Hi! I wanted to ask if anyone had info of stokes co. nc. of a Ruth Hooker. She is in the 1820-1830 census. Wanting to know who's wife,, mom etc she might be? Or the land info? SHe is in the 1830 census neighbors are Lemuel, Hooker. and another one Elam Hooker. 1820 census, near David Hooker. I have Albert Hooker 1850 census russell co. va. and he was at stokes co nc. 1840 before that. Thanks

I imagine that "Ruth" is related in some way to William and Jerusha Lawson Hooker--probably a daughter in law. William and Jerusha Lawson Hooker had several children--one of then "David" is mentioned by name in a document. Back in 2006 (September) there was a very long thread about Patrick County Hookers and Jack's ancestors in Stokes CO, NC moving back and forth to Patrick CO, VA. There is continual talk on the "6 brothers" and their parentage. Not that I have any new monumental info but I would like to add some stuff to that complicated thread: First: It is often said that the very early VA to NC line is pretty well documented. True--that is my line--but there are also many lost sons NOT documented. For instance what happened to "Symon"--an underaged child mentioned in his father Godphrey's Will of 1730? There are numerous others from Godphrey's son Benjamin I's lines. There are isolated Hookers like John, Sr. and Jr. living in Granville CO on the 1790 census. Were they 'sons" of the so called William I or William II lines. (I think so) We know that some of the lines went to GA, FL, MS, TN, TX, SC. But we don’t know all. Now here is some data found here, at the Archives and online (mostly for the benefit of Sheri and Jack. ( I, Sharon, believe that the Hookers of Stokes and the Hookers of Patrick, Henry, and early undivided Pittsylvania were probably the same family. They all lived on or near the Dan River and from Lawson family accounts and Hooker known accounts both families went back and forth. Note name similarities of Jerusha’s Lawsons to Hookers. I posted so much about the Lawson’s because at least twice they married a “Hooker” and lived in the same areas—though I have found no deeds with both names together. The Lawson mailing list is long and contains 100s of deeds. Carl of carl@lawson.net has some really good info including: “1800 Personal Property Tax Records Northern District Halifax County, Virginia May 16 - Lawson, John; 1 free white over 16, 1 horse May 17 - Lawson, Moses; 1 free white over 16, 1 horse This John Lawson died in 1813 in Stokes County but I do not find a John of this age in 1800 Stokes County census, which indicates he was still in Halifax County. Also in his will, all he had to give his family was a horse and bridle, which he gave to his daughter. Where was his land? The Revolutionary War pension records for his son, Moses, and his son-in-law, William Hooker, indicated that their two families lived in Surry County, North Carolina for many years, but moved to Halifax County, Virginia, where they lived for a number of years before moving back to Stokes County, North Carolina. It was also stated in William Hooker's pension papers that John Goober Pea had relatives in Halifax County. William Hooker married Jurusha ŒRessia¹ Lawson 25 June 1776 in Surry County, N. C. In Jurusha (Lawson) Hooker¹s Pension application, dated 2 May 1838, Stokes County, N. C., she indicated her husband, William Hooker was drafted in the month of August 1776 and marched from Surry County, N. C. under the command of Capt. Richard Goode in Col. Williams Regiment of Militia against the Cherokee Tribe of Indians and returned to her on Christmas day 1776. He was again in the service in the Fall of 1778 and she remembers her husband returned home when her brother John Lawson and she was planting a patch of corn she believes in the first of May 1779, he being gone six months at least. His last tour was in the Summer of 1780 and served one year. Deposition of John Lawson Sr., for Jerusia (Lawson) Hooker's pension application (his sister) dated 2 May 1838, Stokes County, North Carolina. Be it known that on this 2nd day of May 1838 before me Charles Banner a Justice of the Peace for said County, personally appeared John Lawson Sen., a resident of said County who is a person of high standing for respectability and truth, a brother of the widow Jerusia Hooker who is about to make application for a pension for service rendered by her husband William Hooker, deceased, during the Revolutionary War, he being first sworn according to Laws declares on his Oath that a certain Minister of the Baptist Church, in the County aforesaid published the Bans agreeable the Rules and Customs of the Church, he married or Solemnized the Rites of Matrimony between William Hooker and his sister Jerusia, sometime in June 1776, the preacher's name was William Stephens and the said Hooker, the same summer was drafted and went as a private soldier in the expedition against the Cherokee Indians and went under a Capt. Richard Goode as a private