Deed: Henry Cook to Ann Cook and others

Henry Cook conveyed five unnamed enslaved people to his three children.

Kind of paper

Deed

Made by

Henry Cook (printed HENRY COOK)

Dated

19 August 1799

Proved

November 1799 court

To

Ann Cook (my three children); Augustin Cook (my three children); Hamlin Cook (my three children)

Witness

Hardress Hawkins

Enslaved people not named

Five enslaved people

Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.

Where to find it

• Orange County Will Book C, page 153.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded 1752 through 1800 in Orange County, North Carolina, Will Books A, B and C (Davie Poplar Chapter NSDAR, revised edition 1966).
• Also listed in Mark Chilton, “Wills Recorded in Orange County, NC 1756–1893” (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2019), an index of the will books with references to the court minutes.
• Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).