COOPER

COOPER Family Line

Richard Cooper (parents not yet identified) b. ca. 1710 married Susannah Merion (or Marion)

John Cooper b.ca. 1751 married Elizabeth Gignilliat (see Gignilliat ancestry)

Susan Marion Cooper married James Decatur Pelot (see Pelot ancestry)

Elizabeth Lavinia Pelot married George Tyler Rogers (see Rogers ancestry)

Cornelius Decatur Rogers married Mary Ellen Murchison (see Murchison ancestry)

Margaret Murchison Rogers married James Tinley Ryder (see Ryder ancestry)

Mary Ella Ryder married Z.L. Chancellor (see Chancellor ancestry)

Margaret Ryder Chancellor married Lewis G. Bowdoin

Margaret Ellen Bowdoin married Robert Floyd Lewin (see Lewin ancestry)

COOPER Family History

Richard Cooper, of the parish of Christ Church, Georgia (now Chatham County) and of Carolina, and a millwright, was born in England about 1710. His origins, like so many of the colonists are obscured by time and lack of written information. Some descendants have suggested that he was in some way related to Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftsbury (1711-1771)

Richard Cooper left for America 18 June 1736, aboard the ship "The Two Brothers (from The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia). He was brought over from England by the Trustees of the Colony of Georgia, as an experieced millwright, for the purpose of setting up a mill for the Salzburgers at Ebenezer. In 1748/49 received land grants in Georgia near Darien which were included first in Liberty County and later after new county lines were drawn, McIntosh County. RIchard died in May 1756 in Georgia.

John Cooper (son of Richard) was born in 1751 in Liberty County, GA. He was a planter and Justice of the Peace. He married Elizabeth Gignilliat 10 April 1787. They had 6 children: Susan Marion b. ca. 1791; Mary Magdelene; Sarah; Charles M.; James G. and Mary Elizabeth.

"John Cooper, though a young manat the outbreak of the Revolution raised a company of cavalry and went into active service in which he continued until the end of the war. He was one of the Georgians who fought the British until Georgia was over-run, when he then joined the American Patriots in South Carolina. He later returned to Georgia and was acitve in driving the British out. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in Georgia forces." (Smith's "History of Georgia")

John died on 16 April 1819 at his plantation on the St. Mary's River near Fernandina, Florida.

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