soldier and returned about Christmas 1776, after being gone at least four months and afterwards he went to the South as a private soldier, he believes a volunteer under Capt. Meridith or Caplt. Wm. Bostick he thinks in September 1778 and was gone until the next Spring in planting corn time, when he returned home and said he had been in several skirmishes with Tories and one Battle where he had to swim a river at a place near the Battle ground, he thinks it was called Briar Creek (this in Georgia), in this tour he believes he was gone seven months, as he and his sister Jerusia lived together during the time he was gone, this Deponent was about fifteen years of age at that time and his sister had only one child then, called David and she had no other child for about five years as her husband was gone in the service nearly that length of time, only returned at intervals stays but a short time at home and would turn out again. The next he went in a company of horse men in the latter part of Summer or Fall in 1780 under a Capt. Cloud who lived near him in then Surry County, North Carolina and was gone three months and said he had been in the Battle of Kings Mountain and lost his horse in the Battle, but that his Major Winston procured him another horse belonging to the enemy. They brought to the old Moravian Town in said County of Surry as prisoners; Shortly after Hooker returned home from this tour of three months. This deponent was sent by his Father, John Lawson, deceased, to Halifax County, Virginia to his relatives where he remained almost two years and does not know of any more services of his brother-in-law, Wm. Hooker, only what he related as having enlisted and was in the Battle at Guilford where he was wounded in one of his legs and was in a Battle at Camden and the last Battle when the British surrendered at Little York from which he returned home and lived with Jerusia his wife and they had seven or eight children most of whom are now dead and the said William Hooker died in the Spring of the year 1826 leaving his sister Jerusia a widow, who has remained a widow ever since that period and he knows from the family records of his father that she is seventy seven years of age past and is the identical woman that was married to said William Hooker as above stated. Sworn and subscribed the date first above mentioned before me C. Banner J.P. Signed John (X) Lawson Sr. Drury Lawson was a substitute for William Hooker (John Lawson's son-in-law) in the summer of 1780 when he joined the Militia in the Revolutionary War. Must be a connection with John Lawson ³Goober Pea?² Carl)” OTHER INFO from LAWSON MAILING LIST: 2----Generation No. 1 1. JOHN LAWSON (FRANCIS1) was born Abt. 1700 in Halifax Co,VA. He married PRISCILLA Abt. 1739. Children of JOHN LAWSON and PRISCILLA are: i. JOHN3 LAWSON, b. Abt. 1740, Halifax Co,VA; d. March 19, 1813; m. MARGARET BRYANT. Notes for JOHN LAWSON: Births Halifax Co,VA. Moses Lawson b.abt 1760 Jerusha Lawson b.abt 1761 John Lawson b.abt 1764 (?) 3----Below is part of the information in the Stokes County North Carolina History Book regarding the Lawson Family, Lawsonville-Snow Creek: (This information was submitted by John Tucker) Family Record 626 John Lawson was born circa 1740 in Virginia and died 19 March, 1813. His wife is unknown. Their children were: Moses Amos Lawson, circa 1762-1813, m. Elizabeth Bradley; Jurusha Lawson Hooker, circa 1761-1852, m. Silliam Hooker; John Lawson, circa 1764-unknown, m. Elizabeth Miller. John Lawson died at the home of his daughter, Jurusha Hooker. In his oral will, witnessed by Jesse Lawson and Patsy Lawson, his grandson and grand- daughter-in-law, John Lawson gave to Jurusha Lawson Hooker a horse, saddle and bridle for the care in which she had given him during his last illness. 4----“John Lawson one of the early settlers on the Dan River, known children at publishing were; Jerusha Lawson, b Halifax Co 1761, married William Hooker. Moses Amos Lawson, b c 1763, married Elizabeth Bradley: There is a family history on his descendants. John Lawson Jr b abt 1764, married Elizabeth Miller.” 5-----“1 William HOOKER b: ABT 1755 NC? d: May 26, 1826 Stokes CO, NC ..+Jerusha LAWSON b: January 8, 1761 Halifax CO, VA d: 1852 Stokes CO, NC m: June 25, 1776 .........2 David HOOKER b: September 26, 1777 .........2 William HOOKER b: September 18, 1782 "moved out of state' d: Bef. 1839 .........2 John HOOKER b: August 28, 1784 moved "out of state" d: Bef. 1839 .........2 Mary HOOKER b: September 27, 1786 d: Bef. 1839 .........2 martha HOOKER b: June 10, 1788 4 children d: Bef. 1839 .............