Samuel COOKE
Biography

Henry Cook was at Plymouth, Mass., before 1640. He had sons, Isaac, John, Henry and Samuel. Isaac is supposed to have remained at Plymouth, and John to have settled at Middletown. Henry and Samuel settled at Wallingford, and are the ancestors of most of the name of Cook in Connec ticut, and of many in various parts of the country.

Samuel Cook came to New Haven in 1663, m Hope, daughter of Edward Parker of New Haven, May 2, 1667. They went to Wallingford in April, 1670, with the first planters. He was, perhaps, the first and only shoemaker and tanner of leather in the place. After the decease of his wife Hope, he married Mary Roberts, July 14, 1690. He was regarded as a very good man by his friends and neighbors, and was frequently called to fill offices of responsibility and trust in the village, and in the church of which he was a member. He died March, 1702. He left an estate of £340. His widow m Jeremiah How, sen., April 9, 1705.

Children by 1st marriage: 1 Samuel, b March 3, 1667-8, in New Haven ; 2 John, b Dec. 3, 1669, in New Haven ; 3 Hannah, b March 3, 167 1-2, in Wallingford ; 4 Isaac, b March 10, 1673, d April 7, 1673 ; 5 Mary, b April 23, 1675, m Nathaniel Ives, April 5, 1699 ; 6 Elizabeth, b August 22, 1677, d young; 7 Judith, b Feb. 29, 1679, m Jeremiah How jr., April 20, 1704, she d March 20, 1708 ; 8 Isaac, b Jan. 10, 1681 ; 9 Joseph, b Feb. 25, 1683 ; 10 Hope, b Sept. 27, fc1686, m Joseph Benham, Dec. 18, 1706, she d Jan. 30, 1731. By 2nd marriage : 1 1 Israel, b May 8, 1692 ; 12 Mabel, b June 30, 1694; 13 Benjamin, b April 8, 1697, d 1717, unmarried, was a tanner and currier ; 14 Ephraim, b April 19, 1699 ; 15 Elizabeth, b Sept. 10, 1701, m Adam Mott, Aug 28, 17 17.

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 – Charles Henry Stanley Davis



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