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Isaac Cooper (1737-1800 ) m. Prudence DUNN (1743-1789)
s/o Isaac Cooper (1697-1767) m. (1) Tabitha MILBY (1710-1737); (2) Hannah COATE (1708-1753)
d/o Benijah DUNN (1720-1781) m. Sarah DUNHAM (1718-1799)
1723 Isaac Cooper Sr (father) listed on MD Compiled Census for Nanticoke Hundred, Somerset Co, MD; p. NPL
29 Oct 1737 Isaac Cooper born at Newberry, SC [5th child or 8; 2nd son of Isaac Cooper and Tabitha Milby] [Newberry County was formed from the Ninety Six District in 1785. Prior to its formal founding, the area was the site of several American Revolutionary War battles: Williams' Plantation, Dec. 31, 1780; Mud Lick, March 2, 1781; and Bush River, May 1781. The town of Newberry was founded in 1789 as the county seat] [During the last half of the eighteenth century four principal centers of Quakerism arose in South Carolina and one in Georgia. These were in Kershaw, Marlborough, Newberry and Union Counties, South Carolina, and in Columbia (now McDuffie) County, Georgia, The earliest of these settlements appears to have been in Kershaw County, S. C, about 1750. Fredericksburg Monthly Meeting, also called Wateree, was set up in this county about 1755 or earlier. The monthly meeting was laid down about 1782, and the meetings for worship disappeared not long afterward. No records of Fredericksburg Monthly Meeting are known to be in existence. Bush River Monthly Meeting, in Newberry County, S. C, was established in 1770; Wrightsborough Monthly Meeting, in Georgia, 1773; Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, in Union County, S. C, 1799; Piney Grove Monthly Meeting, in Marlborough County, S. C, 1802. Bush River Meeting was located in Newberry County, In the west-central part of South Carolina. Dr. Stephen B. Weeks in "Southern Quakers and Slavery", page 115, says: "The group of meetings clustering around Bush River was the most important in South Carolina. The origin of this meeting and the time it began cannot be discovered. William Coate was living near Bush River before 1762, and Samuel Kelly, a native of King's County, Ireland, removed to Newberry County, from Camden, in 1762. Other early Quaker settlers were John Furnas, David Jenkins, Benjamin and William Pearson. Robert Evans came from Camden, probably between 1768 and 1769." In 1770 a committee appointed by Western Quarterly Meeting to visit Friends at Bush River Meeting in South Carolina recommended that a monthly meeting be settled there. This recommendation was approved by the Quarterly Meeting in 11th month, 1770, but the records seem to indicate that the new monthly meeting was not actually held until 4th month, 1772. Meetings for worship which are mentioned as reporting to Bush River Monthly Meeting include Bush River, Raburn'a Creek, Tiger River, Padget's Creek, Mud Lick, Allwoods', White Lick, Edlsto, Charleston and Rocky Springs. Early members of Bush River Meeting (names taken from the first pages of the minutes), in addition to those mentioned by Dr. Weeks, included Jacob Chandler, Samuel Chapman, Eli Cook, Isaac Cook, William Cooper, Enos Elleman, Moses Embree, Robert Evans, Armil Fincher, Nathan Hawkins, James Haworth, Richard Henderson, Elias Hollingsworth, Isaac Hollingsworth, William Hollingsworth, John Jones, Robert Merrick, Renry Millhouse, David Mote, David Mote, Jr., William Neal, John Nelson, Samuel Nelson, Enoch Pearson, Samuel Pearson, William Pemberton, Peter Ruble, David Smith, Henry Stedham, Jonathan Taylor, William Wright. About 1802, moved by a desire to live in a country where no slaves were held, Friends of Bush River began a migration to Ohio. Between 1802 and 1807 more than one hundred certificates of removal were issued, most of them being for families. This so depleted the