Rebecca Cook

Rebecca married William Manton Manchester 7 Oct 1742, Tiverton, RI. William (son of John MANCHESTER and Phebe GRAY) was born 9 Feb 1719/20, Tiverton, RI; died Bef 1 Mar 1772. [Group Sheet]

1. Phebe Manchester was born 21 Jul 1743, Tiverton, RI.
2. Gilbert Manchester was born 9 Apr 1745, Tiverton, RI.
3. Godfrey Manchester was born 19 Sep 1746, Tiverton, RI; died Abt Jan 1816.
4. Rhody Manchester was born 11 May 1748; died Abt Aug 1825.
5. John Manchester was born 7 Nov 1749, Tiverton, RI; died Aft 1784.
6. Alice Manchester was born 21 May 1753, Tiverton, RI.
7. Thaddeus Manchester was born 1 Jan 1756.
8. Priscilla Manchester was born 28 Nov 1761.

Notes:

John was a son of John & Ruth (Shaw) Cook. He is not a descendant of Francis Cooke.

John married Alice Southworth 25 May 1709, Little Compton, RI. Alice (daughter of William Southworth and Rebecca Pabodie) was born 14 Jul 1688, Little Compton, RI; died 25 Apr 1770, Little Compton, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

"Ales Coock" is named as his daughter in the will of her father, William Southworth of Little Compton.

"Else" wife of John Cook joined the United Congregational Church of Tiverton 18 Mar 1753.

(see "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations," Vol. 16, Part I, John Alden, p. 254)

John — Ruth Shaw. Ruth was born 10 Oct 1660. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

William is a son of Constant & Elizabeth (Collier) Southworth.

William's brother Edward Southworth married Rebecca's sister Mary Pabodie, and his sister Mary Southworth married Rebecca's uncle David Alden.

William died in his 60th year.

William married Rebecca Pabodie Abt 1680. Rebecca (daughter of William PABODIE and Elizabeth ALDEN) was born 16 Oct 1660, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA; died Abt 3 Dec 1702; was buried , Old Commons Cemetery, Little Compton, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

"John Cooke alias Butcher" was made a freeman of Portsmouth, RI, on 10 July 1648 at the age of 18. In March 1656/57 he signed as one of the purchasers of Conanicut Island (Jamestown). On 14 May 1660 his parents deeded to him 60 acres of land in Portsmouth. He was a grand juryman at the Court of Trials in 1667, 1669, and 1673. His name appears in many official records of the time period.

See his will dated at Portsmouth on 15 May 1691, proved 25 May 1691. The will describes John as aged. He names four sons and seven daughters, plus one granddaughter: John, Joseph, Thomas (probably the one who married Mary Cory, b. 1669), Samuel, Mary (Mrs. William Manchester; these are our ancesters), Elizabeth (Mrs. William Briggs), Sarah (Mrs. Thomas Wait), Hannah (Mrs. Daniel Wilcox), Martha (Mrs. William Cory), Deborah (Mrs. William Almy), Amy (Mrs. David Clayton), and granddaughter Sarah Manchester, plus six other unnamed daughters (or granddaughters, or daughters-in-law).

According to the book "Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island," he died of smallpox.

John married Mary BORDEN Abt 1652. Mary (daughter of Richard BORDEN and Joan FOWLE) was born Abt Jan 1632/33, Cranbrook, Kent, England; was christened 13 Jan 1632/33, Cranbrook, Kent, England; died 23 Dec 1690, Portsmouth, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The ages and birth order of the children are not certain. Birth years have been estimated for most.

Notes:

William and Elizabeth had about 13 children.

From Mayflower Descendants Through Five Generations, John Alden, pp. 23 & 24: William Pabodie was of Duxbury in 1672. He was among the first settlers of Little Compton c 1680, and for many years led Lordsday Worship in his house by praying, reading, and singing, until about 1700 when they got a preacher (quote from Ezra Stiles). William, his son, and some of his grandsons were Deacons.

From Rootsweb's Worldconnect: "William spelled his last name Pabodie and variants. William, who grew up in Duxbury, Mass., is referred to in various documents of the period as a yeoman, boatman, planter, and wheelwright. He was also a land surveyor. On Nov. 1, 1648, four years after he was married, he bought from John Holland and Hopestill Foster of Dorchester, Mass., a dwelling house, garden, stables, land and meadow. He later bought additional tracts of land in Mattapoisett and Sepecan. At one point, on Oct. 27, 1680, he adjusted a boundary line between his lands and those of Mrs. Sarah Parke and William Brewster. He served as a Duxbury town officer and as a representative or deputy to the General Court at Plymouth, being repeatedly elected to the court from 1654 to 1663, then again in 1668, and continuously from 1671 to 1682. He was admitted a freeman of the colony June 5, 1651. About 1684, he removed to Little Compton, then in Massachusetts but now in Rhode Island, where he had acquired a share in lands. Thus he established in Rhode Island what has come to be known as the Rhode Island branch of the family."

William is a son of John & Isabell Pabodie. He died in his 88th year.

William married Elizabeth ALDEN 26 Dec 1644, Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA. Elizabeth (daughter of John ALDEN and Priscilla MULLENS) was born 1623, Plymouth, MA; died 31 May 1717, Little Compton, RI; was buried , Old Commons Cemetery, Little Compton, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Elizabeth is supposed to have been the first white female child born in New England. Elizabeth died in her 93rd year.

She is identified as John & Priscilla's eldest daughter in William Bradford's 1651 list of Mayflower passengers and descendants. She is also listed in the 1627 division of cattle.

Some have speculated that there may have been an earlier Elizabeth who died in infancy.