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DESCENDANTS

P,STE;R Cooper,

ROWLEY, MASSACHUSETTS.

By the Late Albion K. P. Cooper, of Brooklyn, N. Y.

Republished from Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, Vol. 2,No. 2, 1885.

PORTLAND, ME.

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DESCENDANTS

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ROWLEY, MASSACHUSETTS.

By the Late Albion K. P. Cooper, of Brooklyn, N. Y.

Republished from Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, Vol. 2, No, 2, 1885

PORTLAND, ME. :

PRINTED PA' B. THURSTON AND COMPANY.

1885.

DESCENDANTS OE PETER COOPER, OE ROW-LEY, MASSACHUSETTS.

BY THE LATE ALBION K. P. COOPER, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.

Peter Cooper, the emigrant, came to New England in 1635, a

passenger in the ship Susan and Ellen, then aged twenty-eight.

He settled in the town of Rowley, Essex county, Massachusetts,

and was the owner of a house lot of an acre and a half as early as

1643. His wall is on record in the Probate Office of that county.

Rowley records giYC the names and births of one son and three

daughters. The son, Samuel, remained in Rowley, and was him-

self the father of three sons, beside daughters. Of these three

sons, the grandchildren of the emigrant, Samuel and Moses, died

apparently without male issue to continue the line; the third son,

Leonard, removed from Rowley to Newcastle, Maine, and left a

large family of children. The descendants of three of his sons

have been traced by the late Mr. Cooper, and the results of his re-

searches are comprised in this article; his death, in the summer of

1884, prevented a more extended investigation, and must be the

apology for any incompleteness detected in the following pages.

I Peter the emigrant, m. Emme, Ame, or Amelia, who died in

Rowley in 1689; he died 15 Jan., 1667. Issue:

2 Mary, b. 2 April, 1642;

in. John How of Topsfielcl.

3 Samuel,’^ b. 8 Dec., 1646.

4 Deborah, b. 30 June, 1650; m. 28 Dec., 1670, Samuel Hazeltine of Haverhill.

5 Sarah, b. 14 June, 1652;m, 3 Jan., 1676, Edward Moors of Newbury.

3 Samuel,“ son of (i) Peter,^ was born in Rowley 8 Dec., 1646,

and lived there during his life; m. 25 June, 1691, Mary Harriman,

who died 7 Oct., 1732 ;he died 25 May, 1727. Issue:

6 Samuel,^ b. 7 Mar., 1692.

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7 Maiy, b. lo Nov., 1693; m. 5 Nov., 1734, Moses Hopkinson.

8 Peter, b. 7 March, 1696; drowned 12 Aiig., 1715.

9 Hannah, b. 10 April, 1701 ;d. 25 Sept., 1705.

10 Moses,® b. 19 April, 1703.

11 Leonard,® b. 26 June, 1707.

6 Samuel,^ eldest son of (3) Samuel,^ was born in Rowley, 7

March, 1692; m. 7 March, 1734,’ Mary Hobson, who died 19 Aiig.,

1762 ;he was alive in 1770, under guardianship. Issue:

12 Infant, d. 25 Jan., 1736.

13 Mary, b. 20 Dec., 1739 ;d. 12 Nov., 1815, unmarried.

10 Moses,^ son of (3) Samuel,^ was born in Rowley 19 April,

1703; m. 1st, 15 May, 1729, Phoebe Jewett, and 2d, 8 April, 1741,

Ruth Johnson. His children were born in Row4ey; he may have

removed after second marriage. Issue :

14 Moses, b. 18 Aug., 1730. \

15 Priscilla, b. 16 June, 1732. > All died of throat distemper in 1736.

16 Elizabeth, b. 18 Oct., 1734- )

17 Hh-iscilla, b. 7 July, 173-; m. Ross.

1 1 Leonard,'^ youngest son of (3) Samuel,^ was born in Rowley

26 June, 1707; m. 13 March, 1729, Sarah Platts, who was born 22

June, 1710; settled at Newcastle, Maine. Issue:

18 Hannah, b. 7 April, 1730; m. 7 Nov., 1749, Thomas Lull, his second wife;

she died 29 Sept., 1793.

19 Peter,"* b. 3 March, 1732.

20 Mary, b. 18 Nov., 1734; m. 31 May, 1753, Jacob Pearson (she was bap-

tized Sarah).

