John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 347

The children of the two daughters of Michael and Mary (Reiner) Cook, 1717 immigrants to Virginia, are known to a better degree than the children of Adam Cook.  One of the daughters, Dorothy, married John Carpenter, Jr.  The children of John and Dorothy are not given in the Hebron Register because the first child was born before 1750, and the Register includes no families whose first child was born before 1750.  The children of John and Dorothy are taken to be:

  1. John, III, b. ca 1748, who married Susanna Delph.
  2. George, the records are thin for George and the assumption is that he died young.
  3. Michael, b. ca 1755, married Rebecca Delph after 1776. Michael was in the Rev. War.
  4. Mary, b. ca 1761, married her first cousin Peter Cook, the son of Adam Cook.
  5. Samuel, b. ca 1761, married Margaret Blankenbaker.
  6. Margaret, b. ca 1763, died without marriage.
  7. Leah, b. ca 1765, very few records exist for her.
  8. Susanna, b. ca 1769, married John Jesse.

In the last note, Mary was given as a child of Adam Cook.  Note that the Mary here married Peter Cook, so that, after marriage, she would be a Mary Cook.  It is possible that Adam's Mary and Dorothy's Mary, after marriage, have been confused.

I have a question in my notes to think about.  Adam Barlow, Jr.'s, wife was a Leah.  Because the Cook, Reiner, Fleshman, and Barlow families are rather close, I have wondered if Leah Carpenter could have married Adam Barlow, Jr.  Maybe someone else could comment on this question.

The will of John Carpenter, Jr., who died in 1804, mentions the children John, Michael, Samuel, Mary Cook, Margaret Carpenter, and Susanna Jesse.  Thus, George and Leah in the list above are not confirmed by the will of John Carpenter, Jr.

In the Hebron Register, records for the Carpenters are found as both Zimmerman and as Carpenter.  There was another, unrelated, Zimmerman family who is always found as Zimmerman so that one must ask which family is meant.

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