Draft:Walter Cooke (Rhode Island judge)

Walter Cooke (17__–18__) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1787 to June 1809.

Of Tiverton.

Admitted as a freeman of Tiverton in 1759.

Clerk of Tiverton from 1771 to 1790.

Noted as a justice of the peace in Tiverton in May 1771, May 1781,  May 1782,  May 1785,  and May 1786.

Member of the General Assembly meeting of 1774.

? 1729-1819 ? Son of Thomas Cooke and Philadelphia Cornell?

"During 1759 Walter Cooke, Benjamin Crandal, John Weight, Nathaniel Crandal, Jonathan Hart, Jr., Sion Seabury, George Crocker, Bennett Bailey, Christopher Borden, David Manchester, Recompence Gifford and Nathaniel Pettey were admitted [as freemen of the colony]" ... "The general assembly having, on the 10th of June, 1776, ordered a census of the colony, as recommended by congress, John Cooke and Walter Cooke, of Tiverton, and Thomas Brownell, of Little Compton, were appointed to "take an account of the number of inhabitants in the two towns." Their returns show a population of 3,393, which, at the close of the war, was found, in 1782, to have decreased 3 per cent."