membership that the monthly meeting seems to have been all but abandoned in 1808, though not formally laid down until 1822. A minute of Bush River Monthly Meeting, 1806,6,28, states that the Yearly Meeting "advises the Trustees, James Brooks, Samuel Brown, Isaac Kirk and John O'Neal, to sell or lease Bush River meeting house and lot, Rocky Spring meeting house and lot, and a meeting house lot at Camden." In 1809 the few remaining members of Bush River and Cane Creek Monthly Meetings were joined to New Garden Monthly Meeting by order of New Garden Quarterly Meeting. The same procedure appears to have been followed as to Wrightsborough. The minutes of New Garden Monthly Meeting relating to the former members of Bush River, Cane Creek and Wrightsborough Monthly Meetings are quoted below because it has not been possible, in all cases, to separate them and assign each item to the proper meeting. 1809, 6,24. "Extracts from New Garden Quarterly Meeting, 1808,12,10 and 1809,3,10. Friends appointed to visit friends in South Carolina report about 130 members as follows. Cane Creek, Union District: Richard Cox and wife, Ann, and children, Rebeckah, David, Peter, John, Isaac, Richard and William; Isaac Hawkins and children, Jonathan and Phebe; Dinah, Isaac Enoch, Ann and Martha Hollingsworth. Bush River, Newberry District: Ann Herbert, Sr.; Isaac Kirk and wife, Rebekah, and children, Ann Jenkins, Lydia Jenkins, Rebekah Jenkins, Isaac Jenkins and Phebe Kirk; James Brooks and children, David Singleterry, Daniel Offley and Martha; Phebe Pearson, widow; Rebekah Hawkins; Martha Knight; William Wright and wife, Mary, and children, Nathan, Sarah and Rachel; Hugh O'Neal and wife, Ann, and children, John Belton, Abigail, Rebekah, Hannah and Sarah; Rachel Coats; Sarah and Elizabeth Curl; Sarah Campbell; John 0'Neal and wife, Hephziba, and children, Priscilla, Hannaueel, Mark, Achsah, Gary and Hiram; James Jay and wife, Jemimah, and children, Mills, Alexander, Mary, Rhoda, Layton, James, Ede (Edith), Dempsey, Isaac and Sarah; Lydia Herbert and children, Esther, Ann, Eleanor, Martha, Jobe and Lydia; William and David Miles; James Gilbreath (tanner) and wife, Charity, and daughter, Lydia; Hannah Pearson and children, Powel, Robert and Susanna; Ann Herbert and children, Hannah, Isaac, William and Peter; William, Rhoda and John Foster, children of Henry 0'Neal; James, Jr. and John Gilbreath; Benjamin Weeks and wife, Abigail, and children, Susanna, Mary, Hannah, Clary, Abigail and Caron Happock; Robert Evans and wife, Caron Happock, and child, Abigail; Lydia Spears and children, Robert, Mary, Isaac and Moses Evans; Samuel Guant and wife, Susanna, and children, Samuel Kelly, Charles, Publias and Malichi; Hannah and John Kelly; Rebekah Elmore; Wm. Pugh and daughter, Hannah; Thomas O'Neal (now of Union Dist.) and wife, Sarah, and children, Mary, Rebekah and Robert; Sary Longshore and children, Sarah and Clyde. "Whose names we have taken and they request to be joined to New Garden Monthly Meeting and we think their situation will require some further care; with which this meeting unites. Extracted from minutes by Barnabas Coffin, Clerk." "Some friends formerly belonging to Wrightsborough and Cane Creek Monthly Meetings request certificates to Miami Monthly Meeting and West Branch Monthly Meeting, Ohio, Friends appointed to produce them to next meeting. 1809, 7,29. Certificates signed for the following: To Miami Monthly Meeting, Ohio: Richard Thompson; Thomas Hart; Elijah Mendenhall and wife, Martha, and daughter, Ann; Isaac Thomson; Phinehas Hart; Mary Stubs; Esther Green and children, Jesse, Hannah and Amos. To West Branch Monthly Meeting, Ohio; Bales Butler and wife and children, Samuel, Susanna, William and Mary; Susanna Butler. 