Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. l93
Dea. Cooper was admitted a freeman Jan. 1, 1634-5 ; removed
to Scituate before 1638 ; and was one of the grantees of
the lands between North and South rivers, made that year. Sept.
3„ 1638, Cooper's island containing 18 acres was granted to him,
which he sold in 1639, to William Wills, and the island bears the
name of the latter, to this day. He was constable of Barnstable
in 1640, and a deputy to the Colony Court in 1642, and '43.
March 24, 1640-1 he was "invested into the office of a Deacon
Mr. Lothrop, Mr. Mayo and Dea. Cobb laying on hands."
His home lot was the fourth west from Coggin's pond. 1,
Henry Coggins containing twelve acres ; 2, Henry Bourne's, eight
acres ; 3, James Hamblin's, twenty acres, and 4, Dea. Cooper's,
containing twenty-four acres. The latter was bounded northerly
by the marsh, easterly by Mr. Groom, J westerly by Isaac Robinson,
and southerly "running into ye woods." Deacon Cooper's
house was on this lot, and stood near the present location of the
ancient house now owned by William Hinckley and Elijah Childs.
A part of that house is ancient and it is not improbable that it is
the same which was owned by Deacon Cooper. He also owned
the meadow on the north of his home-lot, of the same width with
the upland and extending north to the great creek ; a share in the
Calve's Pasture containing half an acre ; a little neck of land
pointing southerly into the Great Pond, with eight acres of
upland against it, bounded northerly by a great swamp ; and a
neck of land between the Great and Shoal ponds. The first
named neck of land he sold May 9, 1656, to Roger Goodspeed,
and the other to John Hall 14th Feb. 1660-1.
Dea. Cooper had no children. His sister Lydia married 25th
Dec. 1635, Nathaniel Morton, son of George, and Secretary of
the Colony from 1645, till he died June 29, 1685, and the author
of that well known work, the New England's Memorial. Dea.
Cooper was the brother-in-law of the Secretary, and his wife,
Priscilla, was his aunt. She was also nearly related to the Bradford
and Fuller families. Mr. Dean says that Dea. Cooper in his
will, gave half of his estate to the Barnstable Church and. half to
his sister Lydia, after the decease of his wife. He was not a
man of large estate and it is not probable that much remained at
the death of his widow.
A small pond in the northerly part of his home-lot is still
known as Cooper's pond, and a small island on the north thereof
is called by his name. A marsh island at the north of Rendevous
X Who this Mr. Groom was I am unable to ascertain. It seems that in 1653, when the
record of Dea. Cooper's land was made, that he owned a part of the land, recorded probably
the next year 1654, as the property of James Hamblin. There was a family of that
name in Middlesex County. There was a Sa'inuel, 61 Salisbury, in 1850, a mariner, dignified
iTlth the prefix of Mr. who went home to London before 16S8. Was he that Quaker who
published iu 1676 "A Glass for the people of N. B." Perhaps the name is Green. An
Isaac Green, a suiTcyor, was early of Barnstable and removed to Falmouth at the settlement
of that tomi and had a family thcrp.