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Samuel Cooley

Male 1775 - Abt 1846  (70 years)


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  • Name Samuel Cooley 
    Birth 14 Nov 1775  Pittsford, Charlotte Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Death Abt 1843-1846  Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Burial Y  [6] 
    Person ID I228  Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
    Last Modified 24 Apr 2021 

    Father Benjamin5 Cooley,   b. 30 Apr 1747, Narragansett Township #4, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Feb 1810, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Mother Ruth Beach,   b. Abt 1756, Morristown, Morris Co, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Sep 1825, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years) 
    Marriage 18 Feb 1773  Pittsford, Charlotte Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    • Cooley Genealogy: [Benjamin Cooley] m. Feb. 1773, Ruth Beach, b Jan 11, 1756, Morristown, N.J., d. Sept 1, 1825; when married, she was visiting her brother, Col. Beach, in Rutland Vt.
      Vermont Vital Records: Place of residence [when married], Rutland [7]
    Family ID F56  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Polly Dike,   b. 4 Aug 1781, Chittenden, Charlotte Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Sep 1838, Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years) 
    Marriage 5 Oct 1797  Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 10] 
    Children 
     1. Irene Cooley,   b. 27 Aug 1798, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1798
     2. Asenath Cooley,   b. 27 Aug 1798, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Oct 1872, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co, Utah Territory Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
     3. Noah Cooley,   b. 26 Nov 1801, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Apr 1877, Washington, Macomb Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     4. Samuel Cooley,   b. 8 Mar 1804, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Nov 1872, Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
     5. Jonathan Cooley,   b. 21 Apr 1806, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Sep 1872, Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
     6. William Cooley,   b. 26 Jun 1808, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Nov 1887, Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     7. Benjamin Cooley,   b. 7 Aug 1811, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jan 1881, Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     8. Mary Cooley,   b. Probably Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     9. Chester Cooley,   b. 19 Jun 1817, Cambria Twp, Niagara Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Sep 1889, Bruce, Macomb Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
     10. Dike Cooley,   b. 29 Aug 1819, Cambria Twp, Niagara Co, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Sep 1891, Dryden, Lapeer Co, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
    Family ID F115  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Jan 2021 

  • Notes 
    • Because of conflictng death information, I have downgraded Samuel's death years to abt 1843-1846,
      From the Cooley Genealogy p. 547: "(Samuel Cooley)...removed to New York State where he lived for a time, and in 1832 removed to Michigan; m. 5 Oct 1797, Pittsford, Polly Dike". From the Macomb county history, p747 "...Samuel and Polly Dike Cooley. The former was bom November 14, 1775, in Pittsford, Vt and died in Bruce, Mich., February 2, 1843; the latter was born in Chittenden, Rutland Co., Vt, August 4, 1781, and died September 10, 1838, in Bruce". Also on p747 from the Macomb history: [Samuel Cooley Sr] came to Michigan in 1832. and first settled in Washington, Macomb County; left Washington in 1840 and settled in Bruce, on 167 [11]
    • (Research):Gravestone vs Macomb County History birth-death dates
      Samuel Cooley Sr died 2 Feb 1846 aged 72y2m18d = bd 15 Nov 1773
      Poly Dike died 10 Sep 1838 aged 57y1m 6d = bd 4 Aug 1781

      Macomb County history in son William Cooley's writeup
      Samuel b. 14 Nov 1775 d. 2 Feb 1843 = 67y2m19d
      Polly b. 2 Aug 1781 d. 10 Sep 1838 = 57y1m8d
      Cooley Genealogy Samuel s Benjamin III and Ruth Beach b. Nov 17, 1775
      DAR Miss Lotta Irene Miller 112943 has Samuel Cooley (1775-1843) and Polly Dike (1781-1838)
      The greatest discrepancy so far is the 1846 on the gravestone of Samuel.
      The sources for most of the trees that have Samuel Cooley d 1843 and Polly Dike are all illigitimate such as (1) Ancestry Family Trees; (2) Family Data Collection - Births, (3) Family Data Collection - Individual Records; (4) Millennium File. They all list 1843 as the death year while the only ligitimate source, a gravestone engraving, has the death year as 1846.
      Charlotte County, New York was created on 24 Mar 1772 from the northwestern part of Albany County, Province of New York, that, at the time, claimed much of the land east of Lake Champlain and west of the Green Mountains. It was ceded 15 Jan 1777 to the Republic of Vermont. Note that Rutland became a county in 1781.

  • Sources 
    1. [S597] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vermont Vital Records, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2013.), Index card; November 14 1775, mother Ruth Beach aged 19, father Benjamin Cooley aged 28; Town Clerk Benj Cooley (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p 492 and p547 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S345] Michael A Leeson, Macomb Co hist, (Chicago, IL: M.A. Leeson & Co., 1882; Culver, Hage, & Hoyne Printers, 118 & 120 Monroe St, Chicago ), pp747-48 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S345] Michael A Leeson, Macomb Co hist, (Chicago, IL: M.A. Leeson & Co., 1882; Culver, Hage, & Hoyne Printers, 118 & 120 Monroe St, Chicago ), pp747-48; death year 1843 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p 547. Samuel's death year is not stated in the Cooley Genealogy. (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S566] Find A Grave website founder Jim Tipton, Findagrave, Gravestone has exact death date: Feb 2, 1846 (Reliability: 3).
      Samuel Cooley 1775_gravestone Macomb Co, MI.jpg      		 Samuel Cooley 1775_gravestone Macomb Co, MI.jpg


    7. [S300] Caverly, A.M. (Pittsford Historical Society, 1976), Pittsford Hist, (Tuttle & Co. Printers, Rutland, Vt, 1872).

    8. [S597] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vermont Vital Records, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2013.), Family History Library microfilm 27,473 (Reliability: 3).
      Benjamin5 Cooley and Ruth Beach marriage-referenced endnote.jpg      		 Benjamin5 Cooley and Ruth Beach marriage-referenced endnote.jpg
      Family History Library microfilm.


    9. [S597] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vermont Vital Records, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT, USA, 2013.), Vt Vital records index card, Samuel Cooley m. Polly Dike Oct 5th 1797; recorded by Benj Cooley, Town Clerk (Reliability: 3).

    10. [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p547 (Reliability: 3).

    11. [S345] Michael A Leeson, Macomb Co hist, (Chicago, IL: M.A. Leeson & Co., 1882; Culver, Hage, & Hoyne Printers, 118 & 120 Monroe St, Chicago ), p747 (Reliability: 3).


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