1809, 8,26. Certificates signed for the following members of Wrightsborough and Bush River: To Miami Monthly Meeting Ohio; William Hollingsworth; Richard Moore; David Jay; Joseph Hollingsworth; Exile Pearson; Dempsey Moore; Charity Killey; Susannah Henderson; Ann Williams; Elizabeth Brooks. A few additional minutes, mostly disownments, relating to Bush River Friends between 1809 and 1818 will be found in the New Garden records. Fragmentary minutes in the Bush River book, covering the years 1819 and 1820, indicate an attempt to revive Bush River Monthly Meeting at that time. The attempt met with little success and the meeting was finally laid down about 1822 and the remaining members were attached to Springfield Monthly Meeting. The Springfield minutes recording this transfer are as follows: 1822, 5, 8. (Men's minutes). The monthly meeting at Bush River being laid down, this meeting is informed that it is the request of the members of that preparative meeting to become members at Springfield M. M. which request this meeting grants and receives them accordingly; names are as follows: Hugh O'Neal, Isaac Jenkins, James Galbreth, Isaac Evans, Isaac Harbert, William Herbert, Peter Herbert, William O'Neal, John O'Neal, Samuel Speer, William Wright, Nathan Wright, John Mills Wright, James Anderson Wright, Timothy Pugh, Moses Evans, Cornealy M. Evans. 1822, 6, 5. (women's minutes). Bush River Monthly Meeting being laid down, the members request to be joined to Springfield, viz: Sarah O'Neal, Lydia Gilbreath, Mary Evans, Rebekah Kirk, Phebe Kirk, Rebecca Jenkins, Margaret Dunken, Ann Herbert, Martha Wright, Rebekah Hawkins, Hannah Palmer, Elizabeth Carle, Rebecca Elmore, Martha Brooks, Lydia Speer, Hannah Hunt, Mary Wright, Sarah Wright, Rachel Wright, Sophia Wright, Sarah Pugh, Hannah Pugh, Catharine Pugh, Casander Pugh, Nancy Pugh, Ruth Pugh, Elizabeth Pugh, Keranhappuck Evans, Abigail K.Evans, Sophia M. Evans, Rebecca C. Evans. The record books of Bush River Monthly Meeting, from which the following abstract has been compiled, consist of one volume of birth and death records, two volumes of marriage records; four volumes of men's minutes (1772-1820), and one volume of women's minutes (1791-1801).]
27 Jul 1739 Prudence Dunn born at Chester, PA [3rd child of 8; 2nd daughter of Benijah Dunn and Sarah Dunham] [American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) says 1750 in KY; Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 18 Nov 1935, 1119 Vol 47, p.41] [New Jersey, Deaths and Burials Index, 1798-1971 says birth abt 1738] [one source says 1743]
1749 Isaac Cooper listed as purchasing land in MD [Date and place of mention in land survey. County and name of land purchased are provided. Original records are contained in Land Office Registers, indexed starting on page vii of the introduction. COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. Settlers Of Maryland 1679 - 1783. Consolidated Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2002. P. 142 Source Pub Code 1243]
1760 Isaac Cooper and Prudence Dunn married at Wrightsborough, McDuffie, Georgia [one source says marriage place was SC, another says GA]
13 Oct 1760 son Benjamin Cooper born at Wrightsborough, McDuffie, Georgia [Benjamin COOPER born 13 10th month 176_ (page torn). He married 1st day 3rd month 1783 at Wrightsborough Monthly Meeting, GA to Ferribee SANDERS, the daughter of Joel Sanders and Charity (probably Hollowell.) Benjamin and Ferribee left Wrightsborough MM in 1786 and went to Bush River MM, SC. They also returned to Wrightsborough MM at an unknown date. In 1806 they were granted certificates to Lost Creek Monthly Meeting, TN from Wrightsborough MM. In 1808 they were received at West Branch Monthly Meeting, OH. There is no further mention of this family in the Ohio Quaker records.]
