Some sources for John Cooke and Fairhaven Burial Grounds
BOOKS & BOOKLETS:
Bradford, William, Of Plymouth Plantation, edited with notes by Samuel Eliot Morison, Knopf, NY, 1952
Cushing, Muriel Curtis, ed., Philip Delano of the ‘Fortune’ 1621 and His Descendants for Four Generations, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 2002.
Dexter, Franklin B., Two Lectures on the History of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, C.D. Waldron estate, printers, Fairhaven, MA, 1919
Ellis, Leonard Bolles, History of New Bedford and Its Vicinity, 1602 - 1892, D. Mason & Co., Syracuse, NY, 1892
Goodwin, John A., The Pilgrim Republic, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1920
Gurney, Judith Jenney, ed., The Jenney Book, John Jenney of Plymouth and his Descendants, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1988
Harris, Charles A., Old-Time Fairhaven, Reynolds Printing, New Bedford, MA 1947
Harris, Charles A., Old-Time Fairhaven, (Vol. 2) Reynolds Printing, New Bedford, MA 1952
Harris, Charles A., Old-Time Fairhaven, (Vol. 3) Reynolds Printing, New Bedford, MA 1954
Howland, Franklyn, History of the Town of Acushnet, 1907, reprinted by Higginson Book Co., Salem, MA
Knipe, Mabel H., Century of Concern, Millicent Library, Fairhaven, MA 1983
Pease, Zeph. W., et al., eds., New Bedford Massachusetts, Its History, Industries, Institutions, and Attractions, Board of Trade, Mercury Publishing Co., New Bedford, MA, 1889
Peirce, Ebenezer W., Peirce’s Colonial Lists, pub. orig. Boston, 1881, repr. for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1995.
Randall, George L., ed., Taber Genealogy: Descendants of Thomas Son of Philip Taber, Vining Press, printer, New Bedford, MA, 1924
Ricketson, Daniel, The History of New Bedford, published by the author, New Bedford, MA, 1858
Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, pub. orig. 1860-1862, repr. Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore, MD, 1998
Wakefield, Robert S. and Van Wood, Ralph, Jr., eds., Mayflower Families in Progress: Francis Cooke of the Mayflower and His Descendants For Four Generations, Fifth Edition, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 2000
Worden, Dora Pope, et. al., Genealogy of Thomas Pope and his Descendants, The Republican Press, Hamilton, NY, 1917
SMALL PAMPHLETS & BROCHURES:
Acushnet Cemetery Memorial Record
Grant, Frederic D., Jr., Riverside Cemetery, Riverside Cemetery Corp., Fairhaven, MA
ARTICLES: & UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS:
Author unknown, “Cooke Hill," undated newspaper clipping from unknown newspaper
Author unknown, “Early History of Burial Hill,” Fairhaven Star, August 11, 1888 (this recounts recollections of Ruth M. Boomer.)
Author unknown, “Oxford Burial Hill," undated newspaper clipping from unknown newspaper
Author unknown, “Skeletons Unearthed," Fairhaven Star, November 15, 1902
Author
unknown, “Identity Probably Solved," Fairhaven Star, December 27, 1902
Hathaway, Caroline W., “Arthur Hathaway and His Immediate Descendants," Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches #31, New Bedford, MA, 1910
Hathaway, Russell Jr., “Cooke's Body Badly Wanted," newspaper clipping, The Constitution, Atlanta, GA, November 30, 1902
Richardson,
George H., letter to the editor, Fairhaven Star, November 22, 1902
Worth, Henry B., “Early Land Owners of Fairhaven Village," Morning Mercury, New Bedford, MA, Aug. 16 - Sept. 13, 1913
Worth, Henry B., “Oxford Village," Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches #43, New Bedford, MA, 1915
Worth, Henry B., “Popes," unpublished manuscript, collection of Old Dartmouth Historical Society, New Bedford, MA, undated
Worth, Henry B., “Report of the Historical Research Section," Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches #32, New Bedford, MA, 1911
Worth, Henry B., “Ten Ancient Homes," Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches #3, New Bedford, MA, 1903
Worth, Henry B., “Thomas Taber of Dartmouth” Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches #43, New Bedford, MA, 1915
Worth, Henry B., “The First Settlers of Dartmouth and Where They Located," Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches #39, New Bedford, MA
LEGAL DOCUMENTS:
Cooke, John, “Last Will and Testament,” witnessed by Aaron Savory and Thomas Taber, November 9, 1694, Proved April 16, 1696
Cooke, Sarah; Hathaway, Arthur; & Taber, Thomas, “A True Inventory of the Estate Goods & Chattels of John Cooke late of Dartmouth Deceased,” presented December 7, 1696
Wood, William, “Will,” witnessed by Lewis Taber, Ephriam Davis, Bartho Taber, May 14,
1773
MAPS:
OXFORD, “drawn in 1791 and copied in 1839,” collection of Millicent Library and reproduced in Spinner Publishing’s Picture History of Fairhaven, page 20.
FAIRHAVEN, 1855, Ferd. Mayer & Co., NY
FAIRHAVEN, 1871, Atlas of Bristol County, Publisher?
FAIRHAVEN, 1895, Atlas of Bristol County, Everts & Richards
WEBSITES:
http://www.delanokindred.us/ Delano Kindred, Inc.
http://MayflowerHistory.com, Caleb Johnson’s MayflowerHistory.com
Revised February 2, 2023
