Genealogy Data Page 611 (Notes Pages)

Genealogy Data Page 611 (Notes Pages)

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Cooke, Elisha (b. 21 APR 1717, d. ?)

Note: Elisha Cooke was born in Smithfield, Rhode Island, April 21st, 1717. Married Jan.
27th 1742, Sarah Sly, daughter of Stephen Sly of Smithfield, Rhode Island. He was made a freeman at Newport, Rhode Island, by vote of the general assembly May 3, 1743.

In 1740 he bought job and Thomas Arnold 180 acres of land in the town of
Gloucester in the part now known as Burriville, very near the Uxbridge line.
Here he built his house and lived and died here. The house has been occupied by
some of his descendents continuously until about 1900. It passed into its doom
foreshadowed in the loosing stone and dropping shingles and moss-grown
clap-boards. The old orchard had borne abundant fruit even then for great piles
of baldwins, greenings, and russets were heaped up and ready to be carried
away.

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Cooke, Ebenezer (b. 28 OCT 1684, d. 20 JUL 1771)

Note: Ebenezer Cooke was born in Mendon, Mass. Oct.28, 1684, married December 10,
1710, Huldah Hayward daughter of Samuel Hayward of Mendon, mass. He married 2nd Experience--, he was a farmer and lived in that part of Mendon now included in the town of Woonsocket. In 1719 and again in 1749 lands were laid out to his, and in addition to these he purchased of Samuel Thayer fifty "acres" lying on both sides of mill river, near the great river (Blackstone). His house stood where the social mill now stands. Aug 29th, 1732, his name appears among the list of those "Quaker" "that are fixed by law from paying any rate for the support of the minister or the building of any meeting house". He was one of those who shared in the 6th and 7th division of land. He refused administration on his brother Samuel’s estate, on account of his age, and because he was then living in Gloucester, Rhode Island, probably with one of his children. Ebenezer Cooke died July 20th 1771.

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Cooke, Samuel (b. 1659, d. 2 SEP 1752)

Note: Samuel Cooke came to Mendon, Mass. with his father. He married April 27th,
1681 Lydia White, daughter of Captain Joseph and Lydia Rogers White. Lydia
Rogers was a daughter of Rev. John Rogers, he was a mason by trade. He was at
different times chosen as one of the selectmen of Mendon. He also served as
assessor of taxes and constable. He shared in the several divisions of land and
appears as one of the rate-payers of the minister's salary in 1685 and several
succeeding years. He and his father signed a petition to the "honorable general
court" assembled at Boston May 27th, 1685 praying for relief from the Indians
by reason of their great intemperance etc. This was the first temperance
movement in Mendon.

He lived in the Mendon road to Woonsocket, near the Rhode Island line.
In 1695 James Bick had failed to keep his contract with the town for smithery
work, and his ten acre lot with all the rights and privileges thereto was sold
by the town to Samuel Cooke for 25 lbs. "current money of New England" and Mr.
Josiah Torrey was empowered by the town to give a deed in behalf of the town
and take security of Samuel Cooke for the purchase money, and the last payment
was to be made on or before the 25th of Dec. 1697.

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Cooke, Walter (b. 7 MAR 1618, d. 5 JAN 1695)

Note: Walter Cook was known to be in Weymouth, MA as early as 1643, and was a freeman
there in 1653. In 1663-64 he removed to Mendon, MA with his sons & 2 daughters. He subsequently acquired land in Milford, Bellingham, and Wrentham on the Rhode Island line. He was among the original proprietors of Quinshipaug Plantation. He is mentioned on pg 174 of History of Weymouth, Mass., Vol 3, Genealogy of Weymouth Families by George Walter Chamberlain, 1923.

His will was probated 5 Jan 1697-98 (Suffolk Probate Records 8:88). To his
wife Catherine the use of his estate, John, being the eldest son, was to have the
great bible and ten acres; son Nicholas to have ten acres. Upon his children
Hannah, Samuel, Nicholas and Experience, besides what he formerly gave them,
the reversion of his moveable after his wife's decease. Son John Cooke, sole
executor, to whom administration was granted.

Walter Cooke was of Weymouth, Mass. (the 2nd settlement made by white men in
New England). In 1643 he was made a freeman; in 1657 a mark of citizenship and
church membership. He married 1st experience--and 2nd Catherine, with others
and many from Braintree, Mass. He accepted an allotment of land in the town of
Mendon, and removed there with his family about 1664. When the town was burned
by the Indians, in 1675, he with the other inhabitants took refuge elsewhere, where it is not known, but it is thought he returned to Weymouth. He was one of those who returned to Mendon after the war ended and was for many years prominent in town affairs as selectman, active in the church, one of the members of the various committees sharing in the various divisions of land; paying his rates for the support of the ministry. A man respected by his fellow townsmen, and a power in the community for good. The well on his land is still called "Walter Cooke’s well". He lived in Mendon until his death in Jan. 1696. His wife Catherine survived him but a short time. In his will he mentions children, John the eldest son, to whom after the death of his wife, he bequeathed his great bible. In his will he mentions Hannah, Samuel, Nicholas, and Experience; the last four to have the reversion of all his movable estate, besides what he had already given them, after the death of his wife. To John and Nicholas, he bequeathed his real estate, after the death of his wife. The witnesses were "Joseph White, Sr., Samuel Read Sr. and Josiah Chapin."
Suffolk co. Probate records, vol. 8. Page 88.