There is a book, published by the NC Dept. of Archives and History entitled The Formation of the North Carolina Counties 1663-1943 by David Leroy Corbett. The copy I have, a third printing of 1975 cost $9.00 from the shop in the Museum of History in Raleigh when I bought it several years ago. You might be interested in it. The purpose of the revision in the Wilson-Wayne County line in 1859 was to "leave the dwelling house of said (Jacob) Hooks in the county of Wayne". While I am not researching the Hooks family, there were several of them who married into the Bass family and if you are pursuing same, I would be glad to share informatiom. Probably the oldest Hooks name I have is Cullen Hooks, who was born about 1800. Al Bass Raleigh