Pilgrim Sarah Warren Cooke
Channel: Central Texas Mayflower Colony
Date: 2021-09-16

The Saga of the Plymouth Colony Told by The Women Who Lived It. 

The story of Pilgrim Sarah Warren Cooke is reenacted by Susan Goldsworthy a member of the Society of Mayflower descendants. 

Sarah Warren Cooke, her father Richard Warren, and her husband, John Cooke, along with his father, Francis Cooke, and mother, Hester Mahieu Cooke helped settle Plymouth Colony in the 1620's.

Hester Mahieu Cooke, was a French Puritan and the only French person in the colony.

Francis Cooke acted as surveyor for the Colony and instrumental in laying the practical foundation of Plymouth colony. 

Richard Warren agreed to be an Undertaker for the reorganized loan that members of the Colony assumed with some of the former Merchant Adventurers in England to pay for the Mayflower Voyage.  When he died, his widow, Elizabeth Warren was allowed to fulfill a role previously only available to men.  Elizabeth Warren, widow was recorded as one of the Undertakers committed to paying off the Colony’s debt.  She was also later permitted by an arbitration board to deed some land to her sons-in-law as well as her sons rather that following the tradition of only her sons inheriting all the land.   

John Cooke embraced the new Baptist and Quaker teaching and joined others who moved to Dartmouth Territory in 1652. He became the first Baptist minister in Dartmouth and also organized a more extensive Baptist society in 1680.