Samuel Cook

Notes:

Abiel Cook was born after Ellis died. (See Notes - at the end of The Will of Ellis Cook of Southampton, Long Island [d. 1679].)

Abiel Cook signed his will dated 3 April 1740 at Southamption, Suffolk Co., NY, and proved 14 April 1740.

Abiel was married twice; (1) Frances -unknown last name, who died before 1715; and (2) unknown name. He had 11 children with Frances and 2 daughters with wife #2.
He mentions in his will:
son Ellis Cook
two daughters, Pheebe and Susana
son Matthew
son Abiel
sons Zabulon, Samuel, Elemuel, and daughters Abigail and Anna

Abiel married Frances in 1690 in Southampton,Long Island,NY. died before 1715 in Southampton,Long Island,NY. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Following information from "The Will of Ellis Cook," edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook, privately printed in New Haven in 1916:

BONNY, do add info about "stopping" first in Lynn? Dedham? and then going to Southampton.

BONNY - DO ENTER THE WILL HERE.

Notes from Web Site- Notes from Jonathan Cook (June 26, 1998):
"Ellis Cook's name appears on the Southhampton, Long Island, NY town record in 1644. He had a village lot on the east side of Main Street, the second one south of the meeting house. He afterwards lived near the water-mill on the road to Bridgehampton. He probably came to Southampton from Lynn, MA...as a group of persons from Lynn helped found the town. It is unclear when he came to America.
His wife, Martha Cooper, probably came in 1634 with her father John Cooper (b. 1594)."

NOTES from papers typed by someone in the Cook family: ELLIS COOKE, the original Cook ancestor, came from Southhampton, England, about 1640, landing in Lynn, MA, then moving to Southhampton, Long Island, NY, being one of the founders of that place. The family then moved to New Jersey, then Asher, father of Nathaniel and William with his father Nathaniel moved to Satatoga County, NT. Asher's and Helena's children were all born in Charlton,NY.

2014 - Y-DNA Test on Alan Lincoln Cook : results were joined to the British DNA Project by County - Lancashire. Matches here conclusively prove that Ellis Cooke was born in Lancashire. More work is needed to confirm that the records found (Elys Cooke, b. October 1601 in Ashton-under-Lyne, and that of his father, Elys Cooke, d. September 1601) are in deed the correct Cooke family.

Birth:
St. Michael's Church

Ellis married Martha Cooper about 1648 in Mecox,SouthHampton,Long Island, NY. Martha (daughter of John Cooper and Wibroe Griggs) was born on 26 Nov 1629 in Olney,Bucks,Eng; died after 29 May 1690 in Mecox,SouthHampton,Long Island, NY. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

"The Will of Ellis Cook," edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook, privately printed in New Haven in 1916, contains the following information:

o Like her brothers, John and Thomas, Martha Cooper Cooke was perhaps of a litigious disposition. She had disputes about land with the towne of Southampton in 1681, two years after her husband's death.

o There are various references to her in "Early History of Southampton, L. I.," by George Rogers Howell, New York 2d ed., Albany, 1887, and "The Second Book of Records of the Town of Southampton," Sag Harbor, N.Y., 1874.

Source: "To And From James and Catharine Parshall", by Frank Nellis Parshall, Homer Lepay, Publisher, 1968, page 156, (original is on file at University of Wisconson, Madison."
-- Martha Cooper, b. 1630 (S-257=9); m. Ellis Cooke (R-217).

Source: Great Migration 1634-1635, Vol. 2, C-F; TAG 64:196.

Notes:

Died:
St. Michael's Church

Notes:

"The Will of Ellis Cook," edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook, privately printed in New Haven in 1916, contains the following information:

o John Cooper was born in 1594, and came to Massachusetts from Olney, in Buckinghamshire, in 1635, in the ship Hopewell. He was made a freeman at Boston, Dec. 6, 1636, was one of the elders of the church when it was organized at Lynn, and in 1638 is recorded as owning 200 acres of land in that town. He was one of the twenty heads of families who formed the association for the settlement of Southampton in 1639 (note 9).

o His will is printed in "The Second Book of Records of the Town of Southampton ," Sag Harbor, N.Y., 1877.
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Source: Passengers to America, A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, edited by Michael Tepper, pub. 1988, p. 16:

"Primo Aprill 1635. In the Hopewell of London mr Wm Bundocke vrst (towards) New England.
Joh Cooper 41 yeres - of oney in Buckinghamsher theis have taken the othe of Alleg. and Surpremacie
Edmund ffarrington 47

Wibroe 42 yrs wife of Joh Cooper
Children of Joh Cooper:
Mary Cooper 13
Joh: Cooper 10
Tho Cooper 7
Martha Cooper 5"

Note: These Olney families came together on the Hopewell are: Cook ancestors (Cooper) and Robinson-Terrell (Farrington).
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Source: Topographical Dictionary of 2285 English Emigrants to New England 1620-1650, by Charles Edward Banks, pub. 1937, p10.
Buckinghamshire- Cooper, John from Parish of Olney, on the Hopewell, to Lynn, MA, reference - Banks Manuscript.
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Source: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., Melinde Lutz Sanborn, pub. Boston 2001, pages 202-204:

John Cooper Origin: Olney, Buckinghamshire Migration: 1635 on the Hopewell
First Residence: Lynn Removes: Southhampton 1640

Occupation: Innkeeper (on 25 January 1655/6, John Cooper was licensed to sell strong drink at Southamption, and on 5 May 1658, the license was renewed (SoTR 1:111,120).

Church Membership: Admission to Lynn church prior to 8 December 1636 implied by freemanship.

