Nathaniel Cook

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Source: Web Site (updated 6/26/1998) from notes by Jonathan Cook:
"According to Jonathan Cook's notes, Nathaniel may have served as a corporal in Van Veghtens regiment and lived near Albany, NY -- in Charleston, Saratoga County, NY."

Source: History of Saratoga County, New York,

page 315: "Nathaniel and Margaret Cook, with their family of eight sons and one daughter, moved from their home in northern New Jersey, May 18, 1778, and one month after, as their record reads, they 'got into ougher (our) new house.' They settled in the eastern part of the town. On another page we find the quaint record of their first seed-time, which reads, 'Now sode (sowed) wheat, Aug. 12, 1778;' and again, Sept. 5, 1778. Asher, the oldest son, was married before coming north, and bought one hundred acres about two miles north of Charlton, on which farm David W. Cook, on of his grandchildren, now lives. Several other great-grandchildren of Nathaniel Cook are living in town."

Nathaniel married Margrett Robbins in 1752 in Imlaystown, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA. Margrett (daughter of Joseph Robbins and Sarah Leah Clayton) was born on 10 Dec 1732 in Imlaystown, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA; died on 27 Jul 1815 in Charlton, Saratoga, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Asher Cook was in Upper Freehold, NJ prior to moving to Saratoga County, NY. He was born in Imlaystown, Monmouth County, NJ, 5 Oct 1756.

Source: History of Saratoga County, New York.

Page 315 - (See comments for Nathaniel Cook), Asher, the eldest son, was married before coming north...

Page 363 - "The pastors of the (Baptist) Church have been... Asher Cook, 1867,.... The pulpit is now supplied by Rev. Asher Cook, who is located at Hagedorn's Mills."

Page 498 - Township Officers - 1874 & 1875 Asher Cook, Jr, Town Clerk. (son of Asher Cook).

Page 499 - IV. Churches -- Baptist Church of Providence. (There is a graphic of Rev. Asher Cook.) "The present officers of the church are: pastor, Rev. Asher Cook;..."


Died:
Sweetman Cemetery

Asher married Helena Barkalow before 1778 in Monmouth County, NJ. Helena (daughter of William Derrick Barcalow and Aeltje Williamsen) was born on 09 Sep 1759 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA; died on 02 Sep 1819 in Charlton, Saratoga, New York, USA; was buried on 02 Sep 1819 in Sweetman Cemetery. [Group Sheet]

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Died:
Sweetman Cemetery

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Died:
Sweetman Cemetery

Samuel married Abigail Lord. Abigail was born in 1768; died on 09 Aug 1853 in Charlton, Saratoga, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

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Died:
Sweetman Cemetery

Joseph married Anna Nancy Johnson. Anna died on 07 Mar 1828. [Group Sheet]

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Died:
Sweetman Cemetery

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Notes from History of Saratoga County, NY: p. 92:

Nathaniel Cook , Ensign, 32nd Regiment, March 24, 1804, "From the Revolution to the War of 1812."

Notes from Web Site (updated 6/26/1998) by notes from Jonathan Cook:
"Nathaniel Cook is buried in the Fairland Cemetery, on Cemetery Road near West Fulton, NY. His gravestone lists him as dying March 14, 1852, age 70 years, 4 months, 22 days. The road to the cemetery is a one-lane, unpaved road, up a hill that can be steep in spots -- 4 wheel drive is recommended for visitors. He resided in Charlton, NY and 'Sap Bush Hill', West Fulton, NY, which has also been known as 'Sapbush Hollow' and 'Byrneville.' The 'sapbushes' were maple trees along the streams which form the valley. The hills around are steep and rocky, not particularly attractive to farmers. The area wasn't much settled until around 1800, and even then it was attractive only mainly for timber used in making shingles. Much of Fulton Hill (Fairland Cemetery is near the juncture of Cemetery Road and Fulton Hill Road, both bad) is now a state forest. He married Huldah (or Hilda) Sprague (born June 4, 1783), whose gravestone, near his but broken in two, says she died June 29, 1865, aged 82 years and 25 days."

They had 9 children including two sets of twins.

