-spelled Cook in his published works -little is known of Cooke's life -1722: Cooke's name virtually disappeared from public records -existence can only be traced through his poems -born in London -moved to Lord Baltimore's province shortly before the end of the seventeenth century -1694: lives in St. Mary's City -divided his time between the Old and New World -c. 1700: returns to London -1708: returns to London -came back to America sometime before 1717 -admitted to the bar of Prince George's County -seems to have practiced law on occasion since at least September 1700 -Deputy Receiver General of Henry Lowe II at Cecil County in 1720 -land agent for Lowe, Bennett Lowe, and John Gresham Chronology 1694: Cooke's signature appeared for the first time in Maryland on a remonstrance against Annapolis 1700, September: appointed "true and Lawful Attorney" 1700, late: left Maryland and returned to London 1708: publishing of "stowed Factor" by B. Bragg, at the Raven in Pater-Noster Row. 1712January 2: probated his father's will By the terms of his father's will he inherited half interest in an estate located at Malden, Maryland 1717 October 30,: Cooke sold his cousin Edward Cook a tract of the land he inherited 1726: he was instrumental in bringing the printer William Parks to Annapolis 1726: An ELOGY on the Death of Thomas Bordley Esquire" the first belltristic writing in the colonial south: printed and sold by William Parks 1728 December 24,: "An Elegy on the Death of the Honorable Nicholas Lowe" . . . Maryland Gazette 1730: publishing of "Sotweed Redivivus or the Planters Looking glass" . . . Annapolis printed by William Parks 1731: publishing of I. "The History of Colonel Nathaniel Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia" II. "The Sotweed Factor or a Voiage to Maryland The Third Edition" . . . The Maryland Muse printed by William Parks "An Elegy on the Death of the Honorable William Locke, Esquire" . . . Maryland Historical Society Baltimore, Md. "In Memory of the Honorable Benedict Leonard Calvert Esquire. Lieutenant Governor in the Province of Maryland" . . . U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. 1732: last poem was written; historians believe he died soon after http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/...