Name: Colonel William Cooke Birth Date: 1732 Birth Place: Ireland Death Date: 1804 Death Place: Northumberland, Pennsylvania SAR Membership: 56759 Role: Ancestor Application Date: 24 Apr 1939 Spouse: Sarah Simpson Children: Jane Cooke Source Citation Volume: 284 Source Information Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Name: Captain John Cooke
Birth Date: 17 Nov 1766
Birth Place: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Death Date: 16 Jul 1824
Death Place: Northumberland, Pennsylvania
SAR Membership: 88143
Role: Ancestor
Application Date: 10 Jan 1962
Father: William Cooke
Mother: Sarah Simpson
Spouse: Jane Cooke
Children: Robert Cooke
Source Information
Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations
Name: William Cook
Gender: Male
First Marriage Date: 1754
Spouse: Sarah Simpson
Source Citation
Book Title: The Kinnears and their kin
Name: William Cooke
Gender: Male
Spouse: Sarah Simpson
Source Information
Original data: Egle, William Henry. Some Pennsylvania Women during the War of the Revolution. Harrisburg, PA, USA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1898
Colonel William Cooke, one of the framers of Pennsylvania's 1st. Constitution: Cooke, William, of Northumberland County, was elected the first sheriff of Northumberland Oct. 1772. He was a member of the Committee of safety for Northumberland, February 08, 1776; of the Provincial Conference of June 18, 1776; and of the Provincial Conference of June 18, 1776; and of the Convention of July 15, 1776. On the last day of the session of the latter body he was chosen and recommended as Colonel of the battalion to be raised in the counties of Northampton and Northumberland. This became the 12th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line, and, being composed of riflemen, was employed upon picket duty, and covered the front of General Washington's army during the year 1777, while detachments were sent from it to General Gates, materially assisting in the capture of Burgoyna. It was so badly cut up at Brandywine and Germantown that it was disbanded. Colonel Cooke mustered out of service. In 1781 and 1782 he was chosen to the General Assembly; appointed one of the justices Oct. 03, 1786; and Jan. 16,1796, an associate judge for Northumberland County. Colonel Cooke died in April,1804.
(Crossposting these from niece Jane/Jennie Cooke profile -- she marries William's son John Cooke. eb 7/15/23)
Per the transcription of a 1932 letter written by a "W. P. Mitchell" to "Cousin Mamie" (both of whom appear to descend from the couple Jane/Jenny Cooke/Cook AND John Cooke/Cook):
Jane/Jennie Cooke was the daughter of Jacob Cooke. John Cooke was the son of COL William Cooke.
Jacob Cooke and William Cooke were full brothers.
Jane/Jennie Cooke and husband John Cooke were full first cousins.
W.P.Mitchell includes details he has from a Mary Jane LeVan who was the daughter of JACOB COOKE mentioned just above. (Mary Jane LeVan had died "some years ago" per this 24 Sep 1932 letter.) The letter gives additional information about the brothers Jacob Cooke and William Cooke, to include that both men and families purportedly came from Ireland and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. William then moves on to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
These details are from a 5-page transcript that has been uploaded at Ancestry by multiple members. I am unsure to whom the actual transcription should be credited OR who might still have this original letter. It would be inappropriate of me to upload that entire transcription here. I am plucking out many details, however to aid other Cooke researchers. All would need to be independently verified, of course.
Basic family detail for Jacob Cooke (B. Unk - 1789), per that letter: Marries: Rosetta Hall Children: Elizabeth, Sarah, Jane (of whom W P Mitchell & "Cousin Mamie" claim are great-grandchildren), and Mary.
Basic family detail for William Cooke (1732-1804), per that letter: Marries: Sarah Simpson Children: Elizabeth, marries Robert Martin; John (of whom W P Mitchell & "Cousin Mamie" claim are great-grandchildren), marries Jane/Jennie Cooke; Rebecca, marries William Steedman; Jane, marries Wm P Brady; Mary, marries Robert Brady; Sarah, marries William McClelland; William, marries Martha Lemon.
BRADY ANNALS. William Y Brady, 1923-1955, self-published.
History of the Families McKinney-Brady-Quigley. Belle McKinney Hays Swope. 1905, Newville, Pennsylvania.
Last Will and testament of William Cook. 16 Apr 1804. Wills, 1772-1907; Index, 1792-1930; Author: Northumberland County (Pennsylvania). Register of wills; Probate Place: Northumberland, Pennsylvania.
Link to Last Will and Testament for father William Cooke, as viewable at Ancestry:
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/8802/images/005544926_00182?pId=1986043
Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; Will Book 1, Page 322-324.
Link to Last Will and Testament for father William Cooke, as viewable at FamilySearch:
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Categories: 12th Pennsylvania Regiment, Continental Army, American Revolution
GENERAL ORDERS Head Quarters, V. Forge, Saturday, March 14, 1778.
COL Cooke was sentenced to ONLY be reprimanded in General Orders. (In other words, he was not demoted, removed from command, drummed out of service, or otherwise punished.)
" The Commander in Chief [GEORGE WASHINGTON] approves the sentence and hopes that the disgrace to an Officer of Colo. Cook's rank of being found guilty of the Charge of quitting Camp without leave will be a sufficient reprimand. "
It should be noted that COL William Cooke was retained in service of his country for 3 more years and continued to serve his country *honorably* until his muster out in 1781 at the end of the Revolutionary War.
~Elizabeth Brady (eb 7/14/23)
edited by Elizabeth Brady
COL William Cooke of Pennsylvania does not have a daughter named "Mary Anne" who marries a Martin. Col William Cooke's daughter "Mary" (nickname "Polly") was married to Robert Brady, brother of William Perry Brady -- both of Northumberland Co and then Indiana Co, Pennsylvania.
The DAR record of some decades past, attaching the "Mary Anne Martin" (born VIRGINIA) to Col William Cooke of Pennsylvania, has been found to be in error and is no longer accepted by DAR as connected to Col William Cooke of Pennsylvania.
Please feel free to message me with questions. I will try to add correct children to COL William Cooke and wife Sarah Simpson. I do *not* know who the father should be for "Mary Anne (Cook) Martin" born Virginia.
~Elizabeth Brady (eb 7/14/23)
Service Info.: US ARMY INDIAN WARS Birth Date: 26 Aug 1766 Death Date: 16 Jul 1824 Cemetery: Northumberland Memorial Park Cemetery Address: RR 4 Box 27 Rt 61 South Sunbury, PA 17801 Source Information National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2006 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: National Cemetery Administration. Nationwide Gravesite Locator