Gideon Cooley^[1]

1731 - Abt 1793  (61 years)

• Name	Gideon Cooley  [2, 3]
  Birth	30 Jan 1730/31	Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  _TODO	Open
  Death	Abt 1793	Brantford, Brant Co, Ontario
  Person ID	I373	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	24 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	Benjamin4 Cooley,   b. 5 Nov 1701, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts d. 1 Apr 1790, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Republic of Vermont (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Elisabeth Charles,   b. 15 Feb 1709/10, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts d. 26 Oct 1743, Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age 33 years)
  Marriage	1 Sep 1730	Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts   [7, 8, 9]
  Family ID	F187	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Osborn,   b. Abt 1743, Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts d. Abt 1800, Brantford, Brant Co, Ontario (Age ~ 57 years)
  Marriage	9 Oct 1758 (Intention)	Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts   [3, 10]
  Children	1. Gideon Cooley,   b. 10 Mar 1760, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown   2. Elizabeth Cooley,   b. 2 Nov 1761, Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown   3. Jacob Cooley,   b. Abt 1762, Worcester County, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown   4. Calvin Cooley,   b. Abt 1764, Worcester County, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown   5. Luther Cooley,   b. Abt 1766, Worcester County, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown   6. Abigail Cooley,   b. Abt 1769, Pittsford, Albany Co, Province of New York d. Yes, date unknown   7. Mary Cooley,   b. Abt 1770, Pittsford, Albany Co, Province of New York d. Yes, date unknown   8. Keziah Cooley,   b. Abt 1781, Pittsford, Rutland Co, Republic of Vermont d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F558	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Note that The Cooley Genealogy has a birth year of 1731 which, after 1752, it was. (Research):"Ontario Sessional Papers, 1930, No.24A-39" The report of the Acting Surveyor General bearing date the 21st of September, 1795, relative to the lands between Long Point and the Grand River was laid before the Council. Gideon Cooley, Sen. whose son Luther Cooley received a ticket of location from Andrew Pierce for lot No. 1 in the 12th con. on the head waters of Patter- son's Creek on Lake Erie, the said Luther having by the paper annexed to his petition given up his right thereto to the petitioner, who prays that the same may be granted to him. Ordered that 200 acres be granted and referred to the Surveyor General for location. Gideon Cooley, Jun.: Has a wife and five children and has never received any land. Prays for three hundred acres in the Long Point Settlement or in the Township of Townsend. Ordered that the petitioner shall have a grant of two hundred acres. Brantford Ontario is a city located on the Grand River in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It was incorporated as a city in 1877. This single-tier municipality is part of Brant County. Brantford is sometimes known by the nickname The Telephone City, after one of the city's most famous former residents, Alexander Graham Bell. The Native-American tribe the Attawandaron, or Neutral Nation, lived in the Grand River valley area before the 17th century; their main village and seat of the chief, Kandoucho, was identified by 19th-century historians as having been located on the Grand River where Brantford lies today. This town, like the rest of their settlements, was destroyed when the Iroquois declared war in 1650 and exterminated the Neutral nation. In 1784, Captain Joseph Brant and the Six Nations Indians left New York for Canada. As a reward for their loyalty to the British Crown, they were given a large land grant on the Grand River. The original Mohawk settlement was on the south edge of the present-day city at a location favourable for landing canoes. Brant's crossing of the river gave the original name to the area: Brant's ford. By 1847, European settlers began to settle further up the river at a ford in the Grand River and named the village Brantford. The native settlement was abandoned except for the Mohawk Chapel which remains Ontario's oldest Protestant church.

  
  

• Sources

  [S355] United States Government, Census - main, (Censuses conducted 1790-1930), Pittsford, Rutland Co, Vermont; 2 males >16, 5 females (Reliability: 3). [S475] Godfrey Memorial Library, AGBI, Vol. 34, p.57 (Reliability: 3). [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p 491 (Reliability: 3). [S475] Godfrey Memorial Library, AGBI, Vol. 34, p. 57 (Reliability: 3). [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p 467, p 491 (Reliability: 3). [S474] NEHGS, Mass Town Records, (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Massachusetts Town Birth Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. ), Gideon Cooley, Birth Date: 30 Jan 1730, Birthplace: Brimfield, Mass (Reliability: 3). [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p467 (Reliability: 3). [S458] Edmund West, comp, Family Data Coll, (Ancestry.com, Provo, UT, 2000). [S459] Bill Yates, Yates Marriage Records, (Yates Publishing, P.O. Box 67, Stevensville, MT, 59870), 1730 (Reliability: 3). [S522] Massachusetts Vital Records Project, Mass Vital Records, Greenwich #8 Births, Deaths, Marriages (Reliability: 3).