Person:Esther Cook (9)

Watchers
m. 8 Jan 1761
  1. Deacon Merriman Cook1761 - 1858
  2. Samuel Cook1764 -
  3. Abigail Cook1766 -
  4. Esther Cook1769 -
  5. Joseph Hall Cook1772 -
  6. Ephraim Cook1775 -
  7. Elam Cook1780 -
  • HJohn FordAbt 1769 -
  • WEsther Cook1769 -
m. Bef 1801
  1. Gov. Seabury Ford, 20th Governor of Ohio1801 - 1855
Facts and Events
Name Esther Cook
Married Name Mrs. Esther Ford
Gender Female
Birth[1] 5 Mar 1769 Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Marriage Bef 1801 New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesto John Ford
Death? Ohio, United States
References
  1. Wallingford Vital Records, 1670-1850, in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    Vol 48.

    COOK, COOCK, COOKE,
    p 89 - Esther, d. Alam & Abigail, b. Mar. 5, 1769 - Vol 17, p 205.

  2.   Family Recorded, in Davis, Charles Henry Stanley. History of Wallingford, Conn: From Its Settlement in 1670 to the Present Time, Including Meriden, Which Was One of Its Parishes until 1806, and Cheshire, Which Was Incorporated in 1780. (Meriden, Connecticut: C.H.S. Davis, 1870).

    Vol 1, p 680 -
    67. ELAM.
    ELAM COOK, son of Ephraim and Lydia Cook, married Abigail Hall, Jan. 8, 1761. He died in Cheshire, Feb. 3, 1808, aged 73 years. She died in Ohio, Sept. 26, 1816, aged 81 years.

    Children:
    177 Merriman, b Nov. 12, 1761, went to Barton, Ohio ;
    178 Samuel, b 1764, settled in Cheshire, Conn. ;
    179 Esther, b March, 1769, m John Ford of Prospect, and went to Ohio, she was the mother of Gov. Ford of Ohio ;
    180 Ephraim, b Dec. 21 [22, per Barbour VRs], 1775 ;
    181 Elam, b 1780, settled in Cheshire ;
    182 Joseph H., b Feb. 1, 1782 [1772, per Barbour VRs] ;
    183 Abigail, b July 10, 1784 [22 Jul 1766, per Barbour VRs], married Hon. Peter Hitchcock of Ohio, formerly of Cheshire.
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    [cos1776 Note: First post. There may be more info about the children in this source.]