Major Cook's family resided with him in Fort Hawkins. Infantry" and "In November an army of 2,500 militia were mustered in at the fort" by him. "Fort Hawkins - Wilderness Stronghold" says that COOK commanded the "8th U.S. It is certain that Major Cook was commandant at Fort Hawkins at least as late as Nov 16, 1814, and he was probably still in command until his discharge on June 15, 1815." On August 15, 1813, Cook was promoted to Major and in November 1814, there were 210 officers and men serving under Major Cook. The 3rd Infantry had 73 men stationed there on. Captain Cook became the Commander of the Fort in 1812. Fort Hawkins was then an outpost of civilization in Georgia where only Indian tribes inhabited lands west of the Ocmulgee River. "The new chapter was named for Major Philip Cook because of his distinguished service in the 3rd Regiment at Fort Hawkins during the 1812 period. The impression on my memory of this event is very clear, but the ducking did not abate the nuisance." Major Phil Cook, the Sheriff, executed the judgment of the court. The sentence was executed by lashing her to a stock fastened to a gig which was run out from a flat into the river. "An old woman, the annoyance of her neighborhood in town, was tried before Judge (Peter) Early(of the Ocmulgee Circuit) and sentenced to be ducked. īy 1810, Philip was the sheriff of Baldwin County when he carried out the sentence of the court in the "The Ducking of a Scold." recorded by Leola Selman Beeson. In Hancock County, Phillip Cook witnessed the will of Levi Daniell, husband of his sister, Martha Pearson Cook. John Regan was Security, with a bond for 3000 lbs Sterling. On 5 June 1798, Philip Cook, John Cook (Jr.), and John Harbert were the administrators of the estate of Capt. Philip's father and brother, John COOK, Sr. 87, shows the presence of Philip COOK and his family in Hancock County, Georgia as early as July 4th, 1794, when Philip COOK purchased of 287.5 acres of land on Rocky Creek in Hancock County from John Liddell DIXON. I" by Rev Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Southern Historical Press, 1977, p. Philip's father and brother, John Cook, Jr. Philip, his father, and others family members migrated to Hancock County, Georgia before July 4th, 1794, when Philip Cook purchased of 287.5 acres of land on Rocky Creek in Hancock County from John Liddell Dixon. He was a son of Revolutionary War Soldier, Capt. Joseph’s Historic Foundation, the non-profit of the Hayti Heritage Cultural Center.Philip Cook was born in 1775 at Cook's Ferry, Broad River, Fairfield District, South Carolina. It’s not so much looking backwards as it is just looking around, reflections on all that is human and divine and present, and the roads we’ve taken to get us there.Ī portion of net profits from the sale of All These Years will go to the St. He distills decades of friendship, brotherhood, family, love, learning, and loss into flickering piano portraits - impressionistic and fluid and reverent. Through composing the music, he began to reflect on specific and important presences in his life, and ends up capturing their essence via keys here. When Cook began these songs, he was in the headspace of meditating on the people in his support network, and those closest to him. This is the most honest work of my career.”Īll These Years is near hymn-like, a collection of prayers or meditations, improvisations threaded together by feeling, by the things that matter most. All of it captured perfectly by my cousin and life-long friend, Brian Joseph. The sun fractals kaleidoscoping through the stained glass on an April morning. The almost-biblical snake that wove its way across the sanctuary floor as I played. The way the melody dances with the bird’s song. This is, above all, a document of sound and space. Cook states: “I love the recording of ‘Queen Of Branches.’ It epitomizes the ‘hymn-provisational’ style that weaves the entire session together.
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