John Cook

John married Alice Southworth on 25 May 1709 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island. Alice (daughter of William Southworth and Rebecca Pabodie) was born on 14 Jul 1688 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island; died on 25 Apr 1770. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth Cook died in Apr 1797 in Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island.

John married Ruth Shaw. Ruth (daughter of Anthony Shaw and Alice Stonard) was born on 10 Oct 1660. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Borden about 1652. Mary (daughter of Richard Borden and Joan Fowle) was born before 13 Jan 1633; was christened on 13 Jan 1633 in Cranbrook, Kent, England; died on 23 Dec 1690 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Aft 1691

Notes:

Carl Boyer's Ancestral Lines (citation details below) gives Richard Borden and Joan Fowle a second-of-her-name daughter Mary, born April 1656, and assigns her, instead of the daughter Mary baptized in 1633, as the wife of "John Cook of Portsmouth", saying she "d. before 1691." But whether this second Mary existed or not, she cannot have been John Cooke's wife and the mother of children born in the 1650s.

Notes:

Claimed as a son of John Shaw (1597-1664) and also of a different early-New-England John Shaw (d. 1704), but there seems to be no proof for either.

Anthony married Alice Stonard on 8 Apr 1653 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Thomas Cooke alias Butcher was probably the child baptized 13 April 1600 in the parish church of St. Mary, Netherbury, Dorsetshire, England, as Thomas Bowcher. He died at Portsmouth, Rhode Island in the spring of 1677, probably just before 21 May, when his inventory was taken, as Thomas Cooke." [Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island, citation details below.]

Thomas married Mary. Mary died about 1670. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[Thomas Cooke] is known to have had two wives named Mary, but it is not known whether the first Mary was his first wife, married in England and thus the mother of his first three children. She was his wife in May 1660, when she signed her mark to a deed, but she had died by March 1672/3, when the second Mary wrote a good signature on another deed. It is likely that the first Mary died about 1670, when several members of the family of Thomas(2) Cook died within a few months time." [Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island, citation details below.]

Notes:

He inherited from his father land in Headcorn, but in 1628 he moved to Cranbrook, where his wife had relatives. He emigrated from Cranbrook to New England in 1627/28, settling at Portsmouth, where he was a surveyor and held a variety of public offices.

Richard married Joan Fowle on 28 Sep 1625 in Headcorn, Kent, England. Joan (daughter of Richard Fowle and Mary Filkes) was born about 1604; died on 15 Jul 1688 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margaret. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]