1763 Isaac is shown in the tax records of Bladen County, NC [NC Compiled Census]
9 Nov 1764 Isaac Cooper NC Land Grant Files Certificate I-759 for Cumberland, NC, 200 ac (doc) [No. 495; Grant #183; Book 17, p.115 – both sides of Cross Creek
26 Feb 1765 Father Isaac Cooper will proven at Newton, Gloucester, NJ [listed as yeoman; wife Hannah profits of all my lands in said Twp until my sons Joseph and Marmaduke are 21, and I give her 600 pounds. Daughter Lydia Noble, 5 pounds. Daughter Hannah West 5 pounds; Daughter Mary West 20 pounds; all yearly. Daughter Elizabeth Cooper 1/3 my plantation in Whitemarsh, PA, the other 2/3 being lately conveyed to my sons-in-laws Samuel Noble and Charles West; I give her 500 pounds. Son Joseph the plantation where I dwell of 430 acres and the land I bought of Henry Thorn and the swamp I bought of Richard Fry and the meadow at Clomnel except what I will devise to son Marmaduke/ Son Joseph, the plantation I bought of John Newby, when he is 21. Son Marmaduke the plantation in Newton fronting on the Delaware River and the sw side of Cooper’s Creek now in tenure of John Stone; also the plantation in tenure of Thomas Hepard and a meadow at Clemnel Creek of 15 acres; and a meadow which I purchased of Garrat Vanneman, and ½ of the remainder of Garrat Vanneman’s plantation which I lately bought of Thomas Clark and wife; also the land on nw of my plantation, where I live, bounded by my brother, Benjamin Cooper, and William Cooper; and the land I bought of Edward Williams; also 500 pounds when he is 21. Son Joseph the rest of my estate. Trustees-son-in-law, Charles West, and my kinsman, Joseph Morgan and David Cooper. Executors-son Joseph, and my son-in-law Samuel Noble. Witnesses-Darius Vanneman, James Gill, Jacob Spicer. Proved Dec 23 1767. 1768, Jan 1 – Inventory 6,003 pounds 18.2-1/4 made by Henry Wood, David Branson and Richard Weekes. 1770, March 20 – Account by Charles West. Lib. 13. P.281 [Calendar of Wills 1761-1770, pp89-90]
1770 Isaac settled at Wrightsborough, Georgia
1774 Isaac COOPER received a land grant in 1774 at Wrightsborough Twp., Parish of St. Paul, Province of Georgia. The births of two sons were recorded at Wrightsborough Monthly Meeting, Columbia Co., GA although they were probably born elsewhere.
15 Sep 1774 son Isaac Cooper born at Wrightsborough, McDuffie, Georgia; married Elizabeth Kennedy abt 1805; died 17 Jul 1825 at Butler, Montgomery, OH [Isaac COOPER Jr. born 15 9th month 1774 Wrightsborough MM, GA. It is not known where or when he married. It is known that in 1809 Isaac Jr., his wife Elizabeth and children Prudence and Joseph requested membership at West Branch Monthly Meeting in OH. In 1821 they were granted certificates to Mill Creek Monthly Meeting in Miami Co., OH where the births of their children are recorded. Isaac Jr. made his will in 1825 and died that year in Butler Twp., Montgomery Co., OH. Their children were: (a) Prudence who m. Samuel TEAGUE, (b) Joseph who m. Lydia EVANS, (c) Mary who m. Samuel WELCH, (d) Rhoda who m. Isaac JAY, (e) Allen (1815-1838), and (f) Abijah (1817-1838).]
