Jeremiah Cobb was a justice who served the courts of Southampton County Virginia.

Cobb served in the War of 1812 and was the architect and contractor for the Southampton County Courthouse. He is best known for presiding as the chairman of a group of county justices of the peace who tried Nat Turner for the infamous slave insurrection of 1831.

Jeremiah Cobb served in the House of Burgesses from 1812-13 and 1831-32.

Cobb’s comments as he sentenced Turner are frequently quoted: “The judgment of the court is that you be taken hence to the jail from which you came, thence to the place of execution, and on Friday next, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., be hung by the neck until you are dead, dead, dead, and may the Lord have mercy upon your soul.”

The Jeremiah Cobb house, Snowden (087-0031), the home of the judge in the Nat Turner trial in 1831, is an earlier house with two additions completed before 1850. This property is an example of the I-house with a hipped roof (Balfour 1989:29).

Cobb cemetery located on Cabin Pond Road about 2 miles from Plank Road (Route 35). This is the Jeremiah Cobb Cemetery at Snowden in Southampton County, Virginia. Tall Pointed Monument In Center Of Cemetery Sacred To The Memory Of Jeremiah Cobb 09-13-1779 05-07-1849 Back:"This Monument Is Created By His Children As A Memorial Of Exalted Respect And Love, For The Memory Of The Noblest Of Fathers" S/O John Jr. And Mary Exum Cobb H/O Ann Briggs Cobb Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs.Ann Briggs Cobb White Dau.Of Jeremiah And Ann Briggs Cobb Wife Of Rev. John W. White Of The Va. Annual Conference 05-22-1814 08-18-1847 "Rejoicing In The God Of Our Salvation" "Precious In The Sigh Of The Lord Is The Death Of His Saints" Psalm 116:15 On February 5, 1849, the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe filled suite within the Commonwealth of Virginia Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the County of Southampton County against Jeremiah Cobb. The suite was filled on behalf of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribal Members and all other members of said tribe by the tribe’s Trustees (white), James W. Parker, G.N.W. Newsom, and Jesse S. Parham. On November 8, 1850, Judge Rich H. Baker, Court of Southampton County ruled in favor of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe and on March 3, 1851, as witness by Littleton R. Edwards, Clerk of said court, awarded the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe $818.80 with interest from June 1, 1845. As a result of the successful Court Case in 1851, the Commonwealth of Virginia in the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the County of Southampton County, Virginia RECOGNIZED the Cheroen From MyHeritage Jeremiah Cobb was born on September 13 1779, in Ston City, VA, to John Cobb and Mary Cobb (born Exum). John was born circa 1743, in Williamsburg, James City, VA. Mary was born on September 3 1744, in VA. Jeremiah had 8 siblings: Rebecca Cobb, Exum Cobb, Elizabeth Cobb, Michael Cobb, Mary Cobb, Benjamin Cobb, Thomas Gray Cobb and George Blow Cobb. Jeremiah married Ann Cobb (born Briggs) in 1805, at age 25 in Surry Co., VA. Ann was born on September 7 1784, in Ston, VA. They had one son: William Walter Cobb. Jeremiah passed away on May 7 1849, at age 69 in Isle of Wight Co., VA.