History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family (1914)

From the research file (research/mcmillan/McMillan_Frost_Master_Research.md, October 2026). Mary Cock, born 1722 on the “Birdsall place” at Buckram (Locust Valley), daughter of James Cock and Hannah Feake. Isaac and Mary Frost’s farm on Mill River Neck, bought 1741 and sold in 1763 to John Underhill; the family then moved to Crom Pond and to Clinton, Dutchess County. At the 1698 wedding of James Cock and Hannah Feke the Quaker minister Thomas Chalkley was a witness.

Since read in the archive.org full text (October 2026, research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md). George W. Cocks and John Cox Jr., History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family descended from James and Sarah Cock of Killingworth upon Matinecock (1912; second edition 1914). The compilers quote the Friends’ registers, the Oyster Bay and Brookhaven town books and wills at length, and give Quaker dates with the month they take them to be, e.g. “5/6 mo. (Aug.) 1722.”

James Cock and his family (pp. 1-17)

• James Cock at Southold, 1648-1658, in “a House and Lot … late in occupation of James Cock” (p. 2); the Setauket petition of “Cromwell Bay alias Setauke Aug. ye 6, 1659,” signed by “John Underhill … William Frost, Thomas Harlow, James Cock, John Diar,” his mark “James X Coke” (p. 3).
• The Indian deed of “Oyster Baye this 29th of May 1669” to “Jeames Coke of Oyster bay” of land “Joyning on ye south end to mathy priar’s bounds … and so to run … to ye solt medow on ye north end which wee gave to Capt. John Underhill” (pp. 5-6); the town meeting of 12 Jan 1669/70 (p. 7).
• The “Seven Purchase deeds” at “Kelenworth (colloquially Killingworth),” 22 June 1667, to Robert Williams, William Simson (assigned to William Frost), John Dyer, Henry Reddocke, Christopher Hawxhurst, Matthew Priar and Nathan Birdsall (p. 8); Matthew Priar’s lot “sold in 1678 to his son-in-law John Underhill” (p. 9); Underhill’s “young bro-in-law John Feke” settled on part of the Indians’ grant to Underhill (p. 10). “Friends’ Meetings were held and marriages performed at Killingworth in the houses of James Cock, Matthew Priar, John Underhill Jr, and John Feke” (p. 10).
• James Cock’s will, “In the Oysterbay Town Records, Book ‘C’, p. 19”: “I, James Cock, senior of Matinecock … Item, I give to my son James Cock all my land lying on ye South side of Musketa Cove path … Item, I give to my son James my meadows I had of John Tompson … my four Daughters, Mary Bowne, Hannah Delaplaine, Sarah Cock & Martha Cock … my loving friends John ffeake and John Dewsbury to be ye overseers,” 23 July 1699, by his mark; “approved 10th Mo. (Dec) 11, 1699” (pp. 11-12). “Nothing is known regarding the ancestral relations of Sarah the wife of James Cock” (p. 12); later “probably” a Clarke (p. 13).
• The Friends’ register “Copied out of ye Oreganall by Isaac Horner”: “The children of James and Sarah Cock, borne Killingworth … 8 James Cock was borne ye 4th of ye 2d Mo., 1674,” and “Sarrah Cock of Matinicock dyed 16d. 10 mo. 1715” (p. 13).
• Mary Cock’s marriage to John Bowne, 26/4 mo. (June) 1693, at his house in Flushing (p. 13).
• James Cock (No. 8), “b. Killingworth upon Matinecock … 4/2 mo (Apl) 1674; d. Buckram, now Locust Valley … 2[?]/3 mo (May) 1728; m. Matinecock, 1/10 mo (Dec) 1698, Hannah Feke, b. there 6/8 mo (Oct) 1675; d. Buckram 28/2 mo (Apl) 1750, noted on the Westbury M. M. record of her death as an ‘innocent (pure) woman,’ dau. of John & Elizabeth (Priar) Feke of Killingworth”; Thomas Chalkley’s journal: “I may say as the apostle Paul (only altering Ephesus to Matinicock, I fought with beasts there”; their children, ending “29 Mary, b. 5/6 mo. (Aug.) 1722; m. Isaac Frost” (p. 17).
• Henry Cock’s marriage to Mary Feke at John Feke’s house, 1699, when “The Ranters Kept pretty still most of the time, save one old man who hooted like an Owl” (Thomas Story, p. 18).

