Sarah (wife of Ensign Benjamin Cooley) [?]

Abt 1621 - 1684  (~ 63 years)

• Name	Sarah (wife of Ensign Benjamin Cooley) [?]  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1621	Probably England   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	23 Aug 1684	Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I516	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	9 May 2021

  
  

  Family	Benjamin1 Cooley,   b. Abt 1615, Tring, Hertfordshire, England d. 17 Aug 1684, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age ~ 69 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1642	Probably in the New World   [4]
  Children	1. Bethia Cooley,   b. 16 Sep 1643, Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 9 Dec 1711, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age 68 years)   2. Obadiah Cooley,   b. 27 Jan 1645/46, Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 3 Sep 1690, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age 44 years)   3. Eliakim Cooley,   b. 8 Jan 1647/48, Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 1 Dec 1711, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age 63 years)   4. Daniel Cooley,   b. 2 May 1651, Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 9 Feb 1726/27, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age 75 years)   5. Sarah Cooley,   b. 27 Feb 1653/54, Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. Yes, date unknown   6. Benjamin Cooley,   b. 1 Sep 1656, Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 29 Nov 1731, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age 75 years)   7. Mary Cooley,   b. 22 Jun 1659, Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. Yes, date unknown   8. Joseph Cooley,   b. 6 Mar 1660/61, Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F190	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Sarah's surname is unknown but that hasn't deterred many people from inserting a surname for her based on wild speculation or simply a mis-reading of the "Cooley Genealogy". As to the latter, on page 41 the following is written: "1. Benjamin (b. about 1617, in Springfield in 1642/3, with his wife Sarah (Savage)." The "Savage" in parentheses after Sarah's name refers to author James Savage who wrote a comprehensive work called "Genealogical Dictionary of New England", 1862. Yet, hundreds of would-be "researchers" have casually looked at this entry in the Cooley Genealogy and assumed that Sarah's surname was "Savage" and have incorporated that name into their family databases. In 2006 I observed 222 databases in myfamily.com's recklessly ill-conceived One World Tree that had used the name Savage as Benjamin Cooley's wife's surname. Other surnames for Sarah have been "Colton" (surname of Benjamin's business partner and lifelong friend and associate in Longmeadow, Quartermaster George Colton), "Collen" (a "Sarah Collen" joined the Dorchester church on 20 Nov 1640), and Tremaine (unknown origin but entertained then discarded by Mortimer Cooley in the Cooley Genealogy).

  
  

• Sources

  [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p195 (Reliability: 3). [S777] Daniel Berton Cooley, Estimated, It is highly likely she was born in England, not New Enbland (Reliability: 3). [S600] New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGS), MVRS, Vol 2, p1691 (Reliability: 3). John Pynchon "Hampshire Records" transcribed by the New England Historical ande Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in 2003. "Sarah the wife of Ensign Benja Cooley was sicke & died: August 23d 1684" [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), pp195-98 (Reliability: 3).