Person:Josiah Cooke (2)

Tavern keeper (licensed to sell wine at Nauset, 7 June 1648 Was town clerk (so was educated).

In his will, dated 22 September 1673 and proved 29 October 1673, "Josias Cooke senior aged about 63 years" bequeathed to "my loving wife Elizabeth" during her life, and after her decease to "my natural son Josias Cooke all my abovesaid upland and meadow, orchard, house and housing ... excepting my share of the land at Pochett Island and about two or three acres lying without the fence"; after wife's decease all moveables "to be equally divided betwixt my son Josias Cooke and my daughter Bethyah Harding, or her children after her," except the following legacies: to "my grandchild Joseph Harding all my share of land at Pochet Island"; to "my grandchildren Josiah and Maaziah Harding forty acres of upland and five or six acres of meadow in the township of Plymouth adjoining to a place called Cook's Pond"; to "my grandchild Anna Snow" several head of livestock; to "my grandchild Steven Twining a musket which was formerly his grandfather Deane's"; to "my daughter Merriam Deane" a cow and ú5; to "my son Josias" wearing clothes; to "grandchild Josias Cooke my rapier, belt and musket"; to "my other grandchildren Richard Cooke and Maaziah Harding my proportion of land at Saconett"; and to "my grandchild Richard Cooke after my wife's decease my Great Bible" [PCPR 3:1:90, abstracted in MD 15:34].

On 29 October 1673 administration was granted to "Elizabeth Cook" on the estate of "Josias Cook," deceased [PCR 5:132].

Disputed Lineages

Great Migration: "Josias Cooke has, not unsurprisingly, been claimed as a son of FRANCIS COOKE. George Ernest Bowman demonstrated that this could not be true [ MD 3:97].

1. ↑ Josias Cooke, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1633 FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth REMOVES: Eastham
   BIRTH: About 1610 based on age stated in will.
   DEATH: Eastham 17 October 1673 [MD 6:203].
   MARRIAGE: Plymouth 16 September 1635 "Elizabeth Dean widow" [PCR 1:35]; she was widow of STEPHEN DEANE and daughter of widow MARY RING [TAG 42:198]; she died at Eastham by 3 May 1687.

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)
   Vol. 1:448.

   JOSIAH, Plymouth, m. 16 Sept. 1635, Elizabeth wid. of Stephen Deane, d. of wid. Mary King, adm. freem. 1637, rem. with Gov. Prence to Eastham, had Josiah, and Ann, wh. m. 18 Jan. 1655, Mark Snow, and d. 7 July 1656; Bethia, wh. m. 4 Apr. 1660, Joseph Harding; and d. 17 Oct. 1673; and his wid. d. a. 1687.