Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

COOPER.
Dea. John Cooper was one of the first settlers in Barnstable.
He came to Plymouth about the year 1632, and there married on
the 27th Nov. 1634, Priscilla, widow of William Wright and
daughtei; of Alexander Carpenter,* of Leyden. She had no issue
by either marriage that survived her. In 1683 she removed to
Plymouth where she died Dec. 29, 1689, aged 91. The following
is a copy of her letter of dismission from the Barnstable to the
J'lymouth Church
"ffor ye Rev'd Elders of ye CCh. of Ct., at Plymouth, to
bee communicated to ye CCh. there, Rev'd and beloved Brethren,
The providence of God having rernoved ye Widow Cooper
A. member of ye CCh of Ct. at Barnstable fro. us to dwell w'th
you ; and she desiring to partake with you of ye good things of
God's house, and to be under yo'r watch and care, and in order
y'r unto to bee dismissed fro. o'er CCh unto you ; y'r fore if
you judge meet to receive her, wee do dismiss her fro. us unto
yo'r holy^ communion ; as one yt has walked orderly while w'th
us, and do commend her to you unto ye grace of God in all you'r
holy Administrations.
In ye name and w'th consent of
ye CCh of Ct. at Barnstable,
Barnst pr nos,
8 r: 15, 1683, Jonath: Bussel, Pastor.
John Chijiman, Elder.
* Alexander Carpenter was one of Mr. Bobininson's church at Leyden. Five of his
daughters are named :
I. Anna, also named Agnes, in the Dutch records, called a maid oi "Wrentham, in England,
married April 30, 1613, Samuel Fuller, afterwards the physician of the Plymouth
Colony. She died early.
II. Julian or Julia Ann, bom 1584, married 23d July, 1612, at Leyden, George Morton,
2d, Manasseth Kempton, of Plymouth, died 19th Feb. 1664-5, aged 81.
III. Alice, bom 1590, married first Constant Southworth, was a widow whea she came over,
married 2d Got. William Bradford, 14th Aug. 1623, and died March 26, 1670, aged 80.
IV. Priscilla, bom 1598, married as above stated.
"V". Mary, according to Mr. Savage, born in 1577 and died unmarried at Plymouth, March
- 19, 1668, aged 90. Mr. Bussell says in 1638, if so she was bom in 1693, a letter of hers
hjs recently been published, giving information respecting the family ; but I cannot at
this moment find it.
t This letter is printed to correspond as nearly with the original as the types usually
found in a printing office will admit. In old manuscripts, th is made like the modem letter
y. Many transcribers of old manuscripts use y instead of th. This practice is ^vrong,
because the character was intended for th not for v.