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- Name: Joseph Cook
Given Name: Joseph
Surname: Cook
Sex: M
Note:
The Cook family left Douglas for Hardwick, MA shortly after Joseph was born. His two sisters were born there. By 1788 Joseph Cook was married and living in Cummington /Plainfield, MA. Leah Beal, his mother-in-law was recovering from a near drowning in the Conway River;and the Cooks become guardian of the youngest brother Joseph Beal from1784 to 1788 and took him into their home in Plainfield, MA. This is from a letter Beal wrote in 1861. The Cooks resided in Plainfield until at least 1789. While living there he met Caleb Agard, a landbroker, from whom he purchased farm acreage in Pawlet, VT
First of several farm lands in Pawlet, VT purchased in 1790 from Philip Reed, followed by a second purchase of land in Pawlet 1791 fromCaleb Agard [who had married Lydia Ford of Plainfield, MA.].
Admitted into membership of the Pawlet Congregational Church on March 31, 1796, and baptised as an adult with his sons the following July.
Chosen a town juror in 1796.
Signed a petition in Aug 1, 1812 with thirteen others to the pastor of the Pawlet Congregational Church to protest the formation of a secret society to 'overthrow the gov't' by eight fellow parisioners. The society turned out to be the Freemasons with sympathies to the short-lived Wahington Benevolant Society; and the Pastor was one of them.
1814- Joseph Cook and family moved from Pawlet, VT to Williamson,Ontario Co. (later Wayne Co), NY in stages between 1813-1815.
1816 Joseph Cook dies in Williamson, Ontario Co, NY, but his widow ELEANOR - not Sarah - petitions the court to name his sons John and Seth Beal to handle the estate as the nearest relatives. Sarah Cook was still alive, and whether this was a mistake or that they divorced and he remarried is not known. He appears on the Williamson tax rollsof 1815, but the tax rolls of 1816 indicate his lands had been distributed to unnamed heirs.
Birth: 11 NOV 1760 in Douglas, Worcester Co., MA
Death: SEP 1816 in Williamson, Ontario Co., NY
CHRA: JUL 1795 Congregational Church, Pawlet, VT
Occupation: mainly a farmer, but also operated a saw mill and a grist mill. BET 1796 AND 1808 Dorset, Bennington Co., VT
PROP: 127 acres valued at $882.00 and taxed for $3.98 1816 Williamson, Ontario Co., NY
Event: Petition 6 OCT 1797
Note: as one of many local signatories to plead against the creation of a planned new town north of Pawlet, as it would create too much competition.
Father: John Cook b: 28 DEC 1727 in Hopkinton, Middlesex Co., MA
Mother: Anna b: ABT 1729
Marriage 1 Sarah Beal b: ABT 1761 in Conway, Franklin Co., MA
Married: ABT 1783 in probably Plainfield, Hampshire Co., MA
Children
Amos Cook b: ABT 1786 in probably Plainfield, Hampshire Co., MA
Seth Beal Cook b: 1788 in probably Plainfield, Hampshire Co., MA
John Cook b: 1790 in Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT
Joseph Cook b: ABT 1793 in Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT
Samuel Fowler Cook b: 16 JUN 1795 in Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT
Bernard Cook b: 1797 in Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT
Chester Cook b: 1800 in Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT
Sarah (Sally) Cook b: 1803 in Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT
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1760 - 1816 (55 years)
