THOMAS COOKE OF RHODE ISLAND by Jane Fletcher Fiske
A Genealogy of Thomas Cooke alias Butcher, of Netherbury, Dorset, England, who came to Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1637 and settled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1643
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The American Genealogist: "... a brilliant, well-documented, well-illustrated genealogy."
National Genealogical Society Quarterly: "a substantial work of modern genealogical scholarship ... the reader found himself entranced by the biographical details provided ... a well-organized and well-indexed set that deserves to stand as a model for the work of all serious genealogists."
New York Genealogical and Biographical Record: "... a major contribution to American genealogy."
Many Cook/Cooke lines are carried down to present-day 12th and 13th generations. Although families of daughters are not traced, information about their marriages, children, and sometimes grandchildren, is given.
The family spread over the entire United States - in the 17th century to New Jersey, with known concentrations ca. 1850 also in Texas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, and New York State.
A short appendix briefly covers other known early New England Cook families.
The book is thoroughly documented, based on primary research, and gathers together information from various manuscripts and previously printed sources on the family. Many long-standing errors in print have been noted and corrected.
ISBN 0-9615790-0-5
2 volumes, 7 in. by 10 in., hard cover in green linen. 980 + xxv pages. Published in 1987.
$70.00 postpaid