Captain Thomas Cooke, III

Male Abt 1626 - 1670  (43 years)

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  • Name Thomas Cooke 
    Title Captain 
    Suffix III 
    Birth Abt 1626  Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Death Between 1669 and 1670  Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Person ID I05067  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Thomas "Butcher" COOKE, Jr.,   b. Apr 1600, Netherbury, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt May 1677, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Mother Mary Unknown,   b. Abt 1605   d. Abt 1670 (Age 65 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1625  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F01572  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Thomasin Unknown,   b. Abt 1627 
    Children 
     1. Sarah Cooke,   b. Abt 1647   d. Abt 1680, Shrewsbury, NJ Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years)
     2. John Cooke,   b. Abt 1650
     3. Phebe Cooke,   b. Abt 1664   d. Aft 1697 (Age > 34 years)
    Family ID F02088  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • One source says that Thomas was b. 1626-28, married in 1653, and had four sons -- Thomas, Stephen, Ebenezer, & Benjamin, and one daughter -- Hannah. It also says that the oldest son, Thomas, was b.1654 and went to Shrewsbury, NJ, settling near land there which had been purchased by his uncle, John Cooke, and his aunt's Borden brothers, and other Rhode Islanders. This Thomas Cooke III was a member of the House of Deputies of East New Jersey in 1693. He died at sea on a voyage to England, leaving a wife and three children, including a son William who later held various government positions in New Jersey.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012554] Jane Fletcher Fiske, Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island, Vol. I, (Boxford, MA; 1987), 25.