3 Dec 1774 Isaac Cooper Misc Event at Wrightsboro MM, McDuffie, GA (doc)
6 Jul 1776 Isaac Cooper Misc Event at Wrightsboro MM, McDuffie, GA (doc)
4 Mar 1780 Isaac Cooper removal at Wrightsboro MM, McDuffie, GA (doc)
1 Apr 1780 Isaac Cooper removal at Wrightsboro MM, McDuffie, GA (doc)
1 Dec 1781 Isaac Cooper Misc Event at Wrightsboro MM, McDuffie, GA (doc)
1 Mar 1782 Isaac Cooper Misc Event at Wrightsboro MM, McDuffie, GA (doc)
6 Apr 1783 Isaac Cooper Misc Event at Wrightsboro MM, McDuffie, GA (doc)
6 Nov 1784 Isaac Cooper Misc Event at Wrightsboro MM, McDuffie, GA (doc)
2 Dec 1786 Isaac Cooper admittance at Bush River MM, Newberry, SC (doc) [From "Enclyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy" by WW Hinshaw 1969 p 1015 "Bush River Meeting, Newberry County, South Carolina During the last half of the eighteenth century four principal centers of Quakerism arose in South Carolina and one in Georgia. These were in Kershaw, Marlborough, Newberry and Union Counties, South Carolina, and in Columbia (now McDuffie)County Georgia. The earliest of these settlements appears to have been in Kershaw County, SC about 1750. Fredericksburg Monthly Meeting, also called Wateree, was set up in this county about 1755 or earlier. The monthly meeting was laid down about 1782, and the meetings for worship disappeared not long afterward. No records of Fredericksburg Monthly Meeting are known to be in existence. Bush River Monthly Meeting, in Newberry County. SC was established in 1770; Wrightsborough Monthly Meeting, in Georgia, 1773; Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, in Union County, SC, 1799; Piney Grove Monthly Meeting, in Marlborough County, SC 1802." "Bush River Meeting was located in Newberry County, in the west-central part of SC. Dr Stephen B WEEKS in 'Southern Quakers and Slavery,' page 115 says: "The group of meetings clustering around Bush River was the most important in SC. The origin of this meeting and the time it began cannot be discovered. William COATE was living near Bush River before 1762 and Samuel KELLY a native of King's County, Ireland, removed to Newberry County, from Camden in 1762. Other early Quaker settlers were John FURNAS, David JENKINS, Benjamin and William PEARSON. Robert EVANS came from Camden, probably between 1762-1769." In 1770 a committee appointed by Western Quarterly Meeting to visit Friends at Bush River Meeting in South Carolina recommended that a monthly meeting be settled there. This recommendation was approved by the Quarterly Meeting in 11th month, 1770, but the records seem to indicate that the new monthly meeting was not actually held until 4th month, 1772. Meetings for worship which are mentioned as reporting to Bush River Monthly Meeting include Bush River, Raburn's Creek, Tiger River, Padget's Creek, Mud Lick, Allwoods', White Lick, Edisto, Charleston and Rocky Springs. Early members of Bush River Meeting (names taken from the first pages of the minutes), in addition to those mentioned by Dr. WEEKS, included Jacob CHANDLER, Samuel CHAPAMAN, Eli COOK, Isaac COOK, William COOPER, Enos ELLEMAN, Moses EMBREE, Robert EVANS, Armil FINCHER, Nathan HAWKINS, James HAWORTH, Richard HENDERSON, Elias HOLLINGSWORTH, William HOLLINGSWORTH, Isaac HOLLINGSWORTH, John JONES, Robert MERRICK, Henry MILLHOUSE, David MOTE, David MOTE, Jr., William NEAL, John NELSON, Samuel NELSON, Enoch PEARSON, Samuel PEARSON, William PEMBERTON, Peter RUBLE, David SMITH, Henry STEDHAM, Jonathon TAYLOR, William WRIGHT. About 1802, moved by a desire to live in a country where no slaves were held, Friends of Bush River began migration to Ohio. Between 1802 and 1807 more than one hundred certificates of removal were issued, most of them being for families. This so depleted the membership that the monthly meeting seems to have been all but abandoned in 1808, though not foramlly laid down until 