Twelfth Generation

2230. Francis COOKE^411,449 was born on 25 April 1577 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England. He died on 7 April 1663 at the age of 85 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. Francis came in 1620 on the Mayflower. He was a woolcomber by trade. He signed the Mayflower Compact. His wife was a Walloon. In 1652, he was one of the original purchasers of Dartmouth, MA.

The line through to Elizabeth Washburn who married Josiah Conant is confirmed in Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 12, Francis Cooke, Picton Press, 1996. There is more information about Francis Cooke and Hester Mahieu in Carl Boyer 3rd's "Ancestral Lines," pp. 224-226. Hester MAHIEU and Francis COOKE were married on 30 June 1603 in Leiden, Holland.

2231. Hester MAHIEU⁴¹¹ was born in 1585 in Bondu, near Lille and Armentieres, France. She died on 8 June 1676 at the age of 91 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA. When the area around Lille in Walloon Flanders was captured by the Catholic forces in 1578, many Walloon Calvinists fled to England as well as to Bruges and Antwerp to escape religious persecution.

Children were:

	i.	Elder John COOKE^417,450 was born before January 1607 in Leyden Walloon Church, Leyden, Holland. He was born in 1607 in Leyden, Holland. He died on 23 November 1695 at the age of 88 in Plymouth, MA. He was a Mayflower passenger in 1620. He served as a Deputy to the General Court of Plymouth from 1638 to 1656. He defended Quakers in the Colony, in disagreement with the pastor of the Plymouth Church, and moved to Dartmouth as one of the original purchasers about 1664. He served as a Selectman in Dartmouth from 1670 to 1686. In 1676 he joined the Baptist Church in Newport and preached at Dartmouth. He was one of the partners in building the Colony's first ship. He was also of service in distributing the Irish charity in 1677, after King Philip's War.
	ii.	Elizabeth COOKE⁴¹⁰ was born before 26 December 1611 in Leyden Walloon Church, Leyden, Holland. There is no further record of her after her baptism.
1115	iii.	Jane COOKE.
	iv.	Jacob COOKE⁴¹⁰ was born about 1618 in Leiden, South Holland. He was born about 1618. He arrived on the Anne in 1623.
	v.	Hester COOKE⁴¹⁰ was born about 1620 in Leiden, South Holland. She died on 8 June 1666 at the age of 46 in Plymouth Co, MA. See TAG 59:165-70.
	vi.	Mary COOKE⁴¹⁰ was born on 21 March 1626 in Plymouth, MA. She died on 21 March 1715 at the age of 89 in Middleborough, Plymouth Co, MA. Did she also marry Francis Tobey 1602-1635? Seems unlikely...