21 James,^ b. 4 March, 1737.

22 Jedediah, b. 3 July, 1739.

23 Susannah, baptized 6 May, 1742 ;d. 27 June, 1742.

24 Moses, b. 26 May, 1743 ;m. a widow Tarr, and was of Whitefield, Me.

25 Ezekiel, b. 7 Oct., 1745; removed to Ohio.

26 Sarah, b. 26 Feb., 1748.

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27 Jesse/ b. 17 May, 1751.

28 Susannah, b. ii Oct., 1753; m. Samuel Gray, who died i April, 1843; she

died 6 Sept., 1842; their son Samuel,*^ b. 1782,111. (32) Sally,® daugh-

ter of (27) Jesse * Cooper.

19 Peter,

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eldest son of (ii) Leonard, was born 3 March, 1732 ;

m. ist, 25 Dec., 1755, Mary Skillian, and 2d, a widow Woodman;he served in the French war, went to Quebec, and died returning,

22 Oct., 1759. (Another account says that he died in a hospital

at Halifax.) He settled at Dresden, Me., and had issue

:

29 Leonard,® b. 1757.

30 Molly, 111. Seth Larrabee of Whitefield.

2 1 James,"^ son of (ii) Leonard," was born 4 March, 1737; m.

Hannah,and had issue (perhaps others)

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31 Child, d. 13 April, 1764.

27 Jesse,^ youngest son of (ii) Leonard,^ was born 17 May, 1751 ;

m. 8 Nov., 1777, Hannah Nickels, who was born 22 Aug., 1755, and

died 30 April, 1818; he died 1828. Issue:

32 Sally, b. 27 May, 1778; m. Samuel, b. 1782, son of Samuel and Susannah

(Cooper) Gray; she died 1809 ;he died April, 1845 5

issue :

1 Jesse C., b. 6 Nov., 1806; m. 18 Feb., 1840, Eunice S. Glidden, and died 6

Jan., 1876. Issue ;

1 Alphonso, b. 17 Dec., 1842.

2 William Ames, b. 19 Sept., 1844; d. 25 Nov., 1847.

3 Albert, b. 26 Nov., 1845; G Sept., 1881, Eva A. Hills, and has Chester

A., b. 11 Jan., 1882.

2 Eli, b. 1808;m. Frances Tibbetts, and died in New Orleans 21 Sept., 1840. Issue

:

Gilman R.,b. 16 Sept., 1837 ; d. 19 April, 1854.

3 Alexander, b. 18 May, 1810; of Oldtown, Me.;m. 24 June, 1839, Mary A. •

Barton, and died 2 Nov., 1869. Issue :

1 Laura E., b. 18 June, 1841.

2 Wilbur, b. 26 June, 1842 ;m. 2 May, 1871, Mary E. Gilman. Issue :

1 Jesse A/exanc/er, b. 18 Feb., 1872.

2 Frederick C., b. 24 Oct., 1874; d. 13 Sept., 1880.

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3 Edith, b. i6 August, 1876.

4 Mabel Priscilla, b. 4 August, 1878.

3 George Alexander, b. 9 August, 1845; m. 13 Feb., 1878, Mary Braley;

of

Oldtown. Issue :

1 Lena, b. 12 Jan., 1879.

2 Samuel Braley, b. 21 Nov., 1881.

3 Agnes L., b. 12 March, 1884.

4 Frances, b. 22 April, 1847 ;d. 27 April, 1847.

5 Mary Ella, b. 6 Sept., 1848; m. 24 Sept., 1879, Henry W. Bowman.

6 Herbert, b. 26 March, 1854; m. 26 July, 188-, Hattie E. Brown; of Oldtown.

7 Annie Eliza, b. i Sept., 1859.

33 E'anny, b. 2 March, 1780; died young.

34 James Nickels,^ b. 29 March, 1782.

35 Fanny, b. 19 Feb., 1784; died young.

36 Jesse, b. 8 E"eb., 1785 ;died young.

37 Alexander,^ b. 18 Feb., 1787; d. ii March, 1838.

38 Leonard, b. 16 Sept., 1789; died young.

39 Ruth, b. 7 Sept., 1791 ;died young.

40 Hannah Lull, b. i Sept., 1794; m. 4 July, 1828, William Nickels Ames, and

died 7 March, 1872; he was born 23 Nov., 1800, and died 28 July, 1869.