Freeman: 8 December 1636 (MBCR 1:372). In lists of Southampton freemen, 8 March 1649/50?, 8 October 1650 (SoTR 1:18,55). In list of Southampton townsmen, 10 May 1649 (SoTR 1:56).

Offices: Southampton petit jury, 17 December 1651, 1 June 1652 (SoTR 1:52, 84). Southampton selectman, 6 October 1655 (SoTR 1:108). Committee to "have the managing of the present affair of the town concerning the safety thereof," 2 May 1657 (SoTR 1:152).

Education: His inventory included "books" valued at L1 (one pound), and also "spectacles."

Estate: On 16 May 1643, it "is ordered that John Cooper shall enjoy the lot of old Goodman Farrington of Lynn, lying in Southampton, with all the priviledges thereof, until he shall have paid unto him th sum of fifteen shillings for the setting up the fence tht belongs unto that lot upon the Little Common: (SoTR 1:28).
On 26 March 1651, "John Cooper Senior" drew Lot #9 in the Little Plain (SoTR 1:142). In the division of Sagaponack on 2 February 1653/4, "John Cooper Senior: drew Lot #9 (SoTR 1:100).
In his will, dated 6 May 1662 and proved in late 1662 or early 1663, "John Cooper of Southampton on Long Island" bequeathed to "the children of Henry Pierson that white mare I bought of Mr. Tappin"; to "the poor of said town a mare foal...towards maintaining of a schoolmaster"; to "Thomas Topping's son Thomas a mare foal, and if the said child should die without issue then to redound to the children of the abovesaid Thomas Topping to be divided amongst them"; to "John Topping's daughter Sarah a mare foal"; to "my son John Cooper's children and to my son Thomas Cooper's children & to my daughter White's children and to my daughter Cook's children all the remaining part of all my mares & mare colts"; to my son Henry Pierson twenty shillings," and to "my daughter White twenty shillings, (and) to my daughter Cook, twenty shillings"; to "my son Thomas Cooper twenty pounds sterling"; to my daughter White's children, ten pounds, and to my daughter Cook's children ten pounds"; to Mr. Woster of Merrimak, or if he be deceased to his eldest son, a barrel of beef...for the said Mr. Woster or his eldest son by his first wife"; debts owed by "my son Thomas Cooper" forgiven, and also to "my son Thomas Cooper the best of my horses that he can choose, also I give unto my son John's children & to my son Thomas's children, and to my daughter White's children , and to my daughter Cook's children, one horse betwixt them all"; "my son John Cooper" to be executor and residuary legatee; to "my son Thomas Cooper" moveables; Isaac Willman and Isaac Halsey to be overseers (SoTR 2:25-26).
The undated inventory of the estate of "the last deceased John Cooper" totalled (pounds) L374 15s., of which the "house & land" was L21 (SoTR 226-27).

Birth: About 1594 (aged 41 in 1635, [Hotten 44]}.
Death: After 6 May 1662 (date of will).
Marriage: Olney, Buckinghamshire, 18 October 1618 Wibroe (Griggs) Pierson, born about 1593 (aged 42 in 1635 [Hotten 44]). (Wibroe Griggs married (1) Olney 25 July 1609 William Pe(i)rson and had with him a son Henry (TAG 64:195).

Children:
i. ANN, bp. Olney 29 August 1619 (TAG 64:195); m. (1) by about 1640 John White (estimated date of marriage based on ages of grandchildren (MIner Anc 172-74, 187-88)); m. (2) after 1662 Zerubbabel Phillips (TAG 64:199, citing SoTR 5:233), son of Rev. George Phillips (1630, Watertown) (GMB 3:1446-50).
ii. MARY, bp. Olney 12 August 1621 (TAG 64:195); immigrated in 1635 with the family, but no further record and not named in father's will.
iii. JOHN, bp. Olney 1 March 1624/5 (TAG 64:195); m. say 1650 Sarah Mew (TAG 66:45-48, and sources cited there).
iv. THOMAS, bp. Olney 11 March 1626/7 (TAG 64:196); m. by about 1665 Mary Raynor, daughter of Thurston Raynor (TAG 37:11-15), and the sources cited there; this article suggests that Thomas may have had an earlier wife).
v. MARTHA, bp. Olney 26 November 1629 (TAG 64:196); m. by about 1650 Ellis Cooke (TAG 64:199, Albert Stanburrough Cook, ed., The Will of Ellis Cook of Southampton, Long Island (d. 1679) (New Haven 1916), especially pp. 21-22).

Associations: As part of the Olney cluster, John Cooper and his family were neighbors at least to the Kirklands, Farringtons, Newhalls and Fullers. Wife Wibroe was mother of immigrant Henry Pierson and may have been a close relative of the George Griggs family, who also immigrated on the Hopewell (TAG 64:198).

Comments: On 4 June (1640), John Cooper was one of the signers of "A Declaration of the Company," one of the foundation documents for Southampton (SoTR 1:6-7).
On 7 March 1643/4, in the organization of Southampton into wards for processing whales which were washed ashore, "John Cooper Senior" was placed in the fourth ward (SoTR 1:32, 92).
On 18 November 1644, "John Cooper the elder was censured by the General Court for some passionate expressions five shillings" (SoTR 1:34).

Biographical Note: In 1928 Donald Lines Jacobus compiled a brief account of the family of John Cooper (Miner Anc 95-96).
In 1989 the late Thomas Cooper II published his research in Olney on the English origin of the Cooper, Pierson and Griggs /

John married Wibroe Griggs on 18 Oct 1618 in Olney,Buckinghamshire,Eng. Wibroe was born in 1593 in Olney,Buckinghamshire,Eng. [Group Sheet]