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David P. PETTENGILL
(1734 –1778)
Mercy LAKE
(1740 – )
Benjamin PETTENGILL
(1761–1844)
Mercy BRIGGS
(Abt 1766 – Abt 1794)
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Mary PETTENGILL
(1790 –1874)

 

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Spouses & Children

1. William King RICE

2. Beckwith COOK

Mary PETTENGILL 1 2 3
  • Born: 4 February 1790, North Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Maine, USA 4 5
  • Marriage (1): William King RICE about 1814 in New York, USA 1
  • Marriage (2): Beckwith COOK on 21 January 1841 in Burr Oak Ridge, Center Township, Cedar County, Iowa, USA 1
  • Died: 4 February 1874, Buena Vista, Polk County, Oregon, USA at age 84
  • Buried: 1874, Buena Vista, Polk County, Oregon, USA

bullet   Other names for Mary were Mary COOK,4 Poley COOK,5 Polly COOK, Polly PETTENGELL,6 Polly PETTINGELL, Mary RICE 7 and Polly RICE.

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bullet  General Notes

Mary "Polly" Pettingell/Pettengill (maiden surname was spelled a number of different ways) was born 04 Feb 1790 in North Yarmouth, Maine to Benjamin Pettingell and Mercy Briggs.

Abt 1814 in New York she married William King RICE. He was born 30 Dec 1792 in Conway, Franklin County, Massachusetts, the son of Cyrus and Abigail RICE. Polly and William had 8 children, but then William died 29 Dec 1839 in Conway, near Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois, USA.

In Cedar County, Iowa in 1841 Polly remarried, to the widower Beckwith Cook. Another 3 children were born to them.

Beckwith Cook journeyed to Oregon with several children from his first marriage to Sybil Olds (Seeley M. Cook and Joel B Cook, along with two daughters, Harriet Cook Cutlip, Sophia Cook Smith). Several of Mary's children made the journey as well — Horace Rice and four daughters Lucinda Rice Bushnell, Ruth Rice Collver, Nancy Rice Cook and Mary Rice Cook.

Beckwith Cook filed DLC claim (# 1206) located in Lane County between Crow and Vaughn, Oregon (also referred to as Noti Valley during early years). Other families in this wagon train claimed land in the same valley. This couple later located near Buena Vista, Polk County, Oregon. Beckwith Cook lived to the age of 92 years and passed away March 7, 1877. Mary Polly, passed on at the age of 84 years, February 4, 1874 (her birthday), and is buried next to her daughter Nancy. Nancy B. Cook, aged 57 years, (wife of Seeley M. Cook) passed away June 14, 1874, four months after her mother. Polly and Nancy are buried side by side at the Buena Vista Cemetery in Polk County, Oregon.

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bullet  Burial Notes

Buena Vista Cemetery

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bullet  Recorded Events in Her Life

  • Fact: A Mayflower descendant.
  • Nickname: Polly.
  • Moved: from Ohio to Iowa, Abt 1840.
  • She appeared on the 1840 US Federal Census on 1 June 1840 in Cedar County, Iowa Territory, USA. 7

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  • She appeared on the 1850 US Federal Census on 12 September 1850 in Center Township, Cedar County, Iowa, USA. 4

Beckwith Cook, 64, Connecticut, miller
Mary Cook, 60, Maine
Seely M. Cook, 37, NY, farmer
Nancy B. Cook, 33, NY
Chloe A. Cook, 8, Iowa
Martha A. Cook, 7, Iowa
Osmar W. Cook, 2, Iowa
Mary E. Cook, 6/12, Iowa
Oliver W. Standard, 13, Illinois


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  • She appeared on the 1860 US Federal Census on 22 August 1860 in Richason's Precinct, Lane County, Oregon, USA. 5

Related Families:  Cook, Rice, Cutlip, and Smith
1860 Census (22 Aug 1860) - Richason's Precinct, Lane County, Oregon, USA

                                            Real     Personal
Name               Age   Sex   Occupation   Estate   Property   Birthplace      Remarks
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Abraham Cutlet      35    M    Farmer        1500      500      Virginia        --
Harriett E Cutlet   27    F    Housewife       --       --      Ohio            --
Lenoard Cutlet      10    M    --              --       --      Iowa            attended school in past year
Rosalio Cutlet       6    F    --              --       --      Oregon          attended school in past year
David M Cutlet       3    M    --              --       --      Oregon          --
Almira Cutlet       6/12    F    --              --       --      Oregon          --

