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Josias Cooke (1610 - 1673)

Josias (Josiah) Cooke aka Cook
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Died at about age 63 in Eastham, Plymouth Colonymap
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Josiah Cooke migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 1, p. 472)
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Biography

Josiah (or Josias) Cooke was born about 1610, based on his disposition in 1683 in which he gave his age. He first lived in Plymouth, arriving about 1633.

"Josias Cooke has, not unsurprisingly, been claimed as a son of FRANCIS COOKE. George Ernest Bowman demonstrated that this could not be true."[1]. No evidence has been presented in this profile to substantiate that he came from Leyden. His origin apparently is unknown.

We first find Josiah on 24 Mar. 1633/4 when he was fined for being involved in a fight with Edward Doty in which Edward drew blood from Josiah.[2] He was assessed 9s in the Plymouth tax list of 27 Mar. 1634.[3] Josiah was again in court on 4 Feb. 1638/9 when he sued John Coombs, Gent. for a debt of £4 and won a judgment of £3. [4] On 5 June 1638 Josiah was a witness against William Adey for working in his garden on Sunday.[5]

After poor Stephen’s early death, Elisabeth Ring Deane married Josiah on 16 Sept. 1635 in Plymouth. Josiah was made a freeman in Plymouth on 14 Jan. 1636/7 and was on the Plymouth list of Freemen on 7 Mar. 1636/7. [6] On 8 November 1638 in Plymouth, Josiah Cooke bought land from Stephen Hopkins.[7]

Josiah [Josias] Cook moved from Plymouth to Eastham with first group of settlers in 1644. He was a tavern Keeper. He also held a variety of town offices, including constable and town clerk.[8]. He was a yeoman.

From Frederick Freeman, The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of the Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County: “The settlement of the town, commenced in April, 1644, under favorable auspices, was so augmented by accessions, that application was soon made to the Colony Court for its incorporation; and, June 2, 1646, the result was recorded in these words: ‘NAUSET is granted to be a township and to have all the privileges of a township as other towns within the government have.’ Thus recognized, a meeting of the inhabitants, duly convened, elected NICHOLAS SNOW town-clerk, EDWARD BANGS town treasurer, and JOSIAS COOK town constable.”

Josiah is listed in the Plymouth list of freemen in 1639, however, his name is crossed out and included in the Nauset list. He is listed in Eastham (Nauset) in 1658 and 1670 and is listed as one of the men able to bear arms in Plymouth in 1643.[9]

At the court held 9 June 1653 “Josias Cooke, late of Eastham, at the time of his marriage with Elizabeth, his wife, sometimes the wife of Steven Dean, deceased, did engage to pay several portions unto the children of the said Steven Deane” and confirmed that he had done so.[10]

Josiah was granted six acres to go along with a home lot on 7 Nov. 1636 in Plymouth “these lands to their dwelling houses there & not to be sold from their houses”.[11] He was granted mowing ground on 20 Mar. 1636/7 as well as an additional 40 acres on 5 Mar. 1637/8.[12] He was given 25 acres on 3 Sept. 1638 “for Steephen Deane’s children (in consideration of a lot they had on Duxborrow side)”.[13] He was granted “a little parcel of meadow ground” on 4 Mar. 1638/9 and 10 acres “in the South Meddows towards Aggawam, Colebrook Meddowes” on 2 Nov. 1640. [14] On 30 Nov. 1638 Stephen Hopkins sold to Josiah “all those his six acres of land lying on the south side of the Town Brook of Plymouth”. On 7 May 1642 Joshua Pratt sold to Josiah “all those his two acres of marsh meadow lying at the Wood Island”. [15] About 1644 Josiah sold his barn and garden to Gyles Rickett, Sr. He also sold Gyles nine acres of upland, six acres of which he had purchased from Steven Hopkins and three acres from Samuel Fuller. [16] On 25 Dec. 1655 “Josias Cooke of Eastham” sold 25 acres of upland at Fresh Lake in Plymouth to John Rickard of Plymouth. On 25 May 1657, with the consent of Elizabeth, he sold six acres in the New Field in Plymouth to Thomas Sherive. On 9 July 1660 at the request of “Gorg Bonum” regarding their portions in the South Meadow “Edward Banges, Nicholas Snow and Josias Cooke do upon our certain knowledge affirm that Josias Cooke had the first portion laid out to him by lot namely ten acres”.[17]

