Colonel Edward Cook
(1738-1808)
Settling here in the 1770s, Cook became a prominent landholder, jurist, and politician. He was a member of the Provincial Congress in Philadelphia in 1776 and served at the State Constitutional Convention. Although a moderate during the Whiskey Rebellion, 1792-94, he joined the tax protesters and was elected chairman of several key rebel meetings.
Marker is at the intersection of Finley Road and Rehoboth Road, on the right when traveling east on Finley Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
