A Brief Correction for the Information Following Re: George Cook & Jane
Ashley Cook

The Huxford Volumes are a marvelous reference source but as Charles has
already pointed out, some inconsistencies are still there and you need to
do your own verification of the records.   For those of you interested in
the George Cook listed below, here is the correct and FACTUAL data from
legal papers giving documented evidence.

George Cook was not born earlier than 1767 (based on 1787 census of East
Florida in which he had not reached his majority and so was still listed as
a stepchild of William Pengree.  Jane, most likely born abt 1770 and
married around 1800.  George was killed in an Indian uprising sometime in
December 1814 and Jane died about 3 months following in March 1815.  
Public documents gives the names of four daughters only as being heirs of
George Cook.  They are:
Louisa Cook     m.  Josiah Rogers
Eliza Cook       m.  Julius Caesar  Alford
Jane  Cook      m.  Francis H. Cone (a judge)
George Ann Cook  m.  Rev. Charles Sanders

After the death of their parents, the girls who were all young were sent to
a boarding school under the guardianship of their uncle.  Later when they
reached their majority, they petitioned the courts for the land lost when
East Florida was given back to the Spanish.  

The Jane Cook who won land in the 1827 land lottery was not the Jane who
was the wife of George Cook since she was already deceased at that time. 
Neither was it her daughter, Jane Cook who had later married Judge Francis
H. Cone.

There were, or seemed to be, quite a number of George Cook(s) living at the
time of this George Cook that married Jane Ashley and there are quite a
number later on but the information contained in Huxford's profile of this
family is part right and part wrong.   I have not been able to complete my
research that will determine who the others listed belong to but I
definitely know they do not belong in George & Jane's family.

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 COOK, GEORGE.	1765-1815 	TELFAIR
> 
> George Cook was born in North Carolina about 1765. He died at his home in

 Jefferson County, Georgia, about 1815. His wife was Jane Ashley, born
about 
> 1768 in North Carolina, daughter of Nathaniel Ashley (Vol.11). To them
were 
> born six known children (order of birth not certain), viz:
> 
> 1. Hugh	b. 17--, m. Molsey Parker, Jan. 10, 1830. Died 	1833.
> 2. Eliza C.	b. 17--, m. Julius Alford.
> 3. William	b. 17--, died single In N. C., 1827.
> 4. Louisa Jane	b. 17--, m. Josiah Rodgers.
> 5.  Mary	b. 1800, m. John J. Twiggs.
> 6. Margaret	b. 1804, m. George Paulk, May 14, 1835 (Vol-lll).
> 
> Nathaniel Ashley was the administrator on the George Cook estate in 
> Jefferson County, and the administration was transferred to Telfair
County 
> in 1830, where the administrator having wound up the administration, was 
> dismissed March 1831. Mrs. Jane Cook, widow, drew land in the 1827
Georgia 
> land lottery, resident of Telfair county at the time. She receipted the 
> administrator March 19, 1829, for $10,000 in full for her part of her 
> husband's estate and shortly after married Francis H. Cone. Receipts from

 the children named above are also on record in Telfair Court of Ordinary.

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