Joseph Cook, 16831764 (aged 81 years)

Name
Joseph Cook
Given names
Joseph
Surname
Cook
Birth February 25, 1683 41 32
Birth of a sisterHope Cook
September 27, 1686 (aged 3 years)
Death of a motherHope Parker
1686 (aged 2 years)
Burial of a grandmotherJudith Birdsall
September 11, 1689 (aged 6 years)
Marriage of a parentSamuel CookMrs. Mary Cook View this family
1691 (aged 7 years)
Note: The following records make it seem as if Mary Mallory was the second and last wife:
Birth of a half-brotherIsrael Cook
May 8, 1692 (aged 9 years)
Birth of a half-sisterMehetable Cook
June 30, 1694 (aged 11 years)
Marriage of a parentSamuel CookMary MalloryView this family
July 14, 1696 (aged 13 years)
Note: "Saml Cook married Mary Roberts, by Major Mansfield Jul 14, 1696" (Wallingford Vital Records, p. 161, line 16, Family History Library film 6018)
Birth of a half-brotherBenjamin Cook
April 8, 1697 (aged 14 years)
Birth of a half-brotherEphraim Cook
April 19, 1699 (aged 16 years)
Death of a sisterElizabeth Cook
before 1701 (aged 17 years)
Birth of a half-sisterElizabeth Cook
September 10, 1701 (aged 18 years)
Death of a sisterHannah Cook
before 1702 (aged 18 years)

Death of a fatherSamuel Cook
March 1703 (aged 20 years)
Death of a sisterJudith Cook
March 20, 1708 (aged 25 years)
Death of a brotherIsaac Cook
February 1, 1712 (aged 28 years)
MarriageEleanor JohnsonView this family
October 28, 1714 (aged 31 years)
Note: Historical Society of Connecticut. <i>Wallingford Vital Records: Wallingford Marriages Vol 2</i>. Handwritten from original records in 1910.
Birth of a daughterPhebe Cook
October 7, 1715 (aged 32 years)
Death of a half-brotherBenjamin Cook
1717 (aged 33 years)
Birth of a sonBenjamin Cook
January 5, 1718 (aged 34 years)
Birth of a sonDaniel Cook
August 19, 1720 (aged 37 years)
Death of a sisterMary Cook
after May 1722 (aged 39 years)

Birth of a sonWalter Cook
December 21, 1722 (aged 39 years)
Death of a brotherSamuel Cook
September 18, 1725 (aged 42 years)
Birth of a sonJoseph Cook
January 18, 1726 (aged 42 years)
Death of a half-sisterElizabeth Cook
after 1726 (aged 42 years)

Birth of a daughterLois Cook
May 23, 1729 (aged 46 years)
Death of a sisterHope Cook
January 30, 1731 (aged 47 years)
Birth of a sonLambert Cook
February 7, 1732 (aged 48 years)
Death of a half-sisterMehetable Cook
April 1732 (aged 49 years)
Birth of a daughterHannah Cook
November 15, 1735 (aged 52 years)
Death of a brotherJohn Cook
April 30, 1739 (aged 56 years)
Burial of a brotherJohn Cook
May 1739 (aged 56 years)
Marriage of a childBenjamin CookHannah MunsonView this family
January 20, 1741 (aged 57 years)

Death of a half-brotherIsrael Cook
after 1741 (aged 57 years)
Marriage of a childDaniel CookElizabeth PondView this family
February 6, 1745 (aged 61 years)
Marriage of a childTimothy GaylordPhebe CookView this family
May 4, 1748 (aged 65 years)
Marriage of a childJoseph CookPhebe HallView this family
October 6, 1748 (aged 65 years)
Marriage of a childWalter CookRuhamah CollinsView this family
November 5, 1748 (aged 65 years)
Note: This marriage not found in Barbour for Wallingford or Guilford, although Barbour cites vital records for the births of their children, "son/dau Walter and Rowena Cook." The date probably came from Phineas Wolcott Cook personal records.
Marriage of a childRoger PettiboneHannah CookView this family
January 25, 1752 (aged 68 years)
Marriage of a childLambert CookAbigail PettiboneView this family
June 25, 1752 (aged 69 years)
Marriage of a childLambert CookMindwell LoomisView this family
December 13, 1759 (aged 76 years)
Death November 7, 1764 (aged 81 years)
LDS baptism April 4, 1872 (107 years after death)

