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Selah COOK
(1756 –1812)
Lucy BECKWITH
(1758 –1814)
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Beckwith COOK
(1785 –1877)

 

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Spouses & Children

1. Sybil Harriet OLDS

2. Mary PETTENGILL

Beckwith COOK 1 2 3 4 5 6
  • Born: 12 August 1785, Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA 6
  • Christened: 16 November 1788, Clinton, Montgomery County, New York, USA
  • Marriage (1): Sybil Harriet OLDS about 1808 1
  • Marriage (2): Mary PETTENGILL on 21 January 1841 in Burr Oak Ridge, Center Township, Cedar County, Iowa, USA 1
  • Died: 7 March 1877, Buena Vista, Polk County, Oregon, USA at age 91
  • Buried: 1877, Jefferson, Marion County, Oregon, USA

bullet   Another name for Beckwith was Beckwith W. COOK.

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bullet  General Notes

~~~~~~~~ from Rommie Walker's history, posted on www.collver.org ~~~~~~

Beckwith Cook age 66, born August 12, 1785, Litchfield CT, the son of Selah and Lucy Beckwith Cook. Wife, Mary Polly (Pettingill) Rice Cook age 61, born Feb. 04, 1790, N. Yarmouth, Maine. This couple married Jan 21, 1841, Tipton, Iowa. Mary's first husband, William King Rice died Dec. 29, 1839 in Ottawa, IL.

Beckwith Cook was first married to Sybil Olds. Son's Seley M. Cook and Joel B Cook, along with two daughters, Harriet Cook Cutlip, Sophia Cook Smith made this journey to Oregon. Mary Polly Pettingill was to William King Rice in 1814 in New York. He died Dec. 29, 1839 in Conway, Illinois. They had one son, Horace Rice and four daughters Lucinda Rice Bushnell, Ruth Rice Collver, Nancy Rice Cook and Mary Rice Cook on this journey as well. The only children listed with this couple in the 1850 census in Cedar County, Iowa was Seley Mansfield Cook and his family. It is believed they had no dependent children with them on the journey.

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, OR. Beckwith Cook lived to the age of 92 years and passed away March 7, 1877 and is buried at Jefferson, Oregon. 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 Seley 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  Christening Notes

Congregational Church (now Clinton, Oneida County, New York, USA).

bullet  Burial Notes

Jefferson Cemetery, Plot: 39S

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life


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  • He was buried at the Jefferson Cemetery, Plot: 39S in Jefferson, Marion County, Oregon, USA.
  • He worked as a miller.
  • He owned took a Donation Land Claim at Buena Vista, Oregon, in a lovely fertile spot on the Willamette River, in one of the earliest settlements in Oregon.
  • He has conflicting birth information of 12 August 1785 and Thomaston, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA.

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  • He appeared on the 1840 US Federal Census on 1 June 1840 in Cedar County, Iowa Territory, USA. 4

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  • He appeared on the 1850 US Federal Census on 12 September 1850 in Center Township, Cedar County, Iowa, USA. 5

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

  • Moved: Crossed the plains in a covered wagon with oxen, arriving in Oregon on 6-26-1852., 1852.
  • He worked as a farmer on 22 August 1860 in Richason's Precinct, Lane County, Oregon, USA. 6

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  • He appeared on the 1860 US Federal Census on 22 August 1860 in Richason's Precinct, Lane County, Oregon, USA. 6

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.

  • He has conflicting death information of 7 March 1877 and Jefferson, Marion County, Oregon, USA.
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Beckwith married Sybil Harriet OLDS about 1808.1 (Sybil Harriet OLDS was born on 15 August 1790 in Dalton, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA and died in 1839 in Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA.)


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Beckwith next married Mary PETTENGILL, daughter of Benjamin PETTENGILL and Mercy BRIGGS, on 21 January 1841 in Burr Oak Ridge, Center Township, Cedar County, Iowa, USA.1 (Mary PETTENGILL was born on 4 February 1790 in North Yarmouth, Cumberland County, Maine, USA,5 6 died on 4 February 1874 in Buena Vista, Polk County, Oregon, USA and was buried in 1874 in Buena Vista, Polk 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, 65, 84. This is the 3rd edition of a family-published book on genealogy.
  3. John Mason Pettingell, Pettengell Genealogy (Boston, 1906).
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.


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