Anybody out there with Illinois Coopers??? Joann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Sinker" <e.sinker@btinternet.com> To: <cooper@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 5:02 AM Subject: Re: [COOPER] COOPER Family Photograph > Hi Carroll, > > Thank you for your reply, pointing out how you know that Sophia COWLES > husband is Nathaniel P. COOPER, plus the additional useful and interesting > information about your family. > > I do think that there is a fair chance that Nathaniel might belong to the > Salem/Camden County, NJ, COOPERS, even if he was born in New York > State. > > I did notice a couple of your 'deliberate' :-) mistakes, just to see if I > read > it carefully, such as your father, Maurice DeWitt COOPER being born in > 1804 rather than 1904. > > Getting back to Pultneyville, Wayne Co., New York, I sometimes get a > little confused about Williamson the village and Williamson the township. > Pultneyville & Williamson are both in the Town of Williamson, so when I > see that my COOPERS, Griffith & Alexander are mentioned as being in > Williamson, it could and does at times mean that they are actually in the > village of Pultneyville rather than the village of Williamson but they are > so close together that it does really makes much difference. > > So, anyhow, I tried finding your Russell COWLES, father of Sophia in > Pultneyville and anywhere in Wayne County but couldn't find a reference > to him, until it suddenly dawned on me that he was being referred to as > Russell COLES. Now that you wrote that it is pronounced as Kolz, the > spelling of COLES is understandable. See if you agree with me...... > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > Source: Military history of Wayne County, N.Y. : the County in the Civil > War > Sodus, N.Y by Lewis H. Clark, published by Hulett & Gaylord, > 1883 > > page 216 [I think this is about 1814] > > ............The British soldiers, who are said to have landed from their > Batteaux with > unloaded guns, loaded forthwith. There was a scattering of both sides. > In > the > scuffle the British seized as prisoners, Richard White, bartender; > PRESCOTT > FAIRBANKS, Mr. Ledyards clerk, and RUSSEL COLE. The latter jumped > away in front of Ledyards store, dashed around it to the creek and swam > over > to the other side.........Not many minutes elapsed before the enemy, > having > loaded and regained their boats, commenced a scattering of musketry fire, > paying their particular respects to the bushes into which RUSSELL COLE > had escaped........ The prisoners White and FAIRBANKS were taken away > and sent to Halifax. It was some months before they were released...... > Fairbanks was the son of Rev. Eleazer Fairbanks the early Presbyterian > minister of Palmyra who settled at what is still known as FairbanksPoint > east of Pultneyville.....RUSSELL COLE was a blacksmith by trade and > also a gunsmith; an ingenious mechanic and withal something of a hunter. > He could make a rifle and use it. He married a daughter of Deacon > Abraham PEPPER. > > [The reason I put PRESCOTT FAIRBANKS in capital letters, is because > his grandson, also named Prescott Fairbanks, married MARY ELIZA > COOPER, in 1868 and she is the daughter of James B. COOPER & Sarah > ROGERS & James B. is the son of GRIFFITH MORGAN COOPER whom I > mentioned in my previous message, who was born in 1791 in Haddonfield, > New Jersey.] > > _________________________________________________________________________________ > Source: Landmarks of Wayne County, New York by George Washington > COWLES, published by D. Mason, Syracuse, NY, 1895: > [He isn't a relation of Russell's is he?] > > Chapter XX. > History of the Town of Williamson. > page 305 > ........The second highway ...through....Williamson village.....was later > known in this town as Jersey street from the fact that many of the > settlers along its lines came from New Jersey. > > [So this helps to explain why my New Jersey Cooper relations were > in Wayne County but I wonder why a lot came from NJ to up State > New York in the first place? G.W. Coles supplies a great deal of detail > about Williamson & Pultneyville, including the incident with the British > soldiers in 1814. He also spells the name as RUSSELL COLE.] > > page 315 > Pultneyville.-- This village..........RUSSELL COLE put up a blacksmith > shop, and afterwards built a larger one on the site of the James B. > Cragg house. > > page 316 > Churches.-- The First Presbyterian Church of Williamson was or- > anized by Rev. Allen C. Collins, a missionary, November 21, 1816, > the constituent members being: ..........Wilhelmina PEPPER..... > Abraham PEPPER.....Maria FAIRBANKS > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Source: Old Houses and Churches of Wayne County, New York State > compiled by Mrs. Helen Balmat Gorman, State Historian, 1938 > > page 49 > Lake Captains Monument. > > Pultneyville, Wayne County, New York, was once a busy port > on Lake Ontario, and many of its residents were seamen. This > Monument erected to the memory of Lake Captains of the > vicinity, was dedicated in 1930. A list of the names is given. > Also on a historical marker here, one reads, > "From 1687 French Batteaux men stopped here to trade with > the Indians. First Settler "Yankee Bill" Waters, a hunter, lived > here in 1804." ..............Samuel Throop......RUSSELL COLE...... > Horatio N. Throop......John H. Ledyard.....Milton Fairbanks.....etc. > > [I don't think that they are suggesting that these gentlemen were > French. I included the Troop gents because one of their relations, > Adoniram Judson Throop married Anna Hamilton COOPER at > Pultneyville in 1878, she being the daughter of Alexander Hamilton > COOPER brother of Griffith Morgan COOPER. The Fairbanks is also > a relation of the Prescott Fairbanks who married Mary Eliza COOPER, > mentioned previously. The connection here seems to be that they > were mariners which is what Griffith Morgan Cooper claimed to be, > having been in the US Navy, as were his brothers and his father.] > ________________________________________________________________________ > > I hope that some of this information is of interest to you. I know > I have not proven a connection between your Nathaniel P. COOPER > and my Coopers but think that I have made a case for his possibly > being from that line of Coopers. > > I have another question to ask you. Where do you think that the > DEWITT name comes from? > - Ed > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COOPER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >