Amasa Philip Cook 1813– – Phineas Wolcott Cook Family Organization

Amasa Philip Cook, 1813–

Amasa Philip Cook

Name: Amasa Philip Cook
Given names: Amasa Philip
Surname: Cook

Gender Male

Events of close relatives
Birth	1813 30 Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death of a father	Amasa Cook July 3, 1817 (aged 4 years) Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Marriage of a parent	Mr. Baldwin — Sally Rowe — View this family April 1826 (aged 13 years) Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Death of a grandmother	Elizabeth Porter 1834 (aged 21 years) Genesee, New York, USA
Marriage	Abigail … — View this family about 1840 (aged 27 years) Prob. Michigan
Birth of a daughter	Helena Cook about 1842 (aged 29 years) Michigan
Death
Unique identifier	8BAA6B4FE9644C038A0C3A55C5807143A930
Last change	April 17, 2020

Date differences

Family with parents
father	Links Birth: April 26, 1782 20 24 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Marriage: about 1805 Marriage: about 1811 Death: July 3, 1817 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA LDS baptism: June 1, 1870 LDS endowment: September 10, 1885 LDS child sealing: July 1, 1920 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Polly Churchill Family with spouse Sally Rowe Amasa Philip Cook Amasa Cook 1782–1817 Birth: April 26, 1782 20 24 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Death: July 3, 1817 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
mother	Links Marriage: about 1811 Marriage: April 1826 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Amasa Cook Amasa Philip Cook Family with spouse Mr. Baldwin Sally Rowe –
Marriage	Marriage: about 1811 —
3 years himself	Links Birth: 1813 30 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Marriage: about 1840 — Prob. Michigan Death: Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Abigail … Helena Cook Amasa Philip Cook 1813– Birth: 1813 30 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Death:

Father’s family with Polly Churchill
father	Links Birth: April 26, 1782 20 24 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Marriage: about 1805 Marriage: about 1811 Death: July 3, 1817 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA LDS baptism: June 1, 1870 LDS endowment: September 10, 1885 LDS child sealing: July 1, 1920 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Polly Churchill Family with spouse Sally Rowe Amasa Philip Cook Amasa Cook 1782–1817 Birth: April 26, 1782 20 24 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Death: July 3, 1817 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
step-mother	Links Birth: April 8, 1784 34 33 — Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Marriage: about 1805 Death: September 2, 1810 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA LDS baptism: May 7, 1932 LDS endowment: June 22, 1932 LDS child sealing: November 1, 1932 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Amasa Cook Polly Churchill 1784–1810 Birth: April 8, 1784 34 33 — Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Death: September 2, 1810 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA
Marriage	Marriage: about 1805 —

Mother’s family with Mr. Baldwin
step-father	Links Marriage: April 1826 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Sally Rowe Mr. Baldwin –
mother	Links Marriage: about 1811 Marriage: April 1826 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Amasa Cook Amasa Philip Cook Family with spouse Mr. Baldwin Sally Rowe –
Marriage	Marriage: April 1826 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA

Family with Abigail …
himself	Links Birth: 1813 30 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Marriage: about 1840 — Prob. Michigan Death: Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Abigail … Helena Cook Amasa Philip Cook 1813– Birth: 1813 30 — Goshen, Litchfield, Connecticut, USA Death:
wife	Links Birth: 1813 — New York Marriage: about 1840 — Prob. Michigan Death: Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Amasa Philip Cook Helena Cook Abigail … 1813– Birth: 1813 — New York Death:
Marriage	Marriage: about 1840 — Prob. Michigan
3 years daughter	Links Birth: about 1842 29 29 — Michigan Death: Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Helena Cook 1842– Birth: about 1842 29 29 — Michigan Death:

