Individual Details

Online comment, no proof: From a biography of his grandson John F. Yount in Callaway County, Missouri, his grandfather John Crook, Sr. was a neighbor of George Washington in Virginia and John Crook, Sr. served in the Revolutionary War under General Washington.

(p 187) (Thomas Bounds & Thomas Lovelady ) Deed of conveyance for 84 To Issd. ) acres of land.- John Crook Snr. )Was this day acknowledged in open Court by (Continued) Thomas Bounds and Thomas Lovelady (p 188) for the purpose there in Mentioned, and ordered to be recorded- let it be registered and it is ordered accordingly.

July 26, 1817(p 51) John Crook ) To - issue ) Deed Jane Goolsby ) Deed conveyance 50 acres land was this day acknowledged in open court by John Crook, for the purposes and things therein mentioned, and ordered to be recorded - let it be registered.

January 18, 1819(p 291) John. Crook Senr. ) To - Issd ) Deed John Crook Junr. )Deed of conveyance for 84 acres of land was this day acknowledged in open court by John Crook, Senr. for the purposes and things therein mentioned, and ordered to be recorded, let it be Registered.

Was John Crook married to two different Rebeccas?

When John Cook died, the settlement of estate indicated that his wife Rebecca was a second wife and had previously been married.
1840. Settlement of her estate by William Hill and Sam Brown (Executors) indicated that her first husband, Richard Hill, died in 1818 and that she and John Crook Sr. did not have children. Her maiden name may have been Robinson.

There is a marriage, 24 May 1790 in Brunswick - John Crook to Rebecca Nash, her father, John Nash. she was age 21.

Birth	Abt 1740	Virginia
Death	1838	White County, Tennessee

Child

JANE Crook (1765 - 1850)