Nathaniel married Living. [Group Sheet]

Nathaniel married Hulda Sprague on 06 Jan 1804. Hulda (daughter of Reuben Sprague and Mary Bacon) was born on 04 Jun 1783; died on 29 Jun 1865 in West Fulton,,NY; was buried in Jun 1865 in Fairland Cem., Cem. Rd, West Fulton, NY. [Group Sheet]

William married Living [Group Sheet]

William married Living. [Group Sheet]

Anna married Anthony Tappen. Anthony was born on 05 Oct 1780; died on 16 Oct 1866 in Tioga Co.,NY. [Group Sheet]

Margaret married Living. [Group Sheet]

Margaret married Living [Group Sheet]

John married Living [Group Sheet]

Arthur married Living [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Notes: Reference: 7-3-2009
Why is Abigail Smith listed as spouse to both Zebulon Cook and also Arthur Cook?
Research this.


Died:
Sweetman Cemetery

Zebulon married Living [Group Sheet]

Zebulon married Margaret. was born in 1802; died on 29 Apr 1863 in Charlton, Saratoga, New York, USA. [Group Sheet]

Sally married Living. [Group Sheet]

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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF THE MILK-MILKS FAMILY, by Grace Croft, 1952.

Ezra Cook and wife, Permelia Milk, had 7 children:
1) Nathaniel Cook, b. 26 Mar. 1836, West Fulton, NY, d. 14
Dec 1901, Winters, CA; m. (1) 21 Oct. 1860, Mariah Grant,
b. 2 Dec 1845; m. (2) Minerva Stern.
Children of 1st m. -2:
1) William Ezra, b. 20 Aug 1861
2) Reuben Nathaniel Cook, b. 18 Aug
1863, Wheaton,IL.
Children of 2nd m. - 4:
3) George Albert Eastmond Cook, b. Kelseyville, CA.
4) Beulah Sophina Minerva Cook, b. 22 Oct. 1880,
Kelseyville, CA (twin)
5) Rose Elizabeth Permelia Cook, b. 22 Oct. 1880,
Kelseyville, CA (twin)
6) Frank Eugene Blanchard Cook, b. 15 July 1883, Christine,
CA
2) Louise Desire Cook, b. 3 Feb. 1839, Coxsackie, NY; m. 15 Sep. 1864, Edwin
H. Hemenway, b. 27 Mar. 1837. Children b. Wayne Cen(ter?), DuPage Co.,IL
1) Ezra Edward Hemenway, b. 14 Oct. 1873, d. 1 Feb. 1878.
2) Esther Louise Hemenway, b. 9 Dec. 1976; m. 4 Sep. 1900
in Sacramento, CA, Frank E. Russell.
3) EZRA ASHER COOK, b. 5 Nov. 1841, Windsor, CT, d. 1911; m. 5 Aug. 1869 at
Wheaton, IL, Maria Elizabeth Blanchard, b. 30 Oct. 1846, Galesburg, IL.,
d. 5 Mar. 1916, Wheaton, IL, daughter of Jonathan & Mary (Bent) Blanchard.
Children - 12:
1) Lillian Cook, b. 1870, Chicago, IL, d.y.
2) Mary Amelia Cook, b. Sep. 1871, Chicago; m. Geroge
Chafee.
3) Julia Elizabeth Cook, b. 5 Nov. 1872, Chicago; m. C. Will
Aveling, b. in Holland, d. 1947. Resided in Wheaton, IL.
4) Blanchard Cook, b. 1874, d.y.
5) EZRA ALBERT COOK, b. 14 July 1875, Wheaton, IL; m.
(1) Ida Brode, d. 1939; m. (2) Maude Bell, resided in New
Boston, IL.
6) Hannah Ida Williston "Jean" Cook, b. 5 Oct. 1877,
Chicago, d. 1934; m. Harvey K. Boyer. Resided at
4536 Latoma, Seattle, WA.
7) Grace Eloise Cook, b. 30 Oct. 1879, Chicago; m. Karl E.
Zahn of Warsaw, WI. Resided in Sacramento, CA
8) Dr. Jonathan Blanchard Cook, b. 11 Sep. 1881, Chicago;
m. Adah Miller, who d. 10 June 1920, dau. of John and
Eliza (Strasburger) Miller. Resided at 1207 Jarvis Ave.,
Chicago. Son:
a) Jonathan Miller Cook, b. 8 June 1930, Chicago.
9) David Maurice Cook, b. 9 Oct. 1883, d. 1929; m. Edna
Cooper.
10) Dr. Lyman Joseph Cook, M.D., b. 13 Sep. 1885; m.
Edith Marks. Resided in Omaha, NE.
11) Ethel Marguerite Cook, b. 14 Aug. 1887, Chicago, IL,
d. 1924; m. Walter J. Hartman, Attorney. Resided in
Elgin, IL.
12) Helen Geraldine Cook, b. 16 Apr. 1889, d. 1929; m.
Edward D. Willing. Helen was Supt. Art in Public Schools,
Santa Anna, CA. Resided in Bellflower, CA.
4) Mary Amelia Cook, b. 11 Mar. 1844, Great Barrington, MA; m. 4 July 1864,
at Naperville, IL, Dwight L. Hemenway. Children - 5:
1) Henry Lewellyn Hemenway, b. 4 Jan. 1866, Wheaton, IL.
2) David Hemenway, b. 25 Mar. 1869, Wayne, IL; m.
Ernestine Lager, Winters, CA.
3) Lizzie Hemenway, b. 25 Aug. 1871, Chicago, IL.
4) Chester Edwin Hemenway, b. 27 May 1875, Chicago; m.
Eva Cooper of San Francisco.
5) Maybell C. Hemenway, b. 3 Jan. 1882, Lakewiew, IL; m.
George Molar of Berkley, CA.
5) Ruth Helena Cook, b. 10 July 1846, Windham Center, Greene Co, NY, d.
25 May 1847.
6) David Caleb Cook, b. 28 Aug. 1850; m. Marguerite Murat.
7) Emma R. Cook, b. 11 Jan. 1851, East Worcester, NY, d. 15 Sep. 1858,
Proviso, IL.

