When John Henry Dobbs was born on 19 June 1809, in Claverack, Claverack, Columbia, New York, United States, his father, Abraham Dobbs, was 25 and his mother, Rachel Halenbeck, was 32.
English: variant of Dobb , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, from the medieval personal name Dobb(e), a rhyming pet form of Robert .
History: Arthur Dobbs (1689–1765) was born at Castle Dobbs, County Antrim, Ireland. In 1745 he purchased 400,000 acres of land in NC and was selected as governor in 1754. He married twice and his second wife, wed when he was age 73, was a girl in her teens from NC.
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