On 2 June 1646: “Nauset is granted to be a township and to have all the privileges of a township as other towns within the government have”, the inhabitants then convened and elected Nicholas Snow town clerk, Edward Bangs, town treasurer and Josias Cook town constable.[18] At court 1 Nov. 1679 Josiah was unsuccessfully sued by William Nickerson of Mannamoyett for taking a pair of andirons and one silver dram cup stating that “Said Cooke did under color of his office, for he said he was constable of Eastham, and showed him… his black staff, and his demand was 6s.7 ½ d which was the first part of the rate he demanded.”[19]

Josiah was licensed as a tavern keeper and to sell wine in Nauset on 7 June 1648.[20] “Early provision was made for taverns and ordinaries. They who kept them were required to be licensed, and were not to suffer any to be drunk, nor to tipple, after 9 o’clock at night.”[21]

On 25 May 1657 the court replied to a petition from John Doane, Josiah Cooke, Richard Sparrow and Richard Higgins allowing them land about 13 miles from Rehoboth provided they observed the orderly purchase from the native proprietors.[22] At the court on 3 June 1662 liberty was granted that “ancient freemen” and servants could look for lands in other places if the Saconett Neck lands could not be acquired. Josiah was listed as being both an “ancient Freeman” and a servant.[23] On 25 Oct. 1665 Pompino and Simon his son sold to “Josias Cooke of Eastham… a parcel of upland commonly called Weequasett containing sixscore acres” and six acres of meadow adjoining. On 11 Aug. 1669 he exchanged this land with John Freeman and received 20 acres of upland and 4 acres of meadow at Little Billingsgate.[24]

Josiah was often on the jury including the grand jury and coroner’s jury between 1638 and 1668. [25] He was also the surveyor of highways on 30 Mar. 1629/0 and 2 June 1640 in Plymouth and then in Eastham on 7 June 1648. [26] He was in court on 1 Dec. 1640 with the other surveyors of highways in Eastham for not mending the roads in a number of places. [27] He was also on the committee to divide the land at Green’s Harbor on 1 June 1640 as well as the committee to buy land from the Indians on 5 June 1666. [28] He was the constable in Plymouth in 1641. [29] Josiah was a deputy to the General Court fourteen times between 1647 and 1671 from Eastham as well as auditor of the treasurer’s accounts six times between 1658 and 1665.[30] He also served as a selectman in 1666 and town clerk in 1648 and was also authorized to make contracts of marriage and administer oaths in Eastham on 8 June 1664. [31] Sounds like he was very busy! I can picture Josiah in his tavern, serving his customers and talking politics over a pint. However, he was involved in arguments with his neighbors and several cases of litigation showing that his neighbors seemed to delight in giving him trouble and didn’t care whether or not their charges could be substantiated or not.[32] Joseph Hollway sued Josiah on 6 June 1643 and on 7 Oct. 1651 Josiah sued John Smith, Sr. of Plymouth for slander and Smith confessed that he had “much wronged the plaintiff by his unbridled tongue in these base and false charges he had charged him withal, by a letter, and otherwise.” Josiah delivered the letter of William Nickerson complaining about defamation by several Indians at the court held on 6 July 1669.[33] Such is the life of a politician.

