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His wife, Temperance died young after giving birth to two children, Thomas and Richard. Cocke married Mary Aston the daughter of Lt. Walter Aston and had several more children. Including another son named Richard who was referred to as “the Younger.”

His wife, Temperance died young after giving birth to two children, Thomas and Richard. Cocke married Mary Aston the daughter of Lt. Walter Aston and had several more children. Including another son named Richard who was referred to as “the Younger.”

Cocke served as County Lieutenant various times and served as a representative from Henrico in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1644 to 1654. His estate was called "Malvern Hill".<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Documents, chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia and to the settlement at Manakin-Town: with an appendix of genealogies, presenting data of the Fontaine,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>

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Documents, chiefly unpublished, relating to the Huguenot emigration to Virginia and to the settlement at Manakin-Town: with an appendix of genealogies, presenting data of the Fontaine,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 at Malvern Hill in Henrico County.

Lt. Cocke died in 1665 at Malvern Hill in Henrico County.