+Jesse LAWSON .........2 Sarah HOOKER b: May 15, 1790 d: Bef. 1839 .........2 Alfred HOOKER b: July 18, 1792 .........2 Lemuel HOOKER b: November 4, 1796 d: Bef. 1839 no children” 6----LAWSON - HOOKER John Lawson married Patsey Hooker in 1824 in Stokes Co., NC. She was the daughter of David and Sarah Mullins Hooker. David was the son of William and Jerusha Lawson Hooker. These two families came to Patrick County around 1828 and settled in the Smith River section. David and Sarah Hooker's daughter Eliza married in Patrick County to John Martin, the son of Moses and Delphy Martin. ”The Lawsons were living in a close group in Henry/Patrick Counties, VA and Surry/Stokes Counties, NC. They were living on the state line of VA/NC and some of them may have had land that crossed the state line and you will find them in the tax lists and censuses of both states. Some of the land they owned was on Peter¹s Creek and the Upper Dan River, which you will also find in both states.” 7--- Patrick Co. Commonwealths Grants or Patents, Book #81 there are 2 Hooker names. WILLIAM HOOKER 3 Aug 1797 "on the north side of the Southfork of Little Dan River" in Henry Co and SAMUEL HOOKER 20 Sept 1833 "on the fork of Little Dan" THE HISTORY OF PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY by Maud Carter Clement--"... In 1747 Thomas Jones, Roger Turner, and David Griffith were on Pigg River and Isaac Atkinson, William Owen and ROBERT HOOKER had settled plantations there From: hooker-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:hooker-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sheri Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:24 AM To: hooker@rootsweb.com Subject: [HOOKER] ruth hooker Hi! I wanted to ask if anyone had info of stokes co. nc. of a Ruth Hooker. She is in the 1820-1830 census. Wanting to know who's wife,, mom etc she might be? Or the land info? SHe is in the 1830 census neighbors are Lemuel, Hooker. and another one Elam Hooker. 1820 census, near David Hooker. I have Albert Hooker 1850 census russell co. va. and he was at stokes co nc. 1840 before that. Thanks ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HOOKER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I forgot to say that many of the Hookers in Randolph CO, late 1700s to early 1800s I have found in Indiana. Remember several were Quakers. -----Original Message----- From: hooker-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:hooker-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sheri Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:24 AM To: hooker@rootsweb.com Subject: [HOOKER] ruth hooker Hi! I wanted to ask if anyone had info of stokes co. nc. of a Ruth Hooker. She is in the 1820-1830 census. Wanting to know who's wife,, mom etc she might be? Or the land info? SHe is in the 1830 census neighbors are Lemuel, Hooker. and another one Elam Hooker. 1820 census, near David Hooker. I have Albert Hooker 1850 census russell co. va. and he was at stokes co nc. 1840 before that. Thanks ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HOOKER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

For some reason this did not post this morning--so am reposting. Please forgive if it finally posts twice. I imagine that "Ruth" is related in some way to William and Jerusha Lawson Hooker--probably a daughter in law. William and Jerusha Lawson Hooker had several children--one of then "David" is mentioned by name in a document. Back in 2006 (September) there was a very long thread about Patrick County Hookers and Jack's ancestors in Stokes CO, NC moving back and forth to Patrick CO, VA. Not that I have any new monumental info but I would like to add some stuff to that complicated thread: First: It is often said that the very early VA to NC line is pretty well documented. True--that is my line--but there are also many lost sons NOT documented. For instance what happened to "Symon"--an underaged child mentioned in his father Godphrey's Will of 1730? There are numerous others from Godphrey's son Benjamin I's lines. There are isolated Hookers like John, Sr. and Jr. living in Granville CO on the 1790 census. Were they 'sons" of the so called William I or William II lines. (I think so) We know that some of the lines went to GA, FL, MS, TN, TX, SC. But we don’t know all. Now here is some data found here, at the Archives and online (mostly for the benefit of Sheri and Jack. ( I, Sharon, believe that the Hookers of Stokes and the Hookers of Patrick, Henry, and early undivided Pittsylvania were probably the same family. They all lived on or near the Dan River and from Lawson family accounts and Hooker known accounts both families went back and forth. Note name similarities of Jerusha’s Lawsons to Hookers. I posted so much about the Lawson’s because at least twice they married a “Hooker” and lived in the same areas—though I have found no deeds with both names together. The Lawson mailing list is long and contains 100s of deeds. Carl of carl@lawson.net has some really good info including: “1800 Personal Property Tax Records Northern District Halifax County, Virginia May 16 - Lawson, John; 1 free white over 16, 1 horse May 17 - Lawson, Moses; 1 free white over 16, 1 horse This John Lawson died in 1813 in Stokes County but I do not find a John of this age in 1800 Stokes County