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SMART early in New Hampshire and Maine, but they seem to have been much more busily occupied in clearing away the forest and developing farms and workshops than in recording their progress. A thorough search of the vital records of New Hampshire fails to reveal their abiding places or their births and deaths. The founder of the family in this state was a man of considerable ability and prominence, and his descendants, whose record of them can be found, seems to have partaken of his character and worth.
John Smart, the ancestor of those in New Hampshire bearing the name, was a native of the county of Norfolk, England, whence he came to Massachusetts in 1635. He was ac- companied by his wife and two sons and set- tled in Hingham, where he drew a house lot
in 1635. He soon removed to Exeter, New Hampshire, and received an assignment of one acre and twenty-six poles of meadow "next the town," from which it would appear that he was the owner of cattle or goats. His homestead was on the east side of Exeter river, in what is now Stratham, but he re- moved thence to the northern part of Exeter, now Newmarket. His descendants still live in that town. He did not sign the "Combina- tion" for the government of Exeter, but was a public-spirited man and participated in the purchase of the Wheelwright house for a par- sonage. His name first appears on the town books January 16, 1645. On February 3, 1698, he was chosen by the town meeting as a member of the committee for seating the people in the meeting-house.
Robert Smart, probably a descendant of John Smart, the immigrant, was (according to tradition) a soldier in the French and Indian war, enlisting from New Hampshire.
(I) Levi Smart, the first of the line here to be treated of whom we have information, may have been a son of Robert Smart, as his father was a soldier in the French and Indian war. Levi Smart settled in Vassalboro, Maine, about 1812, was a farmer, and died at the age of eighty years. He married a Miss Cowen, who bore him five children: Milton, Hendrick, see forward; Alfred, Ira and Bet- sey. Levi Smart married (second) Olive ; four children: Lydia, Emily, John and Ann.
(II) Hendrick, second son of Levi Smart, was presumably born in Augusta, Maine, and died January 7, 1905, in his ninety-fifth year. He was a farmer, lived on "Cross Hill" in Au- gusta, and for over seventy years resided on
one farm. He was a deacon in the Freewill Baptist church, a Republican in politics, and highly respected in the community. He mar- ried (first), about 1838, Avis Ross, born in Sidney, Maine, died 1854, daughter of Hugh and Abigail (Sawtelle) Ross, by whom he had five children: I. Laura, died at the age of eighteen years. 2. Elvira, married Abner Haskell. 3. Orren P., see forward. 4. and 5. Alvah and Laura, twins. He married (sec- ond) Mrs. Rachel Halloway, nee Merrill, who bore him one child, Alice P .; Mrs. Smart died in 1858. He married (third) Mrs. Hannah (Hicks) Leighton, who bore him one child, George; Mrs. Smart died in 1907.
(III) Orren P., son of Hendrick and Avis (Ross) Smart, was born in Augusta, Maine, September 18, 1844. He was reared on a farm, and acquired his education in the com- mon schools. On July 31, 1862, he enlisted in Company G, Nineteenth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the following battles: First and second battles of Fred- ericksburg; Chancellorsville ; Gettysburg, where he was wounded; Wilderness; North Anna, where he was wounded, May 29, 1864; first and second battles of Hatchers Run ; Petersburg ; Farmville and High Bridge. He received an honorable discharge June 7, 1865. After the war he devoted his attention to farm- ing for two years, after which he worked at the granite business for twenty years, and then engaged in the same line of business on his own account, continuing for a period of five years. In 1891 he received the appointment of clerk in the newspaper department of the Au- gusta postoffice and now, 1908, is serving in the capacity of assistant chief clerk. He has served in the city council of Augusta as usher and as a special policeman. He is independent in politics, voting for the candidate best quali- fied for office irrespective of party affiliations. He is a member of Augusta Lodge, A. F. and A. M .; Cushnoc Chapter, R. A. M .; Trinity Commandery, K. T .; Augusta Lodge, B. P. O. E .; Seth Williams Post. No. 13. G. A. R., and American Benefit Fraternal Order. He married, August 28, 1864, Lydia McFarland, born in Augusta, Maine, January 31, 1845, daughter of Elijah and Betsey (Dearborn) McFarland. Children : 1. Edwin P., see for- ward. 2. Ernest L., born November 16, 1868, a woodworker in Augusta. 3. Flora M., born February 21, 1876, married Scott Hewins, of Augusta.
