Peter Ayers Cook
Carpenter
Born: May 03, 1791 Weare, New Hampshire
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Married: March 19, 1810, Bradford, New Hampshire
Occupation: Carpenter
Died: August 14, 1870, Lowell, Massachusetts - Cholera Morbus
Buried: Old Baptist Cemetery, Bradford, NH
Father: Benjamin Cook b.1770
Mother: Jane Fifield b.1772
Wife: Judith Sweatt b.1792
Children:
Samuel Cook b.1810
Abraham S. Cook b. 1812
Mary Jane Cook b.1813
Priscilla Cook b.1815
Susannah Cook b.1817
Sarah Tilton Cook b.1818
William Proctor Cook b.1821
Mariah B. Cook b.1823
Judith Carter Cook b.1826
Hannah Cook b.1827
Benjamin Lawson Cook b.1829
Abram S. Cook b.1832
Notes:
-Most of the information on the ancestors of Peter Ayers Cook comes from a post in "The Boston transcript" which describes a genealogist meeting Peter Ayers cook in 1864 and writing down what he was told about his family.
Boston Transcript-Oct 28, 1901: Peter Ayers Cook sends us a message through an aged historian's notebook: In September, 1864, while waiting in the Haverill station for a train, Mr. Cook told my friend that he formerly resided in the vicinity with his grandmother, and was born in Weare March 3, 1790, according to he historian. His father was Benjamin Cook, a Haverhill man by birth, resident later in Weare and Bradford, NH where he died. Benjamin was the son of William Cook of West Haverhill, as near as he could recall the data, and he had been told that William joined a party of seven going from Haverhill with a leader named Middleton, on a sea voyage. They were lost, as no news of any of them ever came back. Thought his great grandfather was a William Cook of Haverhill who lived in the western part, near the Baptist meeting house. The death of Peter Ayer of Haverhill in 1790 and the legacy of the estate to wife Mary, probably widow of Benjamin Cook's father, the missing William of the voyage, evidently was followed by the naming of the child Peter Ayers Cook, for the generous old Haverhill grandparent, who was not a kinsman. This was followed by the residence later of the child with its grandmother, Mary, on the estate of Peter Ayer, and a marriage with the line of Sweat, a very old family resident on the Merrimac, and for whom Sweat's Ferry was names. Benjamin Cook was possibly born in West Haverhill, and his mother, Mary, a native of that town. This is all that can be gleaned from this singular stray note, so kindly furnished us by a man who always set down everything he heard about a pedigree. Mr. Cook said he left Bradford where he had lived on his father's pace, about 1842, and was then a resident of Lowell, Mass. - C.H.A
-Peter Ayers Cook's Death certificate lists his birthtown as Ware, NH, and lists his residence of Lowell, MA. His parents as Benjamin and Jane Cook, and his burial in Bradford, NH.
-House of Peter Cook c.1810-c.1842
- Peter Cook's Obituary: ""Death of An Old Citizen - Peter A. Cook, over eighty years of age, had an attack of cholera morbus, on Monday last, and died at an early hour yesterday morning. Mr. Cook came from Bradford, NH, to this city twenty-eight years ago, where for eight years, subsequently, he followed his vocation, that of a carpenter. For the past twenty years he had retired from business, and remained at home. He leaves a widow, to whom he was married about 60 years ago, and nine children. The Sunday prior to his death he attended the Branch Street Church, where he is said to have been much interested, having aided in many ways in the building up of this society. Yesterday, Rev. Mr. Warren, pastor-elect of this society, feelingly alluded to the sudden death of their friend, and embraced the opportunity of urging his hearers to "live nearer to God" -Lowell Daily Citizen and News, Monday August 15, 1870"
-Gravestone says, "Father"
-Occupation Carpenter, but a Hog Reeve at one point.
-His House was standing in Bradford, NH into the 20th century at least
Sources:
-Birth Source: Death Certificate. The "Boston Transcript" article above. Gravestone.
-Marriage Source: Boston Transcript Article. Original Marriage Records of Bradford, NH.
-Death Source: Last Will and Testament, Obituary, Death Certificate, Boston Transcipt
Article.
-1800 US Census, living with grandmother Mary Ayer.
-1820 US Census, Hillsborough-Bradford
-1830 US Census, Bradford, NH
-1837 Census, Bradford, NH
-1840 US Census, Bradford, Merrimack Co, NH
-1850 US Census, Lowell, MA with sons Abraham and Benjamin. Next door to Nephew-in-Law Moses Swett.
-1860 US Census
-1861 Lowell Directory, living at 27 Howard Street.
-1870 US Census, Lowell, MA with wife and son Benjamin.
