Person:Joseph Weeks (19)

The sources cited on this page present a confused and unlikely picture.

Two major problems: George Cocks gives the father children by Hannah Crooker, and Frost says the son married Hannah Crooker.

In Source:Frost, Josephine C. Underhill Genealogy, Vol. 2, p. 75, 77, the author documents some correspondence she had with George Cocks herself and appears to agree the father married Hannah Crooker. This is based on a very early Weekes manuscript which relays the family tradition that Joseph Weekes' second wife was a widow Underhill, grandmother of Rev. Peter Underhill. While not strictly accurate, it suggests a scenario where Hannah Forman, d/o Moses Forman and Hannah Crooker m. as his second wife David Underhill, becoming not Peter's mother, but his step-mother. And Hannah (Crooker) Forman was never an Underhill herself, but was the mother of Mrs. Underhill.

Hannah Crooker was born by 1661 (probably quite a bit earlier based on the likely births of her children with Moses Forman as early as 1670 or more) when her father died. She would have been too old to marry the son Joseph. Thus it appears she was indeed "my now wife Hannah" that Joseph Weekes mentions in 1698. This also means Joseph Weekes the father was alive in 1714, when he deeded his personal property to his "friend" Hannah, formerly wife of Moses Forman, and daughter of William Crooker (contradicting Frost who says nothing known of him after 1700.)

Further the will of Joseph Weeks in 1754 cannot be the father, who was baptized in 1747, so the children that George Cocks attributes to the 2nd marriage of the father appear to belong to the son. Remember also the 1698 deed that called Samuel Weekes the youngest son of the father, further suggesting he had no children by his second wife.

The identify of the son Joseph's wife remains unknown.

1.   Cocks, George William. History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family: Descended from James and Sarah Cock, of Killingworth Upon Matinecock, in the Township of Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. (Somerville, New Jersey: Unionist Gazette Association, 1914)
   p. 385.

   Children of Joseph Weekes and 1st wife Hannah Reddough: Joseph m. "?Sarah ---".
   [In a deed in 1698, he calls Samuel his youngest son, i.e., Joseph was older than Samuel.]

2.   Frost, Josephine C. Ancestors of Frank Herbert Davol and his wife Phebe Downing Willits : showing Mayflower descent from John Alden, James Chilton, Mary Chilton, Francis Cooke, John Cooke, William Mullines, Priscilla Mullines, Richard Warren. (New York: F.H. Hitchcock, Genealogical Publishers, 1925)
   p. 191.

   Joseph Weekes, s/o Joseph Weekes and Hannah Reddocke, m. bef. 1699 Hannah, d/o William Crooker. Will of Joseph Weekes Sr. of Matinecock, dated 8 Aug 1754, proved 26 Sep 1755, mentions wife and children of deceased son Micah, son Charles, daughters Amy Hopkins, Sarah Dodge, Mary Ludlam, Abigail Weekes "and her children"[is this another daughter or the wife of Micah?]. Son Charles and cousin John Weekes Jr. as executors.