Josiah McFarland, grandfather of Lydia (McFarland) Smart, was born October 31, 1774, presumably in New Hampshire, died
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March 7, 1853. He married Rebecca Springer, born January 9, 1785, died September 25, 1867. Children: I. Pamelia, born April 28, 1806, died January 19, 1876. 2. Bradford, October 9, 1807. 3. Sarah, August 12, 1809. 4. Jared, July 25, 1811. 5. Elijah, see for- ward. 6. Deborah, September 15, 1815. 7. and 8. Rebecca J. and Mary Ann, twins. 9. Stutley, August 1, 1821. 10. Amy, October 17, 1823, died September 17, 1827. II. Ruel, May 7, 1826.
Elijah, son of Josiah and Rebecca (Spring- er) McFarland, was born October 11, 1813, died August 30, 1893. He married Betsey Dearborn, April 17, 1844; she was born Feb- ruary 2, 1824, died July 7, 1894. Children : I. Lydia, born January 31, 1845, aforementioned as the wife of Orren P. Smart. 2. Elizabeth, April 21, 1846. 3. Millard F., October 9, 1848. 4. Benjamin F., February 21, 1851. 5. Maria J., May 28, 1854. 6. Elijah F., Decem- ber 14, 1856.
(IV) Edwin P., son of Orren P. and Lydia (McFarland) Smart, was born in Augusta, Maine, April 28, 1866. He was educated in the public schools, and after completing his studies went into a woodworking shop, where he remained for some time. When about twenty-one years of age he began learning the drug business, and four years later en- gaged in business for himself in Augusta, with Joe Young, under the firm name of Young & Smart, which obtained for fifteen months, when Mr. Smart succeeded to the en- tire business and continued same for seven years. In 1900 he removed to Livermore Falls and opened a drug store, which he still con- ducts, and which has proved a profitable in- vestment. He is a thirty-second degree Ma- son, member of Aleppo Shrine, B. P. O. E., I. O .O. F., and K. P. He married, July 7, 1891, Margaret Isabelle, daughter of John and Elizabeth Martin. No children.
COOK Samuel Cook, immigrant ancestor, was of English stock, but came to America from Dublin, Ireland, with Michael Bacon and John Smith. Michael Bacon is the ancestor of many distinguished men and prominent families of New England. The three men settled in Dedham, Massachu- setts, and were evidently Puritans as well as Protestants when they came over. Samuel Cook became a proprietor of Dedham, July 6, 1640. He was a partner of Smith, March IO, 1639-40. It should be noted that Smith's taxes were remitted on account of great losses he suffered in Ireland, implying also that his
companion and partner must have lost also. While we find no evidence of his son Daniel, the Quaker records at Windham, Maine, es- tablish his identity conclusively enough. Little else is known of the immigrant.
(II) Daniel, doubtless son of Samuel Cook, was born in' Ireland, according to the Quaker records, and settled in Dedham, Massachu- setts, perhaps after his father had made his home there. His family appears at Dover, New Hampshire, and he probably went there early in life. The Windham records give us the record of but one child, John, mentioned below.
(III) John, son of Daniel Cook, was born in Dover, New Hampshire, May 5, 1692. He married Lydia , born at Dover, Novem- ber 29, 1694. Children, born at Dover: I. Marcy, born June 21, 1716. 2. Hezekiah, born January 1, 1717. 3. Mary, born April I, 1720. 4. Ebenezer, born April 26, 1723, died in the military service in the French war on the return from the Cape Breton expedition, August 17, 1745. 5. John, born November 6, 1725. 6. Richard, born December 21, 1727. 7. Phebe, born March 17, 1729-30. 8. Daniel, mentioned below.
