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From: "Jerry Richmond" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Isaac Cook & Mary Houghton
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 20:30:13 -0600

Bob -

Identification of Henry Milhouse's wife as Rebecca Cook appears to
be the accepted view amongst Milhouse researchers. In all likelihood
they were married at Fredericksburgh MM,SC in about 1760. Insofar as
no records of that meeting have survived, the proof does not exist.

Certainly Isaac Cook & wife Mary Houghton & family were early settlers
in South Carolina and are so noted by Alpheus H Harlan in his _History
of the Harlan Family_. Henry Milhouse was a recorded Quaker Minister
all of his life and was a prominent member of the SC Meetings as were
the Cook family. I am not aware that definitive proof exists, but clearly this
identification is not inconsistent with the Quaker record. In my judgment
it seems appropriate.

In my researching of the Cook family I was working from the hardcopy
version of the EAQG and did not come across this 2nd marriage for
Martha (Cook) Townsend. Given the other Cook-Townsend marriages
in SC, I think your assessment of the situation is probably correct. I have
not substantially revisited the Cook genealogy since the EAQG came out
on CD-ROM.

The Bush River records are spotty and inconsistent with some obvious
things missing that one might expect to find there. The brothers James
& John Townsend were disowned for their involvement in the Revolution
as appears from the Vol. I Supplement. One must surmise that Martha
Cook may have married James Townsend while he was out of mtg, but
the extant record says nothing either way.

Regards, Jerry Richmond
You are cordially invited to visit "The Quaker Collection"
http://home.sprynet.com/~jrichmon/qkrcoll.htm

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Date: Saturday, November 10, 2001 5:09 PM
Subject: [Q-R] Isaac Cook & Mary Houghton


Jerry Richmond,

While looking at your site, The Quaker Collection, under Isaac Cook and Mary
Houghton, you show eleven children. The only records I've been able to
confirm are for eight children, with mentions of ten. Could you supply your
sources of the eleven children?

One child that stands out is Rebecca Cook, b. 1737, wife of Henry Milhous,
I've seen many claims that Rebecca was the dau. of Isaac & Mary, but have
never found any records showing Rebecca's parents as Isaac & Mary. Can you
clear this up?

Daughter Martha Cook, b. abt. 1745, may have been first married to a Townsend
(possibly James) and had several children. I found a marriage record in
Hinshaw's Vol. V, Ohio,
page 40, Miami MM, under "Coldwell" that reads,
"1807, 12, 10. James, s Joseph & Mary, Montgomery Co., O.; m at Elk Creek,
Martha TOWNSEND, dt Isaac & Mary Cook, Butlar Co., O."

>From Hinshaw's Vol. I, N. Carolina, Cane Creek MM, SC, page 1063, under
"Townsend," Oct. 20, 1804, "Martha & ch gct Miami MM, Ohio."

>From Hinshaw's Vol. V, Miami MM, page 133, under "Townsend", Jan. 1, 1805,
"Martha & ch, John, Eli, Mary, Dinah & Ruth rocf Cane Creek MM, SC, dtd 1804,
11, 30" It sounds like Martha was a widow at this time and in 1807, from the
same page, "1807, 12, 10. Martha m James COLDWELL."

Can you expand on this?

Bob Cooke


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