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a home for the minister. Ile purchased a one-thousand-acre right in Windham, Decem- ber 20, 1693. located in what is now Mans- field, and his home lot was No. 16, at "the Ponds." He settled in the southern part of Mansfield, which is now the "center" and later removed to the North parish. His estate was distributed in 1749. He was one of the twenty-two original freemen of Windham, May 30, 1693, and was probably a member of the Windham church with which his wife was connected, though several names of the origi- nal members are illegible there. He died April 9, 1739. His first wife bore the baptismal name of Mary and their children were : Mary, born April 2, 1679; Stephen, May 15. 1681; Elizabeth, June 14. 1683: Peter. November 8, 1686: Daniel, March 8, 1688; Experience, De- cember 11. 1691 ; Abigail, June 3, 1694; Mary, December 9, 1605, died the same day ; Mary, December, 1697; Wade. December 15, 1699; the last two by the second wife. His wife Mary died December 9. 1695. in child-birth. Some of his children were probably born be- fore he settled in Windham.
(IV ) Stephen, eldest son of Peter (2) and Mary Cross, was born May 15, 1631, probably in Norwich. He resided in Mansfield, where he married, November 30, 1703, Mary, whose family name is not preserved. The record in Mansfield reads "Stephen Cross and Mary his wife &c." Children: Stephen, born October 20, 1704: Jonathan, mentioned below ; Noah, April 5. 1708; Betty, 1700-10 ; Ebenezer, Jan- uary 18. 1711-12; Samuel, October 20. 1714, died November 20, 1714: Peter. April 16. 1716; Mary, April 15, 1718; Noah, April 17, 1720: Mary, August 17, 1722; Hannah, July 1, 1723: John, July 10, 1726.
(V) Jonathan, second son of Stephen and Mary Cross, was born July 18, 1706, in Mans- field, in which town he resided for many years, but mention of himself and posterity disap- pears in that town and it is presumed that he removed elsewhere. He married. in Mansfield. January 30, 1731, Lydia, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Hall, born October 5. 1708, in Mansfield. Children born there: Sarah, De- cember 4, 1731 : Esther, August 9, 1733 : Ebe- nezer, mentioned below; Jonathan. March 6. 1737 : Ruth, January 24, 1739 : Lydia, Novem- ber 17. 1740; Isaac. September 8, 1742; Sib- bel. August 3. 1745.
(\'I) Ebenezer, eldest son of Jonathan and Lydia ( Hall ) Cross, was born April 7, 1735.
in Mansfield. It is possible that he is the Ebé- nezer Cross who lived for a time in Cherry Valley, Otsego county, New York, and at Sharon Springs, Schoharie county, and subse- quently removed to Chautauqua county, New York, where he lived until his death, about 1835. It is very probable, however, that this Ebenezer was the son of Ebenezer, of Mans- field, and was born about 1760. The family tradition says that he had brothers, Jairus. Jeduah and Isaac. All were engaged in the manufacture of potash, and removed to Chan- tauqua and Cattaraugus counties about 1819. Ebenezer Cross was buried in an unmarked grave in Ballston cemetery, town of Hanover, Cattaraugus county, New York. He was twice married, the family name of his first wife being French and the name of his second wife entirely unknown.
The children of his first marriage were : Sarah. Susan, Abigail, Ebenezer, Levi, Har- vey, Abner. There were three sons, Daniel, Hiram and Aaron, of the second marriage, and some daughters, whose names are not now known. The sons all settled in North Illinois. Of the children of the first marriage. Ebenezer, Harvey and Abner settled in Dodge county. Wisconsin.
(VIII) Levi, second son of Ebenezer (2) Cross, was born October 24. 1799, in Cherry Valley, New York. He settled in the wildler- ness in Chautauqua county, New York, where he cleared up lands and engaged in agricul- ture. He married. in 1822. Catherine Flint, born April 3. 1803, in Verona. Oneida county, New York, whose grandfather was an officer in the revolutionary war, drew a pension and died at the age of one hundred years in Fre- donia. New York. They reared eight chil- dren, all of whom are buried in the northwest corner of Ballston cemetery, Hanover, New York: 1. Electa N., born May 22, 1823 : mar- ried Orson Putney, and left a son. E. O. Put- ney. 2. Simon N., August 27, 1824; was a soldier in the civil war: was in Sherman's march to the sea. 3. Elmira. January 20, 1826: married Riley Barton and had a son and daughter, Jay and Belle. 4. Jane B., June 23. 1828: married Hadley Barton and reared a large family. 5. Catherine, April 24. 1830 ; married William Munger and had sons. Sam- uel and Dix. 6. Wallace L., March 28. 1832 : was a soldier of the civil war: married Jane Stebbins and had children, Irwin and Ellen. 7. Edwin G., January 2, 1836: married Julia
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Goodwin and reared a large family. 8. Elisha R., mentioned below.
