Jacob Cooke was born 16 Jun 1691 at Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts.[1][2] He was the son of Jacob Cooke and Lydia Miller.
"Cook, Jacob born on the 16th of June 1691 (of Jacob Cook & Lidiah Cooke his wife)"[3][4]
Jacob married first, Phebe Hall, daughter of Elisha Hall and Lydia, on 3 Apr 1716 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Phebe was born 3 Mar 1689 in Yarmouth. She died 15 Jul 1728 in Kingston, Massachusetts, with a stillborn child.[4][5][6] Jacob and Phebe lived on land given to him by his father at the junction of Indian Pond and Dukes Hole Roads. Phebe was buried in the Cooke section of the Kingston cemetery.[6]
Jacob married second, Mary Hearsey, 21 Jan 1728-9, at Abington:
"Jacob and Mary Hearsey, Jan. 21,1728-9"[7] Intention was recorded in Kingston, 4 Jan 1728/9.[8]
Children of Jacob Cooke and Mary Hearsey
Jacob and Mary had two known children and possibly a third:[4]
Stephen, 7 Mar 1729/1730; d. 16 Dec 1749 at Mendham, NJ[4]
Mary, b. 20 Aug 1733 at Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay[9]
Joseph, b. 1735 (see Jacob Cooke on Find A Grave); there was a Joseph Cooke who lived close to Jacob at Mendham, New Jersey
There was also living near them a Joseph Cook, who died March 27, 1782, and left in his will 50 Franks to the Presbyterian Church of Ten-Mile (Mendham, New Jersey).[10]
Jacob married his third wife, Rebakah Axtell, 11 Nov 1736 at Berkley, Massachusetts.[4]
"Cooke, Jacob and Rebakah Axtell of Barkely, int. Oct. 16 1736."[7]
Daniel, b. 10 Dec 1739 in poss. Berkley; d. 17 Sep 1791 at Mendham, Morris Co., NJ; m. Rebecca Owen in prob. Scotch Plains, Union Co., NJ; Rebecca was born about 1748 in prob. Elizabethtown, Essex Co., NJ; she died 22 Aug 1842 in Starkey, Yates Co., NY
Jacob and Rebakah left Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts about 1745, going with a colony from Bridgewater, Massachusetts to Mendham, New Jersey where Jacob lived until his death in 1753. Asa, Jacob, Stephen, Daniel, and possibly Phebe and John went with them.[6] At least three of Asa's children were born in Mendham after 1750. "Asa Coock's" name is recorded on the List of Freeholders of Morris County, August 31, 1752, for Mendham Township.[11]
Jacob Cooke died at Mendham 20 Nov 1753.[4][12] Rebakah died after 24 Jan 1754, probably at Mendham.[4]
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↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4P9-ZMN : 4 December 2014), Jacob Cooke, 16 Jun 1691; citing Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 15; FHL microfilm 910,368.
↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4P9-P4V : 13 July 2016), Jacob Cooke, 16 Jun 1691; citing Birth, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 910,367.
↑ Lee D. van Antwerp, compiler, Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1993), p. 20
Ralph V. Wood, Jr., Mayflower Families through Five Generations Volume 12, Francis Cooke, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, 1996 [1st edition], Pages 84, 160-162.
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They had the following children: 1102 M vi John COOKE. + 1103 M vii Daniel COOKE
Source: Pilgrim Hopkins Heritage Society Jacob Cooke & Rebecca Axtel
Kingston Births Cooke, Mary, d. Jacob and May, Aug. 20, 1733 Cooke, Mary
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