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John "The Butcher" COOKE (COOK)

(b. 01/13/1630 , Dorset County, England d. 16 May 1691 , Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations )

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John "The Butcher" COOKE (COOK) was born 01/13/1630 in Dorset County, England

John "The Butcher" COOKE (COOK) was the child of Thomas "The Butcher", 3Rd COOKE and Mary HAVENS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Thomas COOKE and Joanna DE NETHERBURY (maternal) William HAVENS and Dionise Ruth ALLEN

John "The Butcher" was an immigrant to the United States, arriving by 1653.

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

John "The Butcher" married Mary BORDEN abt. 1656 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony . The couple had (at least) 9 children. Mary BORDEN was born 13 January 1632 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. Mary died 23 December 1690 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA. Mary was the child of Richard BORDEN, SR. and Joane (Jane) FOWLE.

John "The Butcher" COOKE (COOK) died 16 May 1691 in Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Born at Netherbury, Dorset, England

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Spouse(s) / Partner(s) and Child(ren) of John "The Butcher" COOKE (COOK)

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John "The Butcher" COOKE (COOK) married

Mary BORDEN-- Date: abt. 1656 Place: Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
(Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.

Mary BORDEN was the child of Richard BORDEN, SR. and Joane (Jane) FOWLE

COOK John John (?1631-1691) & Mary [BORDEN] (1633bef 1691) by 1653 Portsmouth, RI/ Providence {Reg. 73:295, 75:233, 84:225 McIntire Anc. 77 Austin's Dict. 23, 26, 174, 282 Almy 33 Borden 57 Borden (1901) 14 Clark (,9) 16 Wait (1878) 17 Jennings 545 Briggs of NY 7 Wilcox (1943) 49, 39 or 40 Crapo 253, 258-9, 899 TAG 27:216}

Children of John "The Butcher" COOKE (COOK) and Mary BORDEN:

Elizabeth COOK (b.abt. 1653, Portsmouth, Providence Plantations d. August 1716, Little Compton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations )

Mary COOK (b.abt. 1654, Portsmouth, Providence Plantations d. abt. 1716, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations)
m. William MANCHESTER 1672

John COOK (b.abt. 1656, , Providence Plantations d. 20 July 1737, Tiverton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations )
m. Ruth SHAW 1683

Sarah COOK (b.abt. 1658, Portsmouth, Providence Plantations d. , Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA)
m. Thomas WAITE 1679

Hannah COOKE (b.abt. 1659, Portsmouth, Providence Plantations d. 10/22/1736, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations)
m. Daniel WILCOX 1679
m. Enoch BRIGGS 2 March 1699

Martha COOK (b.abt. 1668, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. abt. 1704, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations)

Deborah COOK (b.15 February 1669, Tiverton, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. , )
m. William ALMY 12 July 1688 in Tiverton, Rhode Island, USA (Tiverton, Massachusetts)

Amey COOK (b.abt. 1671, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. , )

Samuel COOK (b.abt. 1674, Portsmouth, Crown Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations d. , )

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1630 Birth
01/13/1630
, Dorset County, England

John "The Butcher" COOKE (COOK) - Title Little Compton families, Volume 1 Little Compton Families, Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, ISBN 0806347031, 9780806347035 Author Benjamin Franklin

Title Little Compton families, Volume 1
Little Compton Families, Benjamin Franklin Wilbour, ISBN 0806347031, 9780806347035
Author Benjamin Franklin Wilbour
Edition 5
Publisher Genealogical Publishing Com, 1997
ISBN 080634704X, 9780806347042
Length 839 pages
Page 205-206

1656 - The pendulum clock is invented (Christiaan Huygens, Netherlands)

1666 - Isaac Newton discovers gravity

1669 Birth of Child
Deborah COOK was born 15 February 1669, Tiverton, Rhode Island, USA (Tiverton, Massachusetts)

John "The Butcher" was 39 years old.

1688 Marriage of Child
Deborah COOK married 12 July 1688, Tiverton, Rhode Island, USA (Tiverton, Massachusetts) to William ALMY

1690 Death of Spouse/Partner
Mary BORDEN died 23 December 1690, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, USA

John Cooke's will dated 15 May 1691, proved 25 May 1691 (Portsmouth TC 2:266).
Although of sound memory and understanding, yet being aged and calling to mind the brevity and uncertainty of this life not knowing how soon the Lord may call me from hence especially considering the sore visitation of the smallpox wherewith many are now visited and many have been taken away.

To my son John Cook I leave the land at Puncatest Neck, it being about 150 acres, together with the housing thereon, 4 acres of saltmarsh meadow at Sapowet in Little Compton, together with one-half of the upland, 8 head of neat cattle, the feather bed and bedding in the house John, Jr. now lives in at Puncatest, and 20 sheep. From this bequest 15 head of cattle at Puncatest reserved for Joseph Cook during his lifetime to keep and to harvest hay there for the wintering of those cattle.

To my son Joseph Cook the housing where John now lives in Portsmouth, together with all the land and outbuildings, 4 acres of saltmarsh meadow at Sapowet and one-half of the upland there. If Joseph...Read MORE...