History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, AD800-AD1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents .. . until he could makea comfortable home for- his family on his new purchase. In the spring of 1830 * The Cook Family. Stephen Cook was b. in Sussex Co., N. J., Mar. 29, 1751, andremoved to Mount Holly, w
History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, AD800-AD1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents .. . until he could makea comfortable home for- his family on his new purchase. In the spring of 1830 * The Cook Family. Stephen Cook was b. in Sussex Co., N. J., Mar. 29, 1751, andremoved to Mount Holly, where he m. Sarah McFarland, Aug. 29, 1775. He emigratedto Tenmile, Washington Co., Pa., in 17S1-2, and thence to near Martinsburgh, Knox Co.,O., where he d. in 1829. He was descended from Francis Cook, who was b. in the parish ofBlythe, County of York, England, in 1573. This man went with the Puritans to Holland,and, in 1608, m. Hester, a French Walloon. In 1609 he came over in the Mayflower with hiseldest son, John, leaving Hester and his other children in Leyden, Holland, till 1623, whenthey came over in the ship Ann. Francis Cooks father was an attorney at Westmin-ster, England, and d. May 26, 1583. His ancestry is recorded in the church records of Blythefor many generations. Stephen Cooks children by Sarah McFarland were, (1) John, (2)Jane, (3) Josias, (4) Jacob, (5) Hester (6) MILLIKINS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, PA. 377 he loaded three wagons with household goods and farming tools, and with apart of his family started again for the land of promise. They reached theirdestination in April, immediately dismantled the old cabins and built a houseof hewed timber containing three compartments, some fifty by eighteen feet onthe ground. This dwelling had a good roof and matched floors and was con-sidered a fine house in those pioneer days. It was located on the so-calledMiddle Pike which extends from Plain City to West Jefferson, where theresidence of William Wilson now stands.
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