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*** SAVE THE DATE!! *** Virtual gathering *** August 17, 2025 *** 5 pm (mountain time)
07/24/2025

*** SAVE THE DATE!! *** Virtual gathering *** August 17, 2025 *** 5 pm (mountain time)


On Saturday August 2nd at 10:00am MST over zoom will be a meeting of the Phineas Wolcott Cook Book Club! We will be disc...
07/22/2025

On Saturday August 2nd at 10:00am MST over zoom will be a meeting of the Phineas Wolcott Cook Book Club! We will be discussing pages 211-238. The zoom link will be the same one from previous meetings, if you would like the link, please directly message the social media page.

You can find a free version of the book at this link which is a part of our cookfamiliy.org website: http://cookfamily.org/histories/documents/PhineasWolcottCook_1819-1900/LegacyOfFaithPDFOnline.html?fbclid=IwAR1J8cLCcDL0Ra3wHpusuedNFMwyfbtU8yC4ZOhDNvCjtMRQ-QbjBJRszBU

Or you can purchase a hardcover version of the book at: https://www.amazon.com/Phineas-Wolcott-Cook-Legacy-Faith/dp/B09YT2HFYX/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VPAEKUAFUAUY%20&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.pQd1a_n6nULw5GCoCMcfhvcfhQ5VWKzav9h3dJ0k8VwuJ_rtD2Q74KDIvMKM61CEjHGlsY4qzUi0SBfPbJgcma3Pew1T4laTHxuvQskEqvk.QkINPYOpj0Zr-l-MLv%20XnN-Y5cSv3SHtBr1mjo7cGsGw&dib_tag=se&keywords=phineas+wolcott+cook&qid=1753%20209%20134&sprefix=phineas+wolcott+cook%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-1

On Saturday August 2nd at 10:00 MST over zoom will be a meeting of the Phineas Wolcott Cook Book Club! We will be discus...
07/17/2025

On Saturday August 2nd at 10:00 MST over zoom will be a meeting of the Phineas Wolcott Cook Book Club! We will be discussing pages 211-238. The zoom link will be the same one from previous meetings, if you would like the link, please directly message the social media page.

You can find a free version of the book at this link which is a part of our cookfamiliy.org website: http://cookfamily.org/histories/documents/PhineasWolcottCook_1819-1900/LegacyOfFaithPDFOnline.html?fbclid=IwAR1J8cLCcDL0Ra3wHpusuedNFMwyfbtU8yC4ZOhDNvCjtMRQ-QbjBJRszBU

Or you can purchase a hardcover version of the book at: https://www.amazon.com/Phine.../dp/B09YT2HFYX/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?fbclid=IwAR2lVMLDLeSHFhddqIRlOWuZKS2pIqlPhb-WYzj3vkADv3_HpaDhuh5OmK8

We had nothing in the house to eat but a little boiled wheat that I had laid up for seed. Ellen Green daughter of Willia...
07/15/2025

We had nothing in the house to eat but a little boiled wheat that I had laid up for seed. Ellen Green daughter of William Camp heard of our situation and had the kindness to lend us 15 lbs. of flour and a little tea and sugar for which may God bless her forever. About this time, the 20th, Brother Thirstin came down and brought me 4 bushels of wheat. He charges two and a half dollars a bushel which is ten dollars. I hired Mathew Savage to take it to mill and bring home the flour. I paid again the flour borrowed of Ellen Green. 25th: received a yoke of oxen 11 or 12 years old at 135.00 and an old wagon at 65.00 and 5 bushels of potatoes of the avails of the mill at Sanpete. The oxen was very poor in flesh and one of them was sick and they were not fit for service. I turned them out after giving them some to***co that they might recruit.

29th (April): ploughed the lot. 30th: planted it to potatoes and corn.

I had a great deal of trouble with my heifer. She would cross the Jordon and leave her calf and I was very feeble in health and had to walk three miles and back to get her. But I at last tied a rope to her head and passed it between her fore legs and tied it over her back so as to keep her head down which prevented her from crossing. After I had trimmed my seine for fishing and went to the Jordon and caught a few which were very acceptable as we had nothing but flour and we felt very saving of that desiring to make it go as far as possible.

5th of May: I went to look for a white heifer that is one year old but could not find her. Found one of my oxen very sick. Brought him up and give him some to***co.

Tired out and very unwell. My last years’ labor has, I fear, ruined my constitution or at least I can not endure scarcely anything in shape of hardship.

6th: today feel some better. Went a fishing with Brother Bulin and Mathew Savage. They are very scarce in the Jordon did not catch any.

