A Fraktur Birth Announcement of Sibel Cobb, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, dated 1806

Barry Cohen Collection;

Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. Collection;

David Good & Samuel Forsythe Antiques, Barnstar York Antiques Show, 2003.

The birth record toured Japan as part of an exhibition of American Folk Art in 1976 and is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue.

Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr. Collection of 18th, 19th, and 20th Century American Folk Art, presented at the Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, illustrated on p. 78;

David B. McGrail, "Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Illuminated New Jersey Documents: An Introduction and a Checklist," New Jersey History, Vol. 105, Spring/Summer 1987;

Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 213, fig. 375.

Sibel Cobb was born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1803. Sibel’s brother, George, was born in Morristown in 1813 and the two became orphans in 1819. Their grandfather was an officer under George Washington in the Revolution. Sibel gave birth to five daughters and a son from 1826-1848 before she married and then in 1850 she married Abiather Lyon. They resided together until 1888 when they both died at age 85.

George became wealthy working in the Dover Iron Works and was elected from Morristown to the 37th Congress that convened in July 1861. Despite being a Democrat, George strongly supported Lincoln in the Civil War and served only one term in the House of Representatives, declining a renomination. He also declined the Republican nomination for New Jersey Governor.

Sibel's birth record is by the same hand that made the marriage certificate of John I. Post and Mary Bartrim, see lot 42 in the Important Americana sale.