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Persoonlijke gegevens Samuel Parent (KY) van Hook 

• Hij is geboren op 15 november 1733 in Freehold County, NJ.
• Hij is overleden in Kentucky.
• Een kind van Hendrick van Hook en Deborah Parent
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 19 januari 2023.

Gezin van Samuel Parent (KY) van Hook

Hij is getrouwd met Hannah Stout Higgins.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. Benjamin Higgins van Hook  
2. Rachael Higgins van Hook  1750-1787 

Notities over Samuel Parent (KY) van Hook

This is from the Mt. Vernon (KY) Signal, October 1981
Descendants of pioneer Benjamin VanHook, buried near Brodhead, recently
erected a momorial marker at the gravesites of Benjamin and his wife Susannah
and about 30 other graves of family members. Benjamin was born in 1786 (note:
this birth date is incorrect) in Virginia and was captured by the Indians at
Ruddles Station with his father Samuel VanHook in about 1781. Indians scalped
his mother, Hannah, and took the father and son north to Detroit. They
escaped some four years later and made their way back to Kentucky. Most of
the Van Hooks of Laurel and Pulaski Counties are descendants of Benjamin
who reared
two families having a total of 19 children.

Second Article

MEMORIAL STONE ERECTED AT BRINDLE RIDGE IN MEMORY OF BENJAMIN
J. VANHOOK AND WIFE

A memorial stone has been erected at Brindle Ridge to mark the homestead and
grave sites of Benjamin J. VanHook and his second wife, Susannah Higgins
VanHook and about 30 other of the county's earliest settlers, many of whom it
is believed were members of the VanHook family.

The marker, bought and erected by descendants of this Benjamin VanHook was
placed on the site last week.

Benjamin was born in 1768 in Virginia, the son of Samuel and Hannah Higgins
VanHook. His long life was doubtlessly one filled with adventure, hardship
and daring. Benjamin lived to be 86 years old, dying in 1854 near Brodhead.

His father, Samuel, however, was a frontiersman and Revolutionary War soldier
as tough as any of his time. According to Illinois Historial Society records
and other documentation, Samuel VanHook was with George Rogers Clark when
he and 127 backwoodsmen captured Vincennes on the Wabash River in February
of 1779. "When a powerful British force followed him and recaptured
Vincennes, Clark and his followers doubled back for a surprise attack
across 180 miles of frigid swampland.

"The floods that winter had driven all the game from the forest and Clark's
men soon ran out of food. Wading for days at a time through freezing
shoulder deep water, the expedition took a week to cover the last 9 miles
before Vincennes. But Clark's approach was so unexpected that the British
commandant capitulated on February 25, 1779."

Samuel VanHook was 46 years old at the time and already had a distinguished
service record having served in the Militia since 1774.

Samuel was born in 1733 in New Jersey and migrated at an early age to North
Carolina and Virginia with an uncle and some cousins. In Virginia, records
show land transactions and his marriage to Hannah Higgins. It was in
Virginia that Benjamin and other children were born.

In the late spring of 1779, following the grueling Illinois campaign, Samuel
VanHook entered Kentucky with Daniel Boone on Boone's second trip into
Kentucky and settled at Ruddles Station. According to the Collins' History
of Kentucky,
Vol 2, he came with Boone then and, according to deposition given by Samuel
and
preserved in the Harrison County court records, Cynthiana, KY., site of former
Ruddles Station, a 73 year old Samuel testifies in a boundry dispute that he
came to Ruddles Station in the summer of 1779.

He answered questions stating that his trade was raising corn and hunting.
When asked if he were not a tailor by trade, he answered that he had made
only 2 or 3 pairs of leather breeches and "did not follow it further".

Certified court records, as well as Collins' History of Kentucky, tell the
story of Samuel and his 12 year old son, Benjamin, having been captured by
the British and Indians in 1781 after the family had settled in Kentucky.

There are two versions of the Indian attack. According to former Somerset
lawyer and judge, Ben VanHook Smith, now deceased (descendant of Samuel
via Benjamin), the wife and mother, Hannah and her son Benjamin "were trying
to call the cows and she had climbed a tree so her voioce would carry when
Indians sneaked up and killed her with a tomahawk." They captured the boy and
his father and took them north to Detroit. Admiring the courage and endurance
of the two, the Indians adopted the boy and gradually gave Samuel more and
more freedom. He and the boy found the opportunity and made the escape south,
mostly by following waterways. They returned to Bryants Station in 1784 or
1785, according to Samuel's deposition.

The deposition reads as follows: "In the Spring of seventy nine, I settled
here, in the year eighty, in the winter after Christmas, I moved to
Martin's Station, taken prison(er) in June following and I returned in four
or five years. I don't recollect which, but I believe about four years and
2 months".

