Asaph (Cooke) Cook Sr. (1720 - 1792)

Born 22 Jun 1720 in Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Parker) Cook — married 15 Jan 1744 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 18 Sep 1792 at age 72 in Granville, Washington County, New York

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Biography

• 1. Asaph was born June 22, 1720 at Wallingford, Connecticut, to Samuel and Elizabeth (Bedel) Cooke, his father's second wife. January 15, 1744 he married Sarah Parker, daughter of Joseph Parker and Sarah Curtis of Wallingford. They went to Granville, Massachusetts, where they remained until about the close of the Revolution, where upon they removed to Granville, New York. They had 10 children. [Note: The record shows that 11 children were born to this couple.]

• 2. Asaph Cook(e) (1720) and four sons, Samuel, Amasa, Asaph (1748), and Joseph, all fought in the American Revolutionary War.

• 3. At the commencement of the Revolutionary War our Great-Grandfather Asaph Cooke [1720] was living near Boston, Mass. He had four sons named as follows: Asaph, Joseph, Amisa [Amasa] and Charles. [Note: the name should be Samuel] The four brothers enlisted into the American Army at its commencement and remained in the same most of the time of its continuance, seven years. [The record doesn't bear out the time length]. They all survived the bloody struggle and came out with honor to themselves and their country, and all married after the Revolution, raised large families. I saw them all when they were very old, except Amisa, and heard them repeat the story of the struggle for independence over and over again.

Sources

• https://www.geni.com/people/Asaph-Cooke/6000000003942856280
• 1. Davis, Charles Henry Stanley, HISTORY OF WALLINGFORD, Publisher Meriden, Conn., 1870, Page 677.
• 2. All Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Volume 3, page 918.
• 3. A Grandfather's Story, biography by Joseph Cook, Rootsweb/Ancestry.com<freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lorriev/JosephCooke.htm

Charles Henry Stanley Davis. History of Wallingford, Conn., from its settlement in 1670 to the present time, including Meriden, which was one of its parishes until 1806, and Chesire, which was incorporated in 1780. Pg. 61. [1]