His surname can be found spelled Vincen, Vincent, Vinsonne, Finsin, Finson.
He lost four of his nine children in one month - December 1675 (William, Richard, Thomas and Hannah). They probably died from small pox.That year small pox began in Boston and spread to Gloucester.
997Then he lost his last son John at sea in 1682 while continuing to hope that he would be found alive and come home.
Her three husbands - not all great choices!
1. Thomas Cooke had been a troublesome character (accused of drunkeness),
but her next husband appears to have been worse.
2. Soon Rachel Cook married a second and more unpleasant husband and apparently with her eyes open, for on March 26, 1650, Joseph Langton had been fined for excessive drinking. Langton was presented in 1652 for 'evil usage of a little child of his wife,' little John Cook, lying on straw with but a piece of sail-cloth to cover it in his cradle, having been beaten to keep him quiet. The court ordered the baby to be placed in the care of his Varney grandparents. There is no record of Joseph after 1652 - he may have deserted his family. (A Joseph Langton is found in Newtown, Long Island in 1656 as the “companion” of Hannah Bradish. This may be the same man.)
990,9913.Apparently Rachel reverted to the name Cook after the divorce of Langton and as Rachel Cook she was married to her third husband, William Vinson, the stern moralist, on June 10, 1661.
Rachel Vinson was imprisoned for witchcraft
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