Issue :

1 Angeline C., b. in Newcastle, 19 August, 1830.

2 Charles C., b. 20 Sept., 1832 ;of Auburn, Cal.

3 Frances W., b. 4 May, 1833; Seth W. Dodge, and died 13 August,

1881. Issue:

1 Wilder W., b. 8 July, i860; m. 2 Jan., 1884, Carrie M. Richardson of

Northport, Me.

2 Hannah A., b. 22 August, 1867.

4 William Winslow, b. ii August, 1837 ; d. 9 Jan., 1875.

41 Leonard, “ b. 4 July, 1796.

42 William ° b, 7 July, 1798.

43 Gilmore,^ b. 17 June, i8oo.

29 Leonard,'^ only son of (19) Peter, was born in 1757, married

Elizabeth Palmer, and lived at blast Pittston, Me. Issue:

44 Mary, b. 21 Dec., 1784.

45 Henry,*’ b. 9 Oct., 1786.

46 Sarah, b. 10 Sept., 1787.

47 Leonard, b. 22 June, 1789.

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48 Betsey, b. 22 April, 1792.

-b. 31 May, 1795.

51 Susannah, b. 24 March, 1797.

52 Hannah, b. 9 Feb., 1799.

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34 James Nickels,^ eldest son of (27) Jesse,^ was born 29 March,

1782; married 14 Nov., 1809, Sally Little, who was born 22 Nov.,

1784, daughter of Henry Little, and died 4 May, 1849; was res-

ident of Pittston, and died 17 July, 1848. Issue:

55 Adeline, b. 21 Nov., 1810; m. 3 March, 1834, William Redington of Vas-

salboro’ and Pittston;she died 7 Feb., 1885. Issue :

1 Betsy P"., b. 7 Jan., 1835 5i860, W. II. F. Tower, and died 4 June,

1879. Issue, George R.

2 William F., b. 23 May, 1836; m. 26 Sept., 1870, Jennie Boyce, and has issue,

Ralph B.

3 Charles C., b. 5 August, 1837 ; d. 20 June, 1879.

4 Alfred, b. 5 March, 1839 ;m. 24 Oct., 1870, Julia Jones.

5 Mary V., b. 26 March, 1841.

6 Delia A., b. 28 July, 1844.

7 Blanche H., b. 28 Sept., 1849; 29 June, 1870, A. G. Chase, and has issue,

Charles R. and A. Howard.

8 Eleanor, b. 19 Sept., 1855.

56 Charles,'^ b. 10 Feb., 1813.

57 Mary L., b. 29 Nov., 1815 ;in. 16 Oct., 1839, Joseph Varney, and died 4

Oct., 1855. Issue :

1 James Cooper.

2 Ellen Raymond, m. L. D. Cooke, and had issue: Jane C. and Grace B.

3 Julia Kimball, m. Pliny Bartlett, and had issue: Ellen C. and Draper.

58 James Nickels, b. 17 March, 1818;

d. 10 April, 1868, unmarried.

59 Jane Drummond, b. 22 July, 1820; d. 21 March, 1880, unmarried.

60 William Alexander, b. 25 Dec., 1822;

d. 23 Oct., 1870, unmarried.

61 Albion Keith Parris,® b. 27 March, 18-25.

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37 Alexander,^ son of (27) Jesse,M3. 18 Feb., ‘1787; m. 7 Nov.,

1821, Betsey G. Nickels, who was born 9 August, 1803, 7

Nov., 1851. He lived at Pittston, and died ii March, 1838. Issue:

62 Emeline M., b. 29 Oct., 1822;m. 31 Dec., 1840 (56) Charles Cooper (b. 10

Feb., 1813; cl. 18 June, 1879;) 1844*

63 Caroline E., b. 17 July, 1824; m. 10 Nov., 1844, Thomas R. Patten, and

died 22 Nov., 1844.

64 Christopher Martinborough Nickels, b. 15 May, 1826; cl. 2 Jan., 1851.

65 Laura A., b. 9 June, 1828;

cl. 8 May, 1842.

66 Clara M., b. 8 May, 1831 ;cl. 5 Dec., 1851.

67 Delia A., b. i Dec., 1834 ;d. 30 Jan., 1850.

68 Frederick A., b. 24 May, 1836;

cl. 25 Jan., 1839.

41 Leonard,'"' son of (27) Jesse,'^ b. 4 July, 1796; m. 13 Nov.,

1823, Abigail Weeks, b. 26 April, 1801, and died 6 Nov., 1881;he

died at Montville 6 Oct., 1863. Issue:

69 I'homas W., b. 16 Nov., 1824; m. 22 Nov. 1854, Ursula J. Stevens;

resi-

dence East Machias, Me.

