Bethia Cooley

1643 - 1711  (68 years)

• Name	Bethia Cooley  [1]
  Birth	16 Sep 1643	Springfield, Non-County Area 1, Massachusetts Bay Colony   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	9 Dec 1711	Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I517	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Benjamin1 Cooley,   b. Abt 1615, Tring, Hertfordshire, England d. 17 Aug 1684, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age ~ 69 years)
  Mother	Sarah (wife of Ensign Benjamin Cooley) [?],   b. Abt 1621, Probably England d. 23 Aug 1684, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age ~ 63 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1642	Probably in the New World   [2]
  Family ID	F190	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henry Chapin,   b. Abt 1629-1630, England d. 16 Aug 1718, Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts (Age ~ 88 years)
  Marriage	5 Dec 1664	Massachusetts   [1]
  Family ID	F520	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Mar 2006

  
  

• Notes

  Bethia Cooley's birthdate is the benchmark for Benjamin Cooley's appearance in the New World. Yet, Springfield was not an immigration port for English migrators so a considerable length time had to elapse from Benjamin Cooley's landing in Massachusetts (parobably Salem) to the time he gave birth to Bethia in Springfield. Included in this span of time would have been Benjamin and Sarah's marriage and their admission to a church. Debrett Ancestry Research, in a 1987 report for the Cooley Family Association, concluded they were not married before they left England.

  
  

• Sources

  [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), pp196-97 (Reliability: 3). [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), pp195-98 (Reliability: 3).