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Facts and Events
| Name |
Moses Cook |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
6 Nov 1716 |
Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Marriage |
19 Jun 1740 |
Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States[1st wife]
to Sarah Culver |
| Marriage |
7 Jun 1762 |
New Haven, Connecticut, United States[2nd wife - she is the widow Harrison]
to Dinah Warner |
| Residence[2] |
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Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Residence[2] |
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Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States |
| Other[3][4] |
7 Dec 1771 |
Bethany, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesBeaten to near death outside David Clark's tavern by Moses Paul, a Mohegan Indian who was executed for the crime in New Haven on 2 Sep 1772, after Moses Cook died. |
| Death[2][3][4] |
12 Dec 1771 |
Woodbridge, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesage 54 - died from wounds received in the beating |
| Burial[5] |
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States(Note: skull and body buried separately.) |
References
- ↑ Wallingford Vital Records, 1670-1850, in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
Vol 48.
COOK, COOCK, COOKE
p 96 - Moses, s. Sam[ue]ll & Elizabeth, b. Nov. 6, 1716 - Vol 2, p 800.
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p 96 - Moses, m. Sarah CULVER, June 19, 1740 - Vol 8, p 534.
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p 87 - Charles, s. Moses & Sarah, b. June 13, 1741 - Vol 8, p 539.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 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 673 -
...27 Moses, b Nov. 6, 1716 ; ...
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.]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Crime Poems: Competing Accounts of Moses Paul and the First Native American Publication.
- ↑ 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 Chamberlain3.]
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