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I've done a lot of work on Josiah Cooke as he gave me my surname. He was not related to Francis Cooke of the Mayflower and there are multiple ways of proving it. He was a servant to one of the early planters. His crossing isn't known. He was born in England about 1610 (based on his age at the time of his will) but there's no information about his parents. He and Edward Dowty went before the court on Jan 2. 1633 for fighting which is his first appearance in the Plymouth record. Dowty was a servant of Stephen Hopkins.
He married Elizabeth Ring, widow of Stephen Deane shortly after becoming a freeman 1635. Stephen died in Sep. of 34. She remarried Sep. of 35. She had 3 Deane daughters (Elizabeth Merriam and Susannah) the oldest of whom was four. They became his step children and he referred to them in his will as his daughter and grandchildren. He was granted 40 acres of land in Plymouth on the north side of fresh lake in 1638. In 1645, his and six other families moved from Plymouth to Nauset, which later became Eastham, Mass. He had three children with Elizabeth, two in Plymoutha and the son in Eastham: Anna Cooke who married Mark Snow and had 1 daughter, Anna Snow. This daughter married Eldad Atwood. The second daughter Bethia Cooke married Joseph Harding and had many children. The third child was his son Josiah Cooke, who married Deborah Hopkins, grandaughter of Stephen Hopkins, and had many children.
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