Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister
1867
J. Munsell, Albany
COOK, TITUS A., son of Samuel and Chloe Cook, was the first person born in town, July 22, 1768.
He settled near Granville, N.Y., where Mrs. Amanda Culver now lives. He was master builder
in the construction of churches and the better class of dwellings. The old Congregational church, the
Baptist church, the old Episcopal church at Granville were erected by him.
He was justice over
thirty years and esteemed a pure and upright magistrate. He died in 1827, aged 60. None of his
family remain.
COOK, JAMES, from Sandisfield, Mass., settled near Sherman Weed's. He was an exemplary and worthy citizen and universally beloved.
For several years he manufactured lime from an excellent quarry on his premises. He raised a family of three sons:
Mahlon, John and Erasmus D. Mahlon m. Cornelia, da. of Joel Sheldon, and lives in Manchester;
John is a physician and now resides in New Jersey; Erasmus D. m. Charlotte, da. of Simeon Edgerton,
Jr., and succeeded to his homestead. Mr. Cook removed to Manchester in 1835, and died in 1850,
aged 75; his wife in 1849, aged 76.
COOK, EPHRAIM, settled at an early day in the east part of the town. He was an intelligent, active
man. He, with his family, removed west over thirty years since. His son, Ephraim F. Cook, who
married a daughter of David Andrus, was for many years city superintendent of schools in Buffalo.
COOK, ALLEN, from Danby, 1865, m. Hannah, da. of Caleb Parris, and settled on the Daniel Clark
farm.
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