Ancestry of
James Garfield

20th U.S. President

Nicholas Cook

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of James Garfield — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 52 
  • Father:
  • Walter Cook 
  • Mother:
  • Catherine -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Feb 1659/1660 
  • Birth Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Dec 1730 
  • Death Location:
  • Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Scott's Crossing Cemetery (now Scott Cemetery), Bellingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joanna Rockwood
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Nov 1684 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Josiah Cook

  Daniel Cook (Ahnentafel No:26 )

• Additional marriages for Nicholas Cook

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  • Spouse:
  • Mehitable Hayward
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Dec 1712
  • Marriage Location:
  • Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts

• Sources for Nicholas Cook

  • ¹ Cemetery Transcriptions from the NEHGS Manuscript Collections, (2002), p. 77459, Cemetery record for Nicholas Cook.
  • ² Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 3, p. 618.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/23/2013).
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Mendon, Vol. 1, p. 52, Birth record for son Daniel Cook.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Weymouth, Vol. 1, p. 80, Birth record for Nicholas Cook.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Mendon, Vol. 1, p. 373, Marriage record for Nicolus Cook and Johannah Rockit.
  • ⁷ Ballou, Adin, An Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous in America, Providence, R.I.: Press of E. L. Freeman & Son, State Printers (1888), 78.
  • ⁸ Bartlett, Joseph Gardner, John Hill of Dorchester, Mass., 1633, and Five Generations of His Descendants: Also Ancestral Lines of . . ., Boston: Printed for private circulation by Lew C. Hill (1904), 53.
  • ⁹ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 964.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 481.
  • ¹¹ Rockwood, Vivian VaLera, Four Centuries of American Descendants of Richard Rockwood of Dorchester 1633, Braintree 1636, Massachusetts, Johnson City, Tennessee: Overmountain Press (2000), 35-36, 1175.
  • ¹² Smith, Dean Crawford, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908: Part 3, The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett, 1832-1892, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2004), 246-247.