John COOK

ABT 1656 - 20 Jul 1737

  • BIRTH: ABT 1656, Portsmouth, Newport, RI
  • DEATH: 20 Jul 1737, Tiverton, Newport, RI
Father: John COOK
Mother: Mary BORDEN

Family 1 : Ruth SHAW
  • MARRIAGE: ABT 1682, Tiverton, Newport, RI



                                  _Thomas Butcher COOKE _
                _Thomas COOK ____|
               |                 |_Joanna _______________
 _John COOK ___|
|              |                  _______________________
|              |_Mary ___________|
|                                |_______________________
|
|--John COOK 
|
|                                 _Matthew BORDEN _______
|               _Richard BORDEN _|
|              |                 |_Joan _________________
|_Mary BORDEN _|
               |                  _Richard FOWLE ________
               |_Joane FOWLE ____|
                                 |_Mary FILKES __________


[4599] "Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records"
H.L. Peter Rounds, in:
Massachusetts Town, Probate and Vital Records CD-ROM
Broderbund, 1999, Vol. 8, p. 262
"Will of JOHN COOK of Tiv., Yeoman, dtd. 23 Jan. 1736/7, prob. 1 Aug.
1737. Wife Ruth. Sons: John & Thomas Cook. Daus: Ruth Fish, Mary
Howland, Deborah Howland & Ann Tripp. Sons-in-law Preserved Fish, John
Howland, James Howland & James Tripp to be Execs. Incl. negro woman
Phillis. Witns: Peleg Shearman, Richard Sisson & Giles Slocum [8:503/4]."

"Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island"
Jane Fletcher Fiske
Boxford, MA, 1987; p39
"JOHN, b. ca. 1655; m. Ruth Shaw."

"The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island"
John Osborne Austin
Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany, NY: 1887; pp. 23-24; pp. 282-285

"A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England"
James Savage
Boston, MA; 1860-1862; v1, p445
"JOHN, Portsmouth, R. I. 1655, of wh. I learn no more, unless that he had
w. Ruth in 1682, then was 51 yrs. old, and John jr. prob. his s. was 26, and
other s. Joseph and Thomas, beside sev. ds. and his will was record. 1691.
As early as 1647 he was made one of two "water bailies" of the Col. if there
be no mistake."

"New England Marriages Prior To 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey,
(as found on NEHGS CD-ROM, Boston, 2001)
"COOK, John & Ruth [SHAW]; by 1684?; Tiverton, RI"


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