Phineas Wolcott Cook Family Tree

DEATH: "History of Salem, Massachusetts," Vol II, by Sidney Perley, 1926, Family History Library book 974.45/S1, H2ps V. 2, p. 43. He died the summer of 1743.

An extensive article about Henry is reprinted below. (Boston Transcript, 3 April 1905, #637: Answer to Note 637: C.H.A. March 15, 1905. Anthony Cook of Maidenhead, N.J. who married Keziah Roberts and had Jonathan, Anthony, Walter, Winney, Polly, who married Nathaniel Read, son of John (2) Read and wife Susanna, son of John (1) Read of Newtown, L.I. John (2) Read made a deed in 1708 in Newtown L.I. between John Read and Thomas Betts, speaks of adjoining land belonging to Joseph Read, sealed in presence of Johanas Lawrence, Joseph Sackett and Thomas Ruder, all of whom removed to Hopewell, N.J. from Newtown between 1708 and 1715; Eliza, who married Daniel Olden; and Jane, married James Borroughs who was not a son of Henry (2) with wife Mary (Hall), (John), but was a son of Henry of Maidenhead, N.J. of township of Trenton. (Much more about this family: Henry, Richard, Anthony, and Daniel Cook of Trenton and other towns in, N.J for many generations.) The names of these abovesaid Cooks are the same as those of the family of Henry Cook of Salem, Mass. Anthony for Anthony Buxton, father-in-law of John (2) and Isaac (2) Cooke, sons of Henry (1) Cooke of Salem: Jonathan and Deborah for Buxtons of those names: Elizabeth for grandmother Buxton: Henry for Henry (1) Cooke: Samuel for Samuel (2) Cooke and John for John (2) Cooke, sons of Henry of Salem. Juno is a puzzle, unless in place of Judith, more agreeable to it. To show that Henry Cooke, with wife Winnifred, was not son of Henry (2) with wife Mary (Hall, given as Hale in Essex Collections, probably because in olden time Hall was Halle, and in making itHale it was the same Hall to the maker who took out one l), son of Henry Cooke of Salem, born in Salem, Mass, were: Mary Cooke, born July 15, 1678, married July 7, 1708 Jeremiah How, went to Brookfield, N.H. in 1722: Jane Cooke, born 1681, married July 7, 1708 Joseph Preston, her name given to Jane, daughter of Anthony Cook, aforesaid: Henry Cooke, born 1683, married first Experience Lyman, who died 1700, married second 1710, Mary Frost Weadon, widow of John Weadon and daughter John and Mercy (Paine) Frost: she died 1718,and Henry married again, Sarah, daughter Samuel Towner and widow of Waterbury, now called Plymouth; John Cooke, born 1685, married Dec. 12, 1710 Abigail (Johnson, David); Hannah Cooke, born 1690, married Timothy Beach, Nov. 20 1713; Isaac Cooke, born 1692, married Hannah (Hill Luke of Guilford, Conn.); Elizabeth Cooke who died soon; thennext child was Elizabeth born 1696, married Adam Mott. Mr. James Shepard in his John Hall Record says married Adam Mott August 24, 1717; Jonathan Cooke, born 1698, married Ruth Luddington, his name in list of children in inventory of estate of his father. Anthony Cook’s son first born could have been named for this Jonathan; David Cooke, born 1701, married Rebecca Wilson, mentioned in same inventory; Jedediah Cooke, born 1703, mentioned in same inventory, married Sarah Rexford, believed to be daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth (Stevens) Rexford. But Henry Cook, with wife Winnifred, no doubt was youngest son of Isaac (2) Cooke, born April 3 1640, son of Henry and Judith Birdsall of Salem, Mass. Isaac, brother of Henry, with wife Mary Hall. That Isaac Cooke, married May 3, 1664, Elizabeth (Buxton) (Anthony and Elizabeth). Will of Isaac Cooke, made Sept 4, proved Dec. 15, 1692, names wife Elizabeth and children then living: Samuel and Henry sons; five youngest daughters, Mary, Abigail, Hannah, Sarah, Lydia: Elizabeth Wilson, eldest daughter, and grandsons Jack and Robert Wilson, and granddaughter Elizabeth Wilson. If all abovesaid can be proof that the last-mentioned Henry Cooke born 1683, son of Isaac and Elizabeth (Buxton) was the Henry with son Anthony who married Keziah Roberts, he continued the Roberts marrying with Cooke, as Samuel (2) Cooke, son of Henry (1) Cooke married second July 14, 1696, Mary Roberts, widow of Eli Roberts, with seven Roberts children and Samuel Cooke had eight children by his first wife, Hope Parker, whom he married May 2, 1667, and by second wife had three more children, making eighteen children. Then Samuel Cooke died March 1702 and his widow married again April 9, 1705 Daniel Howe. Proved by County Court Records thus: Ely Roberts inventory, taken June 1693, and May, 1695, Court granted Mary Roberts of New Haven right to sell about 30 acres from her husband’s estate, he being insolvent when deceased, leaving seven children for her to bring up. The same records show in 1705, estate of Daniel Howe of Wallingford, Conn., late deceased, to Mary Howe, alias Cooke, executrix of Ely Roberts. Westfield.

"History of Salem, Massachusetts," Vol II, by Sidney Perley, 1926, Family History Library book 974.45/S1, H2ps V. 2, p. 43.