Cooke, Joseph Platt, 1730-1816
Joseph Platt Cooke (January 4, 1730 – February 3, 1816) was an American military officer in the Revolutionary War, a Connecticut politician, and twice a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation.
Born in Stratford in the Colony of Connecticut, he graduated from Yale College in 1750. In 1771, Cooke was appointed colonel of the Sixteenth Regiment of the Connecticut militia, and during the Revolutionary War he accompanied General Wolcott's forces to New York in 1776. He was in command of the state forces when the British burned Danbury on April 26 and April 27, 1777. Resigning his colonelcy in early 1778, he served as a member of the council of safety that year.
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