Joseph Cooke

Abt 1608 - Bef 1699  (~ 91 years)

• Name	Joseph Cooke
  Birth	Abt 1608	of Great Yeldham, Essex, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1608	of Pebmark, Essex, England   [3, 4]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1608	of Stanway and Pebmark, Essex, England   [5]
  Alternate death	Aft 1679	Stanway, Essex, England   [1]
  Death	Bef 19 May 1699	Stanway, Essex, England   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I31162	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Thomas Cooke,   b. of Pebmarsh, Essex, England d. Between 17 Sep 1638 and 8 Feb 1639
  Mother	Grace Upcher
  Family ID	F4007	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Haynes,   b. Bef 19 Oct 1624   d. Aft Jan 1659 (Age > 35 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1643  [1, 6, 7]
  Children	1. Mary Cooke,   b. 30 Jan 1647, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F18495	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  He and his brother George emigrated to New England in 1635 on the Defense as servants of their neighbor Roger Harlakanden or Earls Colne, Essex, and three young men being adherents of the Rev. Thomas Shepherd. Also present on the voyage was Roger's sister Mabel, who would eventually become the second wife of Joseph Cooke's father-in-law, Massachusetts and Connecticut governor John Haynes. George Cooke returned to England in 1645, became a colonel in Cromwell's army, and was "reported to be slain in the wars in Ireland in the year 1652." From Walter Goodwin Davis (citation details below): Plentifully supplied with money, [Joseph and George Cooke] purchased large properties in Cambridge from settlers who were moving to the Connecticut Valley, and immediately became prominent in the community. Joseph Cooke was selectman of Cambridge in 1635 and in six succeeding years, also serving as town clerk from 1635 to 1641. He was a local magistrate from 1648 to 1657, and a representative to the General Court from 1636 to 1641. After his brother's departure for England, Joseph Cooke, who had joined the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1640, took his place as commander of the Cambridge military company. Returning to England himself in 1658, he was of Stanway, co. Essex, in 1665 when he conveyed his Cambridge property to his son Joseph.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S3826] The Ancestry of Bethia Harris, 1748-1833: Wife of Dudley Wildes of Topsfield, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1934. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S4969] Douglas Richardson, "A Royal Ancestry for Mary (Cooke) Talcott of Hartford, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 148:225, 1994., year only. [S4969] Douglas Richardson, "A Royal Ancestry for Mary (Cooke) Talcott of Hartford, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 148:225, 1994. [S4969] Douglas Richardson, "A Royal Ancestry for Mary (Cooke) Talcott of Hartford, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 148:225, 1994., says "circa 1642". [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., says "about 1642".