70 Hannah N., b. 28 Feb., 1827 ;m. 25 May, 1854, Daniel Stevens, and has

issue, Ahhie JVi/der, b. 31 Dec., 1859.

71 Leonard,^ b. 12 March, 1829.

72 William lulwin, b. 9 May, 1832 ;m. 13 Dec., 1865, Julia A. Weeks

;resides

at E. Machias.

73 Marcellus R., b. ii May, 1835 ;m. 16 July, 1864, Olive Hayford.

74 Ph-eeman B., b. 29 Aug., 1838 ;m. ii Feb, 1865, Sarah Gunn, and has issue :

1 Walter, b. 2 Oct., 1869.

2 Isabel, b. Oct., 1878.

75 Laura A., b. 19 Sept., 1841;m. 10 Feb., 1864, (85) William Ames Cooper,

b. 5 August, 1826, and has issue :

1 Clara Maria, b. 13 Dec., 1867.

2 Abbie Lucia, b. 21 June, 1876.

76 Alexander, b. 13 April, 1844; m. 17 Dec., 1871, Eugenia A. Russell, and

has issue :

I Helen S., b. 19 May, 1881.

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42 William;'^ son of (27) Jesse, b. 7 July, 1798; m. Frances

Wilder; residence Pittston. Issue:

77 Helen R,, m. 1857, Joseph Smith, who was born 31 August, 1833 ;

died 23 April, i860.

78 Wilder F., m. Alice Drake.

79 Alexander.

80 Mar)" W.81 Adeline F.

82 Fanny.

83 Clara.

43 Gilmore,'"' youngest son of (27) Jesse,Svas born 17 June, 1800,

in Newcastle; m. i Jan., 1824, Lucia Lewis, who was born 23 April,

1803, and died 12 Oct., 1881;a farmer of Searsmont

;he died in

San Francisco, Cal., 21 July, 1861. Issue:

84 George Augustus, b. 28 Oct,1824, at Newcastle; resides in Nevada Co.,Cal.

85 William Ames, b. 5 August, 1826, at Newcastle; m. 10 Feb., 1864,(75)

Laura Augusta Cooper, b. 19 Sept., 1841 ;residence Oldtown. Issue :

1 Clara Maria, b. in Newport, Me, 13 Dec., 1867.

2 Abbie Lucia, b. in Oldtown, 21 June, 1876.

86 Nichols, b. 19 July, 1828;m. Ann Milliken

;residence Searsmont, Me.

Issue :

I George Nichols, b. at Searsmont, 18 March, 1862.

87 Abbie, b. 29 Oct., 1830;

d. 10 May, 1850.

88 Helen Augusta, b. 12 April, 1833; m. ii August, 1872, John S. Dunn of

Nevada Co., California.

89 Harvey L., b. 12 June, 1837 1 27 Dec., 1869, Mary Josephine Greely;

resides in California. Issue :

1 Herbert Marcellus, b. 23 April, 1872.

2 Helen Gertrude, b. 3 July, 1874.

3 Charles Harvey, b, 21 Oct., 1876.

90 Frederick Lewis, b. in Searsmont, 6 August, 1839 ;m. 6 Feb., 1879, Anna

Augusta Cooper; resides in California. Issue :

I son, b. 17 Feb., 1884.

91 Clara Maria, b. in Searsmont, 8 Oct., 1841;m. 7 Nov., 1861, William G.

Cox, and died 14 July, 1865.

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45 Henry, eldest son of (29) Leonard, b. 9 Oct., 1786; m. 1809,

Eleanor Bailey, b. 18 Dec., 1790; resided at Dresden, Me. Issue:

92 Leonard, of Dresden b. 22 July, 1810.

93 Hiram, of Richmond, b. i8 March, 1812.

94 William,'^ of Richmond, b. 13 Oct., 1813.

95 Henry, of Hallowed, b. 14 Sept., 1815.

96 Warren, b. 2 March, 1817.

97 John, b. 2 March, 1819.

98 Cyrus, b. 7 Nov., 1820.

99 Eleanor, b. 24 Feb., 1823.

100 James, b. 20 March, 1825.

1 01 Columbus, b. 27 Feb., 1827.

