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Family: Daniel Cooley / Rebecca Truman (F718)

• Male Daniel Cooley

  
  

  Birth	23 Mar 1683/84	Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts
  Death	Abt 1773	Springfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts
  Burial
  Marriage	8 Aug 1745  [1]	Westfield, Hampshire Co, Massachusetts  [1]
  Other Spouse	Jemima Clark | F717
  Marriage	7 Nov 1710	Enfield, Hartford Co, Connecticut
  Father	Daniel Cooley | F189 Group Sheet
  Mother	Elizabeth Wolcott | F189 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Rebecca Truman

  
  

  Birth	Unknown
  Death	Unknown
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• Notes

  Married: The Westfield area was originally inhabited by the Woronoakes who named the valley and river Woronoco meaning "the winding land". A trading post was built in Woronoco by Dutch traders in 1640. Originally they called their post Streamfield but it was soon named Westfield. During the trading post's first few months the traders lived in caves dug into the side of the hills near present-day Pochassic. Eventually wooden homes were built by the settlers. Westfieldans still refer to the cave hill as the "cellar side" of town. - The Westfield Story written by volunteers in public schools Kay Delli Bovi and barbara Trant After a boundary survey ordered by the Massachusetts General Court in 1647 jurisdiction was asserted and Woronoco became the westermost part of Springfield Plantation. As the land was incrementally acquired from the Native Americans the Towne of Springfield granted land to English settlers who began to settle there beginning in 1658.

  
  

• Sources

  [S289] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, Cooley Genealogy main, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), p457-63 (Reliability: 3).

  
  

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