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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 11:34:10 EST

Son of Noah Cook(e) & Kezia Parsons:

FIRST GENERATION
1. Rev. Amasa COOK was born on 7 Apr 1751 in Hadley, Hampshire,
Massachusetts. He died on 11 Jun 1816 in Bernardston, Franklin,
Massachusetts.

Genealogies of Hadley Families, Embracing the Early Settlers of the Towns of
Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby, Compiled Sylvester Judd,
published in 1905. p. 25.
Grad. Brown. Univ., 1776, settled over church in Bernardston, Dec. 1783,
dis. May 1805.

A History of the Churches & Ministers and of Franklin Association, Franklin
County, Mass. by Rev. Theophilus Packard, Jr., Published by S.K. Whipple and
Company, 100 Washington Street, Boston, Mass. 1854. p. 35 - 36.
Rev. Amasa Cook was settled as pastor of the Congregational Church as
appears by the letters missive convening the ordaining council, Nov. 12,
1783, and Rev. Dr. Hopkins, of Hadley, preached the sermon. He was born in
Hadley in 1750; graduated at Brown in 1776; studied theology with Rev. Dr.
Hopkins, of Hadley; was licensed Aug. 2, 1780, by Hampshire Association;
preached for a time at Rowe, before his settlement in Bernardston; was
dismissed from his charge in Bernardston after a ministry of about twenty-two
years, in May, 1805, on account of difficulties relative to his moral
character and conduct. Hon. R. E. Newcomb and Hon. G. Bliss were the
advocates before the council by which his case was tried. He was never
settled as a pastor in any other place, but lived in Bernardston till his
death there, June 11, 1816, in his 66th year. The following is the epitaph
on his gravestone, in the North burial yard, in Bernardston, viz:
"If all my life I tried in vain to save,
Hear, oh hear me, speaking from the grave."

He was married to Mary Dorothea FOOTE (daughter of Obed FOOTE and Mary TODD)
on 17 Dec 1783. Mary Dorothea FOOTE was born on 11 Jun 1764 in Waterbury,
New Haven, Connecticut. She died on 17 Apr 1835 in Persia, Cattaraugus, New
York. Rev. Amasa COOK and Mary Dorothea FOOTE had the following children:
2 i. Amasa COOK was born on 6 Feb 1788 in Bernardston, Franklin,
Massachusetts.
3 ii. Amanda COOK was born on 3 Mar 1790 in Bernardston, Franklin,
Massachusetts. She died on 25 Oct 1795 in Bernardston, Franklin,
Massachusetts.
4 iii. Payton Randolph COOK was born on 1 Jan 1792 in Bernardston,
Franklin, Massachusetts.

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