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Note	BIRTH Phineas W. Cook, who was 6 years younger than Amasa Philip, believed Polly Churchill was the mother of Amasa Philip, but that opinion was from memory, not from personal experience. He wrote in his personal history: " Mother had two sisters. One was the wife of Uncle Amasa, and she had one son. His name was Amasa Philip. Her name was Polly. I believe she did not live long after this. This is all I can tell about her." Family Temple Records give her information "Polly Churchill, b. 1785, CT, d. 2 Sept. 1810." In 1826 Amasa Philip Cook was recorded in court records to be 13 years old: "Phineas Cook is to be the guardian of Amasa P. Cook who is 13 years old. (Signed) April 29, 1826." Census records also show his birth to be 1813. If that is the case, he could not be Polly's son. Rather he must be the child of Sally Rowe, who was recorded in the court papers at the death of Amasa as the child's mother. The history of Goshen, p. 451: "Amasa Cook, b. _____: m. (1) Polly Churchill; (2) Sally Rowe. Child. b. Goshen: Philip. Apparently his name was written Amasa P. Cook in 1826 when Phineas Cook was made the guardian of "Amasa P. Cook." His father having already died, when his mother Sally Rowe Cook remarried in 1826 a record for guardianship was registered. Amasa P. Cook (minor) in Probate #1592 of Goshen Probate Records was declared in the guardianship of Phineas Cook, his uncle. GUARDIANSHIP From Amasa’s probate papers we learn that in 1826 his brother, Phineas, was appointed a guardian to Amasa Phillip Cook. In those papers Amasa Phillip was reported to be about thirteen years old. That would make his birth year 1813 or three years after Polly died. In the same probate Sally Baldwin, the former widow of Amasa, gave her, "… consent to have Phineas Cook the guardian for my son Amasy P. Cook. (Litchfield Probate District # 1591 Amasa Cook, April 29, 1826. Amasa P. Cook son of Amasa 2nd) For Guardianship Phineas Cook of Goshen and Andrew Hand of Litchfield paid $500 bond. Phineas is to be the guardian of Amasa P. Cook who is 13 years old. Signed April 29, 1826 HIS MOTHER'S PROBATE: “….probate, I give my consent to have Phinehas Cook the guardian of my son Amasa P. Cook.” Signed Sally Baldwin 1870 CENSUS Almont, Lapier, Michigan: Amasa P. Cook, a plasterer and stone mason, born 1813 in Connecticut. His wife Abigail was born 1813 in New York. Daughter Helena, age 28, born Michigan. DEATH Amasa P. Cook, born about 1812 in Connecticut, died 27 April 1888 at Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan. He is a male, age 76; wife is Abigail. (Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995, https://www.familysearch.org/search/linker?pal=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AFHN7-JR9&id=L4GB-9DJ&hinting=%2Ftree%2Fperson%2Fdetails%2FL4GB-9DJ&icid=fs-hinting) BURIAL Amasa P. Cook buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan. He died 26 April 1888. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL9-4DFN?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=L4GB-9DJ)

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BIRTH
Phineas W. Cook, who was 6 years younger than Amasa Philip, believed Polly Churchill was the mother of Amasa Philip, but that opinion was from memory, not from personal experience. He wrote in his personal history: "  Mother had two sisters. One was the wife of Uncle Amasa, and she had one son. His name was Amasa Philip. Her name was Polly. I believe she did not live long after this. This is all I can tell about her." Family Temple Records give her information "Polly Churchill, b. 1785, CT, d. 2 Sept. 1810."
In 1826 Amasa Philip Cook was recorded in court records to be 13 years old: "Phineas Cook is to be the guardian of Amasa P. Cook who is 13 years old. (Signed) April 29, 1826." Census records also show his birth to be 1813. If that is the case, he could not be Polly's son. Rather he must be the child of Sally Rowe, who was recorded in the court papers at the death of Amasa as the child's mother.
The history of Goshen, p. 451: "Amasa Cook, b. _____: m. (1) Polly Churchill; (2) Sally Rowe. Child. b. Goshen: Philip. Apparently his name was written Amasa P. Cook in 1826 when Phineas Cook was made the guardian of "Amasa P. Cook."
His father having already died, when his mother Sally Rowe Cook remarried in 1826 a record for guardianship was registered.  Amasa P. Cook (minor) in Probate #1592 of Goshen Probate Records was declared in the guardianship of Phineas Cook, his uncle.
GUARDIANSHIP
From Amasa’s probate papers we learn that in 1826 his brother, Phineas, was appointed a guardian to Amasa Phillip Cook. In those papers Amasa Phillip was reported to be about thirteen years old. That would make his birth year 1813 or three years after Polly died. In the same probate Sally Baldwin, the former widow of Amasa, gave her, "… consent to have Phineas Cook the guardian for my son Amasy P. Cook. (Litchfield Probate District # 1591 Amasa Cook, April 29, 1826. Amasa P. Cook son of Amasa 2nd)
For Guardianship Phineas Cook of Goshen and Andrew Hand of Litchfield paid $500 bond. Phineas is to be the guardian of Amasa P. Cook who is 13 years old. Signed April 29, 1826
HIS MOTHER'S PROBATE:
“….probate, I give my consent to have Phinehas Cook the guardian of my son Amasa P. Cook.” Signed Sally Baldwin
1870 CENSUS
Almont, Lapier, Michigan: Amasa P. Cook, a plasterer and stone mason, born 1813 in Connecticut. His wife Abigail was born 1813 in New York. Daughter Helena, age 28, born Michigan.
DEATH
Amasa P. Cook, born about 1812 in Connecticut, died 27 April 1888 at Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan. He is a male, age 76; wife is Abigail. (Michigan Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995, https://www.familysearch.org/search/linker?pal=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AFHN7-JR9&id=L4GB-9DJ&hinting=%2Ftree%2Fperson%2Fdetails%2FL4GB-9DJ&icid=fs-hinting)
BURIAL
Amasa P. Cook buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan. He died 26 April 1888. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL9-4DFN?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=L4GB-9DJ)