1822. A minute of Bush River Monthly Meeting, 1806, 6,28 states that the Yearly Meeting "advises the Trustees, James BROOKS, Samuel BROWN, Isaac KIRK and John O'NEAL, to sell or lease Bush River meeting house and lot, Rocky Spring meeting house and lot and a meeting house lot at Camden. In 1809 the few remaining members of Bush River and Cane Creek Monthly Meetings were joined to New Garden Monthly Meeting by order of New Garden Quarterly Meeting. The same procedure appears to have been followed as to Wrightsborough. The minutes of New Garden Monthly Meeting relating to the former members of Bush River, Cane Creek and Wrightsborough Monthly Meetings are quoted below because it has not been possible, in all case, to separate them and assign each item to the proper meeting. 1809, 6,24. 'Extracts from new Garden Quarterly Meeting, 1808,12,10 and 1809, 3,10. Friends appointed to visit friends in SC report about 130 members as follows. Cane Creek, Union District: Richard COX and wife Ann and children, Rebeckah, David, Peter, John, Isaac, Richard and William; Isaac HAWKINS and children, Jonathon and Phebe; Dinah, Isaac, (p.1016) Enoch, Ann and Matha HOLLINGSWORTH. Bush River, Newberry District: Ann HERBERT, Sr.; Isaac KIRK and wife Rebekah, and children Ann JENKINS, Lydia Jenkins, Rebekah Jenkins, Isaac JENKINS and Phebe KIRK; James BROOKS and children, David SINGLETERRY, Daniel OFFLEY and Martha; Phebe PEARSON, widow; Rebekah HAWKINS; Martha KNIGHT; William WRIGHT and wife Mary and children, Nathan, Sarah and Rachel; Hugh O'NEAL and wife, Ann, and children, John Belton, Abigail, Rebekah, Hannah and Sarah; Rachel COATS; Sarah and Elizabeth CURL; Sarah CAMPBELL; John O'NEAL and wife, Hephziba, and children, Priscilla, Hannaueel, Mark, Achsah, Cary and Hiram; James JAY and wife, Jemimah and children, Mills, Alexander, Mary, Rhoda, Layton, James, Ede (Edith), Dempsey, Isaac and Sarah; Lydia Herbert and children, Esther, Ann, Eleanor, Martha, Jobe, and Lydia; William and David MILES; James GILBREATH (tanner) and wife Charity, and daughter, Lydia; Hannah PEARSON and children, Powel, Robert and Susanna; Ann HERBERT and children, Hannah, Isaac, William and Peter; William, Rhoda and John Foster, children of Henry O'NEAL, James Jr. and John GILBREATH; Benjamin WEEKS and wife Abigail, and children, Susanna, Mary, Hannah, Clary, Abigail and Caron Happock; Robert EVANS and wife, Caron Happock, and child, Abigail; Lydia SPEARS and children, Robert, Mary, Isaac and Moses EVANS; Samuel GAUNT and wife Susanna, and children, Samuel Kelly, Charles, Publias and Malichi; Hannah and John KELLY; Rebekah ELMORE; Wm. PUGH and daughter Hannah; Thomas O'NEAL (now of Union District) and wife Sarah, and children, Mary, Rebekah and Robert; Sary LONGSHORE and children, Sarah and Clyde. "Whose names we have taken and they request to be joined to New Garden Monthly Meeting and we think their situation will require some further care; with which this meeting unites. Extracted from minutes by Barnabas COFFIN, Clerk." "Some friends formerly belonging to Wrightsborough and Cane Creek Monthly Meetings request certificates to Miami Monthly Meeting, Ohio. Friends appointed to produce them to next meeting." 1809,7,29. Certificates signed for the following: To Miami Monthly Meeting, Ohio: Richard THOMPSON, Thomas HART; Elijah MENDENHALL Aand wife Martha, and daughter Ann; Isaac THOMSON; Phineas HART; Mary STUBS; Esther GREEN and children, Jesse, Hannah and Amos." "To West Branch Monthly Meeting, Ohio; Bales Butler and wife and children, Samuel, Susanna, William and Mary; Susana BUTLER. 