Carol, I am unable to pinpoint your Hail connection to the Rook family, but perhaps this will abstract from Margaret Hofmann's Northampton Co. NC Wills will be helpful. Northampton is generally in the area of Halifax Co. Will #529 pg 265 JONAS HAIL. Nuncupative will June Crt 1804...to my son WILLIAM HAIL negroes and the Weaver tract and the....(?) of Land joining and if he dies without heirs, to my son Jonas....,lend my wife Fanny Hail a parcel of Land...to dtr Rebecca Hail, the Balance of my negroes. Wits: Lemuel Long, Robert Ellis, H. Webb. "The above nuncupative will of Jonas Hail was brought into Crt by Samuel Summerille for probate. Fanny Hail came into court and entered a Caveat....the following Jury William Lashley, William Josey, T...H...(?), BENJAMIN ROOK, John Burk, Samuel Williams, David Laurence, John Peele, William Faison, J...(?) Boon, Fred Jones & Absalom Grant being sworn...say upon gtheir Oaths the Paper purporting to be as Nuncupative Will of Jonas Hail, dec'd is the Will of sd Jonas Hail. John Rook, Jr. son of John Rook and brother of Benjamin Rook also migrated to Montgomery Co. TN. Dixie