Capt. John Cockey

  Research Notes:

Source: FamilySearch.org AFN: MRG4-2K
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From: Historic Graves of Maryland and the Disstrict of Columbia edited by Helen W. Ridgely (New York, 1908), pp. 140-141:

"The original burying ground of the Cockey family is located on land owned in 1728 by John Cockey, son of William, the immigrant, and now belonging [in 1908] to teh Browns of Brooklynwood. It is in the third district, lying and bounding on the road running up the north side of Green Spring valley, from the Falls road at Cockey's old tavern. The cemetery is on the top of a slight hill in a meadow-like field about three hundred yards from the Falls road and about the same distance from the farm buildings of George Brown.
"John Cockey, one of the Justices of Baltimore county, and also one of the Commissioners appointed in 1732, to lay off ten acres east of the falls as an addition to Baltimore city, is buried here. His tomb is inscribed:
"In Memory of John Cockey, son of William the immigrant, aged 66 years, Died Aug. 15th 1746.
"Other inscriptions are:
"Elizabeth Baker, wife of Rev. Charles Baker, and formerly wife of John Cockey, aged 95, died Aug. 5th, 1780.
"W. Cockey, son of John and Elizabeth, born 1718, died ____ 1756.
"Wm. Cockey, aged 9 years, 1782.
"Richard Owens aged 17 months and 20 days, Oct. 12, 1787.
"Elizabeth Baker's maiden name was Slade. W. Cockey married Constant Ashman."

  Noted events in his life were:

• Appointed: Commissioner of Baltimore county, 1732.

John married Elizabeth Slade, daughter of William Slade (Jr.) and Elizabeth, in 1712 in Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States. (Elizabeth Slade was born in 1684 in Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States and died on 5 Aug 1780.)