The Cook Lineage

The ancestry of Hannah Cook, who, in 1671, married James Albee² in Medfield, has not been ascertained. It seems improbable that she had been long a resident of Medfield and it is quite likely that she was among those who left the outlying settlement of Mendon (now Milford) when the threatening attitude of the Indians developed in the 1670's. Medfield was settled largely from Dedham about 1650. There were no Cooks among its early settlers, nor were there indeed among the early settlers of Dedham. In Mendon, (Milford), on the contrary, Cooks were very numerous, the greater number being descended from Walter Cook, who was of Weymouth, in 1643. Benjamin Albee, a founder of Milford and the father-in-law of Hannah Cook, not only had been a resident of Weymouth, but between 1649 and 1664 or 1665, he had been a resident of Medfield. Medfield was the town through which the Mendon settlers had communication with the civilization to the east of them, and when King Philip's War broke out in 1675, it was to Medfield that they fled for refuge. If descended from Walter Cook, Hannah must have been his daughter from the early date of her marriage. His first daughter and second child had that name. Walter was of Weymouth in 1643, was admitted freeman in 1653, and settled in Mendon as early as 1664.

Continued. - The Albee Lineage

Cook Genealogy

• Cook Genealogy
• Cook Researchers
• Cook Surname
• Free Cook Genealogy
   
• A genealogical sketch of the descendants of Andrew and Anna Christina (Palmer) Cook, 1769-1970
• Alva Cook and Lydia Cooper
• Cook family records
• Grimes, Cook, and related families of Wayne County, Tennessee
• Known data on early Cook ancestry
• Some notes on Daniel Pope Cook
• The ancestry of Jesse Cook and his descendants
• William Grant Cook