(IX) Elisha R., youngest child of Levi and Catherine (Flint ) Cross, was born May 3. 1840, died April 5, 1902. Through most of his life he was a travelling salesman, spend- ing thirty-seven years in the employ of Charles L. Chorey, of New York. He was a Metho- dist in religious faith, and a supporter of the Republican party. He married, December 22, 1867, at Elmira, Loraine Hamilton, born May 25, 1848. Children: Frank D., mentioned below; Harry, died at the age of thirteen years.
(X) Frank D., elder son of Elisha R. and Loraine (Hamilton) Cross, was born Septem- ber 24, 1869, in Ithaca, New York. He was educated in the public schools of Elmira. Un- til 1911 he was employed as a commercial traveller and represented the Bell Telephone Company on the road for eighteen years. In I9II, in partnership with M. M. Conklin, he established the Flat Iron Candy store, in El- mira, and is conducting a successful business. With his family he is a member of the Park Congregational Church at Elmira, and politi- cally is a Republican. He married, June 21, 1892, at Elmira, Harriet O. Conklin, born No- vember 21, 1873, in Bergen, New York, daughter of M. M. and Jeanette (Hutchins) Conklin. Mr. Conklin was for many years engaged in the grocery business, and was post- master at Elmira during the administration of President Mckinley. He is now a partner of Mr. Cross in a store at Elmira. Beside the daughter, Mrs. Cross, he has a son Arthur S. Mr. and Mrs. Cross have a daughter Jean- nette, born June 10, 1894, now a student of a grammar school in Elmira.
The name of Hooker has been HOOKER most prominently identified with the history of New Eng- land from the early beginning. With the history of the city of Hartford it is insepar- ably connected, as the Connecticut River Colony was founded by Rev. Thomas Hooker, who brought his flock thither from Massa- chusetts. Down through the generations it has been actively identified with the growth and moral progress of Hartford to the pres- ent date and thence have spread out repre- sentatives through New England and the Uni- ted States, who have well maintained the high character of their ancestors.
(I) John Hooker was of Devonshire, Eng- land. He had a brother Roger, and a sister Mary who married John Russell, of Leicester- shire. Children: John, lived in Somerset- shire ; Thomas, mentioned below ; Rev. Zacha- riah, rector of St. Michael's, Cathays, Corn- wall.
(II) Thomas, son of John Hooker, was of Devonshire. Children: A daughter, married Dr. George Alcock, of London ; Rev. Thomas, mentioned below; Dorothy, married John Chester, of Leicestershire.
(III) Rev. Thomas (2) Hooker, son of Thomas (1) Hooker, was born at Marfield, Leicestershire, England, July 7, 1586. Cotton Mather, in his "Magnalia," says of him: "He was born of parents that were neither unable nor unwilling to bestow upon him a liberal education ; whereunto the early lively sparkles of wit observed in him did very much to en- courage them. His natural temper was cheer- ful and courteous; but it was accompanied with such a sensible grandeur of mind, as caused his friends, without the help of astrol- ogy, to prognosticate that he was born to be considerable." Regarding his education and conversion, Sprague says: "He was educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, of which in due time he became a Fellow. He acquitted himself in this office with such ability and fidel- ity as to secure universal respect and admira- tion. It was while he was thus employed that he became deeply impressed with the im- portance of eternal realities, and after a pro- tracted season of bitter anguish of spirit he was enabled to submit without reserve to the terms of the Gospel, and thus to find peace and joy in believing. His religious experi- ence in its very commencement seems to have been uncommonly deep and thorough, and no doubt it was partly owing to this that he be- came much distinguished, in after life, as a counsellor, comforter and guide, to the awak- ened and desponding." He frequently preached at Cambridge, and for some time in London and vicinity. In 1626 he became a lecturer and assistant to the Rev. Mr. Mitchell. at Chelmsford, and among his hearers were noblemen and others of high standing in Eng- lish society. He was accustomed once a year to visit his native county and was once asked to preach in the great church at Leicester. One of the chief burgesses of the town was greatly opposed to his preaching there, and not being able to hinder it, he set persons to