Mr. W.E. Helton and his son, Charles of Rt 3, Crab Orchard, KY., descendants
of Samuel and Benjamin heard a slightly different story concerning the
particulars
of the capture. Hannah, her son and husband were in a field of tobacco when
the
attack occurred, according to recounted versions of the capture they have
heard.
Other children were safe at the fort.

Following his return home, Samuel married (in 1786) widow Hannah Wilson
Williams, whose husband had been killed by Indians.

To this marriage were born several children, one of them, a girl, Winnifred,
who
later married a William Whitley (presumed to be the son of the William Whitley
who built the early brick home near Crab Orchard). According to Harrison Co.
records, Samuel was married at least two more times later in life.

Samuel was an active leader whose name appears on many of the official docu-
ments designating county boundaries. Records also show he petitioned the
Virginia State Legislature to make Kentucky a state.

Young Benjamin VanHook married thirteen year old Frances Higgins around 1787.
Frances was his first cousin, the daughter of his dead mother's brother. To
the marriage were born nine children: Samuel (whom many descendants in
this area are of the lineage), Hannah, Elizabeth, Peggy, Polly, Benjamin,
Jr.; Frances, Nancy and Thomas.

Frances died after 20 years of marriage at the age of 33. Benjamin then
married his dead wife' s sister, Susannah Higgins, another first cousin.
Their
marriage is recorded in Pulaski County and dated 10-21-1808. (Rockcastle
County was not made a county until 1810 and was formed from several
surrounding counties including Pulaski.) To this marriage was born 10 more
children: Martin, Sarah, Lydia, Rebekah, Harriet, Eliza Jane, James H.,
Susan, John Larkin and Nancy. (Rockcastle County resident Shirley Riddle is
a descendant via Eliza Jane. It is not mistate that a daughter by each wife
was named Nancy. Possibly elder one died at an early age.

Samuel, Benjamin's eldest son, named for his grandfather, married Peggy
Gillieland in 1812 and following her death, he married Ibby Cox in 1816. The
first son of Samuel and Ibby was Benjamin Lorton VanHook, who married
Permelia Curtly (Cunly). They lived and ran a mill on Skaggs Creek east of
Sand
Springs. In order to make extra money, he hauled cross ties to town as the
railroad was being built through the area. He died at age 71 and is buried
near Crab Orchard.

His son, William Harlan, was the grandfather of Wayne VanHook, former resident
and County Judge of Rockcastle County. The second son of William was James
Thomas VanHook who lived at Level Green and owned property at one time on
Sand Hill in Rockcast.

The old Benjamin VanHook farm is now owned by D.A. and Vivian Robbins who
deeded the grave site to the VanHook heirs. Many of the grave sites were
marked only with stones. Only Benjamin and Susannah's graves were marked with
"bought" and carved stones; however, at one time Samuel's (Benjamin's eldest
son) name was reportedly chiseled on a rock marker in the graveyard. At the
time interest began to be shown by heirs to mark the site, a bulldozer had
done considerable damage to the original stone markings.

The farm is situated on the Old Wilderness Trail and nearby is a cliff spring
and a cave. It was very possibly a resting and watering stop for travelers
along the early route.

The marker is inscribed as follows: "The site of about 30 graves of
Revolutionary to Civil War ear(ly) pioneers. The endeavors, historic
adventures and hardships paved the way for us. Erected in 1981 by VanHook
descendants."

Encased in the marker is the only remaining portion of Benjamin's tombstone.

Much of the tough and rugged men who settled Kentucky and although women
settlers came to Kentucky to stay in 1775, they are usually ignored in
histories. They are often depicted as fearful and timid. But to learn of
a woman migrant on horseback, fording a swift river, one child in her arms
and one hanging on behind her, to find women improvising a substitute for
flax, defending a fort under seige or fighting off Indian attackers is to
see women as active participants in the rough, uncertain life in the
settlements.

The migration itself weeded out all but the hardy. Although a party might
start out in wagons, most of the route was fit only for pack animals.
Hundreds of miles of walking lay ahead. In packsaddles, one on each side
of a horse,
small children could ride swaddled in bedding. Babies were carried in their
mothers' arms, and those too sick to walk were carried in litters. Some
migrants rode pack animals, but most walked, carrying part of the load.

Rain added to the miseries of the trail. "Scald feet", caused by wet shoes
were common. Without wagons, the travelers slept outdoors, the women
unloading
the packhorses, (illegible) night and setting up makeshift shelters of
blankets. In wet weather, neither bedding or clothing was ever dry. Babies
and small children must have presented special problems for although clothing
could be washed in creeks, it could not be dried in a rainy Kentucky spring or
fall.

The further the migrants went, the more tedious the food seemed. A diet of
meat, often without salt, was unsatisfying. Most of all the solitude of the
wilderness oppressed them. One account tells that the silence affected
even the dogs.

