The Cochrane & Allied Families
Cochranes from Scotland to Colonial Virginia (c 1760), to Kentucky (1811), to Kansas (1859) and beyond. Allied families to the United States from England, Scotland, Ireland and Switzerland.

—?—, Mary Hannah
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Name —?—, Mary Hannah [1, 2, 3, 4] Birth Abt 1725 [4] Gender Female Death Aft 1808 Virginia, USA
[4, 5] Age 84 years Burial Lee County, Virginia, USA
[3, 6, 7] - Buried on the family farm near the old DeBusk's mill location on the Powell River.
Person ID I4203 Cochrane Genealogy Last Modified 25 Jun 2021
Family HOBBS, Vincent Sr., b. Abt 1720, England
d. 8 Jan 1808, Lee County, Virginia, USA
(Age 88 years) Residence Abt 1740 Prince George County, Province of Maryland, UK
[3, 5, 8] on the Potomac River, near the present day city of Hagerstown, - In 1748 this area became apart of the new Washington County.
Marriage Abt 1742 [3, 4, 9, 10] - "It would be difficult to find a family that has played a more important part in the settlement of the County than the first immigrant, Vincent Hobbs of 1735, from England. The family is of old English Stock with honors back of it."
- Early Settlers of Lee County, Virginia and Adjacent Counties, Vol II, p 573 [5]
Age at Marriage She : ~ 17 years - He : ~ 22 years. Marriage Status Ended with Husband's death Residence Abt 1770 Mendota, Augusta, Colony of Virginia, UK
[3, 11] on the North Fork of the Holston River - Having moved from Maryland, they settled just upstream from the famous Mendota bend (36°41'54" N, 082°18'59" W) in the river, between the southeast side of Clinch Mountain and the river, where they farmed. They acquired 572 acres over the next 2 years adjacent to their son-in-law, John Benham, husband of their daughter Mary.
Residence 1780 Washington County, Virginia, USA
[3, 12, 13] in Turkey Cove on the Powell River in the valley between Powell Mountain and Stone Mountain - They moved here from their farm on the North Fork of the Holston River. This location is now the town of Dryden in Lee County, Virginia.
Land Sep 1793 Lee County, Virginia, USA
[3, 14] purchased from James and Mary ARBUCKLE for 50 pounds, 330 acres on both sides of the Powell River on a spur of Wallen Ridge, - He sold some of this land to John ANGLE, 98 acres to Edmond PENDLETON and 225 acres to William MUNCEY, on 13 September 1796.
Children > 1.
HOBBS, James, b. Province of Maryland, UK
d. Yes, date unknown2.
HOBBS, Capt. Vincent Jr., b. Province of Maryland, UK
d. Tennessee, USA 
> 3.
HOBBS, Rebecca, b. Province of Maryland, UK
d. Yes, date unknown4.
HOBBS, Joel, b. Province of Maryland, UK
d. Yes, date unknown5.
HOBBS, William, b. Province of Maryland, UK
d. Lee County, Virginia, USA 
> 6.
HOBBS, Abner, b. Province of Maryland, UK
d. Yes, date unknown> 7.
HOBBS, Ezekiel, b. 1762, Province of Maryland, UK
d. Abt 1835 (Age 73 years)> 8.
HOBBS, Mary, b. Abt 1763, Province of Maryland, UK
d. Aft Apr 1825 (Age 62 years)> 9.
HOBBS, Absalom, b. 1764, Province of Maryland, UK
d. Abt 1841 (Age 77 years)+ 10.
HOBBS, Rachel, b. 24 Nov 1767, Province of Maryland, UK
d. 23 Feb 1830, Lee County, Virginia, USA
(Age 62 years)Family ID F1707 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 26 Jun 2021
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Notes - (Research):Check: Holston Territory Genealogical Society, Families of Washington County and Bristol, Virginia 1776-1996 1996
Birth? - Cardiganshire, Wales c1725
Other POTENTIAL SOURCES
Notes for Mary Hannah Shelby:REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION OF JOB HOBBS, 5 Aug 1859,MadisonCo., AR: Age 97 years, states father's name "Vinson",mother's name Ruth Thomas who lived in Lee Co., VA and names brothers and sisters - oldest brother James, Merry, Hannah, Vinson, Joel, Ezekiel, Ruth, Rachel,William, Absolem, Abner. States brother Ezekiel in service but not as ame time with him.
Ancestry Family Tree - "DENT(1)":
Mary Hannah SHELBY
BIRTH 1725 • Wales
DEATH AFT. 1808 • Washington County Virginia
Father:
Evan SHELBY
BIRTH Tregaron, Caridan, Wales
MARRIED 1718, Virginia (?)
DEATH 1751 • Washington County, Virginia
(Father: Phillip Shelby; Mother: Margaretha ?; M. bef 1689)
Mother:
Catherine Davis MORGAN
Siblings (8): Evan, 1719 Wales; Rees, 1721 Wales; John, 1724 Wales; Moses, 1728 Wales; David, 1730 MD; Rachel, 1732 MD; Eleanor, 1736 MD; Solomon, 1738 MD.
- (Research):Check: Holston Territory Genealogical Society, Families of Washington County and Bristol, Virginia 1776-1996 1996
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Event Map
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Sources - [S985] Hattie Byrd Muncy Bales, Book - Lee County, VA Settlers - Vol. II, (Greensboro, NC: Media, Inc., 1977.), 4 Aug 2016, p 567-573, 690-95.
- [S986] Anne Wynn Laningham, Book - Lee County, VA Settlers - Vol. I, (Greensboro, NC: Media, Inc., 1977.), 4 Aug 2016, p 315-320.
- [S1079] Lee County Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc., Book - Bicentennial History of Lee County, VA, (Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Co., 1992.), 20 Nov 2017, HOBBS, : p 287.
- [S1047] Edmund West, complier, Individual Records - Family Data Collection (Ancestry), ((http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=4725 : 2000)), 18 Sep 2017, accessed 18 September 2017), Mary Hannah Shelby (1725-1804).

