THE OLD TESTAMENT TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL HEBREW, AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED DONE BY THE SPECIAL COMMAND OF KING JAMES I. OF ENGLAND. PHILADELPHIA PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MATHEW CAREY No. 122, MARKET STREET. 1812.

FAMILY RECORD

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Britton Cook died Feb th 23=1858 Joseph Cook died March the 8=1876 thes Men ar the Sons of Green and Rhodea Cook Elizabeth Applegate Wife of Joseph Cook Was Born September the 26=1794 Fye Died march the 8=1886	Britton Cook Stillwell was Born October th 23=1851 Matilda K Stillwell was Born July the 6=1852 Joseph Holmes Stillwell Born December th 7=1855 Jeramiah Stillwell Born January th 7 1858 James Henry Stillwell Was born march th 13 1860 Joseph M Stillwell Born Febuary th 23 1863 Anna Eliza Stillwell Was Born June th 4=1865 Julia Lynn Stillwell Was Born Febuary the 28=1871

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Joseph Cook was - - - Born September 24th 1725 Sarah Cook was Born - November 24th - - 1728 Green Cook was Born - Deceber - 17-th - 1748 Silas Cook was Born - - april 8 th - - - - - - 1751 Joseph Cook was Born - May 13 th - - - - - 1754 Rebeckey Cook was Born - December 21th -1756 James Cook was Born - - - May 1 th - - - - - 1759 Ebeneazer Cook was Born December 3 th - 1761 William Cook was Born april 15 th - - - - 1764 Stphen Cook was Born Juley 3 th - - - - - 1766 Jesher Cook was Born august 19 th - - - - - 1768 Daries Cook was Born august 23th - - - - - 1773 Gilberthorp Earl Senour was Born June 19th 1778 ages of Children of Gilberthorp Earl and Sarey Earl Sarey Britton Earl was Born Juley 21 - - - - 1800 John Earl was Born Januarey 4 th - - - - 1803 Thomas Earl was Born May 16 th - - - - - - - 1805 Hannah Earl was Born Juley 26 th - - - 1807

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Rhodea Cook was Born april 13th - - - - - 1756 Sarah Cook was Born august 29 th - - - -1776 Britton Cook was Born November 12 th - 1778 Silas Cook was Born Martch 9 th - - - - 1782 Rebecca Cook was Born august 29 th - - - 1785 Debrow Cook was Born Januarey 9 th - - - 1788 Jacob Cooper Cook was Born May 15th - - -1791 James Cook was Born august 10 th - - - - 1794 Jamimah Cook was Born December 2 th - - 1796 Joseph Cook was Born Martch 6 - - - - - - 1800 Fancy Earl was Born September th 12 - - - - 1809 Gilberthar Earl was Born February 3 th 1812 matilda Cook was Born april may the 13 1829

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James Cook Departid thise Life august 13th - 1816 and third Day of the weake Green Cook Departid Thise Life March the 7 - - 1832 on the forth Day of the weake Thise man is the Sone of Joseph and Sarah Cook Julia L Stillwell Was Born Febuary th 28 1871 and departed this life May the 18 1873	Silas Cook the Sone of Green and Rodey Cook was Misfortinateley Drowndid in Dillawar River on th 2 of april 1817 Britton Cook Departed this Life Feb 23 ed 1858 Joseph Cook Departed this Life March 18th 1876 thes men are the Sons of gren and Rhodea Cook John Stillwell sun of Jeramiah and Ann died the 9 of december 1898

On the inside of the front binder is written in black ink, Elizabeth G Cooks, and underneath written in pencil is mrs Patten Died may the 3 and was buried may the 6 1896. On the inside of the back binder written in pencil is Elizabeth Cook her Book. On the last page in the Bible there is a small newspaper clipping sewn to the page, which reads:

By the same, on the 25th ult,, at 7.P.M., Mr. James Henry Stillwell, to Miss Elizabeth Cook, all of Monmouth county.

From the inscriptions on the inside binders and from the newspaper clipping sewn to the back page it would appear that this Bible belonged to Elizabeth Cook, born 4 July 1831, died 1 Nov 1904, the daughter of Joseph Cook and Elizabeth Applegate. She married 25 Dec 1850, James Henry Stillwell the son of Jeremiah Stillwell and Ann Boud. It is interesting to note that there are entries for her great-grandparents Joseph and Sarah (Green) Cook and their children, for her grandparents Green and Rhoda (Harker) Cook and their children, and entries for all of her children (Britton Cook Stillwell through Julia Lynn Stillwell), but there is no entry for herself or her siblings, with the exception of the smudged pencil entry for her older sister Matilda Cook.

It appears that this Bible originally belonged to someone else and then was passed down to Elizabeth. The Bible has a date of 1812, 19 years before Elizabeth Cook was born, and the original Cook family entries are in a distinctly different handwriting style. Another indicating factor is that the last entry for the Earl family is Gilberthorp Earl born 1812, even though additional children were born to this family[1]. This leads me to conclude that the early Cook and Earl family entries were entered at the same time, probably shortly after the Bible was purchased. The death entries for James Cook died 1816, Silas Cook died 1817, and Green Cook died 1832 also appear to be in the earlier handwriting style.

For other information on these families see:

Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Cook family. (It appears that there are some inaccuracies in the earlier generations of the Cook family.)

Fiske, Jane Fletcher, Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island. (Elizabeth Cook is listed twice in this work. Once at 1:354, correctly as the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Cook, and second at 1:363, incorrectly as the daughter of Thomas P. Cook. Her children are listed at 2:552-553.)

Stillwell, John E., Stillwell Genealogy, Volume 4, p 38.

GMNJ 9:38-39. (Contains family records for the families of Sarah Green and Joseph Cook, Rhoda Harker and Green Cook, as well as the Earl family.)

GMNJ 22:43 and 23:63. (Contains headstone inscriptions for Cook and Stillwell family members buried at Bethesda Methodist Church Cemetery, Adelphia, NJ.)

Footnotes

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[1] GMNJ 9:38-39