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- "The Will of Ellis Cook," edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook, privately printed in New Haven in 1916, contains the following information:
o John Cooper was born in 1594, and came to Massachusetts from Olney, in Buckinghamshire, in 1635, in the ship Hopewell. He was made a freeman at Boston, Dec. 6, 1636, was one of the elders of the church when it was organized at Lynn, and in 1638 is recorded as owning 200 acres of land in that town. He was one of the twenty heads of families who formed the association for the settlement of Southampton in 1639 (note 9).
o His will is printed in "The Second Book of Records of the Town of Southampton ," Sag Harbor, N.Y., 1877.
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Source: Passengers to America, A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, edited by Michael Tepper, pub. 1988, p. 16:
"Primo Aprill 1635. In the Hopewell of London mr Wm Bundocke vrst (towards) New England.
Joh Cooper 41 yeres - of oney in Buckinghamsher theis have taken the othe of Alleg. and Surpremacie
Edmund ffarrington 47
Wibroe 42 yrs wife of Joh Cooper
Children of Joh Cooper:
Mary Cooper 13
Joh: Cooper 10
Tho Cooper 7
Martha Cooper 5"
Note: These Olney families came together on the Hopewell are: Cook ancestors (Cooper) and Robinson-Terrell (Farrington).
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Source: Topographical Dictionary of 2285 English Emigrants to New England 1620-1650, by Charles Edward Banks, pub. 1937, p10.
Buckinghamshire- Cooper, John from Parish of Olney, on the Hopewell, to Lynn, MA, reference - Banks Manuscript.
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Source: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., Melinde Lutz Sanborn, pub. Boston 2001, pages 202-204:
John Cooper Origin: Olney, Buckinghamshire Migration: 1635 on the Hopewell
First Residence: Lynn Removes: Southhampton 1640
Occupation: Innkeeper (on 25 January 1655/6, John Cooper was licensed to sell strong drink at Southamption, and on 5 May 1658, the license was renewed (SoTR 1:111,120).
Church Membership: Admission to Lynn church prior to 8 December 1636 implied by freemanship.
Freeman: 8 December 1636 (MBCR 1:372). In lists of Southampton freemen, 8 March 1649/50?, 8 October 1650 (SoTR 1:18,55). In list of Southampton townsmen, 10 May 1649 (SoTR 1:56).
Offices: Southampton petit jury, 17 December 1651, 1 June 1652 (SoTR 1:52, 84). Southampton selectman, 6 October 1655 (SoTR 1:108). Committee to "have the managing of the present affair of the town concerning the safety thereof," 2 May 1657 (SoTR 1:152).
Education: His inventory included "books" valued at L1 (one pound), and also "spectacles."
Estate: On 16 May 1643, it "is ordered that John Cooper shall enjoy the lot of old Goodman Farrington of Lynn, lying in Southampton, with all the priviledges thereof, until he shall have paid unto him th sum of fifteen shillings for the setting up the fence tht belongs unto that lot upon the Little Common: (SoTR 1:28).
On 26 March 1651, "John Cooper Senior" drew Lot #9 in the Little Plain (SoTR 1:142). In the division of Sagaponack on 2 February 1653/4, "John Cooper Senior: drew Lot #9 (SoTR 1:100).
In his will, dated 6 May 1662 and proved in late 1662 or early 1663, "John Cooper of Southampton on Long Island" bequeathed to "the children of Henry Pierson that white mare I bought of Mr. Tappin"; to "the poor of said town a mare foal...towards maintaining of a schoolmaster"; to "Thomas Topping's son Thomas a mare foal, and if the said child should die without issue then to redound to the children of the abovesaid Thomas Topping to be divided amongst them"; to "John Topping's daughter Sarah a mare foal"; to "my son John Cooper's children and to my son Thomas Cooper's children & to my daughter White's children and to my daughter Cook's children all the remaining part of all my mares & mare colts"; to my son Henry Pierson twenty shillings," and to "my daughter White twenty shillings, (and) to my daughter Cook, twenty shillings"; to "my son Thomas Cooper twenty pounds sterling"; to my daughter White's children, ten pounds, and to my daughter Cook's children ten pounds"; to Mr. Woster of Merrimak, or if he be deceased to his eldest son, a barrel of beef...for the said Mr. Woster or his eldest son by his first wife"; debts owed by "my son Thomas Cooper" forgiven, and also to "my son Thomas Cooper the best of my horses that he can choose, also I give unto my son John's children & to my son Thomas's children, and to my daughter White's children , and to my daughter Cook's children, one horse betwixt them all"; "my son John Cooper" to be executor and residuary legatee; to "my son Thomas Cooper" moveables; Isaac Willman and Isaac Halsey to be overseers (SoTR 2:25-26).
The undated inventory of the estate of "the last deceased John Cooper" totalled (pounds) L374 15s., of which the "house & land" was L21 (SoTR 226-27).
Birth: About 1594 (aged 41 in 1635, [Hotten 44]}.
Death: After 6 May 1662 (date of will).
Marriage: Olney, Buckinghamshire, 18 October 1618 Wibroe (Griggs) Pierson, born about 1593 (aged 42 in 1635 [Hotten 44]). (Wibroe Griggs married (1) Olney 25 July 1609 William Pe(i)rson and had with him a son Henry (TAG 64:195).
Children:
i. ANN, bp. Olney 29 August 1619 (TAG 64:195); m. (1) by about 1640 John White (estimated date of marriage based on ages of grandchildren (MIner Anc 172-74, 187-88)); m. (2) after 1662 Zerubbabel Phillips (TAG 64:199, citing SoTR 5:233), son of Rev. George Phillips (1630, Watertown) (GMB 3:1446-50).
ii. MARY, bp. Olney 12 August 1621 (TAG 64:195); immigrated in 1635 with the family, but no further record and not named in father's will.
iii. JOHN, bp. Olney 1 March 1624/5 (TAG 64:195); m. say 1650 Sarah Mew (TAG 66:45-48, and sources cited there).
iv. THOMAS, bp. Olney 11 March 1626/7 (TAG 64:196); m. by about 1665 Mary Raynor, daughter of Thurston Raynor (TAG 37:11-15), and the sources cited there; this article suggests that Thomas may have had an earlier wife).
v. MARTHA, bp. Olney 26 November 1629 (TAG 64:196); m. by about 1650 Ellis Cooke (TAG 64:199, Albert Stanburrough Cook, ed., The Will of Ellis Cook of Southampton, Long Island (d. 1679) (New Haven 1916), especially pp. 21-22).
Associations: As part of the Olney cluster, John Cooper and his family were neighbors at least to the Kirklands, Farringtons, Newhalls and Fullers. Wife Wibroe was mother of immigrant Henry Pierson and may have been a close relative of the George Griggs family, who also immigrated on the Hopewell (TAG 64:198).
Comments: On 4 June (1640), John Cooper was one of the signers of "A Declaration of the Company," one of the foundation documents for Southampton (SoTR 1:6-7).
On 7 March 1643/4, in the organization of Southampton into wards for processing whales which were washed ashore, "John Cooper Senior" was placed in the fourth ward (SoTR 1:32, 92).
On 18 November 1644, "John Cooper the elder was censured by the General Court for some passionate expressions five shillings" (SoTR 1:34).
Biographical Note: In 1928 Donald Lines Jacobus compiled a brief account of the family of John Cooper (Miner Anc 95-96).
In 1989 the late Thomas Cooper II published his research in Olney on the English origin of the Cooper, Pierson and Griggs /
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