“Josias Cooke was one of the first proprietors of the present town of Abington having, June 8, 1664, received, in company with Lieut. Joseph Rogers, Giles Hopkins, Henry Sampson and Experience Mitchell, a grant from the court of all that tract of land lying between Bridgewater and the Massachusetts Bay Company”.[34] I suspect this was a different Josias Cooke.

“Josiah Cooke senior deseased the sevententh of October in the yeare one thousand six hundred seventie three”. [35][36]

“The Last Will and Testament of Josias Cooke senr of Eastham… aged about 63 yeares… My dwelling house an housing orchyard uplands and meddowes or meddowing [ ] and in [ ] that I have in the township of Eastham in the jurisdiction of New Plymouth… excepting for [ ] of upland that lyeth adjacent to my land att the Northerly end, devided by a ditch, which [ ] from the pond toward the sea, which I given formerly to my son Josias… and his [ ] of meddow att Black fish Creek all my other lands, upland and meddow as aforesaid orchyard and housing I give and bequeath unto my loving wife Elizabeth during her life, an further I doe assyne over my servant [ ]Apprentice [ ] and Indian to her to bee att her dispose and improvement with the advise of my loving friends mr John ffreeman and Goodman [ ] and my three sonnes Josiah Cooke and Joseph harding and William Twining, and it is my desire that my son in law Joseph harding should have the Improvement of my above said lands, meddowing and housing and Servant as alsoe what cattle or sheep horses or horsekind I shall leave with her my loving wife for her support dureing her life and after my wifes decease I doe bequeath all my above said housing and land upland and meddow orchyard house and housing, will all privilidges… excepting my share of the land att Pochett Iland and about two or three acres lying without the [ ] that now is next to Joseph hardings land to my naturall son Josias Cooke… with the Improvement of my Indian Servant an apprentice if his time be not out, before my wifes decease. Further I doe make and constitute my loving wife Elizabeth my whole and sole executrix and after her discharge of my just debts I dispose of my goods and chattels as followeth: all my house hold stiffe cart and plow [ ] cattle sheep horse kind and neat cattle to my wife during her life and after her decease to be equally devided betwixt my son Josias Cooke and my daughter Bethyah harding or her children after her; excepting the following thinges which I doe [ ] give [ ] at first I give to my grand child Joseph harding all my share of land at Pochett Iland; further I give to my grandchildren Josiah and Maaziah harding forty acres of upland and five or six acres of meddow in the township of Plymouth adjoining to a place commonly called Cookes pond; further I give to my grand child Anna Snow a yeare young mare that lives att [ ] ffift Creeke; as alsoe two Cowes which are in my son Josias keeping and halfe of a two yeare old steer and a two yeare old heifer; and the halfe of a yearling steer and a yearling heifer, and the halfe of a calfe being likewise in the hands of my son Josias, as alsoe halfe a Cow and halfe a steer of three years old; and halfe a steer calfe that are in my owne keeping as alsoe forty shillings more to be payed her in cattle; also two sheep and a ram lambe; further I give to my Grand Children Steven Twining a musket which was formerly his grand father Deanes; further my will is that my daughter Meriam Dean shall have a cow, that is in my son Josias keeping, called [ ] with half hear Increase to be delivered to her the next fall; as alsoe five pounds in currant merchantable pay to be payed to her att my decease; further my wearing clothes viz: one Grette Coate and two Old coates I give to my son Josias; further, I give to my grand child Josias Cooke, my rapier belt and musket; further I give to my other grandchildren Richard Cooke and Maaziah harding my proportion of land att Saconett, they paying nessesarie charges, [ ] about it; twenty shillings being payed toward it alreddy; further I give to my Grand child Richard Cooke after my wifes decease my Great bible… this two and twentieth day of September 1673…

Josias Cooke

Witness John ffreman
William Merricke[37]

An Inventory of the estate of Josias Cooke late of Eastham… the 20th of October 1673…