(IV) Daniel (2), son of John Cook, was born at Dover, February 22, 1732. There were a number of enlistments in the revolu- tion credited to Daniel Cook, and some of them may belong to this man, though the fam- ily belonged to the Society of Friends. He lived in Dover, and later settled in Windham, Maine. He had ten children and one hun- dred grandchildren at the time of his death. Among his children was John, mentioned be- low.
(V) John (2), son of Daniel (2) Cook, was born at Windham or Dover, May 25, 1765. He was a thrifty and well-to-do farmer, and was proud of the fact that his farm yielded all the necessary breadstuffs for his family, he never having to buy material for bread. Once in 1817 he did swap some hack- matack knees for barley. He cleared the farm now known as the Lewis farm at East Vassalborough, Maine. He was a useful and honored citizen. He married Sarah Pope, born August 23, 1770, daughter of Elijah and Phebe (Winslow) Pope. Elijah Pope was born in Boston, December 23, 1742, and his vife in 1753, daughter of Nathan Winslow (4). James Winslow (3), father of Nathan Winslow, was born in Massachusetts, removed from Freetown on Cape Cod to Falmouth, now Portland, Maine, in 1728, and was the first Quaker in Falmouth. He was the son of
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Job Winslow (2), and grandson of Kenelm Winslow, founder of this branch of the Wins- low family in America. Kenelm Winslow was brother of Governor Edward Winslow, who came over nine years earlier on the "May- flower" to Plymouth. Kenelm was born at Droitwich, England, in 1599, son of Edward Winslow, of Droitwich, and grandson of Ken- elm Winslow. Kenelm Winslow (3) married, in 1634, Eleanor Newton, widow of John Adams, of Plymouth; settled in 1641 in Marshfield, Massachusetts. John Cook had by his wife. Sarah (Pope) Cook, sixteen chil- dren : I. Phebe, born in Freeport, July 27, 1794, died November 20, 1795. 2. Robert, born in Freeport, November 4, 1795, died March 12, 179 -. 3. Daniel, born in Freeport, September 23, 1796. 4. Elijah, twin of Dan- iel, mentioned below. 5. Samuel, born in Freeport, January 17, 1799. 6. Robert, born in Freeport, May 13, 1800, died October 20, 1819. 7. Joseph, born in Freeport, March I, 1802. 8. Daniel, born in Vassalborough, Jan- uary 7, 1804. 9. Edward, born in Vassal- borough, May 25, 1805. 10. John Jr., born in Vassalborough, January 27, 1807. 11. John Jr., born in Vassalborough, August 24, 1808, died 1808. 12. Ebenezer, born in Vassalbor- ough, July 29, 1810, died November 24, 1811. 13. Mary Ann, born in Vassalborough, April 25, 1812. 14. Sarah, born December 29, 1815, died 1815. 15. Eliza, born in Vassalborough, May 29, 1818. 16. Charity, born in Vassal- borough, April 27, 1819.
