9 oclock PM Elizabeth Herritage Washington Daughter of John and Elizabeth his wife was born 15th ?? February 1808 about 10 oclcock AM Susannah Ann Washington Daughter of John and Elizabeth his wife was born 17th May 1810 She died 21st September 1811 having lived one year three months and ?? days SECOND PAGE Top cut off on original copy Grist was born in Newbern Thursday 26th day of July 1832 Elizabeth Bryan Grist daughter of Richard and Eliza H. Grist departed this life the 16th day of October AD 1833 buried at Chocowinity family residence Richard Grist departed this life the 21st of Sept 1833 - buried at the family residence in Chocowinity First name not readable Cobb Grist departed this life the 31st of March 1836 and was buried at the family residence in Chocowinity Doctor Reubin Knox of St. Louis, Missouri and Eliza H. Grist were mrried in Hillsborough, NC on Tuesday the 21st day of July A.D. 1840 John Washington, son of Reubin and Eliza Knox was born in St. Louis, Mo on Tuesday the 1st day of February, AD 1842 between the hours of 9 & 10 PM Died on Wednesday September 7th 1842 at 10 oclock - interred in the Presbyterian burying ground S. Louis THIRD PAGE Reubin, son of Reubin and Eliza H. Knox was born in St. Louis on Saturday the 8th of July AD 1844 at 4 oclock AM Died on Sunday morning at half past 5 March 30th AD 1845 Eliza Washington daughter of Reubin and Eliza H. Knox was born at St. Louis on Tuesday the 17th November AD 1846 at 8 ½ AM James Augustus Washington son of Reubin and Eliza H. Knox was born on Sunday the 6th dy of May AD 18 ?? Doctor Reuben Knox was drowned on the morning of the 28th of May 1851 - next few words not readable Pablo ?? Bay, Cal in which he was returning from San Francisco in his 50th year ******* Raleigh Register - COBB: Died in Kinston on Thursday last, Jesse Cobb Esq an old and respectable inhabitant of Lenoir County. Mr. Cobb bore a distinguished part in the Revolutionary War for many years served his County as a Legislator and was a Member of the Convention which formed the constitution. Thurs 10 Sept 1807 COBB: Married at Mush Hill in Lenoir Co on the 13th Mr. John Cobb of Kinston to Miss Nancy Whitfield dau of Br. Bryan Whitfield Tues 1 Feb 1803 COBB: Married on the 25th John Cobb Esq of Lenoir to Miss Ann Grist of Beaufort - Friday 29 May 1818 - she daughter of late Gen. Grist COBB: Died in Newbern on the 16th July Mrs. Nancy Cobb consort of Maj John Cobb of Lenoir - left husband and an infant son - Frid 9 Aug 1816 - she also called Ann ***** Ancestors of Eleanor Roosevelt >From News and Observer - no date but Mrs. Roosevelt was going to NC Descended from Jesse Cobb also Jacob and Catherine Miller of Craven, John Martin and Cevilla Miller Frank, William and Susannah Frank Herritage, Jesse and Elizabeth Heritage Cobb Jesse and Elizabeth Heritage married 17 October 1771 - had 5 children. 3rd child was John Cobb of Kinston, Goldsboro and Chapel Hill Cobbs, 4th son was Rev. Jesse Heritage Cobb ancestor of Georgia Bullocks 5th child Elizabeth who married John Washington - their daughter married Gov William A. Graham Jesse Heritage Cobb was born 1778 - went to UNC - settled in La Grange, Tenn and became a Methodist preacher - married Olivia Pridgeon of Greene Co - had 5 children including a daughter who married John or William Bullock of Granville Co - their daughter Susan Bullock married Theodore Roosevelt I in Georgia and their son Theodore became Pres of the US.