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Cobb, David 1748-1839

Military officer; born in Attleboro, Mass., Sept. 14, 1748; graduated at Harvard College in 1766; became a physician; member of the Provincial Congress in 1775; aide-de-camp to Washington for a number of years; and brevetted brigadier-general at the close of [224] the Revolutionary War. Washington assigned him the duty of providing entertainment for the French officers, and of making terms for the evacuation of New York. He was a member of Congress in 1793-95; lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1809. He died in Taunton, Mass., April 17, 1839.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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