| Baptized:
January-March 1607, Leiden, Holland. |
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Biographical Summary
John Cooke was born in late 1606 or
early 1607, and was baptized at the French Walloon church in Leiden,
Holland between January and March, 1607.
John spent his early years in Leiden, Holland, and came with his father
on the Mayflower in 1620 at the age of about 13 or 14. John
was then raised in Plymouth; his mother and sisters came over on the
ship Anne in 1623, along with his future wife Sarah Warren.
He would marry Sarah, the daughter of Mayflower passenger Richard
Warren, in 1634 at Plymouth. They would go on to have five
children all born in Plymouth over the next twenty years. John
would become a deacon in the Plymouth Church, and in 1636, Samuel Eaton
(who was still breast-feeding when he came on the Mayflower) was
apprenticed to him.
At some point, during the late 1640s, John Cooke "fell into the error of
Anabaptistry", and was cast out of the Church. The Plymouth Church
records state that "This John Cooke although a shallow man became a
cause of trouble and dissention in our Church and gave just occasion of
their casting him out; so that Solomon's words proved true in him that
one sinner destroyeth much good."
John Cooke removed from Plymouth and took up residence in Dartmouth,
where he died in 1695. His wife Sarah was still alive in 1696,
called "a very ancient woman"; her exact death date was not recorded but
it probably was not long after.
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