Henry B Smith       35    M    Farmer        1800      450      Pennsylvania    --
Sophia A Smith      31    F    Housewife       --       --      Ohio            --
Freman B Smith      10    M    --              --       --      Iowa            attended school in past year
Kansas H Smith       8    F    --              --       --      On the Plains   attended school in past year
Cornelia H Smith     6    F    --              --       --      Oregon          attended school in past year
Charles S Smith      3    M    --              --       --      Oregon          --
Lida Smith           2    F    --              --       --      Oregon          --

Beckwith Cook       75    M    Farmer         600      200      Connecticut     --
Poley Cook          69    F    Housewife       --       --      Maine           --

Seley M Cook        47    M    Farmer        1500     1200      New York        --
Nancy B Cook        45    F    Housewife       --       --      New York        --
Osmer W Cook        13    M    --              --       --      Iowa            attended school in past year
Eliza M Cook         9    F    --              --       --      Iowa            attended school in past year
Horace H Cook        8    M    --              --       --      On the Plains   attended school in past year
Edward S Cook        6    M    --              --       --      Oregon          attended school in past year
Harriett E Cook      3    F    --              --       --      Oregon          --

J B Cook            44    M    Farmer         640      350      New York        --
Mary E Cook         40    F    Housewife       --       --      Ohio            --
Mercey A Cook       13    F    --              --       --      Iowa            attended school in past year
Seley C Johnson      4    M    --              --       --      Oregon          attended school in past year
Lorenzo Granby      26    M    Farm laborer    --      100      Ohio            --
Lucy A Granby       16    F    Housewife       --       --      Iowa            --
Hiram B Granby       1    M    --              --       --      Oregon          --

Horace Rice         30    M    Farming        640      875      Ohio            --
Eliza J Rice        30    F    Housewife       --       --      Virginia        --
George W Rice       10    M    --              --       --      Iowa            attended school in past year
Charles W Rice       6    M    --              --       --      Oregon          attended school in past year
Emma A Rice          4    F    --              --       --      Oregon          attended school in past year
Amelia A Rice        2    F    --              --       --      Oregon          --
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Source Citation:  Year: 1860; Census Place: Richardson, Lane, Oregon; Roll: M653_1055; Page: 276; Image: 553.


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  • She was buried at the Buena Vista Cemetery in Buena Vista, Polk County, Oregon, USA in 1874.

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  • Gallery: Mary Cook's DAR memorial placque, in 2006, in Buena Vista, Polk County, Oregon, USA.

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  • Gallery: Mary Cook's gravestone and DAR memorial placque in Buena Vista Cemetery, in 2007, in Buena Vista, Polk County, Oregon, USA.

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  • Gallery: Mary Cook gravestone with DAR placque photo inset (courtesy of Oregon Gen Web), in 2007, in Buena Vista, Polk County, Oregon, USA.
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Mary married William King RICE, son of Cyrus RICE Jr. and Abigail RICE, about 1814 in New York, USA.1 (William King RICE was born on 30 December 1792 in Conway, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA and died on 29 December 1839 in Conway, near Ottowa, LaSalle County, Illinois, USA 8.)


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Mary next married Beckwith COOK, son of Selah COOK and Lucy BECKWITH, on 21 January 1841 in Burr Oak Ridge, Center Township, Cedar County, Iowa, USA.1 (Beckwith COOK was born on 12 August 1785 in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA 5, christened on 16 November 1788 in Clinton, Montgomery County, New York, USA, died on 7 March 1877 in Buena Vista, Polk County, Oregon, USA and was buried in 1877 in Jefferson, Marion County, Oregon, USA.)


bullet  Marriage Notes

now Tipton, Center Township, Cedar County, Iowa, USA 1

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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Kirsty M. Haining.
  2. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 55, 83-84. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  3. John Mason Pettingell, Pettengell Genealogy (Boston, 1906).
  4. Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. NARA microfilm publication M432, 1009 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, DC), Horace Rice, Beckwith Cook, and Joel B. Cook households, Center Township, Cedar County, Iowa, USA.
  5. Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, National Archives, Washington, DC), Related families:  Cook, Rice, Cutlip  and Smith; Richason's Precinct, Lane County, Oregon, USA.
  6. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992, p. 83. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  7. Ancestry.com, 1840 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), Culver, Rice, and Cook households, Cedar County, Iowa Territory, USA.
  8. Gertrude Brown Smith and Beulah M. Springstead, Our Colonial Lines: Powell, Eaton, Rice, Pettengill, Collver, White (c) 1992. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.


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