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_John PALMER ________+
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_Thomas PALMER ______|
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| |_Rebecca BAXTER _____+
| (1682 - 1773) m 1700
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|--Henry PALMER
| (1740 - 1806)
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|_Susannah HUNT ______|
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_Benjamin PITTMAN ___|
| (1805 - 1885) |
| |_____________________
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|--Andrew PITTMAN
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| _Levi LINN __________+
| | (1748 - 1826) m 1789
|_Elizabeth LINN _____|
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|_Mary VAN BUSKIRK ___+
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_William ROBISON ____+
| (1735 - 1810) m 1757
_Joseph B. ROBISON __|
| (1777 - 1841) m 1800|
| |_Sarah ROSEBERRY ____
| (1737 - ....) m 1757
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|--Mary Ann ROBISON
| (1812 - 1872)
| _____________________
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|_Elizabeth HAMMEL ___|
(1777 - 1872) m 1800|
|_____________________
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Jane Fletcher Fiske's 'Thomas Cooke of Rhode Island' lists her as Mary Robason.
From Robison Families of Ohio:
Mary Ann and Jacob moved to Meigs county, Ohio in 1839. Jacob died in Meigs county, Ohio. They had 6-8 children.
Mary Ann Robison, the sixth child of Joseph and Elizabeth was born in 1812 in what is now Perry County, PA. She married Jacob Cook in Milton on November 26, 1834. This Jacob Cook was a brother of Rebecca, wife of William Robison. Another brother of Jacob and Rebecca was Werick Cook.
William Robison went to Warren to get the marriage license for Mary Ann and Jacob. In 1836 William went for a license for Werick and Ann Cline of Milton.
Nancy's parents were Joel and Keturah Cook. Joel was a brother of the Jacob whose wife was Elizabeth, the parents of Nancy Cook who married Joseph Robison. [Note: John Gessner passed away before I found the book by Jane Fletcher Fiske on Thomas Cooke's descendants David Warren Robison, August, 2002.]
Jacob and Mary Ann made the 1839 move to Meigs County, Ohio. They are in the 1840 census for Salem Township, Meigs County as Jacob Cook, one male 30-40, one female 30-40, one female 5-10, two females under 5.
In the 1850 census the same family shows:
Jacob Cook 40
Mary Ann 37 MD
Sarah 17 OH
Lucinda 14 OH
Arminda 12 OH
Russell 6 OH
Mary 4 OH
Martha 2 OH
Edward Cook 29 OH
Elizabeth Cook 8 OH
So who is the Edward Cook? We may never know. He died in 1852, left a Will, and named Joseph Robison as Executor. The Will is of no help; it says that four hundred dollars is to go to Mariah Priscella Benedict, and the residue to be divided among his living brothers and sisters (not named.)
The Meigs County Genealogical Society has a letter written by a D. Longstreth which tells us of Jacob and Mary Ann:
ED. Leader: - In the fall of 1839 about six months after my father moved here, two brothers by the name of Cook, from Columbiana County, O., bought a farm adjoining and directly south of father's farm. Jacob Cook, the oldest brother, built a house about 200 yards south of where Dexter now stands and moved his family to it. Warrick Cook and his brother, built a small house about 150 yards west of where M. L. Vale now lives. Both houses were built in the woods and the future was supposed to be looked after as future necessities presented themselves.
These men like other pioneer settlers looked from the doors of their rude cabins only to see the stately oak with its many companions of the forest, lifting their towering heads far heavenward, and hear the sweet melodies of the whip-poor-mill, the nighthawk and the owl, comingling with the song usually sung by the amphibious tribes of the water.
The Cook brothers were hard working men and soon began to open up the forest in good earnest, and by the steady stroke the trees were felled, the grubs were taken out, the fields were fenced and in due time crops were grown. This work continued until the winter of 1843 and 1844, when father bought their farm, and Jacob Cook bought a piece of land across the creek nearly opposite the village of his brother-in-law, William Robison, who came from Columbiana County with the Cooks.
Warrick Cook was rather a peculiar sort of a man, and sometimes allowed himself to get excited. He enjoyed an occasional hunt as well as any man and to illustrate his disposition to do what he undertook we will give one incident of his life.
While hunting over in the neighborhood of Mud Fork, he saw a deer feeding on the moss of the rocks near where the Foldens now live. And quick as thought blazed away at the deer. At the report of the gun the deer bounded away. Warrick in his excitement threw down his gun, and he, too, bounded away after the deer. He followed it over the hill by Camerons, down by the burg, (or where it is now) up Log Run, and lost the trail on the hill near where Billy Folden lives.
Warrick moved from here early in the forties and his subsequent life is unknown to the writers.
William Robison moved about one mile up the creek to what was then known as the Woods Mill which had been built by a man by the name of Woods a few years previous. Robison continued to run the mill for a few years, when he abandoned it and moved into Columbia township."
The 1860 census for Salem Township shows:
J. Cook 49 OH
Mary 47 OH
Russell 16 OH
Mary 13 OH
Martha 11 OH
John 8 OH
John Shaw 20
Elizabeth 18 OH
In the 1870 census Jacob is 59 years of age, born in Ohio; and Mary is listed as 57, born in Maryland.
There is a death record in Meigs County for Mary Ann Cook who died in Salem Township on March 24, 1872. She was 61 years of age, 10 months, and her cause of death was given as diptheria. While this record states that Mary Ann was born in Salem Township, it is clear to me that this is our Mary Ann and that she died before her mother.
There were Cooks in Meigs County as early as 1810, one of these was Russell. Did Jacob and Mary Ann name their son after this neighbor? No doubt there are numerous descendants of this branch just waiting to be discovered.
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