(VI) Elijah, son of John (2) Cook, was born in Freeport, Maine, September 23, 1796. He removed to Vassalborough with his father's family in 1803. He was educated in the district schools, and worked on his father's farm in his boyhood. He was an apt student and became a teacher. He continued, after the custom of the school-teachers of his day, to farm in summer and teach in winter in towns in vicinity of his home. He was for a time overseer in the mills of North Vassalborough, Maine. He died in Iowa in 1880. He was a member of the Society of Friends, as were his ancestors for many generations before him. In politics he was originally a Whig, later a Republican. He married Judith Meader, born December 31, 1801, died 1875, daughter of Micajah Meader. One of her ancestors was a soldier at Quebec under General Wolfe. Children : 1. Albert, born February 17, 1827. 2. Almira, born May 23, 1828. 3. Sarah J., born July 11, 1829. 4. Rachel, born March 25, 1831, died August 12, 1869. 5. John M., born June 14, 1834. 6. Elijah Jr., born May
6, 1839, died December 29, 1899. 7. George Dillwyn, born March 2, 1841, mentioned be- low. 8. Edward Hanson, born June 10, 1844, graduate of Haverford College in 1868, teach- er in the Oak Grove Seminary fifteen years, in Oakwood Seminary, Union Springs, New York, one year, at the Friends' Institute, East Hamburg, Erie county, New York, two years, and for seven years was principal of the Oak Grove Seminary at Vassalborough. He re- signed in 1883 and devoted his attention to his fruit orchards. He became an expert in apple culture, having fifty acres of apple trees, and was engaged in exporting apples for himself and neighbors many years; was one of the board of managers of the Oak Grove Sem- inary ; was representative to the state legisla- ture in 1901 ; a Republican in politics and a Quaker in religion; member of the Vassal- borough Grange, Patrons of Husbandry ; mar- ried, 1868, Annie L. Hamblin, daughter of Zenas Hamblin, of Falmouth, Massachusetts ; died 1899; children: Edward C., of York, Maine : Harriet H., Edith M., Anne E., grad- uate of Colby College.
(VII) Dr. George Dillwyn, son of Elijah Cook, was born in Vassalborough, Maine, March 2, 1841. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of that town and at the Maine Medical School, graduating from the latter institution with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1866. After graduating he went west to accept an appointment as agency doctor of the United States government in Indian Ter- ritory in what is now Oklahoma, and he served among the Indians three years, obtaining much valuable experience. When he returned to his native state he settled in Charleston, Maine, and was occupied with a general prac- tice there until 1892, when he came to Vassal- borough, where he is now living, having re- tired from active practice. In politics Dr. Cook is a Republican, and in 1888 he was rep- resentative to the state legislature from Charleston district. In religion he has held to the faith of his fathers and is a member of the Society of Friends. He is a member of the Waterville Clinical Society, and Neguen- keag Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons. He married Helen M. Dunning, born in Charleston, daughter of Reuben and Lucy (Halden) Dunning. Their only child is Har- old Elijah, mentioned below.
(VIII) Harold Elijah, son of Dr. George Dillwyn Cook, was born in Charleston, Maine, October 26, 1869. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, at Charles- ton Academy, Higgins Classical Institute, and
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the University of Maine Law School, where he graduated in the class of 1900 with the degree of L.L.B. He was admitted to the bar March 8, 1900, and opened an office at Waterville, Maine, in partnership with Frank J. Small, under the firm name of Cook & Small. The firm has established an excellent general practice, and the partners stand high in their profession. In politics he is a Re- publican. In September, 1908, was elected judge of probate for Kennebec county, re- ceiving the largest vote and the largest ma- jority of any candidate on the ticket. He is a member of the Protestant Episco- pal church of Waterville. He is a mem- ber of Neguenkeag Lodge, Free Masons, of Vassalborough; Dulap Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, China, Maine; St. Omer Com- mandery, Knights Templar, of Waterville, and of the Waterville Masonic Club. He is past district deputy grand master of the Twelfth Masonic District, an office he has filled for three years past. He is also a member of the Grand Lodge of the state. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum. Mr. Cook married, Sep- tember 16, 1895, Alberta Fayette Parks, born September 4, 1874, at Richmond, New Bruns- wick, daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Hay- den) Parks. Children: I. Hilliard D., born October 17, 1896. 2. Harold, born July 26, 1898. 3. Donald Parkhurst, born September 10, 1908.
