Cooks Mentioned in Franklin Co. NC Court Minutes(March 1811)

Found mention of William Cook and Pope Cook in the Franklin County, North Carolina Court Minutes of March 1811.  

Minutes of March Court 1811, p 58

Ordered that Atha Thomas be appointed overseer
of the road from Billy's Creek to Chavis Road, and
that he keep the same in repair with the hands
of William and Pope Cook, William and Willie
Winston, James York, William, and Jesse Winston and
his own.

Is this William Pope Cook and his presumed father William Cook of Shem Cooke's line?  I don't know, but it is exciting to see these names together.

Source: 
Franklin County, North Carolina Court Minutes 1805-1820(film), Book 1810-1813, p 58, Road Work order for overseer Atha Thomas; images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:37SQ-29XD-M79 : accessed 19 May 2025) IGN 4779165, Image 189 of 813. [Mentions William and Pope Cook.]

Will of Phillip L. Gesell--1871 Franklin County, Indiana

My daughter's Paternal 5th Great Grandfather Phillip L. Gesell has such an informative will.  I found it today at Ancestry.  I've been wondering what all I'd see as far is it pertained to my own ancestry with the roll out of Ancestry's  Genetic Communities and today I thought about what it might mean for her ancestry as she too has atDNA tested at AncestryDNA.  While pretty much all of my lines are here in the US prior to the Revolutionary War, my daughter, Brittany has German lines which come to the US around 1830.  She also has an English line that immigrates in about 1890.

Phillip L. Gesell's Will is so wonderful because it names the children  and the husbands of his daughters as well as naming those who live out of state.  Three of the children are living in Iowa.

His Will is Recorded in Franklin Co Indiana.

Below is a small snippet of the will but it is perhaps the most informative portion.

Will of Phillip L Gesell
Probate Date 28 Aug 1871
Probate Place Franklin, Indiana, USA
Item Description Will Records, Vol 2-3, 1870-1890

Will Records; Author: Indiana. Probate Court (Franklin County); Probate Place: Franklin, Indiana   Will Records, Vol 2-3, 1870-1890  Ancestry.com. Indiana, Wills and Probate Records, 1798-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Indiana County, District and Probate Courts.
Accessed March 21, 2017