Draft:Walter Cooke (Rhode Island judge)
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Walter Cooke (17__–18__) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1787 to June 1809.[1]
Admitted as a freeman of Tiverton in 1759.[3]
Clerk of Tiverton from 1771 to 1790.
Noted as a justice of the peace in Tiverton in May 1771,[4]: 296 May 1781,[4]: 399 May 1782,[4]: 412 May 1785,[4]: 436 and May 1786.[4]: 447
Member of the General Assembly meeting of 1774.
? 1729-1819 ? Son of Thomas Cooke and Philadelphia Cornell?
"During 1759 Walter Cooke, Benjamin Crandal, John Weight, Nathaniel Crandal, Jonathan Hart, Jr., Sion Seabury, George Crocker, Bennett Bailey, Christopher Borden, David Manchester, Recompence Gifford and Nathaniel Pettey were admitted [as freemen of the colony]" ... "The general assembly having, on the 10th of June, 1776, ordered a census of the colony, as recommended by congress, John Cooke and Walter Cooke, of Tiverton, and Thomas Brownell, of Little Compton, were appointed to "take an account of the number of inhabitants in the two towns." Their returns show a population of 3,393, which, at the close of the war, was found, in 1782, to have decreased 3 per cent."[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
- ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 61.
- ^ "Tiverton Census History". Tiverton Historical Society. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
- ^ a b c d e Civil and Military List of Rhode Island. 1647-1800 (1900).}}
- ^ Richard Mather Bayles, History of Newport County, Rhode Island: From the Year 1638 to the Year 1887 (1888), p. 904; 906.
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