1809,8,26. Certificates signed for the following members of Wrightsborough and Bush River: To Miami Monthly Meeting Ohio; William HOLLINGSWORTH; Richard MOORE; David JAY; Joseph HOLLINGSWORTH; Exile PEARSON; Dempsey MOORE; Charity KILLEY; Susannah HENDERSON; Ann WILLIAMS; Elizabeth BROOKS. A few additional minutes, mostly disownments, relating to Bush River Friends between 1809 and 1818 will be found in the New Garden records. Fragmentary minutes in the Bush River book, covering the years 1819 and 1820, indicate and attempt to revive Bush River Monthly Meeting at that time. The attempt met with little success and the meeting was finally laid down about 1822 and the remaining members were attached to Springfield Monthly Meeting. The Springfield minutes recoding this transfer are as follows: 18822,5,8. (Men's minutes). The monthly meeting at Bush River being laid down, this meeting is informed that it is the request of the members of that preparative meeting to become members at Springfield M.M. which request this meeting grants and receives them accordingly;names are as follows: Hugh O'NEAL, Isaac JENKINS, James GALBRETH, Isaac EVANS, Isaac HARBERT, William HERBERT, Peter HERBERT, William O'NEAL, John O'NEAL, Samuel SPEER, William WRIGHT, Nathan WRIGHT, John Mills WRIGHT, James Anderson WRIGHT, Timothy PUGH, Moses EVANS, Cornealy M. EVANS. 1822,6,5. (Women's minutes). Bush River Monthly Meeting being laid down, the members request to be joined to Springfield, viz: Sarah O'NEAL,Lydia GILBREATH, Mary EVANS, Rebekah KIRK, Phebe KIRK, Rebecca JENKINS, Margaret DUNKEN, Ann HERBERT, Martha WRIGHT, Rebekah HAWKINS, Hannah PALMER, Elizabeth CARLE, Rebecca ELMORE, Martha BROOKS, Lydia SPEER, Hannah HUNT, Mary WRIGHT, Sarah WRIGHT, Rachel WRIGHT, Sophia WRIGHT, Sarah PUGH, Hannah PUGH, Catherine PUGH, Casander PUGH, Nancy PUGH, Ruth PUGH, Elizabeth PUGH, Keranhappuck EVANS, Abigail K. EVANS, Sophia M. EVANS, Rebecca C. EVANS."]
1787 son Joseph Cooper born at Wrightsborough, McDuffie, Georgia; married Nancy Raney in 1820; died 1850 in Georgia; married Mrs Martha Allison in 1800
3 Mar 1787 Isaac Cooper removal at Wrightsboro MM, McDuffie, GA (doc) [In 1787 the family left Georgia and were received at Bush River Monthly Meeting, Newberry Co., SC. Isaac COOPER was probably a member of the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, SC which was formed in 1789 and located on the Tiger River in Union Co., SC. The men's minutes of this meeting have been lost but his wife Prudence Cooper is listed in the women's minutes in 1789.]
7 Apr 1787 Isaac Cooper and wife removed Wrightsboro MM, McDuffie, GA (doc)
Apr 1787 Isaac Cooper admittance at Bush River MM, Newberry, SC (doc)
28 Apr 1787 Isaac Cooper went to South Carolina to Bush River MM (Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol I [Isaac and sons Isaac and Joseph; recf Wrightsbobo MM, GA, p. 1028 (doc)]
1789 Prudence Dunn died at Wrightsborough, McDuffie, Georgia [New Jersey, Deaths and Burials Index, 1798-1971 says birth abt 1738, death 14 Aug 1822 age 84 FHL Film #1543557]
1790 US Census, Union, SC- Isaac Cooper: Males <16=1; males 16+=3; females=3 (doc)
1790 Land Warrant
3 Apr 1791 dau Phoebe Cooper born at Wrightsborough, McDuffie, Georgia; married Zopher Johnson on 28 Jan 1817; died 6 Jun 1862 in Hamilton, IL
1793 Isaac went back to Wrightsborough, Georgia [In 1793 Isaac and Prudence returned to Wrightsborough Monthly Meeting, GA]
23 Nov 1793 Prudence Dun at Cane Creek MM, SC [Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I P.1060 – Prudence with h. & dt Phebe gct Wrightsboro MM, GA (doc)]
13 Oct 1794 Prudence Dunn misc event at Bush River MM, Newberry, SC (doc)
11 Jul 1796 Prudence Dunn misc event at Bush River MM, Newberry, SC (doc)
14 Oct 1799 Prudence Dunn misc event at Bush River MM, Newberry, SC (doc)
13 Jan 1800 Prudence Dunn misc event at Bush River MM, Newberry, SC (doc)
1805 Isaac left Quaker colony at Wrightsboro and passed through TN and OH
1800 Will
1800 War Bounty Land warrant #7001 [23 Oct 1790 100ac (doc)
1800 Isaac Cooper died at Wrightsborough, McDuffie, Georgia
Military Headstone certificate