David COOK
Biography

Capt. David Cook, son of Henry and Mary Cook, of Wallingford. He married 1st, Rebecca Wilson ; after her decease he married Mary Lamson, of Boston. He was a very exten ive ship owner, and was largely engaged in commerce, sailing from the port of New Haven one ship and three brigs. In religion he was a zealous friend of the church of England. He generously paid one-quarter of the cost of building the old church which was erected in the old Mix Lane, just opposite the residence of the late Isaac Peck. He also presented the church an organ J this same organ was a few years since sold to the Episcopal church in North Haven, and in 1869 they sold it to Wm. P. Gardner, an organ builder in New Haven. This organ was more than one hundred years old, and perhaps the oldest in the state.

Children: 33 David, b 1723, res. in Woodbridge and New Haven; 34 Rachel, b March 19, 1724, m Samuel Munson, he d 1748 ; 35 Leah, b 1726, m Phineas Peck, she d in Walling- ford ; 36 Phineas, b April 3, 1729, settled in Middletown or Durham; 37 Wilson, b April 21, 1730, left Wallingford during the Revolutionary war and settled in Middletown ; 38 Jesse, b July 8, 1732 ; 39 Rebecca, b April 7, 1734, m Rev. Ichabod Camp and went to Nova Scotia ; 40 Jedediah, b April 4, 1735, res. in New Haven; 41 Benjamin, b April 3, 1739; 42 Nathaniel, b May 31, 1740; 43 Ephraim, b 1744, res., in Wall ingford.

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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