Use Restrictions

Public Domain. There are no known restrictions.

Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Cook family homemade music manuscript, C0443, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Purchased from Thomas Cullen, Rockland Bookman in February 2007.

Processing Information

Processing and finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner in January 2025.

Historical Information

The Cook family possibly lived in Greenfield, Virginia in the early 1800s. Several names of family members are listed on pages 4 and 8 of the manuscript which read: Polly Cook, Betsy Cook, Elony Cook Washington, Caroline Lockwood, Sarah Cook, Eunice Cook, and Joshua Cook.

Scope and Content

Homemade music manuscript created by the Cook family. The handwritten manuscript pages are wrapped in folded pages of newsprint and bound with string along the left edge. The newspaper pages are dated 1813 and "Washington, February 20, 1810" is written on page 16 of the manuscript. The first 5 pages contain text explaining various music terms and 7 leaves of the manuscript are blank. The remaining pages consist of handwritten musical scores, verse, and lyrics, as well as the names of various family members. Several pages contain references to place names, such as Greenwich, Chester, Ohio, Mount Vernon, Yarmouth, Windham, Northfield, Pennsylvania, and Northhampton.

Arrangement

This is a single item collection.

Related Material

The Special Collection Research center also holds the Nellie M. Lee music manuscript book and "Three solos for the violoncello with accompaniment for a bass" by Johan Arnold Dahmen music manuscript .

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Manuscripts
• Music
• Music -- United States -- 19th century