This is a family that begins with Abraham Cooke, an apparent immigrant to Old Rappahannock County, Virginia who first appears there in 1684.

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Papers on each generation of my own Cook line:

• Abraham Cook (c1660 – 1720s) of Old Rappahannock, New Kent, and Hanover counties.  This includes a discussion of the evidence for identifying his likely children.  For a discussion of the identity of his wife see the McAllister paper below.
  • Abraham Cook records in Old Rappahannock County
• Benjamin Cook (1690s – 1759/60) a possible son of Abraham Cooke who lived in Hanover (later Louisa) County, Virginia and who had two known sons, William and Benjamin.
• William Cook (c1730 – 1801) of Louisa and Charlotte County, Virginia and later of Surry County, North Carolina.  This paper includes discussion of his eleven children and his wife Keziah Burch.
• Samuel Cook (12 September 1774  – 13 July 1828) of Surry County, North Carolina and Jones County, Georgia including identification of his two wives, Elizabeth Hendrick and Sarah Jull, and his large family.
• Asa Barrett Cook (28 January 1806 – 6 December 1848) of various Georgia counties and Titus County, Texas.  For the details of his divorce from his wife Elizabeth W. Ivey, see paper below.
• Andrew Barney Cook (3 April 1836 – 19 November 1902) of Titus County, Texas, founder of the town of Cookville, and husband of Sarah Gray Rountree.  (My great-great-great-grandfather)

 Supplemental information about my Cook Ancestors:

• The old Samuel Cook Family Cemetery in Clinton, Georgia
• Summary of the Asa Barret Cook divorce case in 1846, including depositions given to the Upson County, Georgia Superior Court.
• The story of the Titus County, Texas Cook brothers in the Civil War
• A brief history of Cookville, Texas — founded by my great-great-great-grandfather Andrew Barney Cook

Some Miscellaneous Cook Files:

• The Cook-McAllister Connection – a paper summarizing the possible nature of the connection between Abraham Cooke and his mother-in-law Hannah McAllister
• Abraham Cook records in Old Rappahannock County
• David Cook’s letters written in 1816 from Barren County, Kentucky to his mother and brother-in-law in Surry County, which briefly mention several of his siblings.
• William Nichols Cook (c1730 – c1810):  A paper on a neighbor and contemporary of William Cook in Surry County, North Carolina whose children have been widely confused with William Cook’s children.
• John Cook (c1755 – 1804) who may have been the eldest son of William Nichols Cook.
• Some notes on several other William Cooks in 18th century Surry County
• A list of all Cooks in the Surry County, North Carolina Tax Lists from 1767-1821
• Cooks in the Surry County Censuses of 1786, 1790, 1800, and 1810.