Mary (Underwood) Wells (1712 - 1794)

Born 1712 in New Castle, Delaware, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Wells I — married 1758 in Cane Creek Mm, Rowan County, Province of North Carolina

Descendants

Died 1794 at about age 82 in Bush River, Newberry, South Carolina, United States

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Glenn York [send private message] and Jane Crider [send private message]

Biography

Mary was a Friend (Quaker)

Mary Underwood was born in 1712 in New Castle, Delaware, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Alexander Underwood and Jane Harris. Mary married Thomas Cooke in Sep 1730, the son of the late Peter Cooke & Eleanor (Norman) Cooke of Cheshire England. They married at London Grove Quaker Meeting House in Chester Co PA. Mary was pregnant when she married Thomas. She passed away in 1794.

Born 1710 New Castle, Delaware ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Name: Mary Underwood. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Marriage Husband Wife Marriage 27 MAY 1758. Guilford, North Carolina. ^[2]

Husband Wife Child: Marriage 28 SEP 1730. London Grove, York, Pennsylvania. ^{[3] [5] [6]}

Children

1. Sarah Cook (1732-1795), m: Bowater Beals.
2. Thomas Cook
3. Abraham Cook (1731-1793), m: Phebe Mills.
4. Ruth Cook (b. 1732), no further info as yet.
5. Alexander Cook (b. 1740), no further info as yet.
6. Isaac Cook (1743-1820), m: Charity Wright.
7. Jacob Cook (b. 1746), m1: Mary John, m2: Susannah Speakman.
8. Mary Cook (1748-1809), m1: Uriah Carson, m2: Caleb Sumner (my 4x Gr-Grandfather).
9. Thomas Cook (1748-1809), m1: Uriah Carson, m2: Caleb Sumner (my 4x Gr-Grandfather).

Children: (all appear to have dropped the E from surname)

DNA Confirmation DNA confirmed to Robert Rhodes Largest segment = 6.2 cM

Total Half-Match segments (HIR) = 7.4 cM (0.207 Pct)

3 shared segments found for this comparison. Jussery 117184 SNPs used for this comparison.

50.521 Pct SNPs are full identical

Notes

28 Sep 1730 - Wm. Swaine gives account yt he and Thos: "Speakman was with Thos. Cooke and Alexander Underwood's Daughter and yt they seem sorry for what they have done and this meeting is informed that they are marryed."

10-26-1730 - Joseph Pennock reports that "he and William Swaine were with Thomas Cooke and wife and he appeared here with acknowledgement: Joseph Pennock to see it read at Londongrove."

12-27-1730/31: "The Women's meeting have sent in a paper to this meeting from under ye hand of Mary Cooke, condemning her evil actions. William Swaine to read at London Grove." (A descendant, Bonnie's daughter, 2014)

First husband Thomas Cook died 25 Mar 1751. Mary next married Joseph Wells in May 1758 in York Co PA:

Mary (Underwood) Cook is mentioned on 27 May 1758 in the meeting minutes of New Garden: "Mary, widow late of Pennsylvania, reported married to Joseph Wels (Wells) of Cane Creek."

On 1 Jul 1758, Mary Wells and her children, Isaac Cook, Mary Cook and Thomas Cook, were all received at Cane Creek Monthly Meeting from the New Garden Meeting.

Mary Underwood Cook Wells Moves to Joseph Wells I Church

On 12 Apr 1773 Mary Wells was granted a certificate to the New Garden Monthly Meeting.

Mary's mother Mary Jane Harry was daughter of Hugh Harry and Elizabeth Brinton). (A descendant, Nola Bailey Cooper, 2012)

• Note:  !After the death of her first husband she moved with her children from Pa. to NC.

• Warrington MM Pa. -- GCT Cane Creek MM, NC 20 Jul 1754

• SOURCES: LDS FHL AF # 3QXJ-ST (familysearch.org)

AWTP: "Update on Dawna Herrud File" Beth Watkins ewatkins25 "Carmichael Genealogy" Sandy Taylor, gokart. net. "Boyd Trees" John H. Boyd johnHBoyd who references cite "Underwood Families of America, The Delaware Family" and "The Ancestors and Descendants of Hugh Harry and Elizabeth Brinton" by Robert Jesse Harry (1987) (c) Mabel L. Schneider, 3708 Bamboo Terr., Bradenton, FL 33507 (1986).

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Births Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2001;
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Guilford College; Greensboro, North Carolina; Men's Minutes, 1754-1775; Collection: North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Individual Records Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2000;
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Yates Publishing U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: LCD,
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Yates Publishing U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1
6. ↑ Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Marriages Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2001;

• U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 for Mary Cook
• New Garden MM records in Chester Co PA: 8-31-1730 - Londongrove Preparative Meeting informs also "ye Alexander Underwood's Daughter is with Childe by Thomas Cooke."
• Find A Grave: Memorial #51294139 Cannot be considered a source since no image of headstone is provided.
• Unsourced family tree handed down to Jane (Collins) Crider Unsourced family trees are not a source
• Janice Hardin, firsthand knowledge.
• WikiTree profile Underwood-535 created through the import of rgy_complete.ged on Jun 23, 2011 by Robert York.
• This person was created through the import of weise.ged on 01 March 2011.
• Entered by Janice Hardin, May 18, 2012
• see the bio of Thomas Cook