Impr: his wearing apparel........................04 03 06
Item 1 caverett............................................00 10 00
Item 1 bed and bolster...............................02 00 00
Item 1 rugg and blanket.............................00 18 00
Item 3 pillows...............................................00 16 00
Item 1 bed and 2 bolsters...........................00 18 00
Item 1 Rugg and blanket.............................00 16 00
Item powder and shott...............................00 03 00
Item one smale [ ] bed and bolster &
blanket..........................................................00 15 00
Item sheeps woole and cotton woole.......01 00 00
Item 2 shirts and 2 pairs of drawers.........01 04 00
Item 3 sheets................................................01 10 00
Item 1 paire of sheets.................................00 12 00
Item more 3 sheets.....................................01 08 00
Item 5 pillow [ ].........................................00 18 00
Item napkins.................................................00 03 00
Item capps and [ ] and neckcloth[?].......00 10 00
Item 5 yards of cotton and linnin cloth.....00 13 00
Item 1 yeard of homemade cloth and [ ].01 00 00
Item in yeare................................................00 09 00
Item in [ ] and beads................................01 13 00
Item 1 bedsted and [ ].............................01 00 00
Item 2 [ ]..................................................00 02 00
Item 1 trumble bedstead...........................00 06 00
Item 1 chaire & case of bottles, cubberd
& [ ] table..................................................00 13 00
Item 1 table.................................................00 14 00
Item 1 [ ] 2 corkes...................................00 04 06
Item 1 old saddle and bridle.....................00 04 00
Item 1 half case..........................................00 03 00
Item in Cowes.............................................00 02 10
Item 2 bibles & 4 other books..................01 08 00

Item 1 warming pan and a looking glasse.00 09 00

Item 2 stone [ ].......................................00 01 00
Item 1 muskett............................................00 18 00
Item 1sword and belt..................................00 14 00
Item 1old musket........................................00 14 00
Item 1 great Iron pott .................................00 14 00
Item 1 older Iron pott..................................00 10 00
Item 1 other Iron pott................................00 05 00
Item 1 Iron kettle........................................00 06 00
Item 1 Iron morter......................................00 06 00
Item 1 fryeing pan......................................00 03 00
Item 1 spitt 2 paire of pott hangers 1 paire
of pothooks.................................................00 10 00
Item 2 brasse kettles..................................01 04 00
Item 3 brasse skillets 1 brasse porringer.00 08 00
Item 3 chamber potts................................00 06 00
Item 4 pewter dishes.................................00 15 00
Item more in old pewter...........................00 10 00
Item in pounds...........................................00 04 00
Item 1 paire of [ ].....................................00 04 00
Item in oacken ware...................................00 02 00
Item a pillion...............................................00 08 00
Item a cherne and a butter tube..............00 06 00
Item old barrels and tubes........................00 06 00
Item [ ] & old [ ] and a spinning wheele.00 10 00
Item an old linine wheel............................00 02 00
Item a halfe bushel a pork a cheese presse
3 pailes.........................................................00 10 00
Item a blankett............................................00 05 00
Item 3 old barrels........................................00 03 00
Item 3 augers 3 old hoes 1 old syth a dung
fork...............................................................00 09 00
Item 2 lamb.................................................00 02 00
Item 4 sheep skins.....................................00 03 00
Item some smale household [ ]..............00 06 00
Item an houseglasse..................................00 01 00
Item 9 [ ]..................................................00 18 00
Item 2 steers of three years old...............04 00 00
Item 3 steers of two years old..................04 10 00
Item 2 year old steers................................02 00 00
Item 6 calves...............................................02 08 00
Item halfe a two yeare old steers & half a 2 yeare old steer heifer...................................................01 10 00
Item half a yearlying steere and halfe a
yearling heifer............................................01 00 00
Item halfe a calf.........................................00 05 00
Item 3 mares..............................................04 10 00
Item 2 horses.............................................04 00 00
Item a mare colt........................................00 05 00
Item 18 sheep............................................05 10 00
Item 5 swine...............................................02 00 00
Item 50 bushells of Indian Corn...............07 10 00
Item 10 bushells of wheat........................02 00 00
Item 20 load of hay...................................05 00 00
Item cart plow and plow Irons Chaines [ ]
hookes & [ ].............................................03 00 00
Item old Iron..............................................00 12 00
Item debts due to the estate...................09 03 00
Item debts to be payed out of the estate.12 18 00
Item forgotten [ ] halfe of a connoo and a few boards that are [ ] a house att Billinsgate
The totall sum of the whole...................104 17 04” [38][37]

