v JACOB, b. about 1618 (deposed 14 July 1674 "aged fifty-six years or thereabout" [ MD 2:45-46, citing PLR 1:81]); m. (1) Plymouth shortly after 10 June 1646 (marriage contract) Damaris Hopkins [ PCR 2:27; MD 2:27-28, citing PCLR 2:1:35], daughter of STEPHEN HOPKINS [ MF 6:13-14]; m. (2) Plymouth 18 November 1669 Elizabeth (Lettice) Shurtleff [ PVR 666], daughter of Thomas Lettice and widow of William Shurtleff [ MF 6:13].

Brief Biography

Jacob Cooke was the son of Hester Mayhew and Francis Cook, an Englishman who moved to Leiden. The couple married in Leiden in 1603. They were members of the Leiden Walloon Church, a congregation of French-speaking Belgian people whose beliefs were very similar to those of the English Separatists. Jacob was born in Holland about 1618.

Francis arrived in Plymouth in 1620 on the Mayflower with his teenage son John. Hester Mayhieu Cooke and the couple's three other children (Jane, Jacob and young Hester) arrived in Plymouth on the Anne in 1623. At the time, Jacob was about five years old.

In 1646, when he was 28 years old, Jacob married Damaris Hopkins, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth Hopkins of the Mayflower. Damaris was born in Plymouth sometime after 1627 (she was named for an older sister, the "Mayflower Damaris" who, it is believed, died before she was born). Jacob and Damaris had seven children: Elizabeth, Caleb, Jacob, Mary, Martha, Francis and Ruth. Damaris died sometime between 1666 and 1669. Jacob married again, in 1669, to Elizabeth Lettice Shurtleff. They had two daughters: Sarah and Rebecca.

Family

Jacob2 Cooke (Francis1)

married

1. 1st Damaris2 Hopkins (Stephen1)
2. 2d, widow Elizabeth (Lettice) Shurtleff.

Children of Jacob2 and Damaris (first wife)

1. Elizabeth3 Cooke, married John2 Doty (Edward1). His first wife.
2. Caleb3 Cooke, married Jane ----.
3. Jacob3 Cooke, married Lydia Miller.
4. Mary3 Cooke, married John Rickard.
5. Martha3 Cooke, married Elkanah Cushman3 (Mary2 Allerton, Isaac 1). He prior married Elizabeth Cole by whom he had sons Elkanah, James and Jabez
6. Francis3 Cooke, married Elizabeth Latham4 (Susanna Winslow2, Mary2 Chilton, James 1).
7. Ruth3 Cooke. (Possibly she who married Hezekiah Tinkham, but no proof)

Children of Jacob2 and Elizabeth (second wife)

1. Rebecca3 Cooke.
2. Sarah3 Cooke, married Robert Barlett4 (Joseph3, Mary2 Warren, Richard1). Sarah has questionable descendancy according to Wood until primary sources can be found to establish her as a daughter.

Sources

1. Records of the Town of Plymouth, Volume 1: 1636 to 1705 (Vol. 1) (1889). Plymouth, MA: Avery & Doten.

Links

• http://plus.familylink.com/SingleIndexIndView.aspx?ix=qcd_plymouth1636-1705&hpp=1&rf=*,z*&qt=i&zpage=62&highlight=cooke%2cjacob+%2cmassachusetts
• http://www.pilgrimhall.org/CookeJacob.htm
• http://www.allaboutnhre.com/familytree/franciscooke.html