Richard Cocke, IV

Son of Richard "the Younger" Cocke and Elizabeth (.) Cocke

From GENEALOGY OF THE COCKE FAMILY OF VIRGINIA Prepared by James C. Southall. Published in Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume II

RICHARD COCKE’S (4) BRANCH

Richard Cocke (4), (born 1707; died 1772) married Elizabeth Hartwell (4) of Swan’s Point, Surry, and raised the following named children, viz:

• Hartwell Cocke (5),
• Benjamin Cocke (5),
• Elizabeth Hartwell Cocke (5) and
• Rebecca Cocke (5).

In a second marriage with Elizabeth Ruffin, relict of Mr. Kinchin, he raised

• Nancy Cocke (5),
• Richard Cocke (5) (the author of this narrative),
• Lucy Cocke (5),
• Nathaniel Cocke (5) and
• John Cocke (5).

parents

RICHARD COCKE (2) of Bremo, born 1672; died 1720; married first Anne Bowler.We don’t know the name of his second wife.

Anne Bowler was the daughter of Thomas Bowler of the county of Rappahannock (now Essex and Richmond); member of the Governor’s Council in 1670.She was born in 1695 and died 1705.There appear to have been three children by this marriage, one of them Bowler Cocke (4) of Bremo.

Among the children of the second marriage was Richard (4) the ancestor of Col. Richard Cocke of Bacon’s Castle, of Hartwell Cocke (5), General John Hartwell Cocke (7) &c.(In the Revolutionary period there was a Bowler’s Wharf on the Rappahannock.The name now is spelled also Boulware.

• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via wife Elizabeth Kinchen (born Ruffin) by SmartCopy: Apr 5 2015, 9:56:16 UTC
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WILL OF RICHARD COCKE IVHe identified himself as a resident of Southwark Parish in Surry County and said that he was “of perfect mind and body.” He bequeathed to his eldest son and primary heir, Hartwell Cocke I, the plantation called Bremo, in the fork of the James River, noting that it had been given to him by his own father who had patented it on December 15, 1725. He also gave Hartwell two other pieces of property: the plantation called Bear Garden, which he described as 380 acres on the south side of the James above the topographic feature known as “the point of fork,” and a tract on Beaverdam Creek in Goochland County. Richard Cocke IV bequeathed some slaves and money to each of his daughters and he gave one slave apiece to his sons John and Nathaniel. He instructed his executors to sell his 883 acres in Lunenburg County and his 475 acres in Southampton County on the Blackwater River, where there was a grist mill. The testator’s land in Halifax County on Difficult Run was to be divided equally between sons John and Nathaniel, as were the slaves and livestock then residing on the property. If sons John or Nathaniel Cocke failed to survive, Richard Cocke V was to be the reversionary heir. R ichard Cocke IV stated that the rest of his estate “both real and personal,” which included his Surry County acreage, was to go to his eldest son, Hartwell, after his (the testator’s) just debts were paid and the other children had received their bequests. Richard Cocke IV named as his executors sons Hartwell and Richard Cocke V, and sons-in-law Richard Taliaferro Jr., William Brown V, and William Ruffin VII. Richard Cocke IV died on March 5, 1772. When his will was presented to the justices of Surry County on April 21, 1772, it was proved by sons Hartwell and Richard Cocke V (Surry County Deeds, Wills, &c. 5, 1768-1779 PP.191-198; Cocke Family Papers MS 2433 Box 32).19

• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via wife Elizabeth Cocke (born Hartwell) by SmartCopy: Apr 5 2015, 9:23:14 UTC
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• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Feb 17 2021, 0:26:07 UTC