Benoni Cooke, Captain

1781 - 1864  (83 years)

• Name	Benoni Cooke
  Suffix	Captain
  Birth	12 Aug 1781	Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Oct 1864	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Person ID	I54007	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	27 Apr 2014

  
  

  Father	Christopher Cooke,   b. 1 Apr 1743, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Mother	Rebecca Hill
  Family ID	F24689	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Amey Brown,   b. 7 Jul 1784   d. 9 Dec 1822 (Age 38 years)
  Marriage	8 Nov 1807	Providence, Providence, Rhode Island
  Children	1. Isaac Brown Cooke,   b. 25 Nov 1809, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 19 Aug 1836 (Age 26 years)   2. Rebecca Hill Cooke,   b. 26 Feb 1811, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 5 Feb 1835, Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 23 years) + 3. Charles Dexter Cooke,   b. 19 Sep 1813, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 10 Jun 1889 (Age 75 years)   4. Elizabeth Sherman Cooke,   b. 1 Oct 1815, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 7 Apr 1837, Savannah, Chatham, Georgia (Age 21 years)   5. Martha Brown Cooke,   b. 12 Dec 1818, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island d. 19 Aug 1836 (Age 17 years)   6. Benoni Cooke,   b. 3 May 1821, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island bur. 17 Dec 1854, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio (Age ~ 33 years)
  Family ID	F24688	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Abigail "Abby" Whipple,   b. 3 Dec 1798, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island d. 3 May 1860 (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	30 May 1827	Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island
  Children	1. William R. Cooke,   b. Abt 1834, , , Rhode Island d. 22 Aug 1901, , , Rhode Island (Age ~ 67 years) + 2. Edward Cooke,   b. 1836   d. 14 Oct 1897, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island (Age 61 years)
  Family ID	F23315	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 12 Aug 1781 - Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island Marriage - 8 Nov 1807 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island Marriage - 30 May 1827 - Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island Death - 26 Oct 1864 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 14 Sep 2001. !SOURCE: "Rev. James Wilson's Marriages and Publishments." In James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850. Vol. 7, Friends and Ministers (Providence: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1895), p. 472. !SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 65, 98. !SOURCE: "Descendants of Nathan Verry," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 25 Apr 2014. Cites Rhode Island Vital Records (birth); Vital Record of Rhode Island 1636-1850 (marriage); Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950 (death).