census, which indicates he was still in Halifax County. Also in his will, all he had to give his family was a horse and bridle, which he gave to his daughter. Where was his land? The Revolutionary War pension records for his son, Moses, and his son-in-law, William Hooker, indicated that their two families lived in Surry County, North Carolina for many years, but moved to Halifax County, Virginia, where they lived for a number of years before moving back to Stokes County, North Carolina. It was also stated in William Hooker's pension papers that John Goober Pea had relatives in Halifax County. William Hooker married Jurusha ŒRessia¹ Lawson 25 June 1776 in Surry County, N. C. In Jurusha (Lawson) Hooker¹s Pension application, dated 2 May 1838, Stokes County, N. C., she indicated her husband, William Hooker was drafted in the month of August 1776 and marched from Surry County, N. C. under the command of Capt. Richard Goode in Col. Williams Regiment of Militia against the Cherokee Tribe of Indians and returned to her on Christmas day 1776. He was again in the service in the Fall of 1778 and she remembers her husband returned home when her brother John Lawson and she was planting a patch of corn she believes in the first of May 1779, he being gone six months at least. His last tour was in the Summer of 1780 and served one year. Deposition of John Lawson Sr., for Jerusia (Lawson) Hooker's pension application (his sister) dated 2 May 1838, Stokes County, North Carolina. Be it known that on this 2nd day of May 1838 before me Charles Banner a Justice of the Peace for said County, personally appeared John Lawson Sen., a resident of said County who is a person of high standing for respectability and truth, a brother of the widow Jerusia Hooker who is about to make application for a pension for service rendered by her husband William Hooker, deceased, during the Revolutionary War, he being first sworn according to Laws declares on his Oath that a certain Minister of the Baptist Church, in the County aforesaid published the Bans agreeable the Rules and Customs of the Church, he married or Solemnized the Rites of Matrimony between William Hooker and his sister Jerusia, sometime in June 1776, the preacher's name was William Stephens and the said Hooker, the same summer was drafted and went as a private soldier in the expedition against the Cherokee Indians and went under a Capt. Richard Goode as a private soldier and returned about Christmas 1776, after being gone at least four months and afterwards he went to the South as a private soldier, he believes a volunteer under Capt. Meridith or Caplt. Wm. Bostick he thinks in September 1778 and was gone until the next Spring in planting corn time, when he returned home and said he had been in several skirmishes with Tories and one Battle where he had to swim a river at a place near the Battle ground, he thinks it was called Briar Creek (this in Georgia), in this tour he believes he was gone seven months, as he and his sister Jerusia lived together during the time he was gone, this Deponent was about fifteen years of age at that time and his sister had only one child then, called David and she had no other child for about five years as her husband was gone in the service nearly that length of time, only returned at intervals stays but a short time at home and would turn out again. The next he went in a company of horse men in the latter part of Summer or Fall in 1780 under a Capt. Cloud who lived near him in then Surry County, North Carolina and was gone three months and said he had been in the Battle of Kings Mountain and lost his horse in the Battle, but that his Major Winston procured him another horse belonging to the enemy. They brought to the old Moravian Town in said County of Surry as prisoners; Shortly after Hooker returned home from this tour of three months. This deponent was sent by his Father, John Lawson, deceased, to Halifax County, Virginia to his relatives where he remained almost two years and does not know of any more services of his brother-in-law, Wm. Hooker, only what he related as having enlisted and was in the Battle at Guilford where he was wounded in one of his legs and was in a Battle at Camden and the last Battle when the British surrendered at Little York from which he returned home and lived with Jerusia his wife and they had seven or eight children most of whom are now dead and the said William Hooker died in the Spring of the year 1826 leaving his sister Jerusia a widow, who has remained a widow ever since that period and he knows from the family records of his father that she is seventy seven years of age past and is the identical woman that was married to said William Hooker as above stated. Sworn and subscribed the date first above mentioned before me C. Banner J.P. Signed John (X) Lawson Sr. Drury Lawson was a substitute for William Hooker (John Lawson's son-in-law) in the summer of 1780 when he joined the Militia in the Revolutionary War. Must be a connection with John Lawson ³Goober Pea?