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John Cooke Jr. aka Cook

Born about 1656 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Son of John Cooke and Mary (Borden) Cooke

Brother of Sarah Cooke, Hannah (Cook) Briggs, Elizabeth (Cooke) Briggs, Mary (Cook) Manchester, Joseph Cooke, Deborah (Cooke) Almy, Thomas Cooke, Annie (Cooke) Clayton, Martha (Cook) Corey and Samuel Cook [half]

Husband of Ruth (Shaw) Cooke — married [date unknown] in Tiverton, Nwprt, RI

Descendants

Father of Ruth (Cooke) Fish, John Cook, Thomas Cook, Deborah (Cook) Howland, Mary (Cook) Howland and Anna (Cooke) Tripp

Died 20 Jul 1737 at about age 81 in Tiverton, Massachusetts Bay

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1 Biography
2 Sources
3 Acknowledgements

Biography

John Cooke, Jr. was born after 1656 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island ^[1] ^[2] and was the son of Mary (Borden) and John Cooke, Sr. ^[3] (1630-1691).

John Cooke, Jr. married about 1680 in Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island to Ruth Shaw.

He resided in Portsmouth and Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island. He was known as John Cook of Puncatest, distingushing him from his cousin John Cook who lived in North Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island.

He died on 20 Jul 1737 in Tiverton, Newport County, Rhode Island. ^[4]

Slaves

John owned one slave. She came by way of his father's Will.^[5]

Betty - John Cooke's Negro woman.

Children

Parents Marriage

Marriage: bef.1655

Husband: John Cooke, Sr.

Child: Elizabeth Cooke, b: 1653; d: aft.1716

Child: Hannah Cooke, b: bef.1655

Child: John Cooke, Jr., b: aft.1656

Child: Sarah Cooke, b: aft.1658

Child: Joseph Cooke, b: c1662

Child: Martha Cooke, b: c1663; d: 1704; m: 1681 William Corey

Child: Deborah Cooke, b: c1666

Child: Thomas Cooke, b: c1668; d: c1726

Child: Amy Cooke, b: c1670; d: 1729.

Sources

↑ Little Compton Families by Benjamin Franklin Wilbour; v1 published 1967; page 206
↑ Genealogy Report by David Joyce citing "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island" by John Osborne Austin & Genealogical Publishing Company of Baltimore, MD in 1968 (edition#1 in 1887)
↑ English Origins of New England Families 1985 v2; series#1; p311; b: 1652 Salem; father: John Cooke, alias Butcher
↑ "Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records" by H. L. Peter Rounds in "Massachusetts Town, Probate and Vital Records" on Broderbund cd-rom in 1999; v8 p262; Text: "Will of John Cook of Tiverton, yeoman; dated: 23 Jan 1736/7; probate: 01 Aug 1737; wife: Ruth; sons: John & Thomas Cook; daughters: Ruth Fish, Mary Howland, Deborah Howland & Ann Tripp; sons-in-law: Preserved Fish, John Howland, James Howland & James Tripp to be executors; incl. negro woman Phillis given to wife, Ruth; witnesses: Peleg Shearman, Richard Sisson & Giles Slocum [8:503/4]"
↑ John Cooke's Will in the THOMAS COOKE OF RHODE ISLAND, by Jane Fletcher Fiske, page 36-37.

See also:

Massachusetts Town, Probate and Vital Records
"Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records"
"Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island" by Jane Fletcher Fiske p63
World Family Tree#1129 customer pedigree on Family Archive CD by Broderbund Software Inc.; v1; edition#1; released: 29 Nov 1995; imported: 27 Oct 1997
RootsWeb's WorldConnect Family Tree - They Came To Milton ID:I12015

Acknowledgements

WikiTree profile Cook-652 was created on 13 Dec 2010 through the import of Les Ancestors.ged
WikiTree profile Cook-6246 was created on 29 Apr 2013 by Cara (Brooks) Johnson through the import of Brooks-Sherman.ged
WikiTree profile Cooke-2026 was created on 23 Jun 2013 by Gordon Ralls through the import of TheCoreyFile0512.GED

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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:

~0.39% Frank Howland : 23andMe, GEDmatch PT5443950 [compare]
~0.39% ~1.56% Annie (Tuthill) Steward : AncestryDNA

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Comments: 8

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S (Hill) Willson

Merge needs to be reproposed, going into Cook rather than Cooke.

posted Oct 04, 2020 by S (Hill) Willson

N Gauthier

Cook-652 and Cooke-2026 appear to represent the same person because: dups with same parents and same siblings

posted Oct 04, 2020 by N Gauthier

S (Hill) Willson

Cook-9779 and Cook-652 appear to represent the same person because: Same father, same birth place and close to same year, same death place, bio of -9779 shows two death dates; the 1737 one is also in -652. Quality sources in -652 which support his parentage and birth/death info, no sources in -9779. Please merge

posted on Cook-652 (merged) Jul 18, 2020 by S (Hill) Willson

James Applegate

Cook-6246 and Cook-652 appear to represent the same person because: they have the same birth and death data, wife, and daughter Mary Howland.

posted on Cook-652 (merged) Jul 31, 2018 by James Applegate

S (Krueger) L

Cooke-2250 and Cook-652 appear to represent the same person because: These are the 2 profiles I was looking at with different death dates and wives

posted on Cook-652 (merged) Nov 18, 2015 by S (Krueger) L

S (Krueger) L

Cooke-2250 and Cook-652 appear to represent the same person as for parents and siblings, but then when we get to spouse and death date, the profiles go different directions. I'm not sure if one or both are correct, so I am not going to touch them, but thought I should make you aware or the issue

posted on Cook-652 (merged) Nov 18, 2015 by S (Krueger) L