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1Augusta A. Pettit, Mrs., 1932, Borden, Lloyd, Levis families of Shrewsbury, East Jersey, Some genealogical notes on the, Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1971, pgs 8, 9, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, FHL US/CAN Film 858787 Item 7. "Jane continues to be amongst the witnesses to marriages until the year 1719. Francis will was dated at Shrewsbury May 24, 1703 and proven May 9, 1706." marriage, children and death listed.
1Fiske, Jane Fletcher, 1930- (Main Author), Cooke,Thomas of Rhode Island : genealogy of Cooke alias Butcher of Netherbury, Dorsetshire, England (Boxford, Mass. : J.F. Fiske, c1987), 35, 36, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, JSMB US/CAN Book 929.273 C776f. "was made a freeman of Portsmouth on 10 July 1648, when he was only eighteen years old (Early Records of Portsmouth, p. 39). His name appears again on a 1655 list of freemen, and on the Conanicut Purchase agreement, dated 10 March 1656/7 at Newport, for 1/250th part of [Jamestown] Island (R.I. Archives). On 14 May 1660 his parents deeded to him sixty acres of land in Portsmouth, using for both father and son the name "Cooke alias Butcher". This deed in 1979 provided the necessary link inh discovery of the English origins of the family.
The ear mark for John's cattle was recorded 26 April 1668, as of fourteen years standing: "a crope one the left Eare and a hapene under the crop one the under side of ye Eare and a slitt on the Right Eare and a hapeny before or one the fore side of the same Eve," which, translated Into modern English, meant a crop (small out) on Me left ear with the brand of a halfpenny under it, and a slit on the right ear with the brand of a halfpenny In front of it (ibid, p. 277).
On 22 February 1665, John Cooke was among those Portsmouth men chosen to serve on a committee to make a rate (i.e. an assessment for tax purposes) of £100 to pay Dr. John Clarke (ibid, 131). Dr. Clarke had gone to England to obtain from King Charles II a new Royal Charter which would give the Colony much needed legal guarantees and freedoms; his efforts were successful and the General Assembly voted to pay his expenses and to give him an additional sum for his trouble.
John Cooke was chosen 17 October 1667, along with his brother Thomas, to be a grand juryman at the Court of Trials, a duty he performed again in 1669 and 1673. In 1670 he was a deputy to the General Assembly In Newport, and on 5 June 1671 was chosen a constable of Portsmouth (ibid., pp. 139,155,162).
On 3 June 1968 John Cooke and Daniel Wilcox were given the privilege of running a ferry at Pocasset. This was the ferry at the northern end of the island, sometimes called Howland's ferry, about where the Stone Bridge to Tiverton was later built.
On 20 March 1669170 John Cook signed his mark to a receipt for "six hundred and three quarters and three pounds of good and merchantable barr Iron received from Capt. Thomas Leonard and James Leonard Jr. of Taunton in the county of Bristol upon ye account of Theodotious Moore chaynmaker of Boston in New England for the use of Jonathan Blackman of Little Compton in ye county of Bristol" (scrapbook in office of Taunton city clerk, p. 301).
John Cooke of Portsmouth on 22 August 1671 purchased from Thomas Burge of Newport one-sixth share of land in Dartmouth "at Acushnet Ponegansett" for 9.11, 5 shillings. He evidently owned land in New Jersey before 15 July 1673, when, calling himself yeoman, he deeded to Robert Gibbs of Punkatest in New Plymouth three-fourths of a share of land at Portapeage, N. J, the deed being witnessed by John Sanford and: Francis Brayton. This deed was annulled 24 January 1674 by mutual agreement (R.I. Land Evidences 1:30,31). In 1677, a warrant for 240 acres in the Monmouth Patent, "to be subsequently located and surveyed," was issued by the East Jersey Proprietors to Caleb Shrife (Shrieve) in the right of John Cook. (Edwin Salter, A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties [Bayonne, N.J., 18901, p. 30], but the deed from Cook to Shrieve was apparently never recorded. Salter comments that many of those "to whom warrants were issued in 1675 or later had -been settlers for a number of years previous" (ibid., 28).
