Valentine Cook (abt. 1730 - 1798)

Born about 1730 in York, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Susannah (Baughman) Cook — married [date unknown] in Prob York County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 23 Apr 1798 at about age 68 in Cook's Fort, Greenbrier Co Virginia

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Biography

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #82453515 (extensive bibliographical material)
• Burial: Cook's Fort, Greenville, Monroe County, West Virginia, USA
• Plot: unmarked grave

• WikiTree profile Cook-4726 created through the import of mom_2012-08-01.ged on Aug 2, 2012 by John Stroud. See the Changes page for the details of edits by John and others.

• Source: S00049 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R00001 NOTEAncestry.com, Public Member Trees (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2006).
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• United States War of 1812 Index to Service Records, 1812-1815, database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29V-1PM3 : 11 March 2016), Valentine Cook, 1812-1815; citing NARA microfilm publication M602 (Washington, D.C.: 9National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); roll 45; FHL microfilm 882,563.

• (use with caution, pedigree resource file) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:M7BD-VWM : accessed 2017-05-08), entry for Valentine COOK.

Will of Valentine Cook

Dated November 18, 1797, is recorded in Greenbrier Co. Wills Book 1, pages 133-134. It was presented in Greenbrier Co. Court in December 1797. Witnesses to the will were Dennis Ready, Michael Maddix, and Robert Richey. The court appointed his widow, Susanna Cook, as administrator. Susannah, with her security, Isaac Estille, entered into bond to the court in the sum of ten thousand dollars for her "due and faithful administration."

"In the name of God, amen, I Valentine Cook of the County of Greenbrier, being very sick but in perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God, and calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make ordain this my last will and testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul to Almighty God that gave it and my body.

I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian burial and as touching such worldly estate wherewith the Lord has blessed me in this life, I give demise and dispose of the same in manner and form following.

First of all I give and bequeath to Susanna, my dearly beloved wife,the dwelling house which I now live in with all the moveables pertaining thereunto, likewise two negroes, to witt Ben and Hannah, also a horse or mare and saddle and bridle, also two cows, likewise the Gristmill as also third part of the land that may be sold hereafter and stock. Likewise to Jacob and Valentine Cook, my sons, I give and bequeath two hundred acres of land each.

The land that I give and bequeath to Jacob Cook is to begin at the foot of the hill by the knob and from thence extending in a directcourse to where the line strikes the road beyond the Meeting House and thence going with the road to the ford of the mill creek and from thence extending a northeast course to the northeast end of the high ridge keeping the ridge westward of the other end of the same to a tree marked with the letters V and C from thence extending to a hickory tree about 50 yards above the mill field and then keeping near a south west course to the foot of the big hill and extending along the same to the place first mentioned, namely the foot of the knob.

To Valentine Cook I will give and bequeath that part of my plantation which includes what is called the lower and middle and tobacco fields with their bottoms, the boundary lines to begin at the southwest corner of Jacob Cook's line bordering upon his line to the end of the high ridge to the said tree containing V and C and from thence extending nearly north to an ash tree standing in the Indian Draft marked with the letters V and C from thence to the foot of the hill to the ford of Indian Creek below the lower field from thence going to the lowest corner of my line and from thence extending to the corner of Jacob's line including the lick and part of the hill. This is all that I allow to Jacob and Valentine Cook, my two sons. The rest of my estate is to be equally divided between the children. To Jean, daughter to William Cook, I give and bequeath the sum of one hundred and thirty three dollars and two shillings when levied out of my estate. Likewise, I give and bequeath to Robert Richey the half of the powder mill that is now building, without any lease or molestation what ever. Likewise, in whatever hand my son Adam Cook deceases this life the same is to receive his estate. And I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke, and disannul every other former testaments, wills, legacies, bequests and executors by me in any wise before named, willed and bequeath, ratify and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness where I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth day of November the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred Ninety Seven. Signed, sealed and published and pronounced and declared by the said Valentine Cook as his last will and testament in his presence and in the presence of each other have here unto subscribed our names. (signed) Valentine Cook(seal).Witnesses: Dennis Ready, Michael Maddix, Robert Richey"