Cooley Family

Generation 1

Benjamin Cooley was born 1617 in England and died 17 August 1684 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA. He married Sarah before 1644. They had at least one child:

Daniel Cooley

b. 2 March 1651 at Springfield (now in Hampden Co.), MA
d. 9 February 1727 at Springfield, Hampshire (now in Hampden Co.), MA
m. 8 December 1680 to Elizabeth Wolcott at Longmeadow, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA

Generation 2

Daniel Cooley was born 2 March 1651 at Springfield (now in Hampden Co.), MA and died 9 February 1727 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA. He married Elizabeth Wolcott 8 December 1680 at Longmeadow, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA. She was born 19 August 1662 at Windsor (now in Hartford Co.), CT and died 3 January 1708 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA. For information on her ancestry see the Wolcott Family. They had at least one child:

Benjamin Cooley

b. 8 October 1681 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA
d. 1745 at Brainfield, MA
m. 31 January 1700/1 to Margaret Bliss

Generation 3

Benjamin Cooley was born 8 October 1681 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA and died 1745 at Brainfield, MA. He married Margaret Bliss 31 January 1700/1. She was born 23 November 1683 at Springfield, Hampshire (now Hampden) Co., MA. For information on her ancestry see the Bliss Family. They had the following children:

Keziah Cooley

b. 29 October 1702
m. Philip Goss III

Benjamin Cooley

b. 5 November 1701
d. 1 April 1790
m. 14 February 1744/5 to ___

Azariah Cooley

b. 21 August 1704
d. 1734 at Brainfield, MA
m. May 1730 to Rebecca Dicks and had child Azariah Cooley, Jr. (7 Mar 1731-28 Feb 1778)

Abigail Cooley

d. 6 November 1740
m. Henry Wolcott, Jr (28 Feb 1696/7-) and had child Martha (9 Dec 1739-)

Generation 4

Keziah Cooley was born 29 October 1702. She married Philip Goss III. For further information see the Goss Family. They had the following children:

Philip Goss IV

m. Mary Kendall
for further information see the Goss Family

Keziah Goss

Sources

New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1985

Pedigree chart prepared by Don G. Olmstead

Wolcott Genealogy by Robert C. Griffen and Mitchell R. Alegre, The Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott, 1986

The Wolcotts of Windsor by Donald Bergquist, [copied from Wolcott File at Windsor (CT) Historical Society)

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14 November 1997