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Phineas Wolcott Cook’s third great-great grandmother, Hope Parker
- 2018, Feb 28
- Category: Vignettes
Phineas Wolcott Cook’s third great-grandmother, wife of Samuel Cook, was Hope Parker. She was the granddaughter of the first Parker ancestor, William, who came to America and settled in New Haven. Her father Edward was born about 1622 and came to America as a boy. The family was still in New Haven when Hope was born in 1650 and married Samuel Cook in 1667. He was the second generation in America; she was the third.
Phineas Wolcott Cook’s great grandmother Elizabeth Pond, 1722
- 2017, Dec 06
- Category: Vignettes
Cook Family in America: Grandmothers
Phineas Wolcott Cook’s grandmother Elizabeth Porter - 1758
- 2017, Nov 04
- Category: Vignettes
Cook Family in America: Grandmothers
Cook Family in America, Generation 6 - Irene Churchill - 1786
- 2017, Sep 24
- Category: Vignettes
Phineas Wolcott Cook’s mother was Irene Churchill. Irene was also the sixth generation in America. The first Churchill was Josiah, born about 1613 at Dorsetshire, England. His first record in America is a land record dated February 28, 1641 at Wethersfield in Hartford County, Connecticut. The Churchill family stayed in Wethersfield four generations until Jonathan II moved to Woodbury, Litchfield County in 1749. His son Jonathan III married Sarah Burgess of Woodbury and they moved to the town of Litchfield where their 7 children were born.
Cook Family in America, Generation 7 - Phineas Wolcott Cook - 1819
- 2017, Aug 09
- Category: Vignettes
The youngest son of Phineas and Irene Cook, Phineas Wolcott Cook is the seventh generation of Cooks from the earliest Pilgrim ancestor Henry. Born in 1819 at Goshen, Connecticut, he came to Michigan in 1837, married in 1840, and was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1845. He was in Kalamazoo County until 1846 when Phineas took his wife and children to join the Saints at Winter Quarters, Nebraska. After many trying experiences, they arrived in Utah in 1848, lived in Salt Lake City, Manti, Payson, Provo, Goshen, Cedar Fort, Bear Lake, and Logan, Utah.
Cook Family in America, Generation 6 - Phineas Cook - 1786
- 2017, Jul 03
- Category: Vignettes
The sixth generation is the son of Daniel Cook II and Elizabeth Porter. Phineas Cook was born at Goshen in 1786. He married Irene Churchill of Litchfield just a few miles away, and they became the parents of seven children, all born at Goshen. With his brother Amasa, Phineas inherited their father’s but debts began to accumulate. After Amasa died in 1817 his heavy debts fell to Phineas, who slowly lost everything. The financial panic of the mid-1830’s made it impossible for him to recover, and in 1836 he sold the farm to Uncle Moses Cook and moved his entire family to Michigan.
Cook Family in America, Generation 5 - Daniel Cook II - 1761
- 2017, Jun 11
- Category: Vignettes
The fifth generation in our line stayed in Goshen. Daniel Cook II was born in 1761 and served at a very young age in the Revolutionary War. Having seen action in the war for seven years, he suffered ill health thereafter. He married Elizabeth Porter of Bethlehem and Goshen, and they had three children. Daniel died at the age of 48 in 1809. His widow Elizabeth moved away from Goshen, remarried twice, and died in 1834 while she and her husband Joseph Peters were living at Bloomfield, Darien, New York.
Cook Family in America, Generation 4 - Daniel Cook - 1720
- 2017, May 04
- Category: Vignettes
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Cook Family in America, Generation 3 - Joseph Cook - 1683
- 2017, Apr 02
- Category: Vignettes
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Cook Family in America, Generation 2 - Samuel Cook - 1641
- 2017, Mar 01
- Category: Vignettes
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Cook Family in America, Generation 1 - Henry Cook - 1638
- 2017, Feb 03
- Category: Vignettes
The Cook Family already had a long history in America before Phineas Wolcott was born in 1819. Henry Cook arrived at Salem, Massachusetts in 1638, and by the next year was married to Judith Birdsall who had come from Norwich, Norfolk, England.