Zoeth Howland was murdered by Indians at Little Compton, and on 24 August 16761 John Cooke, aged about 45 years, testified that he "being at punckatest in the middle of July or thereabouts, did ask of severall Indians named as followeth, Woodcock, Matocoat, and Job, whome they were that kil'd Zow Howland ... answer was that there was six of them in company and Manasses was the Indian that,_ fetched him out of the water" (Newport Court Book A, p. 30, Providence College, Archives).
Thomas Cook Sr. died in 1677 and sometime "in the year of 167811 John Coo k, Sr. signed a receipt for his Inheritance under his father's will, "of my mother-in-law [i.e. stepmother) Mary Cook as executrix to the estate of my deceased father Thomas Cook." Under the terms of the will, he received only one cow, {probably because his father had already given him land in 1660), and each of his children was to have one shilling.
On 30 April 1680 John Cooke of Portsmouth sold to Thomas Ward of Newport. for £18, 5 shillings the land in Dartmouth that he had bought from Thomas Burge in 1671 (R.L Land Evidences 1. 134). Although he was not one of the original proprietors of the Pocasset Purchase In March 1680, whereby the area which became Tiverton was bought from Plymouth Colony, John Cooke on 24 November 16 80 purchased two shares in the Purchase from his son-in-law William Manchester, who owned five. Called John Cooke, Sr., of Portsmouth, yeoman, he paid £73:05:08 to William Manchester of Punckatest, yeoman, and his wife Mary (R.I. Land Evidence, 1:138). When the Great Lots were laid out, from the Sakonnet River eastward, John Cooke drew numbers 16 and 19.
On the same day that he bought the Pocasset land, John Cooke purchased one-half of thirteen shares of land lying in Punckatest Neck from William Manchester and his wife Mary for £60, it being land which Manchester had bought from Thomas Lawton of Portsmouth in 1877 (ibid.). On 17 July 1682 John Cooke, aged 51 years, and John Cooke Jr., aged 26 years, both of Portsmouth, testified that in March last they had witnessed the delivery of premises in Portsmouth deeded by William Browne of Salem, Mass. *to George Sisson. This deed, dated 11 February 1681/2, conveyed a 400 acre farm which had been given to Mehitable Brown, wife of Joseph Brown, by her father William Brenton. It was bounded on the south by land "late in the Teanure of Thomas Cooke senr. deceased and Westerly ... partly by the Land lately in Teanure of John Cooke senr. and partly by the land of the late Widow Cooke" (ibid., p. 160).
John Cooke Sen'r of Portsmouth and Mary his wife on 1 June 1686 deeded to Thomas Waite of Punckatest five shares in the 13th lot and one share in the 11th lot at Punckatest Neck. William Manchester and Ephraim Turner witnessed the deed (Bristol Co. Deeds 4-78). On 28 February 1686/7 Benjamin Church of New Bristol in New England, for 936 paid by John Cooke Sr., inhabitant of Portsmouth on Rhode Island, deeded to him land on Punckatest Neck, the whole of the 10th lot which was laid out for 22 acres, which Church had bought of Edward Gray of Plymouth and Arthur Hathaway of Dartmouth by deeds dated 4 March 1679. George Sisson and Gilbert Magick witnessed this deed (Court Piles, Suffolk, 42579).