Notes from Web Site (updated 6/26/1998) by Jonathan Cook:
"Nathaniel's son, the Rev. Ezra Sprague Cook became a Methodist minister, though continuing to do some farming. Although it is not clear that he had much formal education, he may have been more learned than many Methodist clergy at that time, for his family remembered him as reading the scriptures in the original Greek and Hebrew. Roscoe's "History of Scoharie County" has a list of ministers for the nearby Jefferson (NY) Methodist Church which in 1848 gives 'William Lull and Ezra S. Cook.' This makes sense, since he married Permelia Milk(s) (see MILK line) of Jeffereson on Jan. 16 (or 26), 1834, in West Fulton; she was the daughter of Benjamin Milk (1780-1856) and a descendent of early settlers like John Milk (died 1689). In the Worcester (NY) Historical Museum, a list of Methodist ministers for East Worcester gives 'E.S. Cook' for 1850, with the next name occurring in 1861; the list is incomplete, however, and Rev. Cook had presumably left for Illinois earlier, since his youngest child died there in 1858."

and..." According to the anonymous Memoirs of David C. Cook, (published by the Cook Co, in 1929), Rev. Cook had to leave the ministry because of a bad case of 'preacher's sore throat.' He then 'purchased an interest in a woolen mill in East Worchester (p. 19), but it failed and the family moved to Northern Illinois, to farms near Wheaton, IL, According to a manuscript left by his son Ezra Asher:
The loose morals of the whole community was simply horrible at that time. The people were literally without God and without
hope in the world. At the next election after our settlement in Proviso, father was elected a director of the public school in our
district and was soon known as THE director, being the only American of the three and the only one who understood the duties
of a director. Then father usually preached to his family and to twenty others, some of whom came as far as ten miles to the
little schoolhouse.

Father often told us of his own boyhood and of the deplorable drinking habits. So universal was the use of liquor that a
drunken preacher was not even blamed, especially if he had been working hard and because fo fatigue took too much toddy.
Not to offer liquor to the pastor when he called at one's home was considered an act of great rudeness. ["Cook reports loose
morals as 'horrible'," Wheaton Sunday Journal, July 2, 1978, p. 31]

According to the Memoirs, Ezra Cook eventually sold the Wheaton property and moved the family to Chicago, opening a 'small printing office in a building on La Salle Street, between Washington and Randolph...specializing in bank supplies" (p. 36).

US Federal Census 1860: Milton, Dupage, IL, post office Wheaton.
Ezra is 49, Permilia is 50, Nathaniel 24, Louisa 18, Ezra 16, Mary 21 and David 11.

US Federal Census 1870; Chicago Ward 15, Cook County, IL
Lists just Ezra - 59 and Permilia - 60. Exra's occupation is stationier.

Rev married M. Permelia Milke on 16 Jan 1834 in West Fulton,,NY. M. (daughter of Benjamin Milk and Mary Baker) was born on 07 May 1810 in Jefferson,,NY; died on 27 Jul 1901 in Chicago,Cook,IL; was buried on 27 Jul 1901 in Graceland Cem, Chicago, Cook Co. IL. [Group Sheet]

Living married Living. [Group Sheet]

James married Arvilla Graham. Arvilla was born in in Native of Ohio; died in 1893. [Group Sheet]