102 Mary Elizabeth, b. 29 Oct., 1828.

103 Llewellyn, b. — Nov., 1832 ;shipmaster from port of New York.

104 Maria, b. — June, 1835.

56 Charles,^ son of (34) James Nickels,"' b. at Pittston, 10 P'eb.,

1813; m. 31 Dec., 1840, Emeline M., daughter of (37) Alexander

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Cooper; she died 10 August, 1844; he married second, 18 August,

1847, Sally PArley, b. 27 Sept., 1820; residence Brooklyn, N. Y.

He died 18 June, 1879. Issue :

105 Charles, b. 13 Nov., 1849.

106 Ph-ederick F., b. i Jan., 1852 ;d. 14 July, 1852.

107 Mary F., b. 9 April, 1855 ;d. 28 May, 1879.

108 Emeline, b. 29 August, 1856.

109 Caroline F., b. 2 May, 1865 ;d. 14 August, 1865.

61 Albion Keith Parris,*' youngest son of (34) James Nickels,^

born at Pittston 27 March, 1825 ;merchant of Boston, Mass., and

of Paris, France; m. 17 Feb., 1864, Fanny S., daughter of Charles

H. Mason, b. 18 Oct., 1843; resided in the last part of his life in

Brooklyn, N. Y., where he died 9 August, 1884.^ Issue:

* Mr. Cooper had, within a year, or two before his death, collected the matter embraced in this

article and doubtless had he lived, would have added largely to it. His notes have been placed

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no Walter Mason, b. 21 Nov., 1864.

111 Grace, b. 2 Dec., 1866.

71 Leonard,^ son of (41) Leonard,^' b. 12 March, 1829; m. 12

Feb., 1863, Mary Agnes Keating, who died 30 May, 1870; he mar-

ried second, 28 June, 1880, Annie S. Cunningham. Issue:

1 12 Mary Hanly, b. 28 Sept., 1867 ;cl. 26 Feb., 1877.

1 13 Ralph L., b. 3 August, 1881.

94 William," third son of (45) Henry,^ b. 13 Oct., 1813 ;m. 7 May,

1837, Mary Ann Cheney. He died at Richmond, Me., August 24,

1864. Issue:— all born in Dresden, Me., where William first

settled.

1 Frederick W., b. 22 March, 1838; shipmaster; d. i July, 1864, at Manzanillo,

Cuba; unmarried.

2 John C.. b. 28 Nov., 1840; shipmaster; m. in Saco, Me., 21 Nov., 1871, Annie

H., dau. of Jordan and Mary B. Fogg. Issue:

I Caro Lena, b. at Richmond, 15 Jan., 1878.

3 Lena C., b. 27 Aug., 1847 5^n* Richmond, 12 Sept., 1869, C. Everett Blanch-

ard, shipmaster. She died 8 Sept., 1871. Issue :

I Ernest C., b. in Richmond, 8 June, 1870.

in my hands to prepare for publication, and the work would be incomplete without a brief sketch of

the life and labors of one whose friendship and sympathy were mine in a peculiar degree.

Mr. Cooper passed the leisure hours of his boyhood in the shipyard of his father upon the banks of

the Kennebec river. No mast was too lofty for him to scale, no construction too intricate for him to

note and understand. But the shipyard was too narrow in its limits, and his ambition too restless

to yield to home influences. He early went to the city of Boston, and found employment there in

the dry goods house of Holbrook, Carter & Co. Later he became a partner under the firm nameof Carter, Cooper & Co. After the dissolution of the firm he sailed for 'Europe, and in 1855 be-

came attached to the house of Vogel & Co. of Paris. In 1S62 he returned to this country, and was

immediately successful in obtaining a situation in the private office of Alexander T. Stewart, with

whom he remained until the death of the great merchant, in 1876, enjoying his confidence and es-

teem in an eminent degree. In the year 1879 he was sent by the firm of A. T. Stewart & Co. to

Paris on business connected with the house, and remained in Europe in their service until the autumn

of the next year, when his engagement with the firm was severed. He subsequently became at-

tached to the Custom House in the city of New York, and was in the service at the time of his death.

Mr. Cooper was a man widely known in the commercial circles of New York, and universally es-

teemed. He was a man of great ability, of great executive capacity, of wide general information,

and singularly warm-hearted, generous and sympathetic. His friendship is one to be rememberedwith deep satisfaction, and his death deplored as a grievous personal loss.

Edward Doubleday Harris.

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