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-'''Lt. Richard Cocke''' (1597-1665) was an early American settler, planter and politician.
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-Richard Cocke was born in Pickthorn, Shropshire, England around December 13, 1597 when he was baptized.<ref>Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Origins of Richard Cocke of Henrico County, Virginia, Steven R. Day, August 2007, Vol. 45.</ref> His father was Thomas Cocke of Pickthorn.<ref>Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Origins of Richard Cocke of Henrico County, Virginia, Steven R. Day, August 2007, Vol. 45.</ref>
-By 1632 Cocke had emigrated from [[England]] and was living in Henrico Co., [[Virginia]].<ref>[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/a/y/Steven-Day-Mukilteo/FILE/0002page.html Richard Cocke of Henrico, Virginia, Steven R. Day, November 1, 2007]</ref> He married Temperance Baley the widow of a man named John Browne. Cocke supplied 6,397 pounds of tobacco to pay off the debts left by Mr. Browne.<ref> Richard Cocke of Henrico, Virginia, Steven R. Day, November 1, 2007</ref> On March 6, 1636 he patented 3,000 acres of land in Henrico Co.<ref>Documents, chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia and to the settlement at Manakin-Town: with an appendix of genealogies, presenting data of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and other families, Robert Alonzo Brock, 1886, page 193.</ref>
-His wife, Temperance died young after giving birth to two children, Thomas and Richard. Cocke married Mary Aston the daughter of [[Walter Aston|Lt. Walter Aston]] and had several more children. Including another son named Richard who was referred to as “the Younger.”
-Cocke served as County Lieutenant various times and served as a representative from Henrico in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1644 to 1654.<ref>Documents, chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia and to the settlement at Manakin-Town: with an appendix of genealogies, presenting data of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and other families, Robert Alonzo Brock, 1886, page 193.</ref> He eventually owned three plantations, Curles, Bremo, and Malvern Hills. They totaled over 7,000 acres and would remain in the family for generations.<ref>Richard Cocke of Henrico, Virginia, Steven R. Day, November 1, 2007]</ref> Lt. Cocke died in 1665 in Henrico Co., Virginia.
-[[United States President]]s [[George H. W. Bush]] and [[George W. Bush]] are descended from Richard Cocke.<ref>''The Royal Descents of Five Hundred Immigrants'', by Gary Boyd Roberts.</ref><ref>''Ancestors of American Presidents'', by Gary Boyd Roberts</ref>
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