William Cooper and Elizabeth Fenimore

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Husband William Cooper ¹

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           Born: 2 Dec 1754 1
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   Other Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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Wife Elizabeth Fenimore ¹

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Children

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1 M James Fenimore Cooper ¹

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           Born: 15 Sep 1789 - Burlington, Burlington Co, NJ
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           Died: 14 Sep 1851 - Cooperstown, Otsego Co, NY
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2 F Mary Cooper ²

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         Spouse: John Neel (      -      ) 2 3

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General Notes: Husband - William Cooper

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He was descended from [was a great-grandson of] James Cooper, of Stratford-upon-Avon, England, who emigrated to the American colonies in 1679. James and his wife were Quakers who purchased plots of land in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Shortly after the American Revolutionary War, he purchased several thousand acres of land in upstate New York along the head-waters of the Susquehanna River. By 1788, he had selected and surveyed the site where Cooperstown would be established. He erected a home on the shore of Otsego lake, and in the autumn of 1790, after moving belongings, servants and carpenters to the location, he began construction of what would become Otsego Hall. Otsego Hall was completed in 1799.

James Fenimore Cooper was the eleventh child of twelve children, most of whom died during infancy or childhood.

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 403.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1107.

3 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 633.