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| | Hooke Family Of Southampton, England |
 | | William Hooke, a distinguished Puritan clergyman, was born in 1601, in Southampton and died in London, March 21, 1678. |
 | | After graduating from Trinity College, Oxford, he went to New England in 1640, founded a church at Taunton, Massachusetts, and later (1644) moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where for twelve years he assisted John Davenport, founder of the City, in his work in the first Congregational Church. |
 | | A very interesting thing brought out by the record of this family of Southampton is the fact that it espoused the Cromwellian cause, also that it drew away from the Church of England and became Puritan in belief. |
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