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Josiah Cooke

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Jon Meacham — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4954 
  • Father:
  • Josias Cooke 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Ring   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1643 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 Jan 1731/1732 
  • Death Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Deborah Hopkins
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Jul 1668 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Cooke

  Josiah Cooke

  Richard Cooke

  Elizabeth Cooke

  Caleb Cooke

  Deborah Cooke (Ahnentafel No:2477 )

  Joshua Cooke

  Benjamin Cooke

  • Notes: 

  • Josiah Cooke is believed to have been born in either Eastham or Plymouth, Massachusetts.

    Some sources erroneously claim that Josiah Cooke had a daughter named Martha who married Joshua Freeman Grozier. However, Martha is from a later generation and born almost eight decades later.

• Sources for Josiah Cooke

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1852, Vol. 6, p. 43.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1965, Vol. 42, p. 201.
  • ³ The Mayflower Descendant, 1906, Vol. 8, p. 88, Death record for Josiah Cooke.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 475.
  • ⁵ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 25, 38.
  • ⁶ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 2, p. 367.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 67, 148, 791.
  • ⁸ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 63.

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