LDS endowment January 21, 1886 (121 years after death)

LDS spouse sealingEleanor JohnsonView this family
April 1, 1887 (122 years after death)

LDS temple: Logan, Utah, United States

LDS child sealing July 1, 1920 (155 years after death)

LDS temple: Logan, Utah, United States

Reference number
C-16

Unique identifier
EDB37E18139A466A8A56ED196B03497EAEDB

Last change April 2, 2019

Family with parents
father
16411703
Birth: July 30, 1641 30Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: March 1703New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
mother
16501686
Birth: April 26, 1650 28 24New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: 1686New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Marriage
Marriage: May 2, 1667New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
10 months
elder brother
16681725
Birth: March 3, 1668 26 17New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: September 18, 1725Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
21 months
elder brother
16691739
Birth: December 3, 1669 28 19New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: April 30, 1739Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
15 months
elder sister
16711702
Birth: March 3, 1671 29 20Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: before 1702
2 years
elder brother
16731673
Birth: March 10, 1673 31 22Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: April 7, 1673Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2 years
elder sister
16751722
Birth: April 23, 1675 33 24Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: after May 1722
2 years
elder sister
16771701
Birth: August 22, 1677 36 27Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: before 1701Prob. Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
19 months
elder sister
16791708
Birth: February 29, 1679 37 28Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: March 20, 1708Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
23 months
elder brother
16811712
Birth: January 10, 1681 39 30Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: February 1, 1712Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2 years
himself
16831764
Birth: February 25, 1683 41 32Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: November 7, 1764Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
4 years
younger sister
16861731
Birth: September 27, 1686 45 36Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: January 30, 1731Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Father’s family with Mrs. Mary Cook
father
16411703
Birth: July 30, 1641 30Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: March 1703New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
step-mother
16561695
Birth: 1656
Death: September 4, 1695Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Marriage
Marriage: 1691New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
16 months
half-brother
16921741
Birth: May 8, 1692 50 36Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: after 1741Vermont, USA
2 years
half-sister
16941732
Birth: June 30, 1694 52 38Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: April 1732Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Father’s family with Mary Mallory
father
16411703
Birth: July 30, 1641 30Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA
Death: March 1703New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
step-mother
16561752
Birth: November 28, 1656 26 22New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: September 17, 1752Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Marriage
Marriage: July 14, 1696Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
9 months
half-brother
16971717
Birth: April 8, 1697 55 40New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: 1717Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2 years
half-brother
16991774
Birth: April 19, 1699 57 42Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: March 22, 1774Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2 years
half-sister
17011726
Birth: September 10, 1701 60 44Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: after 1726
Family with Eleanor Johnson
himself
16831764
Birth: February 25, 1683 41 32Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: November 7, 1764Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
wife
16931767
Birth: 1693 27 18Flatbush, Kings, New York, USA
Death: December 21, 1767Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Marriage
Marriage: October 28, 1714Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
11 months
daughter
17151777
Birth: October 7, 1715 32 22Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: 1777Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
2 years
son
17181790
Birth: January 5, 1718 34 25Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: 1790
3 years
son
17201778
Birth: August 19, 1720 37 27Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: April 14, 1778Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
2 years
son
17221780
Birth: December 21, 1722 39 29Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: July 26, 1780Richmond, Berkshire, Massachusetts, USA
3 years
son
17261750
Birth: January 18, 1726 42 33Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: 1750Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
3 years
daughter
17291764
Birth: May 23, 1729 46 36Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: before 1764Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
3 years
son
17321801
Birth: February 7, 1732 48 39Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: 1801Stephentown, Rensselaer, New York, USA
4 years
daughter
17351763
Birth: November 15, 1735 52 42Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Death: April 9, 1763Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Marriage

Historical Society of Connecticut. <i>Wallingford Vital Records: Wallingford Marriages Vol 2</i>. Handwritten from original records in 1910.

Marriage

Also found in Barbour Collection of Vital Records.

