This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cook Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xY.2ADI/399 Message Board Post: Interested in lineage of John Edwin Cook, a henchman of abolitionist John Brown. Cook was hanged in Charleston (West) Virginia 1859, and is said to have been born in Haddam ca 1830: Was he related to the Cook's of Wallingford, Ct?