Damaris Cooke

Daughter of Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins. This profile is for the *second* Damaris Hopkins (b ca 1628) after her sister Damaris Hopkins died.

Family

Jacob Cooke (son of Francis Cooke and Hester le Mahieu) married Damaris Hopkins on 10 Jun 1646, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was born 20 may 1618 in Leiden, and died at Plymouth in the Plymouth Colony on 11 December 1675. Damaris was his first wife. He married second to Elizabeth (Lettice) Shurtleff, widow of William Shurtleff.

Damaris Hopkins and Jacob Cooke had the following children:

1. Elizabeth Cooke, b: 18 JAN 1648/49 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.[1]
2. Caleb Cooke, b: 29 MAR 1651 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.[1]
3. Jacob Cooke, b: 26 MAR 1653 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.[1]
4. Mary Cooke, b: 12 JAN 1657/58 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.[1]
5. Martha Cooke, b: 16 MAR 1659/60 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.[1]
6. Francis Cooke, b: 05 JAN 1662 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.[1]
7. Ruth Cooke, b: 17 JAN 1665 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.[1]

Damaris Hopkins

From Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History

The 1st Damaris Hopkins was born about 1618 somewhere in England to parents Stephen and Elizabeth Hopkins, but her baptism record has not yet been discovered.  She came on the Mayflower at the age of two with her parents.  A Damaris Hopkins is listed with the Hopkins family in the 1627 Division of Cattle, but it has been generally believed that the original Damaris died, and that another daughter, also named Damaris, was born at Plymouth about 1626 to Stephen and Elizabeth.

Descendants of Stephen Hopkins

Second Generation

Stephen returned home sometime between 1613-17, perhaps with the intent of selling his belongings in England and bringing his family to their new home in Virginia. After having survived shipwreck and the perils of Jamestown, it must have been a great blow to find his wife and estate gone, and his children entrusted to the care of the Church.

By late 1617 Stephen and his children had settled into a home just outside of the east wall of London, where he was said to be working as a tanner. On February 9, 1618, in the local church of St. Mary Matfellon in Whitechapel, he married his second wife, Elizabeth Fisher. In late 1618 Elizabeth and Stephen added another child to the family – a daughter they named Damaris.

Stephen HOPKINS Mayflower(1374). —He most likely was the Stephen Hopkins who sailed on the Seaventure to Virginia in 1609, but was shipwrecked in Bermuda, where he was almost hanged for mutiny. He spent two years in Jamestown, where he learned much of later use to the Plymouth colonists (Adventurers of Purse and Person —Virginia 1607-1625, ed. by Annie Lash Jester with Martha Woodroof Hiden, 2nd ed. (1964), p. 213-17). See also the excellent account of his family in Dawes-Gates 2:443-51, which includes the reasoning for believing that the Stephen Hopkins of Virginia was identical with the one of Plymouth.

Hopkins arrived at Plymouth on the 1620 Mayflower accompanied by his wife, Elizabeth, and his sons Giles and Oceanus, and daughters Constance and Damaris, Oceanus having been born at sea on the Mayflower, plus two servants, Edward Doty and Edward Leister. Damaris died during the early years, and Hopkins and his wife later had a second daughter Damaris. He was probably also one of the dissenters at Plymouth whose actions led to the necessity for drafting the Mayflower Compact. Bradford (Ford) 1:219, and Mourt's Relation, p. 40, tell how in 1621 the colonists sent Mr. Edward <Picture>Winslow<Picture> and Mr. Stephen Hopkins on a mission to visit Massasoit. Mourt's Relation, pp. 7-8, also shows how Hopkins warned colonists on an early expedition about an Indian trap to catch deer, and how Bradford, not hearing the warning, stepped on the trap and was immediately caught by his leg. When Samoset first came to the settlement on 16 February 1620/21, the Englishmen were suspicious of him, and they "lodged him that night at Steven Hopkins house, and watched him" (Mourt's Relation, p. 33). Hopkins was an Assistant at least as early as 1633, and he continued in 1634, 1635, and 1636. He was on the original freeman list, and he was a volunteer in the Pequot War (PCR 1:61).

Keeping in mind the delicate balance in Plymouth between "covenant" and "noncovenant" colonists, it is reasonable to assume that Hopkins must have been a leader of the non-Separatist settlers, and in his career at Plymouth can be seen some of the ambiguity that attached to the non-Separatists living in a Separatist colony. On 7 June 1636, at a time when Hopkins was an Assistant, the General Court found him guilty of battery against John Tisdale, and he was fined £5, and ordered to pay Tisdale forty shillings, the court observing that he had broken the King's peace, "wch [p.309] he ought after a speciall manner to have kept" (PCR 1:42). On 2 October 1637 he was presented twice, first for suffering men to drink in his house on the Lord's day before meeting ended, and for allowing servants and others to drink more than proper for ordinary refreshing, and second for suffering servants and others to sit drinking in his house contrary to orders of the court, and to play at shovel board and like misdemeanors (PCR 1:68). On 2 January 1637/38 Hopkins was presented for suffering excessive drinking in his house "as old Palmer, James Coale, & William Renolds" (PCR 1:75). On 5 June 1638 he was presented for selling beer for two pence a quart which was not worth a penny a quart, and for selling wine at excessive rates "to the oppressing & impovishing of the colony"; he was fined £5 for some of these offenses, including selling strong waters and nutmegs at excessive rates (PCR 1:87, 97). In the Dorothy Temple case (see text) he was "committed to ward for his contempt to the Court, and shall so remayne comitted untill hee shall either receive his servant Dorothy Temple, or els pvide for her elsewhere at his owne charge during the terme shee hath yet to serve him" (PCR 1:112). On 3 December 1639 he was presented for selling a looking glass for sixteen pence which could be bought in the Bay Colony for nine pence, and he was also fined £3 for selling strong water without license" (PCR 1:137). Jonathan Hatch, who from the records seems to have been a recurring disciplinary problem in the colony, on 5 April 1642 was ordered by the court to dwell with Mr. Stephen Hopkins, "& the said Mr Hopkins to have a speciall care of him" (PCR 2:38).

