The Life of Valentine Cook (a.k.a. Felty Koch)
All genealogy pages:
| 1721? | Father John Hamilton Cook marries Elizabeth Eaton in Yorkshire, England (RootsWeb) |
| 1729 | Birth of brother Jacob (RootsWeb) |
| 1730? |
Birth of Valentine (Klemm) Family moves to London |
| 1736? | Death of father (date deduced from Stevenson, 1858, p.11) |
| 1737 |
Remarriage of Mother to William Sly (Klemm, FamilySearch) Family settles in Amsterdam, Holland and Valentine, now "Felty Koch", and brother were educated in German and English (Stevenson, p.11) Valentine & brother later move to York, PA, perhaps as indentured servants (Inferred from Chalkley, Vol. II, 1912, p.224) |
| 1751? | Marriage to Swiss immigrant Susannah Baughman (originally Buchman) (RootsWeb) |
| 1751? | Birth of son Adam (RootsWeb) |
| 1754 | Brother-in-law Henry Baughman builds fort on the Greenbrier River, near present-day Alderson, WV (Baughman, 1994, The Webster Independent, p.4) |
| 1755? | Birth of son David (RootsWeb) |
| 1755 | Brother-in-law Henry is killed in massacre at his fort (Baughman, ibid.) |
| 1759 | Valentine and family now living in Augusta Co., VA (now Rockingham Co.), to judge by records he was at a public auction (Chalkley, vol. III, 1912, p.57) |
| 1759? | Birth of son John (RootsWeb) |
| 1763? | Birth of daughter Christina (RootsWeb) |
| 1763 | Birth of son Jacob (Pension App.) |
| 1764 | Family living on 170 acre tract on Hawksbill Creek, Augusta Co., (now Rockingham Co.) VA, adjacent to Baughman relatives (Chalkley, Vol. III, 1912, p.408) |
| 1765? | Birth of son Valentine, Jr. (RootsWeb) |
| 1769 | Birth of son Henry (Cook family Bible--see Klemm) |
| 1770 | Survey of 170 acre tract on Hawksbill Ck. recorded (Kaylor, reprinted 1991, p.60) |
| 1770 | Birth of son William (RootsWeb) |
| 1773 | Valentine moves family to 650 acre tract on Indian Creek (Pension App. of Jacob Cook) and Baughman relatives locate nearby on 287 acre tract (Morton, p.81) |
| 1773 | Valentine sued by neighbor James Byrnside on Feb. 12 (Botetourt Co., Court Order Book 3A, p.110) |
| 1773 | Valentine collects $1.50 bounty on "Woolf" (Botetourt Co., COB 3B, p.321) |
| 1774 | Valentine buys "sundries" at Mathew's Trading Post on the Greenbrier (J. Greenbrier Historical Society, vol.IV, no.4, p.29) |
| 1774 | Valentine and neighbors build Cook's Fort on Indian Creek (Pension App. of Jacob Cook) |
| 1774 | Valentine and son David participate in Dunmore's War at Point Pleasant (Virginia Payrolls and Public Service Claims, 1775) |
| 1775 | Sale of Valentine and Susanna's property on Hawskbill Creek recorded (Chalkley, vol. III, 1912, p.408) |
| 1778 | Cook's Fort and Donnaly's Fort attacked by Indians (Morton, p.44-45) |
| 1780 | Marriage of daughter Christina to Philip Hammon at Cook's Fort (Klemm) |
| 1781 |
Indians raid Indian Creek Area again (Morton, p.44) First mill perhaps built about this time |
| 1782 | Sons David & John move to Lincoln Co., Kentucky with Baughman cousins (Virginia Land Office Grants) |
| 1783 | Daughter Christina & family move to Fayette Co., Kentucky (RootsWeb) |
| 1783-6 | Valentine was in the business of selling "spirituous liquors" (Shuck, 1988, Greenbrier Co. (West) Virginia Records, vol. I, pp.123, 169) |
| 1784 | Valentine ordered to "clear and repair" a section of road along Indian Creek (Shuck, 1988, ibid., p.145) |
| 1787? | Son Valentine, Jr. leaves home for studies at Methodist Cokesbury College, MD (Stevenson, 1858, p.19) |
| 1789 | Valentine adds 260 acres to his tract on Indian Creek (MC, Survey Book 3, p.314) |
| 1793 | Valentine adds another 136 acres to his tract making the total "1050 acres" (MC, Survey Book 3, p.314) |
| 1796 |
Marriage of son Jacob to Isabella Humphreys (Shuck, 1991) Valentine builds powder mill with neighbor Robert Ritchie (Will) |
| 1797 |
Valentine dies (Will) Widow Susanna inherits farm & mill but moves to Kentucky to be with children (Klemm) Son Jacob inherits the farm & mill, the latter apparently by default |