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fiddling in the churchyard, with a view to dis- turbing him. But Mr. Hooker was able to re- tain command of his audiences, and at last even the fiddler went to the door to listen, and the story goes that his conversion followed. In 1630 a spiritual court, which held its ses- sions at Chelmsford, silenced Mr. Hooker for nonconformity. Although he was in accord with the doctrines of the English church, there were certain forms of worship which he could not practice, and on this ground he was forbidden to minister to the people. He con- tinued, however, to live near Chelmsford, and was employed in teaching a school at Little Braddow, having John Eliot, afterwards the famous Indian Apostle, in his family as an usher. A petition signed by forty-seven min- isters of the Established Church was sent to the spiritual court, asking to have Mr. Hooker re-established, but it did no good. After a short residence in retirement under the pat- ronage of his friend, the Earl of Warwick, he determined to seek a home in Holland, and his steps were watched by his persecutors, and he was followed even to the shore, but the ship fortunately got off shore before his pur- suers arrived. Mr. Hooker remained in Hol- land three years, and was at first employed as an assistant of Mr. Paget at Amsterdam. On account of a misunderstanding with him, Mr. Hooker removed to Delft, and was asso- ciated with Rev. Mr. Forbes, a Scotch minis- ter. Two years later he accepted a call to Rotterdam to assist Rev. Dr. William Ames. Dr. Ames is said to have remarked that he never met a man equal to Mr. Hooker as a preacher or a learned disputant.
Mr. Hooker decided to go to New England, but wished to return to England first, as the times were supposed to be somewhat more tolerant. On his arrival there he found, how- ever, that his enemies were still active, and he was obliged to live in concealment until his departure for New England. He left Eng- land about the middle of July, 1633, from the Downs, on the ship "Griffin." Such was his peril that he and his friend, Mr. Cotton, were obliged to remain concealed until the ship was well out to sea. He arrived at Boston, Massa- chusetts, September 4, 1633, and on October II was chosen pastor of the church at New- town (Cambridge). He remained here to the great satisfaction of the people for two and one-half years. In June, 1636, he joined the company of those who went to make a settle-
ment at Ilartford, Connecticut, and from this time was identified with almost all the im- portant public movements of the colony. Hle was one of the moderators of the first New England synod held at Cambridge, in the case of the celebrated Anne Hutchinson. He pub- lished many books and sermons between 1637 and his death. He fell a victim of a violent epidemic disease, and died July 7, 1647, a great loss to the community.
Rev. Thomas Hooker, according to family tradition, married a sister of John Pym, who was an intimate friend. Children: I. Rev. John, settled in the Established Church in England. 2. Joanna, born about 1616, died 1646. 3. Mary, born about 1618. 4. Sarah, married Rev. John Wilson. 5. Daughter, mar- ried and became a widow. 6. Samuel, men- tioned below.
(IV) Rev. Samuel Hooker, son of Rev. Thomas (2) Hooker, was born in 1633. He was educated at Harvard College, graduating in 1663. He succeeded Rev. Roger Newton, his brother-in-law, and was second pastor of the church at Farmington, Connecticut, where he was ordained in July, 1661. He was on a committee of four in 1662 to treat with the New Haven colony in reference to the proposed union with Connecticut under one colonial government. All of the descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker bearing the surname Hooker are also liis descendants. He was a fellow of Harvard, and on account of his earnestness and piety was called "the fervent Hooker." He had the habit of committing his sermons to memory, and was a powerful and effective preacher. He died at Farmington, November 6, 1697.
He married, September 22, 1658, Mary Wil- lett, born at Plymouth, May 4, 1643, daugh- ter of Captain Thomas Willett, of Swansea, Massachusetts, afterward Seekonk, Rhode Island. Her mother was Mary (Brown) Wil- lett. Mary Hooker married (second), Au- gust 10, 1703, Rev. Thomas Buckingham, of Saybrook, Connecticut. Children: I. Dr. Thomas, born June 10, 1659. 2. Samuel, May 22, 1661. 3. William, May II. 1663 ; merchant at Farmington. 4. John, February 20, 1664- 65. 5. Hon. James, October 27, 1666: resided at Guilford, Connecticut. 6. Roger, Septem- ber 14, 1668, died unmarried, 1697-98 ; resided at Hartford. 7. Nathaniel, September 28, 1671, died 1711. 8. Mary, July 3, 1673 ; third wife of Rev. James Pierpont, of New Haven,
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and mother of Sarah, who married the cele- brated Rev. Jonathan Edwards. 9. Hezekiah, November 7. 1675, died 1686. 10. Daniel, mentioned below. II. Sarah, May 5, 16SI; married Rev. Stephen Buckingham, of Nor- walk, Connecticut.
