Section ME: Descendants of Lt. Thomas Cooper

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Report generated by MagiCensus Deluxe v3.2.0 on 7 May 2012
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Generation One

1. LT. THOMAS1 COOPER was born about 1617[10], and died on 5 Oct. 1675 in Springfield, Hampden Co., Massachusetts, United States[15, 5, 10]. He married about 1641, (ALY-7) SARAH SLYE[12], daughter of (ALY-1) George SLYE, who was christened on 29 Oct. 1615 in Lapworth, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom[10, 11], and died on 8 May 1688 in Northampton, Hampden Co.[2, 12]. [4, 2, 15, 10, 1, 9, 5]
Children:
2i.SARAH2 COOPER, b. about 1642.
+3ii.TIMOTHY COOPER, b. on 26 April 1644 in Springfield; d. between 29 March 1676 and 30 Sept. 1679 in Springfield; m. on 19 Oct. 1664 in Springfield (ADS-2) ELIZABETH MUNSON, b. in New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut, United States in 1642[13], d. in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut on 18 Dec. 1706[8, 3], daughter of (ADS-1) Thomas and Joanna (_____) MUNSON.
4iii.THOMAS COOPER, b. on 3 July 1646 in Springfield.
5iv.ELIZABETH COOPER, b. on 23 Feb. 1648 in Springfield.
6v.MARY COOPER, b. on 15 May 1651 in Springfield.
7vi.JOHN COOPER, b. on 12 April 1654 in Springfield; d. before 1659.
8vii.a child COOPER, b. about 1656; d. on 17 April 1656 in Springfield.
9viii.REBECCA COOPER, b. on 15 May 1657 in Springfield.
10ix.JOHN COOPER, b. on 9 April 1659 in Springfield.

Generation Two

3. TIMOTHY2 COOPER (Thomas1), son of (1) Lt. Thomas1 and (ALY-7) Sarah (SLYE), was born on 26 April 1644 in Springfield[6, 8, 10, 3], and died between 29 March 1676 and 30 Sept. 1679 in Springfield[3]. He married in Springfield, on 19 Oct. 1664, (ADS-2) ELIZABETH MUNSON[10], daughter of (ADS-1) Thomas and Joanna (_____) MUNSON, who was born in 1642 in New Haven[13], and died on 18 Dec. 1706 in Stamford[8, 3]. [6, 8, 10, 3]
Children:
+11i.SARAH3 COOPER, b. on 17 March 1665/6 in Springfield; d. on 3 June 1727 in Elizabethtown, Union Co., New Jersey, United States; m. on 25 Oct. 1683 in Jamacia, New York, United States (ATW-11) JOHN WOODRUFF, b. in Elizabethtown in 1665[14], d. in Elizabethtown in 1722[14], son of (ATW-8) John and (AFD-28) Sarah (OGDEN) WOODRUFF.
12ii.THOMAS COOPER, b. on 12 Jan. 1667 in Springfield.
13iii.JOHN COOPER, b. on 24 Jan. 1670 in Springfield.
14iv.ELIZABETH COOPER, b. on 21 Jan. 1672 in Springfield.

Generation Three

11. SARAH3 COOPER (Timothy2, Thomas1), daughter of (3) Timothy2 and (ADS-2) Elizabeth (MUNSON) COOPER, was born on 17 March 1665/6 in Springfield[7, 3], and died on 3 June 1727 in Elizabethtown[3]. She married in Jamacia, on 25 Oct. 1683, (ATW-11) JOHN WOODRUFF[16], son of (ATW-8) John and (AFD-28) Sarah (OGDEN) WOODRUFF, who was born in 1665 in Elizabethtown[14], and died in 1722 in Elizabethtown[14]. [16, 7, 3]
Child: See (ATW-11) John WOODRUFF


1. Peter Wilson Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants: 1607-1660 (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), 127.
2. Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman, Hale, House, and Related Families: Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952), 497; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 April 2011).
3. Ibid., 500.
4. Henry M. Burt, The First Century of the History of Springfield, Volume II (Springfield, Mass.: Henry M. Burt, 1899), 553; digital images, Archive.org (http://www.archive.org : accessed 5 June 2011).
5. Ibid., 554.
6. Ibid., 555.
7. Ibid., 556.
8. Myron A. Munson, The Munson Record: A Genealogical and Biographical Account of Captain Thomas Munson, a Pioneer of Hartford and New Haven, and His Descendants, Volume I (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse, & Taylor, 1895), 61; digital images, Archive.org (http://www.archive.org : accessed 5 June 2011).
9. Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 (No place: No publisher, No date), 2:205; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org.
10. Ibid., 2:210.
11. George Ely Russell, "Slye-Cooper-Russell Connections," The American Genealogist 57 (1981): 92-94, specifically 93; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org.
12. Clarence Almon Torrey, "Cooper-Slye and Cooper-Glover Problems," The American Genealogist 23 (1946): 95-97, specifically 95; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org.
13. Linda Epstein, The Family of John Woodruff of Elizabethtown and Westfield, NJ (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=elizawoodruffs : accessed 30 May 2011), Elizabeth MUNSON.
14. Ibid., John WOODRUFF #3.
15. Ibid., Lieut. Thomas COOPER.
16. Ibid., Sarah COOPER.