But these difficulties were trivial compared to the threat of Indians or
winter. Because Indians were more active in the summer, many parties of
immigrants started out in early fall, with the goal or arriving in Kentucky
before cold weather.

Winter on the journey was dreaded almost as much as Indians. In the bitter
winter of 1779-1780, cattle froze, sheep died from eating ivy, ice formed in
minutes on travelers fording creeks, the Kentucky River froze two feet deep
and deer and buffalo starved in the forests.

[The above article was written by a Nancy Mullins.]

Vanhooks Ruddles Massacre

Kentucky Records, Volume II, Harrison County, Order Book A, p. 143.
Pages 26, 27, 28, May, 1806--Deposition of Samuel VanHook to established land of Thos. Moore and Benj. Johnson on Mill Creek, entered 1780, conflicting with McFall's claim, deposeth: Came back from being a prisoner in Spring of '79, settled at Ruddle's Station, and in year '80 after Christmas moved to Martin's station and taken prisoner in June following, and returned in four or five years. Wm. McCune deposeth: Saw land in question in company with John Hinkson while living at Ruddle's Station in year 1780. Wm. Anderson became familiar with place in year 1785. Thos. Ravencroft saw same in year 1785.

E-mail correspondence between Don Lee and Jim Sellars, August 23, 1999:
Jim:
Thanks for the information on the March attack. Please get Hannah Higgins VanHook in the story. she was my 4G Grandmother.
My 4th Great Grandfather Samuel VanHook Sr, was born on November 15, 1733, at Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Died after 1817 probably in Pulaski County, Kentucky. Some will dispute this but it can be supported by tax and land records. According to Bernice Keister in her book "VanHook and allied Families" He was the son of Hendrick VanHook, born February 19, 1701, in New York (New Amsterdam) and died March 1750, Freehold, New Jersey. His mother was Deborah Parent, born abt 1704 and died after 1750. Deborah was the daughter of William and Mercy Parent.
Samuel's Grandfather was Lawrence (Laurens) VanHook, born 1670, Schenectady, New York, died 1724, Freehold New Jersey, Wife of Lawrence was Smith, Johanna, born abt Abt 1672 in New York City, died June 2, 1747, Faggs Manor, West Chester Co... Pa. There were 8 children of this marriage.
Samuel's Great Grandfather was Arent Isaaczen VanHoeck, born abt 1625 in Hoeck, Zeeland, near Middleborough, Holland, on the Belgium Border. Arent died 1697 in New York. His wife was Styntie Christiana Laurens. There were five children of this marriage. Arent was married four times, first to Geertje Everts, second to Styntie Laurens, third to Lysbeth Stevens, fourth to Maria VanHoboken. He had a total of 9 children. The parent of Arent was Isaac Van Hoeckziel. Arent was said to have been a merchant, Mayor (New Amsterdam), Farmer. He bought a house on what is now Wall Street for 40 beaver pelts. He came to the colonies in about 1640.
Samuel VanHook was about 17 at the time of his father's death and recieved only a small inheritance. After the death of his father he migrated to Persons County, North Carolina, with his uncle and several brothers. He owned land here briefly before moving on the Washington County, Virginia and later Russell County. This is supported by land deeds and patents. He signed a petition to create the county of Russell. The first court was held in his cabin. He also petitioned to have a road built from Russell County to the Salt well at Saltville, Virginia. Kiester says that He came to Kentucky with Boone on his second trip. We do know he came to Kentucky some time around or before March 1780 when he was shown with Samuel VanHook, Jr., the roster of Capt. Gatliff at Martins Station. His wife Hannah Higgins was killed by Indians at Martins probably in March 1780 when she and her 12 year old son Benjamin went out to get the cow. Benjamin was taken captive but later escaped. In a deposition Samuel said he was a tailor by trade but had only made a few britches while at the stations. He mostly hunted for the forts.
Samuel VanHook was captured at the fall of Martins. He was held captive 4 years and 2 months. After he returned he married Hannah Wilson Williams, Higgins Blockhouse, near the mouth of Indian Creek. She widow of Zadock Williams, who had been killed by Indians while hunting in Fleming County. Samuel lived at Bryan's station and later on Beaver and Indian Creeks in Harrison County. Both he and his son Benjamin were listed on Beaver Creek in 1816.
My Descendancy is thru his Daughter Mary Polly VanHook who married John Lee. Their son was Rev. Samuel VanHook Lee a follower of Barton Stone and a leader in the Christian Reform movement. Some will dispute the above but I have no trouble with it. Hope you can use this information. Bob asked for it before.
Don Lee

http://www.frontierfolk.net/ramsha_research/vanhook.html

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Larry VanHook
5 years ago
Hoeck was in Germany.



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