COOK The Cooks not only have the great honor of being descended from Francis Cook of the "Mayflower," and from at least eight others who came on that historic vessel, such as Myles Standish, John Alden, Priscilla Mullens, Peregrine White, but their lines of history show a won- derful story of "true and illustrious ances- tors." "With the name of Cooke, wherever located the wide world over comes a strong following of military character. They carried arms in the Holy Wars, and the Courtois Col- lection gives them as: 'Walter Cok went to the Holy Land in 119I. Richard Cok went to the Holy Land in 1691.' Add to these Will- iam Henry Cooke, Recorder of Oxford, Judge of County Courts, a Magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant of Herefordshire, who wrote three volumes of Collections toward the History and Antiquities of County Hereford, in con- tinuance of Duncombe's 'History'; also that Sir Anthony Cooke, a learned man, was tutor of King Richard VI in 1543, and I lead up to the natural inheritance of the special gifts which the Cookes used for the benefit of Ply-
mouth Colony. Cook record accumulates with great rapidity in England; in 1612 a Cooke was Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer. Sir Richard Cooke Secretary for Foreign affairs in the Cabinet of Charles I, in 1635; in 1462 a Cooke was Lord Mayor of London, an elec- tive postion, all remember, as for eight hun- dred years this office was filled by the votes of the various powerful guilds. Sir Thomas Cook of Worcestershire founded Worcester College at Oxford and Sir James Cook of Middlesex, to keep up the connection with the first comers to our country, was Governor of the East India Company. In the army, the navy, the church, in literature and the learned professions, in politics, in the pul- pit, in the mother country it would be asking little of them with such a backing to be much to the land of their adoption and birth, what- ever the demands it might make."
Francis Cook, of the "Mayflower," was born in 1577, and following the unerring hand of Providence, fled to Holland with Pas- tor Robinson, and for some cause of affinity or favoritism became an inmate of his family- his personal charge. His wife Hester was one of the noblest, most religious and capable women of her day. "He was one of the Pil- grims who immediately occupied a ·very im- portant place, and while the conviction of his importance only dawns upon one as he reads continuously, the fact exists, his record ac- cumulates, and proves that he was behind the throne wielding immense influence. Pursuing the even tenor of his way, his strength grows day by day, until the consciousness comes that he is 'guiding the ship of State' with the rare judgment of his strong personality. Valuable as his record is, it seems so general and wide spreading that everything is taken as a matter of course, hardly requiring recognition. He and his descendants held firm grip on positions of weight and trust all through their life in Plymouth Colony and in the surrounding towns. There is the 'ring of true metal' about all the Cookes. They asked no favors, had no special pleading for preference in any re- spect, but they always drew the ‘lucky num- ber' in the land divisions. Francis Cooke oc- cupied a house on Leyden street adjoining the residence of Edward Winslow and Isaac Al- lerton, a distinction of propinquity which places his social position on record. Had he not been acceptable to these magnates there would have been some means devised to pre- vent or remove his claim. Until 1640 this Pilgrim's name appears constantly in some capacity performing important duties for the
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Government." Every line of his history that we trace causes us to be more and more justly proud of a Pilgrim ancestor like this.
(I) Samuel Cook was probably born in one of the strong old towns of Connecticut whither some of the best of the people of Plymouth Colony removed, the date being October 25, 1763, and the date of his death in Vermont was October 25, 1838. Traditions in the fam- ily indicate that he removed to Glover or Craftsbury, in Vermont, about 1783. Like his ancestor Francis, he made a very wise choice of lands, and his entire life was devoted to farming of a very careful and successful kind. He was one of the most public-spirited men of his day, and helped greatly in many towns beside the one where he dwelt for so many years. His wife bore the goodly name of Priscilla, and he had four children.
(II) Calvin, son of Samuel and Priscilla Cook, was born in Vermont, March 30, 1787, died September II, 1818. Although his life was such a short one he was a very good farmer in Glover and Craftsbury, Vermont. His wife was named Amy, and their children were: I. Emery, born August 26, 1814. 2. Lucy Ann, born in Craftsbury, April 20, 1816, died April 25, 1864. 3. Fanny, born in Crafts- bury, March 16, 1818, died May 8, 1849.
