Bethiah (Trask) Cook (abt. 1756 - 1804)

Born about 1756 in Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Manasseh Cook — married 31 Jul 1788 (to 1804) in Yarmouth, , Nova Scotia, Canada

Descendants

Died 1 Jan 1804 at about age 48 in Rockville, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Bethia Trask was born circa 1756 in Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay. The gravestone for Bethiah Trask Cook indicates she was the daughter of Elias Trask, and the genealogical source indicates she was probably the daughter of Elias and Abigail Trask, who also settled in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia but this is not confirmed in any other record located to date.

On July 31 1788, she married Captain Manasseh Cook, the son of Ephraim Cook and Louisa Ring, of Yarmouth Nova Scotia^[1], and they had children, including:

1. Manasseh II, born January 24, 1789, who married Anna Stephens, daughter of William Stephens
2. Joseph, born April 24, 1790, who married Margaret Shurtliffe, daughter of Henry Shurtliffe
3. Rebecca, born January 31, 1792, who married Mr. Northup and went to Ontario
4. Bethiah, born March 26, 1794, who married Peter Brooks of Weymouth, NS, whose son was Harding Harris Brooks^[2]
5. Lucretia, born August 18, 1795, who married Shippe Lent of Digby, NS
6. Hannah, born October 17, 1797, no further record found
7. George (Capt), born June 28, 1799, who married Elizabeth Crosby, daughter of Edmund Crosby
8. Elizabeth, born May 10, 1801, who married William Delaney of Ohio, NS
9. Francis (Capt), born June 1, 1803, who married Joanna Crosby daughter of Ebenezer Crosby, and who died in 1882

Bethiah Trask Cook died Jan. 1, 1804, and is buried in Chebogue Cemetery in Rockville, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia^[3][4]

Youngest child of Elias & his second wife, Abigail (Woods) Trask

She married as his first wife, Manasseh Cook, on 31 Jul 1788 at Nova Scotia, Canada - after her death Manasseh married Olive Beal in 1805

She is buried at Chebogue Cemetery, Rockville, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada

Bethia was born about 1756. She passed away in 1804.

Sources

1. ↑ Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Genealogies : Transcribed from the Yarmouth Herald, by George S. Brown; prepared for publication by Martha & William Reamy, assisted by John McDonald Hilton ... et al.; published in Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., c1993. ISBN: 0806313722; pages 213, 405, 417, 506, 507
2. ↑ Nova Scotia Vital Records showing Harding Harris Brooks, died 1920 in Digby, Digby County can be found in Registration Year: 1920 - Book: 66 - Page: 237
3. ↑ Findagrave Memorial #159931463 for Bethiah Trask Cook, 1766-1804
4. ↑ Familysearch shows various family trees with the same information. Similar information is found on Ancestry.com (behind a paywall) and other sources

• www.genealogyofnewengland.com
• Find A Grave: Memorial #159931463
• Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, v 9 p 198.

Gwen Guiou Trask, Elias Trask, his children and their succeeding race : the Trasks of Nova Scotia (Yarmouth, N.S. : , Stoneycroft Pub, 2002), p 19, 36, 37. Ancestry.com, Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012), Ancestry.com, Record for Bethiah Cook. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=60527&h=4209319&indiv=try.