Individual Data - Mary Hannah Shelby (1725-1804) - [S985] Hattie Byrd Muncy Bales, Book - Lee County, VA Settlers - Vol. II, (Greensboro, NC: Media, Inc., 1977.), 4 Aug 2016, p 567-573.
- [S1038] Lawrence J. Fleenor Jr., Book - Benge!, (Big Stone Gap, VA: Self, 1998.), 17 Aug 2017, p 88.
- [S1079] Lee County Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc., Book - Bicentennial History of Lee County, VA, (Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Co., 1992.), 28 Oct 2017, p 30.
- [S1170] Virginia. Pennington Gap., Newspaper Article - Powell Valley News (VA), 12 Jan 2019, Koger Marvin V., "Life Sketch of Captain Joshua Hobbs," 24 July 1947; transcript : accessed 12 January 2019).

Life Sketch of Cpt. Joshua Hobbs - [S985] Hattie Byrd Muncy Bales, Book - Lee County, VA Settlers - Vol. II, (Greensboro, NC: Media, Inc., 1977.), 2 Aug 2016, p 567-573, 690-95.
- [S1038] Lawrence J. Fleenor Jr., Book - Benge!, (Big Stone Gap, VA: Self, 1998.), 17 Aug 2017, p 19, 88, 105.
- [S1038] Lawrence J. Fleenor Jr., Book - Benge!, (Big Stone Gap, VA: Self, 1998.), 17 Aug 2017, p 19-20, 69.
- [S1038] Lawrence J. Fleenor Jr., Book - Benge!, (Big Stone Gap, VA: Self, 1998.), 17 Aug 2017, p 65.
- [S1443] Lyman Chalkley, Book - Scotch-Irish Settlement in VA, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974.), Vol. 2: p 76-77.

Scots-Irish in Augusta Co., VA - Vol II - [S1076] Reda Thornton Duckworth, editor, Book - Lee County, VA Deed Books 1-3, (Signal Mountain, Tennessee: Mountain Press, n.d.), 17 Oct 2017, vol 1: p 2, 8, 9.
Lee County, Virginia Deed Book 1, pages 12, 43, 44, 47, 49 and 50.
Deed - Lee Co., VA - Vincent Hobbs, Sr. - 1793 
Deed - Lee Co., VA - Vincent Hobbs, Sr. - 1796 (1) 
Deed - Lee Co., VA - Vincent Hobbs, Sr. - 1796 (2)
- [S985] Hattie Byrd Muncy Bales, Book - Lee County, VA Settlers - Vol. II, (Greensboro, NC: Media, Inc., 1977.), 4 Aug 2016, p 567-573, 690-95.