( \) Daniel, ninth son of Rev. Samuel and Mary ( Willett ) Hooker, was born March 25. 1679, in Farmington. He graduated from Harvard College in 1700, being the first man of the town to receive a college education. He studied medicine and was admitted to practice. He first taught at Yale College, but soon re- signed this position and graduated from that institution in 1703, being the first to receive from it the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He settled in Wethersfield, Connecticut, as a phy- sician, studied law and was admitted to the bar, but there is no evidence that he ever practiced law except to aid his patients in making wills and otherwise. In the expendi- tion against Canada in 1711, he was a sur- geon, and died at Wethersfield in 1742. He married. June 24, 1706, Sarah, daughter of Deacon John and Esther ( Newell ) Stanley, baptized July 4. 1686, in Waterbury, Connec- ticut. Children: Susannah. Daniel, Sarah, Hannah, Mary, Margaret.
(\'1) Daniel (2), only son of Daniel (I) and Sarah ( Stanley) Hooker, was born Feb- ruary 22, 1710, in Wethersfield. He was a physician in West Hartford, where he also engaged in farming, and died December 27. 1796, in his eighty-seventh year. He married Sarah Webster and had children: Daniel, William. Susannah, Sarah, Thomas, Chloe, John, Abigail, Riverius.
(VII) Riverius, youngest child of Daniel (2) and Sarah (Webster) Hooker, was born in January, 1749, baptized on the 22nd of that month in West Hartford, where he grew to manhood. He seems to have been of an adventurous and enterprising disposition, and after his marriage and the birth of an infant daughter he went to Maine, where a relative was engaged in the lumber business. There he married (second), at Pownalboro, now Wiscasset, in 1775, Mehitable Baker. Soon after this, he started out on new explorations and is found in 1776 as a private in Colonel Benjamin Bellows' regiment from Cheshire county, New Hampshire, which went to Ti- conderoga to reinforce the army under Gen- eral Gates. The New Hampshire revolution- ary rolls show that he served twenty-five days
for which he received as wages one pound, thirteen shillings and four pence, and for travel of one hundred and forty-nine miles, one pound, four shillings and ten pence, mak- ing a total of two pounds, eighteen shillings and two pence. He was among the paten- tees of the town of Athens, Vermont, in 1780, and probably settled down there. He is sup- posed to have been the father of Reuben Hooker, and John Hooker, who removed from Athens, Vermont, to Angelica, Allegany county, New York, in 1809.
(VII] ) Reuben, presumably a brother of Jolın Hooker, was born about 1800. He set- tled in Angelica when a young man and there engaged in farming. He was a member of the Episcopal church with his family, and attained some distinction as a promoter of the interests of the Democratic party. He mar- ried Hannah Burgess, probably a native of Allegany county, New York, and they had eight children : Murry, William, Edson Bird, Irving, Jane, Nancy, Lucy, Josephine.
(IX) Edson Bird, third son of Reuben and Hannah ( Burgess ) Hooker, was born No- vember 2, 1831, in Angelica, New York. He was educated in the schools of that town, Bel- videre and Randolph. He continued to work for his father upon the farm until he was twenty-eight years old, when he removed to Elmira and soon after engaged in the lumber business in Scio, Allegany county. At the outbreak of the civil war he removed to Olean, Cattaraugus county, where he left his family while serving as a soldier in the cavalry. Af- ter the close of the war he went to Salamanca and again engaged in the lumber business, continning for three years. Thence he went to Elmira and was a contractor in cutting iron for the steel mills there about five years. Fol- lowing this he engaged in contracting as a housebuilder, and retired from active business at the age of sixty years, dying in 1896, in Elmira. He married, in Elmira, about 1859, Olive, daughter of Rufus and Electa (Com- stock) Peterson, born March 20, 1843, in Binghamton, New York, one of the twelve children of her parents. She was the mother of four children: Mary Jane. Grace, Edson, Edith. Mr. Hooker and family affiliated with the Episcopal church, and like his father he was a Democrat in politics.