Note

BIRTH Wallingford Land Records (1:50, Family History Library Film 6018) Joseph Cook son of Samll and Lydia Cook borne February 25, 1683. (Note: There was no Samuel and Lydia. Apparently written wrong. Should have been Hope) <i>Births, Marriages and Deaths at Wallingford, Ct</i>. 1670-1821, manuscript transcription, Family History Library Film 6052, p. 8, "Joseph son of Samuel and Lydia Cook, born February 25, 1683." We know Hope Parker was his mother. Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol 1, by Donald Lines Jacobus, 1923, p. 435. Ref. is Wallingford Vital Records.

WALLINGFORD Births, Marriages and Deaths at Wallingford, Ct. 1670-1821, manuscript transcription, Family History Library Film 6052 gives another marriage for Joseph. On p. 47 it lists Joseph Cook with wife Abigail and eight children for whom there are vital records in Wallingford. All other sources assumed that marriage was correct, and it appeared in other sources such as The History of Goshen. Ref. is Wallingford Vital Records. However, upon looking at the primary source for those transcribed vital records, which is Land Records for Wallingford, the surname of the Joseph married to Abigail is Cooles or Cools, and finally after 1700 it was written Coles. Children recorded for Joseph and first wife Abigail Royce are incorrect: Joseph and Abigail were said in Wallingford Vital Records to have had children from 1700 to 1712. Their names are listed in Wallingford Vital Records in a single list rather than in a chronological list as other Wallingford births were listed ( Family History Library Film 6052, p. 3) The error giving Joseph a first wife occurred because the person who transcribed Wallingford Vital Records assumed Joseph Cook and Joseph Cooles were the same person. I’ll admit the original writing was confusing, but rather than following the families out and discovering they were separate and distinct people, he simply assigned the first marriage of Joseph Cooles to Joseph Cook and published it. A close inspection of the original vital records shows both men went on to marry about the same time after Joseph Cooles' wife Abigail died, but it was Joseph Cook’s first marriage and Joseph Cooles’ (by then spelled Cole) second marriage. However, everyone read the typed, published Wallingford Vital Records after that and ignored the original copy. Thus, the Phineas Wolcott Cook Family Organization submitted Abigail as the wife of Joseph Cook with the original family group sheets in the 1960’s. The Organization itself is one of the submitters of that information, and published the proof to the thousands of members of the family as a documented source. The primary source for the transcribed vital records is Wallingford Land Records in which are pages of births, marriages and deaths, recorded as they took place. On those original pages, the surname of the Joseph married to Abigail is Cooles, Cools, Coles, but never Cook. Names underwent considerable evolution in Wallingford. Samuel Cook's name was spelled Coork for the first ten years they were in New Haven and Wallingford. For the birth of their eighth child Isaac in 1781 the name was spelled Cook for the first time as the recorder began to distinguish families and names in town. Joseph Coles' name was spelled Cools and Cooles when his children were being born from 1700 to 1712, yet that family appears with the surname Cook on p. 47 of the transcribed Vital Records. Several of those children died and are in death records as Cooles and Cools. His land records are with the surname spelled Cooles or Cooley. Joseph Coles went on to re-marry in Wallingford on 29 May 1717 after Abigail died, and had several other children from 1718-1725, the very years Joseph and Eleanor Cook were also having children. By about 1715 the spelling had been standardized. Joseph Cooles/Cools/Coles was thereafter Joseph Cole. There was no question he was separate and distinct from Joseph Cook, whose surname had also been standardized to Cook. The births of his children are recorded in Wallingford Land Records (2:799, 800, 788; 7:291, , Family History Library film 6018) from 1715 to 1735. Land Records: Wallingford Land Records, 14:471. Joseph Cook of Goshen for forty pounds sold ninety acres, second tier of lott, tenth lot, to Capt. Ephraim Cook (his brother) of Wallingford. Deed signed: June 23rd 1760.

FATHER'S WILL: Samuel Jr. John and Mary received the major portion of the estate. Finally the statement: "And for the remainder of my estate I would gladly have disposed of it in a particular way but by reason of ye difficulties I am under I will that all my dues being discharged as above said all my estate be equally divided among my other nine children in the best way that may be. The nine children are Judith, Isaac, Joseph, Hope, Israel, Mabel, Benjamin, Ephraim and Elizabeth..." (New Haven District Probate Court, New Haven (Conn.) probate records, 1647-1916 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977-1979), Family History Library film 0005294], 2(part 2): 305-307, Dated March 12, 1702/3.)

