James Cock
The second James Cock of Matinecock, Oyster Bay, Long Island, son of James and Sarah Cock, from whom he inherited the land later called the Piping Rock Farm. He married Hannah Feke in 1698, with the travelling Quaker minister Thomas Chalkley as a witness, and died in 1728 at Buckram (Locust Valley). Probably the father of Mary (Cock) Frost; three of his children married Frosts.
Life
- 1674Born4th of 2nd mo. 1674, Killingworth upon Matinecock, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
The 2nd month, before 1752, is April: 4 April 1674. "8 James Cock was borne ye 4th of ye 2d Mo., 1674" (the Friends' register of "The children of James and Sarah Cock, borne Killingworth," Cock genealogy, p. 13).
documentedproven - 1698Married Hannah Feke1st of 10th mo. 1698, Matinecock, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
The 10th month, before 1752, is December: 1 Dec 1698 ("m. Matinecock, 1/10 mo (Dec) 1698," from the certificate, which survives and is pictured in the Cock genealogy, pp. 16-17). The Frost Genealogy's "Oct. 1, 1698" (p. 30) misreads the month.
- 1728Died3rd mo. 1728, Buckram (Locust Valley), Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
The 3rd month is May: "d. Buckram, now Locust Valley ... 2[?]/3 mo (May) 1728," the day unclear in the print; "Here he died, as per Will, before 10/4 mo (June) 1728" (Cock genealogy, p. 17).
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Family
- Father
- James Cock
The Friends' birth register names his parents; his father's will of 1699 leaves "to my son James Cock all my land lying on ye South side of Musketa Cove path."
documentedprovenSources
- History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family (1914)
- Reasoning:
research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md
- Mother
- Sarah Cockdocumentedproven
Sources
- History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family (1914)
- Reasoning:
research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md
Pedigree
Notes
Father of Mary (Cock) Frost: the second James Cock of Matinecock, son of James and Sarah Cock. He married Hannah Feke, granddaughter of Lieut. Robert Feake and Elizabeth Fones, at Matinecock in December 1698. “The noted minister Thomas Chalkley, who signed this certificate as a witness, writes in his journal at this time, ‘We had a meeting at a place called Matinicock, where I met with some of the people called Ranters, who disturbed our meeting. I may say as the apostle Paul (only altering Ephesus to Matinicock, I fought with beasts there’” (source, p. 17). The certificate stayed in the family and was owned in 1912 by George W. Cocks, one of the compilers.
His father’s will of 1699 left him “all my land lying on ye South side of Musketa Cove path,” about two hundred acres bought from the Indians in 1684/5, later called the Piping Rock Farm, and “my meadows I had of John Tompson” (source, pp. 11-12, 17). He lived there until he bought the Samuel Birdsall homestead on the west side of the road to Matinecock, where he died in 1728. In December 1723 he was one of the three men Oyster Bay chose to walk the bounds with Hempstead, re-marking “ye old marked trees from ye East sid of hempstead harboure” with “three Chops on the South west & North east sides of sd trees” (p. 17).
His children with Hannah Feke (p. 17): Sarah (1700); Samuel (1702), who married Martha Alling; Joshua (1704); Elizabeth (1706); Josiah (1709), who married Rebecca Frost, Isaac’s sister; Jacob (c. 1710); Hannah (c. 1712); Martha (c. 1714), who married Joseph Frost, son of Wright Frost; Robert (c. 1718); and Mary, born the 5th of the 6th month 1722, who married Isaac Frost. Three of his children married Frosts.
Research: research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md.