I spent some time this weekend at the library looking to prove Arnold Cook is the son of Levi and Sarah (Poole) Cook. Levi is a Mayflower descendant. I hoped to find books on descendants, specifically, Francis Cooke.
Arnold fits right in the Levi/Sarah family. His birth year is approximately 1800. Could Randall (b Nov 10, 1800) be Randall Arnold? Could Arnold's date of birth be 1881 which puts him between Randall and Thomas?
Unless someone knows something I don't, I have come to the conclusion Arnold is NOT the son of Levi and Sarah. First, there is nothing on the internet that I can find that leads me to believe I could be wrong. Second, I can find the other children listed in the Abington (Massachusetts)Vital Records, but not Arnold. (I also cannot find Thomas Jefferson Cook, born about 1802 in Abington, but have found him listed in The History of Edward Poole of Weymouth, Mass (1635) and his descendants by Murray Edward Poole written in 1893.)
Randall is not the same as Arnold...different wife, different children.
So that leads me to ask, who are the parents of Arnold Cook? He was born in either 1800 in Massachusetts or Rhode Island; 1801 in Massachusetts or New York or Rhode Island. I know from the census he was a farmer and lived in Rensselaer County, New York. He is buried in Cook Cemetery located in Petersburg, Rensselaer, New York.
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