(III) Emery, son of Calvin and Amy Cook, was born in Craftsbury, Vermont, August 26, 1814, died in Glover, May 25, 1882. He was educated in the common schools, and moved to Glover, Vermont, in 1857. He was one of the most efficient members of the Methodist Epis- copal church, holding all the offices with great success, and his work in the Sunday-school and the Sunday-school conventions of the state was very helpful in many ways. For many years he was an associate judge, being appointed to that office by the governor. He was a Master Mason, and was at one time the worshipful master of the Barton, Ver- mont, Lodge. He married (first) Julia Ann Reckard, born May 27, 1817, died September 28, 1839. Married (second) Calista S. Reck- ard, a sister of his first wife, and bearing a very close resemblance to her in the nobility of her christian character. The children of the first marriage were: I. Amy Lemira, born in Craftsbury, Vermont, October 9, 1837, died June 19, 1857. 2. Calvin Eleazer, born in Craftsbury, May 30, 1839, died, in Glover, February 1, 1865. He was a very worthy and active man, and one of the bravest soldiers in the civil war, enlisting in Company I of the Fifteenth Vermont Infantry, and was made a
corporal after the battle of Gettysburg, in which he took a valiant part. The children of the second marriage were: 3. Charles Wes- ley, born in Craftsbury, April 7, 1843, enlist- ing with his half-brother Calvin in the same regiment and company, and served in the same important engagements. He is a very success- ful farmer at Glover. 4. Joseph Henry, born in Craftsbury, September 3. 1846, now resides at Irasburg, Vermont. 5. Justine Emery, born in Craftsbury, October 10, 1848, died March II, 1897. 6. Leone Reckard. 7. Edgar Ran- dall, born March 30, 1856, is a very successful business man in Barton. 8. Katherine Flor- ence, born May 6, 1858, married Lyman Bar- ber, of Glover. 9. Martha L., born April 2, 1862, died October II, 1905; married Cortis Woodward.
(IV) Leone Reckard, son of Emery and Calista S. (Reckard) Cook, was born in Craftsbury, September 25, 1853, and is a highly esteemed resident of Yarmouthville, Maine. He was educated in the public schools and in Barton Academy. He worked on his father's farm until he was fifteen years old. After about a year he became a clerk in a drug store in Barton, remaining in that posi- tion nine months. For six years he resided in Island Pond, Vermont, working three years each as clerk for George S. Robinson and N. E. Bonney. After this he was clerk for six months for J. C. Walker, of Mechanic's Falls, Maine. In 1877 he removed to Yar- mouth and bought out the drug business of George E. Thoits, which he has conducted ever since. For the past twenty-six years he has been town clerk of Yarmouth. He was elected to the state legislature on the Demo- cratic ticket for the term of 1893-94. Since then he has been a very strong Prohibitionist. He was chairman of the Yarmouth board of selectmen in 1897-98. He is a justice of the peace, and has been a trial justice for the past four years. He has been for some time a very active member of the Baptist church and superintendent of its Sunday-school for some years. He is the Maine member of the Inter- national Sunday-school executive committee, president of the Maine Sunday-school Asso- ciation. He is a Free Mason, a member of the Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias. He was worshipful master of Casco Lodge for two years; high priest of Cumberland Royal Arch Chapter two years; a Knight Templar and worthy patron of Eastern Star three years. He married, September 8, 1878, Clara J., daughter of Joseph Andrew, of Island
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Pond, and they have had two children : I. Edith Lucinda, born July 30, 1881, died July 16, 1900. 2. An infant daughter who died April 20, 1887.
William Averill, immigrant AVERILL ancestor, was born in Eng- land. He came to Ipswich, Massachusetts, and was an inhabitant as early as 1638. He died there in 1653. His will was dated June 3, 1652, and proved March 29, 1652-53. He had one son, William, mentioned below.
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