Calvin Cooper

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• Religion: Quaker

Notes:

He had 8 children all by his first wife. He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

This is Cope's biography of him:

"CALVIN COOPER was a taxable in Birmingham in 1732, and in 1734 was one of the overseers of the poor for that township. About this time he purchased a tract of land on the Octarara, at or near the site of Christiana, where he erected a mill. He was a fuller, or "cloth-worker," as given in old records. He died 9, 15, 1779.
His first wife was Phebe, daughter of Samuel Hall, of Kennet, to whom he was married 4, 29, 1732; she died 6, 18, 1757, and a year later he married a widow, Elizabeth Jefferis.
His children were as follows: 1. William, b. 9, 5, 1734; d. 2, 20, 1821; m. 12, 5, 1759, Elizabeth Pyle, daughter of John and Rachel, of Kennet. They settled in West Bradford, at a fulling-mill late belonging to Daniel Temple. 2. George, b. 2, 28, 1737; d. 1, 14, 1820; m. 10, 15, 1761, Susanna, daughter of Thomas and Ann Truman, of Sadsbury; second marriage, 5, 24, 1787, to Hannah Dixson. 3. John, b. 12, 9, 1739; d. 2, 15, 1811; m. 10, 24, 1764, Rebecca Moore, daughter of James and Ann, of Sadsbury. 4. Hannah, b. 10, 3, 1742, probably died young. 5. Mary, b. 12, 17, 1744; d. 9, 18, 1806; m. 3, 24, 1773, to John Dixson, and 11, 28, 1781, to James Phillips, of Hockessin. 6. James, b. 2, 14, 1747; m. 11, 8, 1775, Rachel, daughter of Andrew and Rebecca Moore, of Sadsbury. He married a second wife, Catharine Powell, and removed to Northumberland County, Pa. 7. Phebe, b. 6, 6, 1750, probably died young. 8. Sarah, b. 12, 12, 1753; m. to Thomas Dixson.
Calvin's Cooper's residence was in Lancaster County, of which he was a commissioner, justice of the Common Pleas, and several times a representative in Assembly. His descendants are very numerous in this and adjoining counties. There were Coopers in Oxford and other townships, who are not supposed to be related to the above."

Calvin married Phebe Hall on 4m 29, 1732. Phebe (daughter of Samuel Hall and Anna Elizabeth Springer) died on 6m 18, 1757. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. George Cooper, Sr. was born in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died in 1807.
2. John Cooper was born in 12 mo. 9, 1739 in Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died on 15 Feb 1811 in Sadsbury Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; was buried in Sadsbury Friends Meeting, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania.
3. James Cooper and died.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Jefferis. Elizabeth and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"In the record book of Darby township we find a list of the early settlers, with dates of arrival, and among them ‘James Cooper from Bolton in the county Lancaster in 1675, and from Mayfield in the county of Stafford in the year 1683.' Whether he came to this country in 1675 and retured to England, or whether he removed from Bolton to Mayfield in that year is matter for conjecture. He probably married his first wife, Hannah, about 1698, but her maiden name has not been discovered. It appears they both came to this country as servants, doubtless for the purpose of obtaining the fifty acres each offered by William Penn to those who came in that capacity."

He was a constable for Darby Twp., Chester county in 1697.

This is Cope's biography of him:

"COOPER, JAMES, of Lancaster, England, removed to Mayfield, in the county of Stafford, about 1674, and in 1684 came to Pennsylvania, settling in Darby township. In the records of Darby Meeting we find the birth of Mary, 9, 4, 1699, and William, 5, 11, 1701, children of James and Hannah Cooper. Mary married James Johnson, of New Garden, in 1721, at which time her father was living at "Muscle Cripple" plantation, in New Castle County. In 1728, James Cooper was an attendant at Kennet Meeting, but nothing further is known of him."

He is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.

James married Mary Ludwidge on 8 Nov 1705 in St. Paul's Church, Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Mary and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is included on the Quaker Ancestors page.