Josias Cooke

Abt 1610 - 1673  (63 years)

• Name	Josias Cooke  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1610  [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Oct 1673	Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I20870	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	3 Nov 2021

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Ring,   b. Abt 1609   d. Bef 3 May 1687, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age < 78 years)
  Marriage	16 Sep 1635	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Children	> 1. Ann Cooke   d. 24 Jul 1656, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts + 2. Bethia Cooke,   b. Abt 1640, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 31 May 1687, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 47 years) + 3. Josiah Cooke,   b. Abt 1645   d. 31 Jan 1732, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F12323	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived in 1633, first at Plymouth, then Eastham. He was a tavernkeeper, and literate enough to serve in many public offices, including that of town clerk.

  
  

• Sources

  [S635] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 6, Third Edition, Family — Stephen Hopkins by John D. Austin. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001. [S2603] John Insley Coddington, "The Widow Mary Ring, of Plymouth, Mass., and Her Children." The American Genealogist 42:193, Oct 1966. [S647] Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines by Mary Walton Ferris. Volume 1, 1943; volume 2, 1931. [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.