² Carl)” OTHER INFO from LAWSON MAILING LIST: 2----Generation No. 1 1. JOHN LAWSON (FRANCIS1) was born Abt. 1700 in Halifax Co,VA. He married PRISCILLA Abt. 1739. Children of JOHN LAWSON and PRISCILLA are: i. JOHN3 LAWSON, b. Abt. 1740, Halifax Co,VA; d. March 19, 1813; m. MARGARET BRYANT. Notes for JOHN LAWSON: Births Halifax Co,VA. Moses Lawson b.abt 1760 Jerusha Lawson b.abt 1761 John Lawson b.abt 1764 (?) 3----Below is part of the information in the Stokes County North Carolina History Book regarding the Lawson Family, Lawsonville-Snow Creek: (This information was submitted by John Tucker) Family Record 626 John Lawson was born circa 1740 in Virginia and died 19 March, 1813. His wife is unknown. Their children were: Moses Amos Lawson, circa 1762-1813, m. Elizabeth Bradley; Jurusha Lawson Hooker, circa 1761-1852, m. Silliam Hooker; John Lawson, circa 1764-unknown, m. Elizabeth Miller. John Lawson died at the home of his daughter, Jurusha Hooker. In his oral will, witnessed by Jesse Lawson and Patsy Lawson, his grandson and grand- daughter-in-law, John Lawson gave to Jurusha Lawson Hooker a horse, saddle and bridle for the care in which she had given him during his last illness. 4----“John Lawson one of the early settlers on the Dan River, known children at publishing were; Jerusha Lawson, b Halifax Co 1761, married William Hooker. Moses Amos Lawson, b c 1763, married Elizabeth Bradley: There is a family history on his descendants. John Lawson Jr b abt 1764, married Elizabeth Miller.” 5-----“1 William HOOKER b: ABT 1755 NC? d: May 26, 1826 Stokes CO, NC ..+Jerusha LAWSON b: January 8, 1761 Halifax CO, VA d: 1852 Stokes CO, NC m: June 25, 1776 .........2 David HOOKER b: September 26, 1777 .........2 William HOOKER b: September 18, 1782 "moved out of state' d: Bef. 1839 .........2 John HOOKER b: August 28, 1784 moved "out of state" d: Bef. 1839 .........2 Mary HOOKER b: September 27, 1786 d: Bef. 1839 .........2 martha HOOKER b: June 10, 1788 4 children d: Bef. 1839 .............+Jesse LAWSON .........2 Sarah HOOKER b: May 15, 1790 d: Bef. 1839 .........2 Alfred HOOKER b: July 18, 1792 .........2 Lemuel HOOKER b: November 4, 1796 d: Bef. 1839 no children” 6----LAWSON - HOOKER John Lawson married Patsey Hooker in 1824 in Stokes Co., NC. She was the daughter of David and Sarah Mullins Hooker. David was the son of William and Jerusha Lawson Hooker. These two families came to Patrick County around 1828 and settled in the Smith River section. David and Sarah Hooker's daughter Eliza married in Patrick County to John Martin, the son of Moses and Delphy Martin. ”The Lawsons were living in a close group in Henry/Patrick Counties, VA and Surry/Stokes Counties, NC. They were living on the state line of VA/NC and some of them may have had land that crossed the state line and you will find them in the tax lists and censuses of both states. Some of the land they owned was on Peter¹s Creek and the Upper Dan River, which you will also find in both states.” 7--- Patrick Co. Commonwealths Grants or Patents, Book #81 there are 2 Hooker names. WILLIAM HOOKER 3 Aug 1797 "on the north side of the Southfork of Little Dan River" in Henry Co and SAMUEL HOOKER 20 Sept 1833 "on the fork of Little Dan" THE HISTORY OF PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY by Maud Carter Clement--"... In 1747 Thomas Jones, Roger Turner, and David Griffith were on Pigg River and Isaac Atkinson, William Owen and ROBERT HOOKER had settled plantations there From: hooker-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:hooker-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sheri Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:24 AM To: hooker@rootsweb.com Subject: [HOOKER] ruth hooker Hi! I wanted to ask if anyone had info of stokes co. nc. of a Ruth Hooker. She is in the 1820-1830 census. Wanting to know who's wife,, mom etc she might be? Or the land info? SHe is in the 1830 census neighbors are Lemuel, Hooker. and another one Elam Hooker. 1820 census, near David Hooker. I have Albert Hooker 1850 census russell co. va. and he was at stokes co nc. 1840 before that. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: hooker-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:hooker-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sheri Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:24 AM To: hooker@rootsweb.com Subject: [HOOKER] ruth hooker Hi! I wanted to ask if anyone had info of stokes co. nc. of a Ruth Hooker. She is in the 1820-1830 census. Wanting to know who's wife,, mom etc she might be? Or the land info? SHe is in the 1830 census neighbors are Lemuel, Hooker. and another one Elam Hooker. 1820 census, near David Hooker. I have Albert Hooker 1850 census russell co. va. and he was at stokes co nc. 1840 before that. Thanks ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HOOKER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message