Abigail Cooley

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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.

Gideon married Elizabeth Osborn in 9 Oct 1758 (Intention) in Greenwich, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born about 1743 in Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts; died about 1800 in Brantford, Brant Co, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Benjamin4 Cooley was born 5 Nov 1701, probably in the long meddowe precinct of Springfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. He was twice married, first to Elisabeth Charles, second to Mary Needham.
In Mass Vital Records microfilmed by LDS Church there is an entry: #9-Greenwich p36 "Mary daughter of Benjn Cooley by Mary his wife was born Dec 24, 1768". This is highly unlikely since there was already a Mary Cooley b. 1750, d. 1769. While the first Mary died young in 1769 and sometimes families, who lost a child renamed a later child the same name, there is overlap here.

(Research):Massachusetts Political Organization Hampshire county was created 7 May 1662 from Non-County Area 1 (towns of Springfield, Northampton, Hadley, and all territory within 30 miles). It effectively covered the entire western part of the province. (Mass. Recs., vol. 4, pt. 2:52) Hampden county was was set off from the northern half of Hampshire Co 1 Aug 1812.

Benjamin4 married Elisabeth Charles on 1 Sep 1730 in Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Elisabeth (daughter of John Charles and Elizabeth Swetman or Sweetman) was born on 15 Feb 1709/10 in Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts; died on 26 Oct 1743 in Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Note: In Brimfield Historical Celebration of the Town of Brimfield page 389 Genealogy of the Charles Family, Elizabeth's birthdate is listed as 3 Oct 1711

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(Research):Massachusetts Political Organization
Hampshire county was created from Non-County Area 1 (towns of Springfield, Northampton, Hadley, and all territory within 30 miles) on 7 May 1662. It effectively covered the entire western part of the province. Non-County Area 1 was eliminated (Mass. Recs., vol. 4, pt. 2:52)
Hampden county was was set off from the northern half of Hampshire Co 1 Aug 1812.

Benjamin3 married Margaret Bliss on 30 Jan 1700/01 in Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Margaret (daughter of Samuel Bliss and Sarah Stebbins) was born on 23 Nov 1683 in Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts; died est 1744 in Probably Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth Swetman or Sweetman on 1 Sep 1730 in Brimfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts. Elizabeth and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]