Frederick Cooper and Elizabeth Kyle

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Husband Frederick Cooper ^{1 2 3}

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           Born:  - Germany
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           Died:  - Washington Co, PA
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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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Wife Elizabeth Kyle ^{1 2}

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Frederick Cooper

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He settled at the mouth of Maple creek, on the Monongahela river, [Washington County, Pennsylvania?] in very early days.

He was a native of Germany, and emigrated to America before 1770, and settled in Frederick County, Virginia, where he lived in 1771. On the 20th of April in that year he came to Washington County, Pennsylvania, and purchased a tract of land (quantity not mentioned) of Andrew Devore, described as "one certain tract or parcel of land lying on the north side of the Monongahela, and bounded by lands of Paul Froman and James Devore." This tract he retained about a year, and in April, 1772, he sold it to Abraham Miller.
When Cooper came to Washington County he left a wife and three children, John, Polly, and Betsey, in the East. The Indians became so troublesome that after the sale of the property he returned to the East and remained several years. In the mean time his wife died, and he married again, and soon after came back to Washington County with his family. He purchased a tract of land containing two hundred and eighty-seven acres which had been warranted on the 17th of April, 1769, to Jacob Froman, and surveyed under the name of "Wrangle." The warrant was returned to Frederick Cooper on the 27th of December, 1784. Here he lived till his death. [HWC 1882, 791]

One of the earliest settlers in what is now Fallowfield township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, was Frederick Cooper, a native of Germany, who emigrated to America prior to 1770, and first settled in Frederick County, Virginia, where he lived until 1771. On April 20 of that year he came to southwestern Pennsylvania, which was yet a wilderness, and purchased from Andrew Devore "one certain tract or parcel of land lying on the north side of the Monongahela, and bounded by lands of Paul Froman and James Devore." A peculiarity about the description of the said tract of land was that the quantity was not mentioned. He retained this tract of land about a year, and sold it to Abraham Miller in April, 1772, and returned to the East, remaining there several years. At that time the boundary dispute between Pennsylvania and Virginia was raging, both provinces claiming jurisdiction over the region. Bedford County had been erected March 9, 1771, and the inhabitants of the Monongahela Valley were called upon to pay their shares of the taxes to maintain the county government. And the majority of these having come from Maryland and Virginia, and being doubtful, in the absence of an established western boundary, whether they were living under the government of Pennsylvania or that of Virginia, resistance to the collection of these taxes followed. On this account much ill feeling and turbulence prevailed, and continued for some years, steps being finally taken by the two colonies, in 1780, for a permanent settlement of the boundary contention, and the jurisdiction of Virginia was withdrawn. Washington county was erected March 28, 1781.
When Frederick Cooper first came there, he left a wife and three children-John, Mary and Elizabeth-in the East. After he returned to the East, he remained there several years. His wife having died, he married again, returned to Pennsylvania with his family, and purchased 287 acres of land which had been warranted on April 17, 1769, to Jacob Froman, and surveyed under the name of "Wrangle." The warrant was returned to Frederick Cooper December 27, 1784, and he lived upon this land the remainder of his lifetime. [CBRWC, 163]

It is not clear which of the children listed were born to which of his wives.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 791.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 163.

3 John S. Van Voorhis, The Old and New Monongahela (Pittsburgh, PA: Nicholson, Printer and Binder, 1893), Pg 195.