Arendt "Aaron" Van Hook

Will Book A, Orange Co. NC 1756-1788, page 9-10, 1760 Will of Aaron Van Hook:

In the name of God Amen, this tenth day of May One Thousand Seven Hundred & Sixty, I, Aaron Vanhook of the County of Orange & Parish of Saint Matthews & Province of North Carolina, being in perfect mind & memory thanks be to God, & calling to mind that uncertainty Death & the difficulty my family might be put to after my decease my will and desire is as follows, first and foremost I recommend my soul to God that gave it & my body to the earth from whence it came to be decently buried after my decease at the discretion of my executors hereinafter named, nothing doubting but that I shall receive the same again at the Resurrection by the Mighty Power of God, & as for my temporal estate which it hath pleased the Almighty God to bless me with in this life, my will & desire is as follows, to wit, as for all my estate real and personal, I leave to Katherine my wife to dispose of at her own will, & to enjoy & possess the same during her life provided she continues in widowhood, but be it remembered when she shall alter her state of widowhood by marriage it is my desire that she shall dispose of my estate to my children as though she was departing life, reserving her equitable part, & lastly I do ordain, Nominate & Constitute Katherine my wife & my two sons Lawrence Vanhook & David Vanhook, to be my executors of this my last Will and Testament, to see the same fully performed & executed according to my intent herein mentioned. Renouncing all other Wills & Testaments heretofore made & done. Ratifying & confirming this & no other to be my last Will & Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day & year first above written.

Aaron Vanhook (Seal)

Lidia Vanhook

Bridgit Vanhook

Thomas (X) Morgan

At an Inferior Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions begun and held for the County of Orange at the Court House in ? on the second Tuesday in August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty. Present his Majesties Justices & c. The execution of the within Will was duly proved by the oaths of Lidia Vanhook & Bridget Vanhook and ordered to be Recorded.

TESTE: James Watson C.S.C.

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Married on 1722
Married at NJ
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OBJE: _META <metadataxml><content><line><p style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; background-color: #000000; font-size: medium"><font size="4"><strong>The Van Hook coat of arms has a long history. Riestraps lists the family a
CONC s &quot;of Courlande, originally of Holland.&quot; Courlande was a local district in Holland. This is where the family obtained the arms which means basically that the family owned land there in 1516. We know from James M. Van Hook of Charl
CONC eston, Indiana (1899) that the motto was &quot;Te Deus Defendet.&quot; The arms show up again on July 4, 1750 when it was reconfirmed to the Van Hook family. Ten years later a &quot;Coat of Arms&quot; was mentioned in the inventor
CONC y of Aaron Van Hook (d. 1760 in North Carolina).</strong></font></p><p style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; background-color: #000000; font-size: medium"><font size="4"><strong>The representatio
CONC n of the arms can change from generation to generation as long as it has the essential elements. The armorial representation found in Aaron&#39;s inventory had the name &quot;van Hoecks.&quot; This probably means that Arent Isaacszen Va
CONC n Hoeck brought it over from Europe. From records in the Hague in Holland, we know that Arent was born in Hooksiel in the county of Oldenburg (in modern Germany) in 1623, and this would account for the &quot;s&quot; in the Dutch translitera
CONC tion of the surname on the arms. Added to this is the fact that after 1664, when the British took over the Dutch Colony, &quot;Van Hoeck&quot; quickly became &quot;Van Hook.&quot;</strong></font></p><p style="co
CONC lor: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; background-color: #000000; font-size: medium"><font size="4"><strong>So, Arent would have given the arms to his son Lawrence Van Hook, of New York and New Jersey. Before he died in 1724
CONC , he would have given or willed the arms to his son Aaron. At this point some other family may have disputed the arms forcing each to go to court. The arms were reconfirmed (as previously stated) on July 4, 1750. Aaron moved to North Carolina in 17
CONC 55 and died in 1760. The Coat of Arms was next given to Lloyd Van Hook who died in 1815 in New Jersey leaving it to his son Lawrence who died in 1847. His son, Marcus Aurelius Van Hook, had it when he lived in Jackson, Mississippi. It was he who co
CONC rresponded with James M. Van Hook of Indiana and hence preserved the motto, date, and name on the arms in 1899. Marcus&#39;s son, Henry Ware Van Hook, left it to his son Benjamin Ormond Van Hook. The last person ever to see the representation w
CONC as Benjamin&#39;s daughter, Alma Eugene. Supposedly, she took it to Power Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1934 where it was lost or stolen. Fortunately, she remembered enough of what it looked like for a rough sketch to be drawn
CONC . When later this was compared to Riestraps Armorial and what Bernice Keister knew, it was nearly identical.</strong></font></p><p style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'times new roman'; background-color: #000000; font-size: med
CONC ium"><font size="4"><strong>What you see on this page is based on all of the historical evidence given above. Alma believed that the helmet, however, was slightly opened making it a knight&#39;s instead of an esquire. The artis
CONC t is Edna Graham of Abilene, Texas. You can order a full color version of what you see from her by writing to 3441 Edgemont, Abilene, Texas 79605 or calling 915-692-3060.</strong></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="6
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