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Found at findagrave.com on 3/26/2021
Timothy Cooper
Birth: 26 Apr 1644
Death: 1679 (aged 3435)
Burial: Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: Willow Avenue 2-97
Memorial #: 114413303
Bio:
Father Thomas Cooper 1617-1675
Mother Sarah Slye Cooper Clark 1615-1688
From the First Century of Springfield.
TIMOTHY COOPER.
Timothy Cooper
son of Thomas
The date of his death is not on record
married Elizabeth Munson
October 19, 1664
He succeeded to his fathers homelot and engaged with John Pynchon in trade at Albany, N. Y., where he was not successful, or died not long afterwards.
His son, John, went to Newark, New Jersey.
The widow Elizabeth Munson, deeded her dower in lands in Springfield, Fort Albany, and in New Jersey in 1680, and he may have died soon after beginning trade in connection with Pynchon.
In his account book Pynchon made this entry of an agreement: "April 28, 1675. An agreement with Timothy Cooper to carry on trade together at Albany for 7 years or more If we Se Cause, is: That we goe Joint Partners in ye Trade, I to p'vide " furnish ye sd Timothy wth Goods, "300 or "400 at p'sent, " afterwards "500 or "600 pr annum, more or less, as falls in, He answering the Principall, being yearly to make venture to Boston in ye adventure, " whereof we run halves, being Joint in ye p'fit " loss of the whole trade in wch Timothy Cooper buys goods [if] I have them, " in consideration of his Paines, tyme " expenses " care in managing of ye Trade there at Albany, Besides my taking care of p'viding " suiting him wth Goods, I also at my charge to p'vide him a house of mine for him to dwell in " trade in, he keeping it in repare as also to allow " pay him "10 the first yeare, the 2d yeare "20 " so "20 a year to ye end of ye tyme."
Family Members
Parents
Thomas Cooper 1617-1675
Sarah Slye Clarke 1615-1688
Siblings
Sarah Cooper Day 1642-1726
Thomas Cooper 1646-1722
Mary Cooper Colton 1651-1742
John Cooper 1654-1656
Infant Daughter Cooper 1656-1656
John Cooper 1659-1677
Children
Sarah Cooper Woodruff 1666-1727
Mary Cooper Ward 1667-1736
John Cooper 1668-1736
Created by: M Cooley (47154454)
Added: 26 Jul 2013
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114413303/timothy-cooper
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 26 March 2021), memorial page for Timothy Cooper (26 Apr 16441679), Find a Grave Memorial no. 114413303, citing Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by M Cooley (contributor 47154454) .
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