Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!LINEAGE: Pulaski Co. KY Deed Book 17, page 208, 19 May 1856.

Aaron Van Hook Paper of Administration to George Van Hook. Power
of Attorney. (Aaron appointed his son, George, to handle the estate
of Lawrence Van Hook who died 1801 in Caswell Co., NC. Aaron
testified that he was the son of Aaron who was the son of Lawrence

AARON married RUSSELL JEMIMA. [Group Sheet]

1. VAN HOOK LAWRENCE was born in in Russell, Virginia; died in 1864 in Pulaski County, Kentucky.
2. VAN HOOK JEMIMA was born in in Russell County, Virginia; died in in Edgar County, Illinois.
3. VAN HOOK POLLY
4. VAN HOOK WILLIAM was born in 1784 in Washington County, Virginia; died in 1814 in Pulaski County, Kentucky.
5. VAN HOOK RUTHIE was born on 22 Oct 1790 in Russell County, Virginia; died on 25 Feb 1867 in Coles County, Illinois.
6. VAN HOOK AARON was born about 1791; died before 5 Jan 1869 in Pulaski County, Kentucky.

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
Powell, William S. (1977). "When the Past Refused to Die". Caswell County
Historical Society: Yanceville, NC.

page 94.
"But with the opening of the new courthouse early in 1785 the area around it
began to develop. Lawrence Van Hook was authorized to keep an ordinary or
tavern at Caswell Court House, as the place was called, later that year."

page 168.
"Not all young people lived such an easy life. Young Lloyd Van Hook, who had
recently gone to Danville, Virginia, to work, wrote a very touching letter home
to his father, Lawrence, on March 18, 1837. He was obviously quite homesick and
now filled with repentance for something that had occurred before he left for
the big city. `I should be very glad to see you all and all of my old
acquaintances. I should be very glad to see old Uncle Thomas Johnston's Family
it would afford me great pleasure to spend a week over the ground where I was
chiefly raised although I know that it would make me feel Melincholy still it
would afford me pleasure-but nay the time is past when I shall be as one of
your family-no more I shall enjoy the pleasing smiles of my little Brothers &
Sisters night after night, but nay, [i am] still absent from you all,
unfortunate and disobedient child that I am ..." (Continues on for a while).
"But all must have been forgiven because young Van Hook was back in Caswell
County in 1846 employed as a schoolteacher."

LAWRENCE married LLOYD BRIDGET in New Jersey. BRIDGET was born in in New Jersey; died after 1778 in Caswell, North Carolina. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!RESIDENCE:
Aaron and Catherine migrated from New Jersey area around 1750 for
Pennsylvania and North Carolina. They settled in the Orange County, NC
area which was later divided, forming Caswell Co., later Person Co. The
Van Hook land laid in both counties. Their descendants came to Kentucky in the
early 1800's.

!WILL:
Aaron purchased land in NC in 1756. His will was probated there in 1760.

!DEED:
Powell, William S. (1977). "When the Past Refused to Die: A History of Caswell
County North Carolina 1777-1977". Caswell County Historical Society:
Yanceville, NC.

Page 35
"Hosea Tapley had a grant from Earl Granville for 400 acres on Flat River on
November 1, 1751, but in 1756 Hosea and his wife sold their property to Aaron
Van Hook who moved in from Virginia and paid 50 pounds Virginia money for the
tract. In this same part of the future Caswell County that was to become Person
in 1792, William Barnett acquired 200 acres a few days before Christmas in
1751."

ARENT married BALCK CATHERINE about 1722 in New Jersey. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
Spelling of last name was probably changed during Lawrence's lifetime.
Lorenzior was commonly called Lawrence.

!RESIDENCE:
Lawrence moved from New York to New Jersey in 1712 with family.

!VOCATION:
Bernice Keister Book in the Tennessee State Archives, there are some
facts recorded about Lawrence. New York records of 29 SEP 1700 show that
the Mayor appointed him High Constable of the city. He was the assessor
of the dock ward, 1705-6. He was listed in both the New York and New
Jersey records as a merchant. He owned land in Monmouth Co., NJ., and
houses and land in New York. He was also an Associate Justice of the
Quarter Sessions of Monmouth Co., NJ from 1714 to 1721.

Wordon, J. D. (1983). "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 113
Years Master Index 1870-1982". Auundsen Pub.: Decorah, IA.

Van Hook, Lawrence 1908 Vol. 39 #1 Page 67
Notes: Vol. 10 Page 47

!DEATH: Will dated 1724 of Freehold, New Jersey.

LAURENS married SMITH JOHANNA HENDRICKS on 3 Jul 1692 in Philadelphia, Chester County, Pennsylvania. JOHANNA was born in 1673 in New YorK; died on 2 Jun 1747 in Faggs Manor, West Chester, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!BIRTH: ibid, page 59.

!DEATH: Keister, Bernice (1957). "Van Hook and Allied Families", page 48.

Notes:

Per Larry Herrin:
!Jacob was believed to be a soldier with the Dutch West India Co.

JACOB married VANTIENHOVEN SARA on 14 Aug 1699 in New Jersey. [Group Sheet]