Phineas Wolcott Cook Family Tree

BIRTH: Probably in Kent, England . (History of Southampton). "A Hand Family," Harriet W. Hodge, p. 3-8 "The Early Hand Family," Parish records of Stansted and surrounding communities were searched, but no Hand was discovered except the baptism of John Jr. in 1834. "It seems possible that John Hand Sr. was born in another county and lived at Tonbridge, Kent, only after his marriage. The lands in Kent were clearly the property of John's wife, Alice (Gransden.)" The birth of John Hand, son of Steven Hand, has been found in the parish register of SUNDBRIDGE, Kent in 1609. Steven married Anne Buckland, a widow, 24th of June, 1600. The marriage of John Hand to ELIZABETH Gransden is also found in the same parish records on 24th April, 1634. I have the record of a search by an English researcher, Sydney Smith, dated October 27, 1999 wherein he states that most of the data publised by LDS about John Hand is false including his marriage to Alice Gransden. He checked the alleged parish records for same and stated it did not take place. Kent farmers, as were the Hands, were prosperous and well respected in England in the 1600s. I have no problem in that. Those of you who cling to the other version are welcome to it. I have been searching for the truth about my ancestors, good or bad, and want only that. (Jane Hildreth Kelleycasa.kelley@att.net mailto:casa.kelley@att.net) His family is found in Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut, FHL 974.67 G1 D2t, p. 595. It is noted he lived in Southampton, L.I., N.Y. AMERICA: In 1635 John, his wife Alice, eldest son John, and his father came to America; reportedly going first to Lynn, MA then to Southampton in Mar. 1644. However, there is no record in Lynn he was ever there. In 1647 he was called "of the Isle of Wight" (now Gardiner's Island, N.Y. In the spring of 1649 when his son James was baptized in Milford, Connecticut he lived in East Hampton, N.Y. EAST HAMPTON, LONG ISLAND, N.Y. He was one of the original grantees of East Hampton in 1649. The first residents/patentees or grantees of East-Hampton were : John Hand, John Stratten, Sen'r. Thomas Talmage, Jr., Robert Bond, Daniel Howe, Robert Rose, Thomas Thomson, Joshua Barnes and John Mulford. (Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of New England) In 1657/58 he and Thomas Backer were appointed to "go unto Keniticut for to bring us under their government." Thereafter on 3 May 1658 the two men signed a compact between East Hampton and Connecticut. John Hand was a magistrate at East Hampton 1657-1660. John Hand was a merchant.. The first of the family of this name in Southampton was John Hand, on the whaling list of 1644. At the time of the settlement of East Hampton, in 1648, he was one of the company from Southampton to found a new plantation. He was, according to the East Hampton records, originally from Stanstede. According to "Mayflower Descendants in Cape May County" by Reverend Paul Sturevant Howe, page 338, John Hand, b. Lynn, Massachusetts Bay Colony as early as 1636 and moved to the whaling settlement at Southampton, Long Island, before March 7, 1644. He married Alice Gransden. John Hand and Alice Gransden came to America aboard the ship "The Peter Bonaventurer" from Maidstone, Kent , England. in 1635, one of a small company, who took up land adjoining Southampton on the east, and planted there a new setlement - first called by the settlers Maidstone. Maidstone is present day East Hampton. Residence: 1648 / 1649 East Hampton, Long Island, New York  Hand, John, Easthampton, L. I. 1648. Wood, 40. Perhaps he is the same wh. was a propr. at Guilford, 1685. This family originated at East Hampton, eventually moving out from there. Joseph went to Guilford. Three sons went to Cape May, New Jersey: Benjamin, Shamgar and Thomas. Stephen and James stayed in East Hampton. PROBATE: He died before 24 January 1660/61, the date the inventory of his estate was presented at East Hampton. His will names his wife Alice, and names four children: John, Stephen, Joseph and Mary and five younger unnamed children to be provided for by his wife, from what he left her (Fifty Puritan Ancestors, by Elizabeth Todd Nash, FHL film 1320854) (G-1:178) (In Research commissioned by Genevieve Tylee Kiepura in 1950, and published in the 1955 and 1955 articles in The American Genealogist, reprinted in Unpublished typed manuscript by the Rev. LaRoy Sunderland Hand he claimed Alice was not named. His memoirs, his progeny and his ancestry, compiled by Edmond Hand Norris, FHL book 929.273 H191n, p. 3 "The Early Hand Family,"

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