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Cocke served as County Lieutenant various times and served as a representative from Henrico in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1644 to 1654.<ref>Documents, chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia and to the settlement at Manakin-Town: with an appendix of genealogies, presenting data of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and other families, Robert Alonzo Brock, 1886, page 193.</ref> He eventually owned three plantations, Curles, Bremo, and Malvern Hills. They totaled over 7,000 acres and would remain in the family for generations.<ref>Richard Cocke of Henrico, Virginia, Steven R. Day, November 1, 2007]</ref>

Cocke served as County Lieutenant various times and served as a representative from Henrico in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1644 to 1654.<ref>Documents, chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia and to the settlement at Manakin-Town: with an appendix of genealogies, presenting data of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and other families, Robert Alonzo Brock, 1886, page 193.</ref> He eventually owned three plantations, Curles, Bremo, and Malvern Hills. They totaled over 7,000 acres and would remain in the family for generations.<ref>Richard Cocke of Henrico, Virginia, Steven R. Day, November 1, 2007]</ref>

Lt. Cocke died in 1665 in Henrico Co., Virginia.

Lt. Cocke died in 1665 in Henrico Co., Virginia. [[United States President]]s [[George H. W. Bush]] and [[George W. Bush]] are descended from Richard Cocke.<ref>''The Royal Descents of Five Hundred Immigrants'', by Gary Boyd Roberts.</ref><ref>''Ancestors of American Presidents'', by Gary Boyd Roberts</ref>

 

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