Joseph Cooke

Claimed as brother of Susanna Singletary

Joseph Cooke

• Born about 1608 in Earls Colne, Essex, England
• Died 1699 at about age 91 in Stanway, Essex, England
• Son of Thomas Cooke II Esq and Grace (Upcher) Cooke
• Husband of Elizabeth (Haynes) Cooke — married about 1642 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cooke-2880

• Cross of St George
• Joseph Cooke was born in England.
• Puritan Great Migration
• Joseph Cooke immigrated to New England between 1621 and 1640 and later departed for Stanway, Essex, England.

Joseph Cooke,[1][2] gentleman, of Pebmarsh, Essex, son of Thomas Cooke, gentleman, of Great Yeldham, Essex, was born about 1608 based on ages reported in later years. He was born in Earls Colne, Essex, England; siblings included Thomas and George and Grace.

"Through their aunt, Elizabeth Cooke, who married Edmund Reade, Joseph and George Cooke were related to several other New England immigrants, including John Winthrop Jr., Thomas Reade, Margaret (Reade) Lake, Martha (Reade) (Epes) Symonds and Rev. Hugh Peter."[3] Joseph Cooke emigrated to New England in 1635, traveling on the HMS Defence with his younger brother George Cooke. He was listed as one of the "servants to... Roger Harlakenden." They apparently traveled in disguise instead of as Gentlemen due to being "proscribed" for their Puritanical religious beliefs.[4]

Joseph settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was made a Freeman one year after his arrival; that would not have happened for a servant who had 7 years to work off his passage. He then served as town clerk, commissioner, and deputy to the General Court.

In 1639, he made as attorneys "my well beloved & dear brother Thomas Cooke of Wormingford in the said County of Essex, gent., and my well beloved friend Ricahrd Herlakenden of Earles Colne in the said County, Esquire,... to enter on all those my freehold & copyhold lands & tenements called Brysett Kell..." that were bequeathed to him by his father, whose Will was proven February 8, 1639.[5]

In 1640, identifying himself as second son of Thomas Cooke, late of Great Yealdham, Essex, quit-claimed to his older brother Thomas, rights to land he owned in Brysett Magna, Suffolk.

In 1642 he married Elizabeth Haynes, who was still alive as late as January 1659, after which they returned to England, where in 1665, he was living at Stanway, Essex, England. He left his land in Cambridge, MA to his oldest son, Joseph Cooke.

He received a legacy from the estate of his brother Thomas Cooke, of Pebmarsh, Essex in 1682 (Will written Sept. 17, 1689, proven March 1682).

Joseph Cooke died shortly before 19 May 1699, when the administration of his estate was granted to his son Thomas.

Anderson says he died "after 1679 when he was mentioned in his brother's will."

Children

1. Joseph Cooke, born at Cambridge, MA 27 Dec 1643; m at Cambridge 4 Dec 1664 Martha Stedman, dau of John Stedman and Alice. Served as Lieut. in King Philip's War. He died intestate at Cambridge, MA by Feb 1690/1 when admin. of his estate was granted. Children:
   1. John Cooke
   2. Jacob Cooke
   3. Hanes Cooke
   4. Elizabeth Cooke
   5. Alice, m1. Rev. John Whiting; m2 Rev. Timothy Stevens (this one?).
2. Elizabeth, b Cambr. 16 Mar 1644/5; m. in England Rev. Joseph Cawthorne (see NEHGR 148:242-44)
3. Mary Cooke, b Cambr., MA 30 Jan 1646/7; m 9 Nov 1676 Lieut. Col. John Talcott of Hartford, CT, son of John Talcott. Children:
   1. Jonathan Talcott
   2. Hezekiah Talcott
   3. Ruth Talcott, m John Read
   4. Sarah Talcott
   5. Rachel Talcott; m. Gershom Bulkeley
4. Grace, b Cambr. 9 Dec 1648; d.y.
5. Grace, b Cambr. 1 May 1650; perhaps one of the "sisters here in England" mentioned in will of uncle Thomas Cooke of Pebmarsh, 1679.
6. Ruth, b abt 1652; perhaps one of the "sisters here in England" mentioned in will of uncle Thomas Cooke of Pebmarsh, 1679.
7. Thomas, b after 1658 (not included in Jan 1659 list of children but mentioned in will of uncle Thomas Cooke of Pebmarsh, written 1679.

Research Note

Susan Hardman Moore in "Abandoning America..." identifies Joseph Cooke as "...the COUSIN of George Cooke" not brother.[6] FSFTID MN5Q-7SY.

Christening: 3 FEB 1576. Didsbury, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom.

Buried 7 SEP 1639. Old Warden, Beds, Eng.

"Richard Singletary married for his second wife (Goodwife Singletary having died in 1638/9} Susannah Cooke,..." who was the mother of his 7 children.

Susannah was the sister of Phillip Cooke of Cambridge MA, who "was a proprietor at Cambridge 1646: freeman, May 26 1647, and when he died he left a will dated 18 Jul 1666; probated 2 Apr 1667; wife Mary; Samuel, eldest son; "children to be placed in family of friends and relatives if his wife approved." (Monnette's Reference: Paige’s History of Cambridge [MA], p. 514) Children: John, age 3 to sister Singletary of Haverhill; Phillip, age 5, to Richard Eccles; & Hannah, age 9 to John Cooper. He wanted his children "to be brought up in Christian nurture and honest employment."

Monnette stated that upon checking records, etc. at Cambridge, MA, that Joseph Cooke at Cambridge was an older brother of "Col. George Cooke, Gent., Freeman, March 3, 1635-6...", a Cromwellian soldier. According to other indications, Monnette states that Phillip Cooke was also brother of the above George and Joseph, who came to America together, and they are believed to have been related to Susannah (Cooke) Singletary. "An/d probably from his actual service, and as a Colonel in Oliver Cromwell’s army, gave the tradition to Thomas Bloomfield, through the Daughter Mary who became the wife of Jonathan Dunham", s/o Richard Singletary.

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cooke-2880
• Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition (2011), p. 246, #19 Elizabeth Haynes
• The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001, p. 178-. pages 181-182: Joseph Cooke. < AmericanAncestors >
• Anderson, p 182
• Joseph Cooke of Warwick, Massachusetts Excellent biographical sketch of the Cooke family; some dates are off by 1 or 2 years.
• Anderson, p 182, citing Lechford 219-22
• "Abandoning America, Life-Stories From Early New England" by Susan Hardman Moore. (The Boydell Press 2013), p. 84, 85.link for purchase See also:
• Hawley, Visitations of Essex, Vol 1, page 383, Cooke (3). (Anderson refers to this as Harleian Society 13:1:383.)
• Sharples, Stephen. Records of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England, 1632-1830 (Eben Putnam, Boston, 1906) Page 3 "Mr Joseph Cook and Elizabeth his wife both in full Communion. There children: Joseph admitted into full communion May. 18. 1666. His child John Baptized Januar. 26. 67. Elizabeth, Mary, Grace, Ruth: all baptized in this Ch."
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~grannyapple/SINGL...
• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Dec 29 2019, 19:25:46 UTC
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L1ZT-PHY