7th & 8th: went fishing. Got 6 for my share for which I felt very thankful. 9th: went to the mountain for wood. 10th: returned with a good load of wood but obliged to go to bed sick. Brother Thirstin came in and said he had concluded not to build, which had disappointed me in getting bread for my family. It is too late to get out and get in a crop. I asked him what he thought I should do. He had put me off until now and there seemed no chance left. He said he did not know. I would have to do the best I could he could do nothing for me. I felt that he had been prejudiced by some one against me. I said I am resolved what to do. I will leave your premises as soon as I can, the Lord assisting me. 10th: rested. 11th: went to meeting. Sunday, I met Dimic B. Huntington and I told him all that had befallen me, and he told me that his lot had been some like mine but he felt to say that within 14 months I should prosper more than I had ever done before I met Jesse C. Little, and he said I must pay for my brandy at Godbies before I left for he was responsible. I asked him to go with me across the street and we would see if I had not already done so. When we came to the store, he was informed that it was paid for and he went off seeming to feel ashamed of what he had done.

On Saturday August 2nd at 10:00 MST over zoom will be a meeting of the Phineas Wolcott Cook Book Club! We will be discus...
07/10/2025

On Saturday August 2nd at 10:00 MST over zoom will be a meeting of the Phineas Wolcott Cook Book Club! We will be discussing pages 211-238. The zoom link will be the same one from previous meetings, if you would like the link, please directly message the social media page.

You can find a free version of the book at this link which is a part of our cookfamiliy.org website: http://cookfamily.org/.../LegacyOfFaithPDFOnline.html...

Or you can purchase a hardcover version of the book at: https://www.amazon.com/.../dp/B09YT2HFYX/ref=mp_s_a_1_1...

It was 15 miles for me to walk. He promised to be down a few days and bring me some wheat and get some lumber for me to ...
07/08/2025

It was 15 miles for me to walk. He promised to be down a few days and bring me some wheat and get some lumber for me to go to work on for his house. I returned late in the evening completely over done with the day’s trip. The next day I was confined to my bed. I had chills and fever and had a pain in my finger which proved to be the erysipelas [bacterial infection of the skin]. It was full of inflammation and great pain I asked the Lord to heal me. And it was manifest to me that I had done wrong for finding fault with Brother Brigham and I must repent, or I had forfeited my right to live. I promised to do better in future and as soon as circumstances would permit, I would go and see him and make it right. It was then manifested to me to call my three wives to lay hands on me and pray for me that I might be healed which I did the oldest being mouth for the others. I soon felt better.

Several years ago, I visited the Milton, Connecticut cemetery where our ancestor, Captain Daniel Cook is buried. He serv...
07/04/2025

Several years ago, I visited the Milton, Connecticut cemetery where our ancestor, Captain Daniel Cook is buried. He served in the Revolutionary War and a flag is place on his grave each year to remember his service. The Cook Family Organization is excited to announce that we have new information about this venerable ancestor's life and military service that we are excited to share with you. Please join us on Aug. 17, 2025 for our VIRTUAL family gathering! Watch our YouTube channel () for the virtual event which will begin at 5pm mountain time. Family member and researcher Bryson Cook brings us his new research fresh from the archives of Goshen, Connecticut! Don't miss it! And Happy Independence Day, USA! 🇺🇸

I moved the 10th of April. It seemed a great contrast after living in a comfortable house and so suddenly changing it fo...
06/30/2025

I moved the 10th of April. It seemed a great contrast after living in a comfortable house and so suddenly changing it for a miserable hovel, but I felt to do any way rather than be in debt. I was very unwell at the time. I felt greatly troubled about what had happened, so much so that it wore my flesh away that I weighed 130 pounds and my usual weight was 148 pounds. After fixing around and getting some wood and my heifer from Murdocks’ herd I started the 16th on foot to see Thirstin about some grain and material for his house.

Previous to this, about six months, he had promised to give me one of his daughters for a wife, and I thought he felt an...
06/23/2025

Previous to this, about six months, he had promised to give me one of his daughters for a wife, and I thought he felt an interest in my welfare, and I agreed to build his house for fifty dollars less than I did Grant’s for the sake of getting provisions. So, I took his word and moved into his house. It was a dirty place and hardly fit for a dwelling place for human beings. There was no floor and it was about 12 by 15 feet square, one roof and that was flat. I got a tent and pitched it at one end to make room for us. He was to furnish me flour or wheat to last us until harvest and I was to wait on him for the rest until fall.

The 7th day of April I saw Thomas Thirstin. I told him I was going to leave the city. He asked me what was my notion. I ...
06/20/2025

The 7th day of April I saw Thomas Thirstin. I told him I was going to leave the city. He asked me what was my notion. I told him I could not get provisions in the city and I must do something I was going to try to get me a farm, if possible, to raise my own grain. He said if I would take his advice, he would furnish me with provisions until harvest. I said I would do any way that was right for the sake of getting something for my family to eat. He said he owned a house and city lot in the sixth ward and if I would move there and build him a house like Brother Grant’s I could work his lot on shares and he would furnish the material and I could put up his house.

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