Samuel McCobb DOB: 20 Nov 1744
1st Cousin 7X to Mark Rogers

Extensive military service from 1775 to 1781, mostly performed in Maine. In 1777 he had a fair amount of business to conduct in the HR. Other years he had at least one committee a year."

Captain McCobb, on his return from the (Arnold) expedition, raised a regiment in Lincoln county, was commissioned its colonel, joined Washington's army at Cambridge, and took part in the Rhode Island campaign. In command of another regiment he took part in the unfortunate expedition against Castine. In the subsequent official investigation into the causes of this failure, it is recorded that McCobb's command acquitted itself with honor, and after losing some men and officers, he brought away the remainder of his command intact, assisting others of the forces also in retreat. After the war he represented his townsmen as a representative to the general court; and at his death in 1791, at forty-seven years of age, was commander of the military division of Maine, with rank of brigadier-general.

Samuel McCobb, (1740-91), served as captain at Bunker
Hill and as colonel, 1776, for service in the expedition to St.
John's river. He was born and died in Georgetown, Maine.

Col. Samuel McCobb of Georgetown, commanded the regiment that was detached from this brigade, with orders to join the American army, then under General Waghington at Cambridge. Dummer Sewall of Bath, Lieut. Col., and Maj. White of Topsham. From Cambridge, 1776, the regiment was ordered to Rhode Island.
The same volume reports at p. 29 that in 1779 we again find Col. McCobb at the head of his regiment, for the attack on Castine. General McCobb led the Maine Regiment in which Dr. Samuel Duncan served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War.

1775-Col. Samuel McCobb of Georgetown, commanded the regiment that was detached from this brigade, with orders to join the American army, then under General Washington at Cambridge. Dummer Sewall of Bath, Lieut. Col., and Maj. White of Topsham. From Cambridge, 1776, the regiment was ordered to Rhode Island.

1779-We again find Col. McCobb at the head of his regiment, for the attack on Castine. Of Col. McCobb's detachment, there were killed, Capt. John Hinkley of Georgetown, and Miller Hinkley of Bath. They were under the command of General Lovell.