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Jacob Cooke was the
son of Hester Mayhew and Francis Cook, an Englishman who moved to Leiden.
The couple married in Leiden in 1603.
They were members of the Leiden Walloon Church, a congregation of
French-speaking Belgian people whose beliefs were very similar to those of
the English Separatists. Jacob
was born in Holland about 1618.
Francis arrived in Plymouth in 1620 on the Mayflower with his
teenage son John. Hester Mayhieu Cooke and the couple's three other
children (Jane, Jacob and young Hester) arrived in Plymouth on the Anne
in 1623. At the
time, Jacob was about five years old.
In 1646, when he was 28 years old, Jacob married Damaris Hopkins, daughter
of Stephen and Elizabeth Hopkins of the Mayflower.
Damaris was born in Plymouth sometime after 1627 (she was named for
an older sister, the "Mayflower Damaris" who, it is believed,
died before she was born). Jacob and Damaris had seven children:
Elizabeth, Caleb, Jacob, Mary, Martha, Francis and Ruth.
Damaris died sometime between 1666 and 1669. Jacob married again, in 1669, to Elizabeth Lettice Shurtleff.
They had two daughters: Sarah and Rebecca.
Jacob
Cooke died in December of 1675.
Click HERE for his
will and the inventory of his estate. |