Bowne lineage (pp. 282-285): John Bowne’s life, arrest and banishment, his reply to the West India Company (“For which of you being taken from your wife and family, without just cause, would be bound from returning to them unless upon terms to act contrary to your conscience, and deny your faith and religion”), the Directors’ letter of 16 April 1663, Hannah Bowne’s ministry and death in London “on the 31st of Eleventh Month (Jan.) 1677-8,” the Friends’ minute at his death (“John Bowne dyed the 20 day of the 10 month in the yeare 1695 … he did Freely Expose him self his house and Esteate to ye service of Truth”), and the children of John and Hannah (Feake) Bowne, among them “II Elizabeth, b. 8/8 mo. (Oct.) 1658; m. 1st, John Priar; m. 2d, Samuel Titus”; “ELIZABETH (2) (BOWNE) PRIAR … d. 14/12 mo. (Feb.) 1721; m. 9/2 mo. (Apl.) 1678, John Priar of Matthew and Mary.”

Feake lineage (pp. 285-288): Henry F. Waters on the Feakes, goldsmiths of London; Latting’s 1880 account of Robert Feake (Winthrop’s fleet, 1630; lieutenant to Capt. Patrick; Greenwich, 1640, with “Elizabeth Neck … declared in the Indian deed to be her ‘peticaler perchase’”; Patrick “assassinated by a Dutch soldier at Robert Feake’s house in January, 1644”; his voyage to England in 1647; “He found an asylum in the house of Samuel Thatcher of Watertown, Mass., when he died in February, 1662. An inventory of his personal effects taken on the 18th of that month”); William Hallett and “Mrs. Feake”; and Robert Feake’s children: Elizabeth (m. Capt. John Underhill), Hannah (m. John Bowne), John (“b. Watertown, Mass., about 1638-39; d. Matinecock 3 mo. (May) 1724 … m. according to Friends Record 15/7 mo. (Sept.) anno. 1673, at Killingworth, Elizabeth Priar”; with his brother Robert “in 1660 and 1669 execute conveyances to ‘our brother John Bowne’”), Robert and Sarah. John Feke’s children, including “II Hannah, b. 6/8 mo. (Oct.) 1675; m. James (8) Cock” and “V Robert, b. 22/4 mo. (June) 1683; m. Clemence Ludlam.”

Priar lineage (pp. 288-291): Matthew Priar of Salem (1638), Brookhaven and Killingworth, bailiff to Major Daniel Gotherson; the Brookhaven relief of 1664, “to procure the said Priar three cows”; the sale of 24 Oct 1665, “Mathew Priar doth sell his home lott, with howseing, Glase windows, dores and perticions”; “He d. prob. between 1685/6 and 28/6 mo. (Aug.) 1692 and his wife Mary (maiden name unknown) d. 4/5 mo. (July) 1700.” “Issue, as shown by Friends’ Record in New York”: “JOHN (2) PRIAR, b. 12/[?] mo. (Feb.) 165[0/1]; d. Killingworth, 2/4 mo. (June) 1698,” his wife Elizabeth Bowne and their children, among them “II Hannah, b. 22/10 mo. (Dec.) 1681; m. William (2) Frost”; Mary (Priar) Underhill; “ELIZABETH (2) (PRIAR) FEAKE or FEKE, b. 6 mo. (Aug.) 1656; d. Killingworth 25/11 mo. (Jan.) 1701/2”; Sarah (Priar) Gould; and Martha (Priar) Cooper, married 1693 as “Martha Pryer dau. of Mery Pryer of Matinecock.”

Frost lineage (pp. 291-292): William Frost’s Matinecock lot, assigned by William Simson.