An Invintory of the Estate of Elizabeth Cook deceased the wife of Josiah Cook taken the third day May… 1687.

It to a Fether Bedd........................................02=10=00
It to an old Fether bed.................................00=15=00
To 4 old pillows.............................................00=08=00
To a peece of a Rugg and two old blankits &
a peece of cloth............................................00=06=00
To a chaf bolster..........................................00=01=06
To two payer of pillows...............................00=08=00
To 4 napkins and two towels......................00=06=00
To 2 payer of sheets....................................00=10=00
To a course small table cloth and peece of
an old sheet..................................................00=03=00
To 4 old Shifts...............................................00=01=00
To a broad cloath waistcoat........................00=09=00
To a searge peticoate...................................00=15=00
To an old homespun waistcoat...................00=01=00
To three under wastcoats...........................00=02=00
To 3 peces of aprons & 3 old [pathes?].....00=01=00
To two homespun Coats.............................00=11=00
To two old petticoats...................................00=04=00
To four cases................................................00=03=00
To a small silk hood & a silk cape, and a
small old scarfe............................................00=02=06
To a blue apron............................................00=01=00
To 4 white capes..........................................00=03=00
To an old bag apon.....................................00=03=00
To 3 old neck clothes..................................00=01=00
To 6 dressings..............................................00=02=00
To 4 neck hanchirchifs................................00=05=00
To 4 Quenes and head hand......................00=01=06
To 10 small hand clothes & old rags & pines
& hairlaces and a Bitt or two of old cloath,
gloves and needls........................................00=01=06
To a carved box............................................00=04=00
To 2 wastcoats & a pair of Bodies..............00=06=00
To an old wainscot Chest............................00=04=00
To an old Chist.............................................00=02=06
To an old case and what was in it..............00=01=00
To spice.........................................................00=01=08
To earthen pot and malases & runlet and
other old Lumber........................................00=03=00
To an old Cheist and Stockings.................00=01=06
To an hat and hat case...............................00=04=00
To Chaiers and Stools.................................00=04=00
To payer of Shoes.......................................00=03=00
To Brass.......................................................00=10=00
To Iron ware................................................00=17=00
To pewter and Spoones.............................00=11=06
To earthen ware & glass bottle................00=01=00
To a Jarr & oyle & whale bone..................00=02=00
To an old wheel tubes & bags and old Trayes
& an old chist to put Meale in & other
loumber.....................................................00=10=00
To new Cloath & yarne and wool and
Curtaines & valance.................................01=17=00
To two old Chamber pots.......................00=01=00
To Books...................................................00=01=00
To one Bushel of wheate........................00=04=00
To 3 pekes of meale................................00=02=03
To money..................................................00=01=02
The total sum...........................................15=07=07
Praized by us
Jonathan Sparrow
Meriam Deane debter to the Estate...............=09=00
Debtes due from the Estate........................01=17=00
Due from the Estate to Meriam Deane......09=03=00
Which the Court allowes her and dus appear to be due to her.
Not praized
An old Iron pott
The frame of an old Skillet
An old payer of Sissors and some other trivial things…

