Mordecai Cooke II (abt. 1649 - abt. 1718)

Born about 1649 in Mordecai's Mt, Ware Parish, Gloucester, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Frances (Ironmonger) Cooke — married 1674 in Of Mordecai's Mt, Gloucester County, Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died about 1718 at about age 69 in Mordecai's Mount, Ware Parish, Gloucester County, Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Mordecai Cooke II is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society

Mordecai Cooke II was a Virginia colonist.

Mordecai Cooke II ^[1] was born about 1648-1650 at Mordecai's Mount, Gloucester County, Virginia Colony. He was the son of Mordecai Cooke and Susannah Thresher.^[2]

The Honorable Mordecai Cooke, II, passed away in 1718, and was buried at Ware Episcopal Church Cemetery, Gloucester, Gloucester County, Colony of Virginia.^[3]

Ware Episcopal Church is located one and one half miles east of Gloucester Court House, Virginia, on Route 14. The cemetery lies on the south and west sides of the colonial church building, built around the beginning of the eighteenth century. Ware Parish itself was established soon after the formation of Gloucester County in 1651. In the 1680's, Mordecai Cooke provided land for a new church and cemetery at the present location; construction of the new church began sometime after 1690. The wall around the Church and inner graveyard is said to be the oldest Church wall in America. ^[4]

Mordecai Cooke married Frances (Ironmonger) Cooke (abt.1649-1695), daughter of William Ironmonger and Elizabeth Jones Cooke, in Gloucester, Gloucester, Virginia in 1670.^[2] Known children include: Giles Cooke, Susannah Cooke, Mordecai Cooke, John Cooke, Mary Cooke, Elizabeth Cooke and Frances Cooke.

Mordecai Cooke served as a member in the house of Burgesses in 1696, 1702, 1714. ^[5] Between 1702 and 1717 he served as Justice of the Peace and/or Sheriff, Glouchester County, Virginia.

In 1680 he received a grant of 1,600 acres for the transportation of 20 persons; at this time Sir Henry Chicheley was Governor; April 24, 1703, he patented 1,200 acres in Gloucester County, late belonging to Alexander Murray, deceased and escheated to her Majesty, Francis Nicholson, Governor; in 1713 Thomas Cooke patented 300 acres on the Island of New Point Comfort escheated lands; in 1714, 156 acres on Cappahosick Creek. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Cooke, Mordecai - A1810; Gloucester Co.: 1695-96, 1699 (Burgess). accessed 20 July 2021
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Stubbs, William Carter, and Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs. Descendants of Mordecai Cooke, of "Mordecai's Mount," Gloucester Co. Va. 1650, and Thomas Booth, of Ware Neck Gloucester Co. Va. 1685. New Orleans : ___, 1923. (Print.) p. 26.]
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/106043288/mordecai-cooke : accessed 18 July 2021), memorial page for Hon. Mordecai Cooke II (1649–1718), Find A Grave: Memorial #106043288, citing Ware Episcopal Church Cemetery, Gloucester, Gloucester County, Virginia, USA ; Maintained by Stella (contributor 47848948) .
4. ↑ World Family Tree Text: Vol. 12, Ed. 1, Tree #1181 - Notes from Ancestry.com.
5. ↑ Recorded in the book, "Records of Colonial Gloucester County, Virginia" - page 120.
6. ↑ Virginia Colonial Abstracts - King & Queen Co., (Essex Co. Extracts) published in Mar 1987 in the Holbert Herald, Vol. 5, No. 1

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