xxx He dated his will 6 June 1644, inventory 17 July 1644, and mentioned his deceased wife; sons Giles and Caleb; daughter Constance, wife of Nicholas Snow; daughters Deborah, Damaris, Ruth and Elizabeth; and grandson Stephen, son of his son Giles (MD 2:12). Ralph D. Phillips, "Hopkins Family of Wortley, Gloucestershire—Possible Ancestry of Stephen Hopkins," TAG 39:95, suggests that he might have come from the parish of Wotten-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, but the evidence is not sufficient to say positively. Some writers, such as Banks in English Ancestry, pp. 61-64, and Jacobus in Waterman Family, 1:86, have felt that his wife, Elizabeth, may have been Elizabeth Fisher, whom a Stephen Hopkins married at London 19 February 1617/18—Mourt's Relation, p. 15, states that he was of London. If so, she would have been a second wife, for the births of some of his children would predate this marriage. Dawes-Gates 2:443, citing the London marriage record, states that his wife was "undoubtedly" Elizabeth Fisher. Timothy Hopkins, "Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower and Some of His Descendants," NEHGR 102:46, 98, 197, 257, 103:24, 85, 166, 304, 104:52, 123, 213, 296, 105:32, 100, covers some of his early generations, but it is not documented. George E. Bowman wrote an article in MD 5:47 to consolidate much of the early information known about his family. A popularized biography of Stephen Hopkins was written by Margaret Hodges, Hopkins of the Mayflower—Portrait of a Dissenter (New York, 1972). Claims that a John Hopkins of Hartford, Connecticut, was his son are baseless. By his first wife he had Constance, who married Nicholas Snow, and [p.310] Giles, who married Catherine Wheldon. By Elizabeth Fisher he had the Damaris, who died young; Oceanus, who died young; Caleb, who died at Barbados as an adult without issue; Deborah, who married Andrew Ring; the second Damaris, who married Jacob Cooke, son of Francis; Ruth, who died without issue; and Elizabeth, who died without issue (Dawes-Gates, 2:449).

Reference: ancestry.com:

'Damaris Hopkins Born in London, England [NO] on 1628 to Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth Fisher.

Damaris married Jacob Cooke and had 8 children. She passed away on 1668 in Plymouth.

Family Members

Parents Stephen Hopkins 1585-44 & Elizabeth Fisher 1600-1642

Spouse(s) Jacob Cooke 1616-1675

Children

1. Jacob Cooke 1653-1747
2. Mary Cooke Unknown-1712
3. Ruth Cooke 1665-1675
4. Elizabeth Cooke 1649-1692
5. Caleb Cooke 1651-1747
6. Mary Cooke 1651-1694
7. Martha Cooke 1659-1722
8. Francis Cooke 1662-1741

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Update 9/16/2022 (CLM):

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52416018/damaris-cooke

Damaris was born at Plymouth Colony say 1628 to Pilgrims Stephen & Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins. She married Jacob Cooke at Plymouth shortly after 10 Jun 1646. Since this Damaris was still bearing children in the early 1670s, she cannot be the same Damaris, born say 1628, who came on the Mayflower.

Source: Anderson's Pilgrim Migration (2007) and The Mayflower Migration (2020)

Find A Grave contributor William adds, without citation:
She was born 22 May 1627, and died 18 Nov 1669.
This is the second daughter to be named Damaris of Stephen Hopkins.

This Damaris Hopkins was was christened in 1628 in Plymouth, MA. She died - 18 Nov 1669.

Damaris married Jacob Cooke son of Francis Cooke of Mayflower 1620 and Hester Mayhieu after 10 Jun 1646 in probably Plymouth, MA. Jacob was born about 1618 in Leyden, Holland. He died on 11 Dec 1675 in Plymouth, MA.

They had the following children:

+ 40 F i Elizabeth Cooke
+ 41 M ii Caleb Cooke
+ 42 M iii Jacob Cooke
+ 43 F iv Mary Cooke
+ 44 F v Martha Cooke X
+ 45 M vi Francis Cooke
+ 46 F vii Ruth Cooke
47 F viii Sarah Cooke was born in 1671.
48 F ix Rebecca Cooke died on 11 Dec 1675.

References

1. Source: Pilgrim Hopkins Heritage Society accessed 16 Sept 2021
2. https://pilgrimhopkins.com/lineageHome.php?pafg02.htm#17
3. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:Jacob_Cooke_and_Damaris_Hopkin...
4. Mayflower Families through Five Generations Volume 12, p. 46
5. "The Great Migration Begins," V 1, p470. Source: Robert Charles Anderson, "Stephen Hopkins",The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol II, Boston, New England Historic Genelogical Society 1995 pp 986-989.
6. "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations", Volume six, "Hopkins", Published by General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1992.
7. Source Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families through Five Generations Volume 12, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, Revised Edition, 2011 Francis Cooke
8. http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/DamarisHopkins.php
9. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cooke-35