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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Hannah Cook |
| Married Name |
Hannah Bronson |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth[1][2] |
11 Jan 1755 |
Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Marriage |
11 Feb 1779 |
Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesto Titus Bronson |
| Military? |
20 Sep 1838 |
Middlebury, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesgranted military pension (claim W. 17366) for husband's Rev War service |
| Death[1][2][3] |
2 Apr 1841 |
Middlebury, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesage 86 - |
| Burial[3][4] |
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Middlebury Cemetery, Middlebury, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesSection V, Range 11, Lot 4 - (supposedly buried with her father's skull) |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Cook, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974)
2:439.
"Hannah (Cook), b 10 Jan 1755 (Waterbury Vital Records), d 1 Apr 1841; m 11 Feb 1779 (Waterbury Vital Records) Titus Bronson.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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 676 -
27. MOSES.
MOSES COOK, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Cook, m Sarah Culver, June 18 [ 19, per Barbour VRs], 1740, and went to Branford. Subsequently he went to Waterbury, where his wife died, Jan. 4, 1760, and he afterwards m Dinah Harrison, widow of Benj., June 7, 1762. He was killed by Moses Paul, an Indian, in the town of Woodbridge, Dec. 12, 1771. (Paul was executed at New Haven in June [ September, per court records], 1772). Mr. Cook was ae. 54 years. Mrs. Dinah Cook d Oct. 4, 1792.
Children by 1st m.:
95 Charles, b June 3, 1742 [13 Jun 1741, per Barbour VRs] ;
96 Moses, b May 30, 1744, in Branford, d 1832 ;
97 Sarah, b June 13, 1747, d April 5, 1823 ;
98 Esther, b June 27, 1750, m Joseph Beebe, she d in Ohio, 1810 ;
99 Elisabeth, b May 15, 1752, m Benj. Baldwin, she d 1797 ;
100 Hannah, b Jan. 11, 1755, m Titus Bronson, she d 1841 ;
101 Lydia, b March 27, 1760, m ___ Hickox.
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[cos1776 Note: Moses Cook died in Woodbridge on 12 Dec 1771, 5 days after the beating by Moses Paul which occurred on 7 Dec 1771 in Bethany. See court records for the varying accounts of the incident.]
[cos1776 Note: First post. Source may contain more info on children.]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mentioned, in Sullivan, Raymond E. Breakneck: The Early Settlement of Middlebury, Connecticut: From1657 to Its Incorporation as A Town (New York : IUniverse Inc, ©2010.)
p 51.
"… For some strange reason, Moses Cook's skull was not buried with his body. Instead, it was severed from it and prepared for examination. We do not know who may have prepared it, however. The skull was then exhibited as evidence at the trial of [Moses] Paul, who would promptly be found guilty and sentenced to be hung until dead, … it seems that after the trial was over, the skull of Moses Cook was returned to the family. It was for many years in the possession of Hannah Cook Bronson, here in Middlebury. She reportedly kept it (in several pieces) in a "little cloth bag" for some seventy-one years. At her request, the skull was buried with her in the present cemetery [Section V, Range 11, Lot 4 in Middlebury Cemetery], in April of 1841. She was 86 years old at the time of her death. There is no indication on her tombstone of this unusual addition to her coffin. …"
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[cos1776 Note: references Chamberlain, Ava. The Execution of Moses Paul: A Story of Crime and Contact in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut., in New England Quarterly, Vol 77, No 3, Sep 2004.]
- ↑ Hannah Cook Bronson, in Find A Grave.
{Includes headstone photo. Inscription: HANNAH, relict of TITUS BRONSON: died April 2, 1811: AE. 86.]
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