The Cook counterfeit gang of colonial Virginia / Carol Cooke Darrow, Samuel Cook, Thomas Goggin.

Author/creator Darrow, Carol Cooke author.
Other author Cook, Samuel, author.
Other author Goggin, Thomas, author.
Format Book
Manufacture[Place of publication not identified] : [Lulu.com], [2025]
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionvi, 55 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Subjects

Contents Counterfeiting ring identified -- John Cook, father of the Cook gang -- Counterfeiting redux -- The strange case of Joseph Mabry -- The gang splits up -- Benjamin Cook, Jr. -- Military bounty land of Shem Cook -- Joseph Cook -- The next generation -- Cook Family Cemetery, Snow Creek, Virginia.
Abstract The history of a group of counterfeiters--including Benjamin Cooke, Joseph Cooke, James Cooke, Benjamin Woodward, and Peter Medley--who operated out of a workshop in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and were arrested on February 23, 1773.
ISBN9781300359791
ISBN130035979X

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Joyner Item being cataloged F229 .D37 2025 Item being cataloged