On 29 March 1688 Jeremiah Browne of Newport and his wife Mary, formerly wife of Thomas Cooke Sr., deeded to, John Cooke of Portsmouth for E39 ten acres in Portsmouth bounded on the east by land of George Sisson, north by Stephen Cornell, west by land formerly of Thomas Fish, deceased, and south by land of said John Cooke and the Common. Robert Little and Weston Clarke were witnesses (R.I. Land Evidence 1:211). This was evidently the ten acres which Thomas Cooke in his will had le ft to Mary for her own use use."2Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin, 1887-1964 (Main Author), Little Compton Families, Little Compton Historical Society, 1967 College Hill Press Providence, R.I., pp.205-206, FHL Film 844901 Item 1. "His will made 15 May 1691 and proved 25 May 1691: "To son John one hundred and fifty acres at Punketest with housing and four acres in Sapwet in LC reserving right of my son Joseph of getting hay at Punkatest for 15 head of cattle; to son Joseph housing and land where I now dwell in Portsmouth and four acres at Sapowet Marsh and son Joseph to pay his sisters Mary Manchester, wife of William, Elizabeth Briggs, wife of William, Sarah Wait, wife of Thomas, Hannah Wilcox, wife of Daniel and Martha Cory, wife of William, 10 punds each; to Deborah Almy, wife of William, 1 shilling; to Amey Clayton, wife of David, 10 pounds; and to each other sister
(pg 206) there being six of them, a cow; to daughter Mary Manchester 10 sheep; to daughter Elizabeth Briggs a feather bed; to son Joseph negro man Jack for rest of life and Indian woman Maria to be his servant for 10 years and then freed, and Indian boy Joan Francisco to serve him till 24 years of age; to son Thomas a share of land at Pocasset, 20 sheep, etc.; to son Samuel land at Pocasset; to son John negro woman Betty and child; to grandauther Sarah Manchester a cow..."."
1Fiske, Jane Fletcher, 1930- (Main Author), Cooke,Thomas of Rhode Island : genealogy of Cooke alias Butcher of Netherbury, Dorsetshire, England (Boxford, Mass. : J.F. Fiske, c1987), p.39, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, JSMB US/CAN Book 929.273 C776f. "He ws mentally incompetent and under the care of his brother Joseph, who was allowed £100 by order of the Superior Court at Bristol in 1701 for having maintained him for "ye space of tenn years" this amount to be raised from the profits of Samuel's land in Tiverton, "he being an idiott and not able to provide for himself." His father had left him the 19th Great Lot there, but with the restriction that he was not to have the disposal of it himself."
1Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin, 1887-1964 (Main Author), Little Compton Families, Little Compton Historical Society, 1967 College Hill Press Providence, R.I., p.205, FHL Film 844901 Item 1. "one of the 46 original settlers of Taunton in 1637 and in Portsmouth in 1643. His home lot on the east side of the island of Portsmouth 6 miles north of Newport. In 1876 the well and remains of the chimney and cellar were there and were a few yards from the wharf.
His will made 6 Feb. 1674 and proved 20 June 1677: "Executrix wife Mary: To wife my mansion house and land belonging there for life and she to enjoy whole estate including movables for life; to son John a cow and to all his children 1 shilling each; to two daughter of deceased son Thomas, namely Phebe and Martha, at 18 or marriage 15 pounds each; to grandson John, son of Thomas, my house and land adjoining at death of my wife and bounded partly by my brother Giles Slocum, and said grandson when in possession of same to pay his brothers George, Stephen, and Ebenezer 40 shillings each at 21 years of age. If said John should die then to Ebenezer, then to George and if he dies then to Stephen the said real estate. To Sarah Parker, wife of Peter Parker, 5 shillings and to Sarah's three children Penelope, Peter and Sarah each five shillings at eighteen. If my son George come to demand it, he to have 5 shillings..."."2Fiske, Jane Fletcher, 1930- (Main Author), Cooke,Thomas of Rhode Island : genealogy of Cooke alias Butcher of Netherbury, Dorsetshire, England (Boxford, Mass. : J.F. Fiske, c1987), p.11, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, JSMB US/CAN Book 929.273 C776f. "baptized as son of Thomas Bowcher." Thomas Cooke (subject of the book) came to Taunton, Massachusetts in 1637 and settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1643.