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Prominent Ancestors Historical Sites - Markers, Plaques and Monuments:

Notation: ##-G - The ancestor's relationship to the boomer generation (Kathie and Don).
10-G = 10th Great Grandparent: When you add your Grandparents, Parents and yourself that makes you a 13 Generation North American. We were just a collection of colonies not a country yet then.
Most 4-Gs were born after 1776 when we became the United States of America.

Joseph Cobb 10-G 1599-1633
In 1613 he came from Amsterdam, the Netherlands to the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia.
After only 60 of the 500 settlers in 1607 survived, the London entrepreneurs who funded the settlement, started recruiting people with skills to survive.
Joseph Cobb was classified as "a gentleman, entitled by rank to wear a sword and trained by experience to use one." [Is that the same as licensed to kill? Ed.]

George Soule 8-G 1590- before 1678
Arrived on the Mayflower in 1620
abt. 1627 Reconstructed home of George and his wife Mary Becket in the Plymouth plantation. Edward Winslow, one of several senior leaders on the ship and also later at Plymouth Colony, brought George, an employee and teacher for Edward's children, with him.
Mary came to the colonies later on the Anne .

Samuel Wilbore 10-G Samuel Wilbore immigrated from England in 1633 on his own ship. He was a merchant, and probably sold cloth and lumber and was in the wool business.
In 1634, he and others bought bought some land for the town, from William Blackstone, which became Boston Common.
He was banished from Boston in August 1637, for his association with a religious group led by Anne Hutchinson and John Wheelwright. Hutchinson. an early feminist held meetings opposing institutionalized beliefs of the Massachusetts Puritans. They moved to a settlement (now Portsmouth) on the island of Aquidneck (now part of Rhode Island).
1638 Portsmouth Compact

Samuel Wilbore was one of the founders of the Portsmouth Compact (1638), The first government in the world to allow and to insure to its citizens civil and religious liberty. in Portsmouth R.I.

Roger Garde 10-G 1585-1645
Immigrated from Bideford, Devonshire, England to York, Maine (then called Agamenticus) in 1634. He served as mayor of York from 1644 to 1645. In doing so, became the first ever Mayor in New England. (Atually York was only a village then.)

John Hathaway 9-G 1658-1705

Plaque in the part of Berkley, MA (south of Taunton) known as "The Farms"".
He was an attorney and deputy to the General Court of Ma. in1696-1697.
A co-founder of the Chartley Iron Works of Norton.
John was the GGG Grandfather of Noah Gard (1774-1838)

See Wilbore - Hathaway genealogy.

Benjamin Hathaway 7-G 1699-1762.

1738 - Morristown Presbyterian Church Marker on the Morristown Green crediting Benjamin Hathaway for donating the land, which included land for the Church which donated part of it for the Green.

William Cobb 6-G (1732-1803) , brother of Mary Cobb

The Cobb Home (Rocky Mount) * built in 1770-1772 at 200 Hyder Hill Rd, Piney Flats, TN off 19W
William Cobb is our G-G-G-G-G-G-Grand Uncle.
William Cobb brought his family from North Carolina and built his two-story log home in the year 1770 and completed it in 1772.
It was located in Piney Flats
Rocky Mount held a significant role in the starting of Tennessee. After a failed attempt at creating a state directly following the War for Independence, the territory needed protection and leadership. President George Washington appointed William Blount to be governor for the newly developed Southwest Territory, Blount moved from North Carolina to William Cobb’s home, Rocky Mount, in 1790. William Blount’s stay at Rocky Mount made it the Capitol and Headquarters of the Southwest Territory until his move to Knoxville in 1792.
See Rocky Mount State Historic Site.

The Cobb-Massengill home (above) and the Cobb-Massengill monument (below) are not the same people.
Both families lived in Piney Flats, TN, North of Johnson City just south of the Kentucky line.
William Cobb (Cobb Home above) is Mary Cobb's (Cobb-Massengill monument) brother.
William Cobb left his home (also called Rocky Mount) to his daughter Pentlope who was married to Hal Massengill. I don't know the relationship between Hal Massengill and Henry Massengill, Mary Cobb's husband. Henry and Mary's daughter, Elizabeth, married Issac Thomas, making them our our G-G-G-G-G-G-Grand Parents.
I haven't figured out the relationship between William Cobb and Hall Cobb or between Mary Cobb and William Cobb. Mary is a descendant of Jospeh Cobb who immigrated to Jamestown in 1613.

Henry Massengill (1730-1800) and Mary Cobb 6-G (1735-1810)

Erected in 1937.   It was moved in 1990.
Now located in Winged Deer Park. 4137 Bristol Hwy (US 19W), Johnson City TN
Henry Massengill and Mary Cobb were prominent plantation in Piney Flat owners with their own statue in eastern Tennessee in the 1700's.
Their daughter Elizabeth (estranged because she married an Indian), married Isaac Thomas after her husband was killed.
Mary Cobb was the G-G Granddaughter of Joseph Cobb who immigrated to the Jamestown Settlement before 1576.

Isaac Thomas 5-G 1735-1818
An indian trader in eastern Tennessee who helped General Sevierville get support from the Indians in the American Revolution.

Founder of Sevierville TN in 1795 - Birhplace of Dolly Parton
Isaac Thomas

Captain Jacob Gard 5-G 1748-1812
Captain Jacob Gard served with Western Battalion, Morris County Militia, New Jersey Militia during the American Revolution.

Judge John Thomas 4-G 1794-1875
First Judge of Dallas County TX.

Lieutenant Jack Sikes 1916-1953
Jack served in the Army during WW II

Patricia (Pat) Gilmore Sikes 1918-1998
Editor, author and speech writer.
Pat was the chief speech writer and highest ranking woman in the administration of California Governor Edmond G. (Pat) Brown, who is recognized as one of the top 3 governors in the history of California along with Hiram Johnson and Earl Warren.

Dr. William Boyce Davis M.D. (1953)
A family practice physician in Winters, who is well know for his emphasis on patient-physician relationship and his nationally recognized stand against assembly line medical care for which he received the "Heroes in Healthcare" award.

I find it's ironic that with all these prominent ancestors, our legacy is from a miner in Ohio who established the "Sikes Ranch" in California.

1869 
Sikes Rd., Davis, CA


Thomas Ln., Lakeport CA
Thomas Cross Rd., Sevierville, TN
Gard St. Kelseyville, CA
Hathaway Rd., and Fairchild Ave., Morris Plains, NJ