Joseph Cookson Genealogy
Record modified: 2023-01-15
This is my ancestor 9 generations back.
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Born: (unknown) Chester Co, Pennsylvania USA
Died: 1804-00-00 Fermanagh, Mifflin Co, Pennsylvania USA
Marriages:
1. Priscilla Clark
Children of Joseph Cookson and Priscilla Clark:
Notes:
Dutch ancestry. Appears on Cumberland County tax rolls in 1778, though he got land in 1771.
Source: Thomas Jordan Family by Elizabeth Jordan Miller
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Parents Nathaniel Cookson and Mary Hogg from Cookson genforum.
This is wrong, though. Documents prove that Nathaniel and Mary were born and died in Richmond, Yorkshire, England, and had 8 children, 6 of whom died young. The other two were Mary, who married William Lindsay and remained in England, and Thomas c1709, who came to PA, married three times (J Margaretha (unk), Mary Thompson, and Mary Margaret Gibson), and had two daughters.
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Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952
Cumberland Co, #379
1786-08-16 Fermanagh Township:
Joseph Cookson, 200 acres
Cumberland Co, #384
1786-11-09 Fermanagh Township
Joseph Cookson, 100 acres
Cumberland Co, #386
1787-01-26 Fermanagh Township:
Joseph Cookson, 80 acres
Mifflin Co, #3
1791-08-18
Joseph Cookson, 20 acres
Mifflin Co, #4
1791-08-18
Joseph Cookson, 20 acres
[Note: Mifflin County was formed in 1789.]
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Pennsylvania, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993
Mifflin Co PA Abstracts of Will Book No 2, 1803-1819
p14
#119 Joseph Cookson of Fermanagh twp
wife Pricilla; sons William, Daniel, Charles; daus Mary Jordon, Esther Leonard; granddau Jane Jordon d/o Mary
exec loving friends Daniel Walker Esq & Samuel Sharron
wits John M'Donnald, William Moss, Elenor Moss
signed 1803-03-13
probate 1804-04-09
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Also dying in Mifflin Co early were:
William Cookson who apparently didn't leave a will. Administration to his estate is in Book 1 pps 72 and 83. There are guardian records (Vol 2 pps 167, 171, 193).
Charles Cookson whose will is in Book 3 p201. That's probably his son.
Thomas Cookson who also didn't leave a will. His adminstration record is in Book 1 p14, which is probably pretty early. Could that be his father?
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another researcher sends:
(Typed from the original "Will" by Joan Hamilton Kushner, March 13,2001, taken from Elizabeth Jordan Miller's Book) Exhibit J-030. (Typed to the best of my ability, the blank spaces are words I could not decipher. (JHK)
David Reynolds Recorder
Know all men by these presents that whereas Joseph Cookson of the Township of Fermanagh and County of Mifflin (Deceased) by his last will and Testament in writing bearing date the ninth day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & four last part did give and Bequeath unto Priscilla Cookson widdow _____of the same Township and County aforesaid a legacy of if to be paid to one on to and of the said will made and Constituted and now know ye that I William Jordan of Jego and State of Ohio have made ordained, Constituted and appointed my trusty friend Charles Cookson of Greenwood Township of Mifflin County aforsaid (farmer) my true and Lawful attorney for one and in any name and for my own _____and benefit to ask for one and in my name and for my own ____use and benefit, to ask, demand and ____ ___, Recover, and receive of and from David Walker and Samuel Sharon Esquires of the last will and Testament of Joseph Cookson (Deceased) all the property willed by the said Joseph Cookson to Priscilla Cookson widdow and ____the hands of the executor David Walker, Samuel Sharon, by a Deed of gift from Priscilla Cookson to William Jordan Reference to Said Deed, dated February 10, 1810=Further I ___saw William Jordan improvised my friend Charles Cookson to have use and take all Lawful ways for the Recovery thereof by attachment, arest, destroy and or otherwise and to Compound & agree for the same and __utterances or other sufficient discharges make for the same for me and in my name to make ____If deliver, and to do all other Lawful acts, and things whatsoever concerning the premises, fully in every respect as I myself might or could do were I personally Present at the doing thereof, and attorneys one or more under him for the purpose ____to make an again at his pleasure to revoke ____& confirming and by these presents allowing whatsoever my said ____. Shall in my name Lawfully do or cause to be done in and about the ____by virtue of these presents ___ ____ whereof have hereunto set my hand ___Seal this twelvth day of February in the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & Ten.
Singed Sealed & Delivered
in the presence of
William Webster William Jordan (Seal)
Jacob ________ Mifflin County for Be it remembered that on the twelfth day of February at AD 1810 Personally appeared the within name
William Jordan before me the ___one of the Justice of the Piece in and for Said County, And acknowledged that he signed the within Power of Attorney as his act and ____and desired the same to be recorded as Such in Testimony whereof ___have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the Day and Year above written.
Jacob Reigart (Seal)
$~74 Entered the 29th __March AD 1810 Recorded _________
David Reynolds Recorder
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1798 US Direct Tax list, Mifflin Co PA, Fermanagh twp, line 12
Joseph Cookson 2 dwellings, value: $50; 400 acres, value: $850
[There is also a Charles Cookson listed; prob his son.]
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1800 census Mifflin Co PA p486, Greenwood twp
Joseph Cookson 1 M 45+, 1 F 45+
1800 septennial PA tax census, Mifflin Co, Greenwood twp
Joseph Cookson
1790 census Mifflin Co PA p108, twp not given
Joseph Cookson 3 M 16+, 3 M 0-15, 2 F
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 1075
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