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"DESCENDANTS OF PETER COOPER, OF ROWLEY, MASSACHUSETTS. BY THE LATE ALBION K. P. COOPER, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.

PETER Cooper, the emigrant, came to New England in 1635, a passenger in the ship Susan and Ellen, then aged twenty-eight. He settled in the town of Rowley, Essex county, Massachusetts, and was the owner of a house lot of an acre and a half as early as 1643. His will is on record in the Probate Office of that county. Rowley records give the names and births of one son and three daughters. The son, Samuel, remained in Rowley, and was himself the father of three sons, beside daughters. Of these three sons, the grandchildren of the emigrant, Samuel and Moses, died apparently without male issue to continue the line; the third son, Leonard, removed from Rowley to Newcastle, Maine, and left a large family of children. The descendants of three of his sons have been traced by the late Mr. Cooper, and the results of his researches are comprised in this article; his death, in the summer of 1884, prevented a more extended investigation, and must be the apology for any incompleteness detected in the following pages.

1 PETER the emigrant, m. EMME, Ame, or Amelia, who died in Rowley in 1689; he died 15 Jan., 1667. Issue:

2 Mary, b. 2 April, 1642; m. John How of Topsfield.

3 Samuel,2 b. 8 Dec, 1646.

4 DEBORAH, b. 30 June, 1650 ; m. 28 Dec., 1670, SAMUEL Hazeltine of Haverhill.

5 Sarah, b. 14 June, 1652 ; m. 3 Jan., 1676, Edward Moors of Newbury."