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Company, dealers in varnishes and japan, l)eing now manager of the insulating depart- ment. Mr. Bragg is a member of the South- ern Society of New York, the Virginians of New York City, the Railroad Club, and the Phi Delta Theta. In politics he is a Demo- crat, and in religion belongs to the Protes- tant Episcopal church. Mr. Bragg's sister, Elise Calvin, married Granville Gray Valen- tine, of Richmond, and they have one daugh- ter, Elizabeth Lee. His second sister, Fan- nie Madison, married George Small, of York, Pennsylvania, their children being: Eliza- beth Lee. Katherine, and Anna. Mr. Han- cock Lee Bragg is himself unmarried.

Thomas Sanford Cooke, M. D. Thomas Sanford Cooke, a leading physician of Ports- mouth, Virginia, is descended from one of the oldest Rhode Island families. Thomas Cooke, who was undoubtedly of English origin, was a butcher, residing in Ports- mouth, Rhode Island, where he was received as an inhabitant in 1643, and was propound- ed for a house lot. He purchased land in 1649 and had a grant of eight acres in 1657. He was a freeman in 1655, and represented the town as de])uty to the general court in 1664. He died h'ebruary 6, 1674. His sec- ond wife. Mary, who survived him, mar- ried (second) Jeremiah Brown. Children: John, mentioned below; Thomas, died 1670; f ieorge ; Sarah, married Peter Parker.

(II) John Cooke, eldest son of Thomas Cooke, was a butcher, residing in Ports- mouth, where he died in 1691. He was a freeman in 1655 and deputy in 1670. He was licensed June 3, 1668, in company with Daniel Wilcox, to operate the ferry at Pocas- set. He married Mary, daughter of Richard and Joan Borden, who died before 1691. Children : Mary, married \Villiam ]\Iarch ; Elizabeth, born 1653, married William Briggs ; Sarah, married Thomas Wait ; John, born 1656; Hannah, married (first) Daniel Wilcox, (second) Enoch Briggs; Joseph, mentioned below; Martha, married William Corey ; Deborah, married William Almy ; Thomas, died 1726.

(III) Joseph Cooke, son of John and Marv (Borden) Cooke, resided in Ports- mouth, where he died March 21. 1746. He was deputy in 1704 and 1707-08-09. He mar- ried, in Portsmouth, April 19, -1692, Sus- anna Briggs, of Tiverton, born about 1670. daughter of John and Hannah (Fisher)

Briggs. Children : Deborah, born May 5, 1692; John, February 27, 1694; Thomas, mentioned below; AX'illiam, September 11, 1701.

(TV) Thomas (2) Cooke, third son of Jo- seph and Susanna (Briggs) Cooke, was born March 31, 1697, i" Portsmouth, where he resided. He married, ]\Iay 30, 1722. Phila- delphia Cornell, daughter of George and De- liverance Cornell.

(V) Thomas (3) Cooke, son of Thomas (2) and Philadelphia (Cornell) Cooke, was born about 1733-34, in Portsmouth. He married Ann Lechmere Gardiner.

(VI) Silas Cooke, son of Thomas (3) and Ann Lechmere (Gardiner) Cooke, married Esther, daughter of James and Jane Wal- lace.

(VII) Thomas (4) Cooke, son of Silas and Esther (Wallace) Cooke, born about 1788, resided in Newport, Rhode Island, and was engaged in the coasting trade on a ship plying between that port and Beaufort, North Carolina. He was lost at sea while on a voyage, September 5. 1815. He mar- ried, April 8, 1810, Esther Wallace, of North Carolina. For a time they lived in Newport, but the climate did not agree with Mrs. Cooke, and they removed to Beaufort. She survived him little more than one year, dying October 14, 1816, in Beaufort. They had two children : James Wallace, mention- ed below, and Harriet, born August 26, 1814, married Israel Sheldon.

(VIII) James Wallace Cooke, only son of Thomas (4) and Esther (Wallace) Cooke, was born August 23, 1812, and entered the United States navy. At the age of twenty- two years he was appointed, June 14, 1834, by President Andrew Jackson, as a midship- man in the navy, and rose through the vari- ous ranks until he was captain, when he re- signed, in 1861, to take charge of the con- struction of the Confederate gunboat "Albe- marle," which was sunk during the civil war. He was appointed captain of that vessel by Governor John Letcher, of Virginia, May 4, 1861. His commission signed by the gov- ernor and by George Mumford. secretary of state, is preserved by his grandson. Dr. T. S. Cooke, of Portsmouth. Virginia, to- gether with the commission signed by Presi- dent Andrew Jackson. Under President An- drew Johnson, Captain Cooke was restored to United States citizenship, and took up his residence at Portsmouth, \'irginia. His