Nicholas Cook (1660 - abt. 1730)

Born 9 Feb 1660 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay

Husband of Joanna (Rocket) Cook — married 4 Nov 1684 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Mehitable (Hayward) Cook — married 18 Dec 1712 in Mendon, Worcester, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died about 1 Dec 1730 at about age 70 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Nicholas Cook was born on February 9, 1660 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay^[1]. His parents were Walter Cooke (~1620 - 1696) and Experience (Unknown) Cook (~1628 - >1662)^[2]. His siblings were...

1. Hannah (Cooke) Albee (~1651 - 1695)
2. John Cook (~1654 - 1718)
3. Ebenezer Cook (1656 - ~1727)
4. Walter Cooke (1657 - )
5. Samuel Cooke (~1659 - <1752)
6. Experience (Cook) Adams (>1662 - 1767)

When he was 24, he married Joanna Rocket, daughter of John Rockwood and Joanna Ford, on 04 Nov 1684 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony^[3]. When he was 52, after Joannas' death, on December 18, 1712 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, he married Mehitable Hayward, the widow of Abraham Staples Junior, and the daughter of Samuel Hayward Sr. and Mehitabell Tomson^[4].

By 1705 Nicholas owned land east of the Blackstone River, and and on both sides of Peters River in Mendon, Massachusets Colony^[5]. Even though they lived in Mendon, the nearby town of Dedham, Norfolk, Massachussets Bay Colony levied a tax on Nicholas and his neighbors, In 1706, he petitioned for, and received relief from those taxes for he and his neighbors^[6]. As his influence grew, in 1708 he was chosen as Constable^[6]. A few years later, in 1713 Nicholas deeded land in Mendon and partly in Bellingham to his son, Nicholas Jr.^[6]. By 1715 his homestead extended from the eastern part of Mendon near Bellingham, to as far as Dumberland, Rhode island^[5].) In 1725, Nicholas Cook filed a petition on behalf of his wife Mehitable, who had been the relict of Abraham Staples regarding the estate of her late husband. Due the small size of the estate and the expenses related to a probate proceeding, Mehitabel had been advised to not file a probate case with the court. In the statement, he states that she was left with three small children when her husband died (namely Mehitabel, the eldest, Mary, and Abraham^[7]. When he died at the age of 70 on the 01 Dec 1730 he was living in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, and he was buried in Scott Cemetery^[8].

Children

Nicholas Cook and Joanna Rockwood had the following children:

1. Rev. Josiah Cook was born on 29 Aug 1685 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 13 Jun 1689 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
2. Mehitable Cooke (1687 - )
3. Deacon Nicholas Cook was born on 10 Jun 1687 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 26 Apr 1779 in Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. He married Mehitable Elizabeth Staples on 18 Dec 1712 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
4. Joanna Cooke was born on 17 Feb 1689 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She died in 1689.
5. Mary (Cook) Holbrook was born on 09 Oct 1690 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She died in 1750 in Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA. She married Joseph Holbrook in 1710 in Massachusetts, USA.
6. Anne Cooke was born on 04 Mar 1695 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 07 Jan 1745 in Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA. She married Job Partridge on 26 Feb 1728 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
7. Seth Cooke was born on 28 Apr 1699 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
8. Daniel Cook was born on 18 Aug 1703 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He died in Apr 1786.
9. David Cook was born on 15 Nov 1705 in Wrentham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 24 Oct 1790.
10. Abigail Cooke was born on 04 Oct 1707.

Nicholas Cook and Mehitable Cook Hayward had the following children:

1. Noah (Cook) Cooke was born about 1710 in Massachusetts, USA. He died on 29 Apr 1771 in Massachusetts, USA. He married Olive Gaskill on 05 Jan 1760 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

Nicholas Cook and Joane Cook had no children.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988" [database on-line with images]. Ancestry.com: [1]. Entry for Mehitable Staples & Nicholas Cook, Mendon, Massachusetts, 18 Dec 1712 (accessed [19 May 2021]); citing Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
2. ↑ Brown, Vera, Cooke Genealogy notes. Manuscript, 1984, Kansas. In the possession of Elva Tice Michal.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850" [database on-line]. Ancestry.com: [2]. Entry for Johannah Rockit & Nicolus Cook, Mendon, Worchester, Massachusets Colony, 4 Nov 1684 (accessed [19 May 2021]); citing Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850" [database on-line]. Ancestry.com: [3]. Entry for Mehitable Staples & Nicholas Cook, Mendon, Worchester, 18 Dec 1712 (accessed [19 May).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} "Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775" [database on-line with images]. Ancestry.com: [4]. Entry for Nicholas Cook & Joanna Rocket, 4 Nov 1684, (accessed [19 May 2021]); citing Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, editors. Colonial Families of the United States of America: in Which is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies From the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. 7 volumes. 1912. Reprinted, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1966, 1995. p 212.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} George Fairbanks Partridge. History of the town of Bellingham, Massachusetts, 1719-1919 .published by Pub. by the Town, Bellingham, 1919.p, Partridge: Page 41.
7. ↑ Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2019. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org) Petition of Nicholas Cook on behalf of his wife Mehitable, former relict of Abraham Staples.
8. ↑ Find a Grave. Find a Grave: [5]; (accessed 19 May 2021). Nicholas Cook, Scott Cemetery , Bellingham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1 Dec 1730.

see also:

• Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKD-N5Z8 : 13 December 2015), Nicholas Cook, 1730; Burial, Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States of America, Scott Cemetery; citing record ID 42840777, Find a Grave. Nicholas Cook (1660 - 1730) Find A Grave: Memorial #42840777
• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F45T-NT5 : 4 December 2014), Nicholas Cook, 09 Feb 1659; citing Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, pg 48; FHL microfilm 2,031,513.
• American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)// Volume 33// Page number 468
• Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850// Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0599198.
• Representative men and old families of southeastern Massachusetts : containing historical sketches of prominent and representat: Volume II: Page 1202.
• Wrentham Library, Walter Cooke Family History, Nicholas #5

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