I have been aware for about three years that some people believe they have found a connection between the Mayflower and Orange County, NC Cooks. In fact, I understand that one descendant of Martin Shofner and Catherine Cook Shofner, my direct line also, has been admitted to the Mayflower Society based on Catherine's supposed descent from the Cooks that were on the Mayflower. I have examined all the data on this subject that I can find and do not see any connection whatsoever. If anyone has any information on this subject feel free to prove me wrong. So far as I can determine, Catherine Cook was of German descent (Koch) and the Shofners were definitely of German descent. A number of Cooks had strong social and real estate connections with the Shofner family. In the 1790 census for Orange County, NC, the Shofners and a number of Cook families were living in close proximity. Another Shofner son, I believe it was Frederick, married Christina Cook. So I think my Cook line was of German descent. There may have been an English Cook line in Orange County in 1790 also. Roberta Cooke Schmidt is, in my opinion, probably going to connect with that line based on posts over the past two or three weeks on this list. If anyone has any information that will help identify the Cooks in the 1790 census for Orange County, please feel free to join in and help get them sorted out. Robert Nicholson, Kingman, AZ ---------- > From: Bebenjohn@aol.com > To: rn99@kingman.com; NCORANGE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Cook Family > Date: Friday, November 14, 1997 4:32 PM > > Dear Robert, > > I was just reading through "The History of Alamance" by Miss S. W. Stockard > printed in 1900, which was a work which came out of her MFA Thesis. She > mentioned the Cook Family in a very short passage which I thought that you > and others might like to know: > > CHAPTER XII. Cook Family > > The Cook family came over in the Mayflower. Francis and John Cook , 1620. > His son John Cook was in Petersburg, Virginia, 1750, but moved to Alamance, > settling on the Great Alamance, Mr. Edwin Holt's old place. > Henry Cook settled near the Daniel Holt place, 1750. > His son John (or Henry) married Miss McRae of Fayetteville. He was a > planter. They had five sons and two daughters. > Daniel married Miss Blackwood. > Archibald married Mrs. Staley. > Henry married Mary Bryan -Henry Monroe Cook, of Swepsonville. > Duncan married Emma Stanford. > John died. > Nancy married Judge Coble of Winston-Salem. > Julia married Andy Woods. > The Cooks were Whigs in time of the Revolution. > > > ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== > Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list > Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange > USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm > > ==== NCORANGE Mailing List ==== Larry Noah - lrnoah@bigfoot.com - Listowner - NCORANGE mailing list Orange Co, NC USGenWeb site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncorange USGenWeb Orange Co, NC Archives site is at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nc/orangnc.htm