Born in Foster, Providence, Rhode Island
Ancestors 
Daughter of Peter Cook
and Mary Mercy (Wanton) Cook
Sister of
Joshua Cooke [half], Stephen (Cooke) Cook [half], Charles Cooke, Rhoda Cooke, Elizabeth (Cooke) Brown, Christopher Cooke, Susannah (Cooke) Hill, Comfort Cook, Constant (Cooke) Cook, Joanna (Cooke) Cook, John Wanton (Cooke) Cook, Hope (Cook) Howard, Peter (Cooke) Cook, Nicholas (Cooke) Cook, Abigail (Cooke) Cook, Moses (Cooke) Cook and Aaron (Cooke) Cook
Wife of
Thomas Greene
— married
about 1762 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Almy (Greene) Russell, Job Green, John Greene, Benjamin Greene and Mercy (Greene) Mitchell
Died
at age 78
in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
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Biography
Mercy Cooke was born on July 8, 1746, in Foster, Rhode Island, her father, Peter, was 25, and her mother, Mercy, was 17. She married Thomas Greene in 1762 in Rhode Island. They had at the least two children during their marriage. She died on January 5, 1825, in Nantucket, Massachusetts, having lived a long life of 78 years. Known Children ( Job, Almy and Penelope)
Name
- Mercy Cook
Sources
- Hanaford, Mary Elisabeth Neal. Family Records of Branches of the Hanaford, Thompson, Huckins, ... and Allied Families (Rockford, Ill., 1915) Page 268
- U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. SAR Membership 63381
- Name: Mercy Cooke
- Birth: 8 Jul 1746
- Death: 5 Jan 1825
- Role: Ancestor
- Application: 10 Dec 1943
- Father: Peter Cooke
- Mother: Mercy Winton
- Spouse: Thomas Greene
- Children: Penelope Greene
- Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook) Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
- Death: 1825 Nantucket, Massachusetts
- Spouse: Thomas
- U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930: Newspaper Columbian Centinel Death Notice For Mrs. Mercy Green: Publication: 15 Jan 1825 Massachusetts, Call Number 485704.
- Greene's of Rhode Island
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mercy by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mercy:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mercy by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mercy:
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Dan Benedict 
:
23andMe, GEDmatch NG1778592 [compare]
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~1.56%
Elva (Tice) Michal :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Steve Benedict :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Rebecca Munn :
23andMe, GEDmatch M259994 [compare]
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Nikki (B) Lamb :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member lambalek2
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~0.78%
Carol (Barineau) Vickers :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A886002 [compare], Ancestry member cbvickers
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~0.78%
Steve Gilson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A399648 [compare], Ancestry member sgilson130
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~0.78%
Jax (Jackson) Saunders :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member jazzerat627651
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Tim Prince
Mercy (Cook) Greene (1746-1825) is shown by all estimates as born at least 4 months prior to the death according to profiles of father's 1st spouse Elizabeth (Bates) Cook (1722-1746) duplicate Elizabeth (Bates) Cook (1723-1746)
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