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Daniel was at the Wyoming Valley Massacre but escaped. "Minor's History" of Wyoming Valley, PA says of Daniel and his father, "Among the emmigrants were two of the Gore family of Norwich, Conn, Obediah Gore, the father and Daniel Gore, his son, (blacksmith by trade) who were full of order and replete with Yankee ingenuity. They conceived the design of adding to Ordinance a new cannon. A large pepperage log was fashioned and bored, then hooped from breech to muzzle, but on the second discharge the cannon split". Several books describe how Daniel and his brother Obediah were the first to use Anthracite Coal as a fuel in their blacksmith's forges by giving the coal the necessary draft. This discovery paved the way to the industrial revolution.
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Daniel was at the Wyoming Valley Massacre but escaped. "Minor's History" of Wyoming Valley, PA says of Daniel and his father, "Among the emmigrants were two of the Gore family of Norwich, Conn, Obediah Gore, the father and Daniel Gore, his son, (blacksmith by trade) who were full of order and replete with Yankee ingenuity. They conceived the design of adding to Ordinance a new cannon. A large pepperage log was fashioned and bored, then hooped from breech to muzzle, but on the second discharge the cannon split". Several books describe how Daniel and his brother Obediah were the first to use Anthracite Coal as a fuel in their blacksmith's forges by giving the coal the necessary draft. This discovery paved the way to the industrial revolution.
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Nothing more is known about Robert except there exist unverified reports that he married a Jean Ross, but these reports give Robert's birth date as September 8, 1611, a year after his son was born. It is likely that these reports have merged two different Robert Douglas'.
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Reported also as having died in 1682.
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The sisters Anna and Elizabeth Avery, daughters of Richard Avery (1718-1784), married the brothers Obediah and Asa Gore.
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He defended the fort at the Wyoming Valley Massacre but escaped death by traversing a swamp during which he injured himself. In 1832 he gave an account of his role following the massacre in defending the fort against the enemy in his petition for compensation, something the government had shortly before decided to do for all veterans.
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[See note for her father.]
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Thomas' birthdate isn't known, but he was still a minor when his mother made her will in 1561. He also owned property in 1559 ('fined for tenement called Crossehouse, late the property of his father') which indicates he was near or at his majority at that time. All of which puts his birthyear as about 1541. His will is dated 30 Aug 1621, proved 26 Nov 1621 and in it he names his two children, Thomas Cooke and Elizabeth Reade, plus several grandchildren. According to the 1634 Vistitation of Essex he married three times. The visitation pedigree lists son Thomas as son of first wife Margaret Rice, but is it is unclear who the mother of Elizabeth was. References suggest it was the 2nd or 3rd wife: Elizabeth North or Susan Brand. Thomas married his 3rd wife Susan Brand in 1568. Daughter Elizabeth married abt. 1594 and had children as late as 1614. Had she been born before 1568 she would have been over 46 years old at the birth of her last child.
Regardless of this uncommon age relationship and the consideration that mother and daughter often have the same given name, Elizabeth North is virtually never assigned as the mother of Elizabeth Cooke; the child is most often listed with Susan Brand as her mother. This is no doubt because that relationship is supported by the Ancestral File records of the Morman Church (LDS). I, being the lazy, compromising wretch that I am, have simply "gone along with the crowd".