1800 Census, Burke CO, NC?
Cook Isaac, 26 to 45

1800 Census, Guilford CO NC?
Cook, Isaac, 26 to 45; 2 m under 10; 1 f bet. 16-26; 2 f under 10

1820 Baldwin CO Census
45 and up, 1 m; 26-45, 1m; 2m under 10; 1 f 26-45;1 f under 16; 1 f under 10

1830 US Census, Leon CO, Florida
Isaac Cook has one girl child under five

1840 US Census, Thomas CO Georgia
Isaac N. Cook
1 Male 15 - 20
1 Male 60 - 70
1 Female 10 - 15
1 Female 40 - 50


1850 US Census, Thomas CO Georgia Census:
251 Cook, Isaac N. 75 bn SC Farmer
Rachel 74 bn SC H. K.

Slave Schedule of 1850:
2 Slaves
1 F age 30
1 F age 3

Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: District 81, Thomas, Georgia; Roll: M432_83; Page: 18; Image: 386.

The Methodist Church in America was organized at a Christmas conference on December 24, 1784, in Maryland. However, the Methodists were not formally separated from the Church of England until 1791. Francis Asbury was elected as the first Methodist Bishop at the organizational meeting on Christmas Eve.

Reverend Isaac Newton Cook was ordained a minister of the Gospel by Methodist Bishop Francis Asbury in 1801. He served many years as an assigned circuit minister, visiting a number of designated settlements and established churches on an assigned route. As the frontier moved westward, the early preachers followed, establishing new churches among the settlements and ministering to the spiritiual needs of the pioneers, facing many hardships and dangers.

When the Mississippi Territory opened for settlement, Isaac was sent to minister to the settlers there. The Territory encompassed the southern part of what is now Alabama and Mississippi, from Louisiana to Georgia and bordering the Spanish Territory of Florida on the south, the Territory south of the Ohio River on the north. Rachael apparently accompanied Isaac there as their only living son was born in the now state of Mississippi, which was admitted to the Union in 1817 as the 20th state. It is the belief of this writer that all of their children were born here during the years of his ministry mission. They returned to Georgia and settled at Thomas CO about 1828.26

Some time before 1852, Isaac must have become disenchanted with Methodist theology, and changed his church affiliation to the Baptist of which he became a minister.

Subject: Cook-POWG-1
From: gslat
Date: December 28, 1999

COOK, ISAAC NEWTON 1774-1854 THOMAS

Isaac Newton Cook, early Methodist pastor in South Georgia, was born April
5, 1774, in Charleston, S. C. He was a
son of Benjamin Cook, R.S., and wife Sibbie, natives of Connecticut. The
latter moved from Wallingford, Conn., their former home, to Charleston, S.
C. Isaac N., the son, was married Sept. 5, 1805, in Camden County, Ga., to
Rachael Graham, born 1787 in South Carolina, a daughter of Alexander and
Ann Graham-, natives of Scotland. Five children were born by this marriage,
viz:

1. Louisa b. May 7, 1810, died young.
2. John B. F. b. Feb. 2, 1811. m. Ist. Lucinda Hutchinson of Alabama; 2nd
- -------- Hart.
3. Nancy b. May 9, 1813, m. Isaac Wheeler of Thomas Co., April 24, 1834.
4. Isaac N. Jr. b. April 7, 1816, died young.
5. William b. Oct. 15: 1821, died young.

Isaac Newton Cook in his young manhood was converted and united with the
Methodist Church. He was ordained to the ministry in 1801 by Bishop Francis
Asbury, and became a member of the South Carolina Conference. In 1803 he
was assigned as pastor of the St. Marys (Ga.) Circuit, and in 1805 was
returned there for another year. It was during his second service that he
married. He served various appointments in Georgia under appointment of the
South Carolina Conference which had jurisdiction over both states until
1831 when the Georgia Conference was established. The Georgia Conference
then exercised jurisdiction over both Georgia and Florida until 1845 when
the Florida Conference was formed which when formed included South Georgia.
Rev. Cook served in the itinerate ministry for many years, and also served
several years from time to time as Presiding Elder. Among his pastorates
were Milledgeville, Tallahassee (Fla.) and Thomasville. He spent his last
years in Thomas county and died at Thomasville at the age of about 80
years, having superannuated some years before his death.