Whereas there was great contest, variance and strife betweene Josiah Cook, Bethiah Harding and Meriam Deane all of Eastham… about tuching or conserning the Estate of Josiah Cook of Eastham deceased that was left after the death of Elizabeth the relict of sd Josiah Cook deceased… the sd Josiah… shall pay… unto Bethiah his sister the sd wife of Joseph Harding of Eastham… out of his own Estate the full sum of fifty shillings… on or before the last day of November next ensuing… and the sd Bethiah his sister to have the first choise of fifty shillings thereof at the prise as the sd Estate is praised at and then the abovesd Meriam Deane to have the second choise of five pounds of said Estate as it is praized at and then the aforesaid Josiah Cook and sd Bethiah to have the 3d choise of fifty shillings more of sd Estate at the prise as abovesd and then the sd Meriam Deane to have the Choise of four pounds and three Shillings thereof at the prise aforesd and of all that of sd Estate that is left when the said Meriam Deane hath her due which is nine pounds and three shillings the rest to be equally devided between the sd Josiah Cook and his sister Bethiah the wife of the sd Joseph Harding… June the 1st 1687. [39][40]


Note: Plymouth Probate record dated October 29,1673. Place of birth removed from record. Field marked as "Uncertain".


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  5. ↑ Signers of the Mayflower Compact- Annie Arnoux Haxtun, Clearfield, NY, 1897- p. 55
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  • Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998. Repository: Family History Library

Address: 35 N West Temple Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

  • The Widow Mary Ring, of Plymouth, Mass., and Her Children- John Insley Coddington, TAG- Vol. 42, pp. 193-205 (Oct. 1966)
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 March 2021), memorial page for Josiah Cooke Sr. (1610–17 Oct 1673), Find A Grave: Memorial #51532217, citing Cove Burying Ground, Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Becky Doan (contributor 46821009) . (No gravestone, no sources.)


Acknowledgements

Thank you to M. Moroney for starting the profile for Josiah Cooke on 11 June 2010.





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Schamp-217 Richard Schamp
From Harding-52, Is this the Josiah Cooke (who died before 26 Jul 1703) mentioned in Harding's probate records:

"Granted by the town of Eastham at a Town meeting on the 26th day of July 1703 to the name or heirs of Josiah Cooke Samuel Brown and John Harding all late of sd Eastham deceased to have and to hold to their heirs executors Administrators and assigns for ever a parcel of medow lying and being in sd Eastham at a place called the great medow on the Southern side of the medow it being the third lot soe called in sd Great medow and this grant is approved by the major part of the men appointed to have a negative vote in disposing of land within sd town and is laid out and bounded (viz) northwesterly by the Second lot and from the Eastern corner bound of sd second lot it runs southeasterly by the river sixteen pole to a stake from thence it runs southwesterly twenty pole to a stake & from thence westerly nine pole to measure strait over to the corner bound of the second lot but the lot runs home to the crick between the two last mentioned bounds. Recorded Pr John Paine Town Clerk."<ref>"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-9XGP?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DW-7MF%3A353349701%2C353418401%2C353418402 : 20 May 2014), Barnstable > Eastham, Orleans > Births, marriages, deaths, land grants 1649-1722 > image 38 of 157; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston. Eastham Land grants, 1659-1710, page 66.</ref>

posted by Richard Schamp
Martin-17283 Jeffrey Martin
Greetings,

I added some data to Josiah's profile.

Enjoy! JM

posted by Jeffrey Martin
Chellis-52 Isara (Chellis) Argent
http://www.americanancestors.org/StaticContent/articles?searchby=country&subquery=Holland&id=110
posted by Isara (Chellis) Argent
[Living Cook]
Cooke-162 and Cooke-18 appear to represent the same person because: Duplicates possibly
posted by [Living Cook]
Nally-4 Rebecca Elizabeth (Nally) Syphers (1943-2023)
10/13/14 - removed Francis Cooke and Hester Mahieu Cooke as parents. See footnote 2 for reference. 4/3/15 - Again removed incorrect parents.
posted by Rebecca Elizabeth (Nally) Syphers (1943-2023)

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