Lydia Cook, probably the daughter of Silas Cook and his wife, Sarah West, was born at Shrewsbury, N. J., ca. 1721[1][2]
Lydia married Samuel Slocum on 9 Dec 1743 Long Branch, East New Jersey. They settled on a farm in Shrewsbury.[3][4][5][2]
Based on the birth places listed for children Samuel, William, and Jesse in History of the Slocoms, Samuel was born at Long Branch and William and Jesse were born at Shrewsbury.[6][7]
104. Lydia Cook, probably the daughter of Silas Cook [41] and his wife, Sarah West, was born at Shrewsbury, N. J., perhaps ca. 1721. Her parentage has not been proven, but it is known that Silas and Sarah had one daughter living in 1747 and Lydia well fits that place. Nothing has been found to support the statement in the Slocum Genealogy that her mother probably was a Webley.
She married by New Jersey license dated 9 December 1743 Samuel Slocum, son of Samuel and Deborah Slocum. Both were of Monmouth, and john Allen also signed the marriage bond. There was a Samuel Slocum Jr. listed on the Monmouth county militia list, "Classed Return of Capt. James Green's Company," dated 29 June 1780; see Stephen Cook [100], above, for further information.
Samuel Slocum of Shrewsbury, yeoman, and Lidia his wife on 9 May 1772 mortgaged to Peter Parker, yeoman, for £139 of the Province of New York, "all that tract of meadow land ... the Plantation I now dwell on ... conveyed to me by my loving father Samuel Slocum by will," about 200 acres, bounded west on William Slocum, northwest on the creek, west on a small creek, southeast and southerly on Peleg Slocum; Hulet's Neck is also mentioned. A year later, 23 July 1773, Samuel Slocum mortgaged to john Slocum 100 acres "whereon I now dwell"; it was bounded south on Peleck Slocum, west on a small brook, and north and east on "cricks of salt water" (Monmouth Co. Mortgages A:198, 220).
Children, surname Slocum, (Cook' Crier XVI [1985] 2:6):
Reuben, b. ca. 1740; m. Susanna Cromwell,
Ruth, b. 27 May 1744; m. Richardus Cornwell,
Deborah
William, b. 10 Jan. 1754, d. 1808; m. Hannah ___.
Samuel, b. 1757; m. (1) Susanna, daughter of Peter Slocum, (2) Phebe Talmadge.
Jesse, b. 1760, d. 1822; m. (1) ___ Wooley, (2) Elizabeth Burch.
↑ "New Jersey, Marriages, 1670-1980," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/Q29L-S4HH : 16 March 2018), Samuel Slocum and Lydia Cook, 09 Dec 1743; citing , , New Jersey, United States, Division of Archives and Record Management, New Jersey Department of State, Trenton.; FHL microfilm 540,683.
↑ Nelson, William, Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey, Volume 22, Paterson, New Jersey, 1900, p. 350. [1]
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I have added another researcher's information about the parentage of Lydia Cook in the notes. The circumstantial evidence is strong for Lydia Cook being the daughter of Silas Cook and Sarah West.