GOSHEN: The family resided at Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut from Autumn 1742, but the children were born at Wallingford. Early Families of Wallingford p. 68 states: "Joseph Cook, son of Samuel and Hope Cook, married Abigail _____. After her death, he married Eleanor Johnson, Oct. 14, 1714, and remained in Wallingford until 1743, when in the autumn of that year he went to Goshen in Litchfield County, and was among the earliest and most prominent men in the place. He died Nov. 7, 1764, at 82 years." Listed as one of the first 53 proprietors of Goshen, drawing Lot #15. (History of the Town of Goshen, p. 317, by Hibbard, Hartord, 1897. The land record states that Joseph's name appears 30 times on land records as he purchased land between 1741 and 1750. (General Grantee Index for Goshen) He lived at the top of Town Hill in Goshen "About 25 rods south of Gen. Moses Cook's present dwelling, onthe east side of the road stood the house of Joseph Cook, from Wallingford, father of Daniel Cook, and grandfather of Moses Cook, Sr. Joseph Cook lived here until the time of his death Nov. 7, 1764." ("History of Litchfield CT," J. H. Lewis & Co., p. 881.) He and his children for five generations are named in "The History of the Town of Goshen" by Hibbard, p. 448-452.

WILL Joseph Cook wrote a will dated August 20, 1764. In it he named each of his living children and his wife Abigail. Benjamin, Daniel, Walter, Lambert/Lumbert and Grandson Joseph III, whose father Joseph had previously died, were given inheritances. His daughters Phebe Gaylord and Hannah Pettibone were named and given inheritances, but not Lois who apparently was dead. (Connecticut Wills for 1764, Ancestry.com)

DEATH Barbour Collection of Vital Records, 1739-1854, Connecticut State Library, p. 16. He was age 82. Also in Goshen Vital Records Vol 1, p. 235. (Family History Library film 2970.) "There are various persons who might have been buried in the East Street Burying Ground, but for whom there is no clear record of burial. Of these may be mentioned Joseph Cook who died 7 Nov. 1764, Daniel Cook who died in 1777 or 1778..." "Glimpses of Goshen: Inscriptions in the East Street Burying Gound, Goshen, CT," copied by Mabel Ingalls, (Family History Library book 974.61/G1 K2h, p. 37.)

PROBATE Probate Records for Goshen, #1622. His inventory totaled 51.1.11Lb. To sons Philip, Daniel and Moses, 460.0.0 each totaling 1,380.0.00. His land was 235 acres with buildings which equaled 1,868.0.00LB. He gave his daughters Lydia and Lois 115.0.00 and 31 acres of land each to Amasa and Philip. Daniel Jr. inherited tools, animals, 50 acres at Blue Swamp, part of the house, half of the barn (the other half to Moses), 18 acres and 17 rods' land in the home lot which is called 152. Date of will, 1765. (Litchfield County Connecticut Probate Packets, Family History Library film 1,022,333)

MARRIAGE Joseph Cook married Eleanor Johnson 28 October 1714 at Wallingford.

DOCUMENTATION Historical Society of Connecticut. <i>Wallingford Vital Records: Wallingford Marriages Vol 2</i>. Handwritten from original records in 1910.

Note

Wallingford Land Records (2:784, FHL 6018) Joseph Cook married Eleanor Johnson October 28, 1714 Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol 1, by Donald Lines Jacobus, 1923, p. 436. Ref. is Wallingford Vital Records. Genealogical Data of Early New Haven and Conn. Families, p. 12A records that he married Eleanor Johnson, daughter of Walter on Oct. 28, 1714. Also his death date is there.

Although all sources, including Births, Marriages and Deaths at Wallingford, Ct. 1670-1821, manuscript transcription, FHL 6052, p. 47 and "Families of Ancient New Haven," Vol 1, by D L. Jacobus, 1923, p. 436. (Ref. is Wallingford Vital Records) claim there was a marriage before this, it has been proven it was another man named Joseph Cools or Cole. The Vital Records Index is a transcription of primary vital records, and the transcriber made a mistake. It makes sense because Joseph would have been 17 years old for that marriage, and such a thing almost never happened in Colonial America.

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