Thomas and Mary Underwood Cook Family
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Thomas Cook born 8/29/1704 England died 3/25/1751 York Co, Pa burial Warrington MM |
Mary Underwood born abt 1712, Newcastle, De died 1794 South Carolina |
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Married: Before September 28, 1730, Chester County, Pennsylvania. London Grove Meeting was informed on this date that Thomas and Mary Underwood Cook were married, she having been with child by Thomas Cook. We don�t know which child this was or if it survived. Evidently they made peace with the Quakers since Thomas is buried at Warrington and Mary was a member of Carolina Meetings.
Children: Abraham Cook born November 1731 York Co, Pa; married Phebe Mills Sarah Cook born 10/12/1732 York Co, Pa; married Bowater Beals Ruth Cook born York Co, Pa Alexander Cook born York Co, Pa Isaac Cook born about 1843 York Co, Pa; married Charity Wright Jacob Cook born York Co, Pa; married (1) Mary John (2) Susannah Speakman Mary Cook born York Co, Pa; married (1) Uriah Carson (2) Caleb Sumner Thomas Cook born about 1752, York Co, Pa; married Mary Mills, sister of Phebe |
Further History of Thomas and Mary Underwood CookThomas Cook was born 8/29/1704 in Norwich, Chester County, England. He had a twin brother Abraham, who died very young, for whom his oldest son was named. His parents, Peter Cooke & Elinor Noram were married 10/7/1695, at Newton Monthly Meeting, Cheshire, England. Elinor was daughter of Johannes & Maria Worral Norman. Peter Cooke and family requested a certificate to Pennsylvania on 1/3/1712-13. At that time their residence was Tarvin, Cheshire, England, and there were nine children. The family was not well to do, and fellow Quakers helped them with passage money to America. The youngest son, Samuel, was buried 5/9/1713 at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania. His burial record indicates his father had died at sea. Fellow Quakers again helped Elinor Cooke with her large family until she married John Fincher. John Fincher had purchased 245 acres of land in Newtown on 14 March 1699 for 30 pounds. He was listed as "husbandman."Peter and Elinor Cook's sons, John & Peter Cook, remained in Pennsylvania, but son Isaac and widow of son Thomas moved to the Carolinas. Mary Underwood, wife of Thomas Cook was daughter of Alexander & Jane Harry Underwood. A testimony from Warrington Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania, concerning Alexander Underwood: "He was born in Maryland in the year 1688, and being convinced of the truth some time after he arrived to man's estate, was chosen an elder of the meeting where he then resided; afterwards removing to this then remote part of the country in the fifty-seventh year of his age he appeared in the ministry, and travelled twice on that service to North Carolina, of which visits we received comfortable accounts from friends there; and when at home was enabled to minister suitably to the state of the church, to the comfort of the true mourners in Zion, and encouragement to the faithful travellers. Towards the latter part of his time, his bodily strength much failed, yet he visited some of the neighbouring meetings, and families of friends, to the comfort of the faithful, his ministry continuing to be sound and lively. "In his last sickness he seemed much resigned, and at one time said: 'He had the company of his good master to comfort him in his affliction.' At another said, 'That he could say with the psalmist, that the good hand that was with him in his young years, had not forsook him now in his old age.' And divers times signified, 'He still felt the comforter with him;' say, 'His day's work was done.' A little before his departure, he sang praises and hallelujahs, to his great Lord and master. Then prayed for the little handful; and taking leave of all present, continued in a sweet frame of mind, singing praises until he could not be understood, and quietly departed this life, the 31st of the tenth month 1767, and was interr'd the 2d of the eleventh month, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. May we who are left behind, be engaged to follow his example, that so our end may be like unto his." Mary Underwood Cook was reported on 5/27/1758 at New Garden Monthly Meeting in North Carolina: Mary, widow late of Pennsylvania, reported married to Joseph Wels (Wells) of Cane Creek. On 7/1/1758 Mary Wells and her children Isaac, Mary, and Thomas (Cook) were received at Cane Creek Monthly Meeting from New Garden Meeting. On 4/12/1773 Mary Wells was granted a certificate to New Garden Monthly Meeting so we know she was still alive on that date. Evidently Alexander Underwood, father of Mary had been several times to North Carolina as mentioned in his memorial above and this probably led to Mary�s migration to North Carolina. Alexander Underwood is reported at Fairfax Monthly Meeting in Virginia 2nd mo 1748 as married to Sarah Beals, widow with children. This was Sarah Bowater Beals, widow of John Beals. Sarah Beals Underwood was then granted a certificate to Warrington MM, Pa on 4/25/1748. Evidently son Bowater accompanied her and then married Sarah Cook, daughter of Thomas and Mary Underwood Cook (more below). So evidently Mary Underwood Cook was still in Warrington County when the wedding occurred in 1752. More on the Children of Thomas and Mary Underwood CookSarah Cook BealsThomas & Mary Underwood Cook had a daughter Sarah Cook, born 10/12/1732 in York County, Pennsylvania. Sarah Cook married Bowater Beals, son of John and Sarah Bowater Beals on 2/10/1752 at Warrington MM, York County, Pa. Their children will be documented on the Beals link provided with Sarah under the children above when we move that page to this site.Thomas and Mary Mills CookThomas & Mary Underwood Cook had a son Thomas Cook who married Mary Mills, sister of son Abraham's wife, Phebe Mills. The mother of the two sisters was Sarah Beals Mills, a sister of Bowater Beals who married daughter Sarah (above).There is a list of North Carolina Militia paroled by Lord Cornwallis in 1781 including Thomas Cook of Rowan County. Thomas Cook was a member of Mew Garden Monthly Meeting in North Carolina when he married and a charter member of Deep River Monthly Meeting when it was set up 8/8/1778. There is no mention at either meeting of sanctions against Thomas for his service, so there is some possibility it was not this Thomas. Thomas Cook married Mary Mills Jan 30 1772 at New Garden MM in Guilford County. They had the following children, all born Guilford County, North Carolina: Sarah (b 12 Dec 1772); Joseph (b 26 May 1775 m Lydia Wickersham); Thomas (b 5 April 1778); John (b 15 Sept 1780); Jacob (b 8 May 1783); William (b 30 Jul 1785 m. Anna Charles); Zimry (b 12 Feb 1786 (8?)); Isaac (b 13 Oct 1791); Elizabeth (b 24 May 1792); Nathan (b 17 May 1795 m. Anne Wickersham). An interesting note: Martin Cook, son of William and Anna, married Mary Ann Carr 2 March 1848 in Mercer County, Illinois, where the Woodward ancestors of Nadine and Jill, owners of this site, were located. |