Person:Elisha Cooke (2)

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Elisha Cooke, Sr.
d.31 Oct 1715
  1. Elkanan Cooke1636 - 1636
  2. Elisha Cooke, Sr.1637 - 1715
  3. Joseph Cooke1642 - 1663
  1. Elisha Cooke1678 - 1737
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Name Elisha Cooke, Sr.
Gender Male
Birth[1][3] 16 Sep 1637 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage to Elizabeth Leverett
Death[1] 31 Oct 1715
Reference Number? Q16499734?


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Elisha Cooke (September 16, 1637 – October 31, 1715) was a wealthy Massachusetts physician, politician, and businessman who was elected Speaker of the Massachusetts Bay Assembly in 1683. He was the leader of the "popular party", a faction in the Massachusetts House that resisted encroachment by royal officials on colonial rights embodied in the Massachusetts Charter. This role was taken up by his son, Elisha Cooke Jr.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Elisha Cooke, Sr., in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    1:445.
  3. Robert Cooke, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011).

    Second child of Richard and Elizabeth, b. 16 Sep 1637 [BVR 4], bp. 5 Nov 1637 [BChR 281]; Harvard College 1657

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