(X) Mary Jane, eldest daughter of Edson Bird and Olive ( Peterson) Hooker, was born March 1I, 1862, in Olean, New York. She
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was educated in Elmira, graduating from the Free Academy. She also studied under pri- vate tutors and became noted through South- ern New York as an elocutionist. While studying at the Elmira Free Academy she was secretary of the Literary Club, and during her residence in Olean was one of the leading members of Trinity Church. She was mar- ried in St. Stephen's Church, Olean, Decem- ber 25. 1879, to Fred Charles Pappineau. He was born April 7, 1857, at Horseheads, Che- mung county, New York, son of Richard and Elizabeth ( Pope) Pappineau, originally from Orange county, New York, his father being the son of French parents. For one year fol- lowing their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Pappi- neau resided in Olean, following which they lived five years in East Berlin, Connecticut, following this they resided three years in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and since that time their home has been in Brooklyn, Greater New York. For sixteen years Mr. Pappineau was connected with the American Bridge Com- pany, and since that to the present time has been employed as a draughting expert by the J. Stewart Company of New York. Richard Pappineau had three sous: William, Frank, Fred Charles. and two daughters, Anna an.1 Lena. Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Pappineau have four children: Howard Strong, Arthur Ed- son, Raymond Clark, Ethel Olive. The family is associated with St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Brooklyn.
Justin Scott, whose father was a
SCOTT soldier in the revolution, was a native of New Hampshire. He settled at Friendship, New York, and fol- lowed farming. He married Ann White. Children : Madison, Asa, Ann, Martha, Har- riet, married John Stannard, of Friendship ; Mary, married Austin Taylor, of Lisbon, North Dakota : George V., mentioned below ; Sophia, married Lewis Utter; Althea, mar- ried Coates and lives in Friendship.
(II) George V., son of Justin Scott, was born in Friendship, New York, in 1832, died in 1892. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and throughout life was a farmer in that town. He married Rebecca Benjamin, born in Belfast, New York, in 1837, died in 1899, daughter of Elias and Mary (Pettit ) Benjamin. Children: Charles T., lives in Toledo, Ohio, and has one child. Faith : George Anson, mentioned below.
( 111) George Anson, son of George V. Scott. was born in Friendship, Allegany county, New York, April 28, 1800. Hle re- ceived his early education in the public schools of his native town and at the Business Uni- versity of Rochester, New York. After teach- ing school for three years he engaged in the newspaper business at Belfast, New York. In 1893 he entered the service of the National Protective Legion, for eleven year was secre- tary of the organization, and since 1904 has been president of the same, the business of which has extended throughout the entire country. Mr. Scott has large real estate hold- ings in Waverly and elsewhere, and is finan- cially interested in the Mineral Water Com- pany of Breeze Point, of which he is presi- (lent. In politics he is a Democrat and he occupies a position of influence in his party. He was candidate for assembly from his dis- trict, but failed of election, as his party is normally in the minority. He is a prominent Free Mason, a member of the lodge, chapter. council and commandery, and of various other Masonic bodies, having taken all the degrees in Scottish Rite Masonry to the thirty-second inclusive. He is also a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of the Macca- bees, of Modern Woodmen of America, of the Home Guards of America. He married, February, 1893. Lottie J., daughter of Warren W. and Deborah (Persons) Webster, of Wellsville, New York. They have one child, Lillian R., born in November, 1894.
James Cooper, the founder of
COOPER this family, was a native of Stratford-upon-Avon, county Warwick, England, where he was born about 1601. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. December 4, 1732. Emigrating to Philadel- phia, with his wife and family, he was for thirty years one of the most respected store- keepers of the Quaker City. He married ( first ) in England, Hester - who died in 1706. and ( second), in 1722, Mary Bor- rows, who though named in his will was bur- ied on the same day with him in the yard of the Race Street Monthly Meeting. Children, all by first marriage: I. Esther, married, in 1705. Jedediah Hussey, of New Castle, Dela- ware.
2. James, married and died before 1732. 3. Joseph, died in 1720; married Mary . 4. Samuel, died in 1750: married Mary, whose maiden name is conjectured to
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have been Dunning, who died in 1732. 5. William, referred to below. 6. Benjamin, mar- ried, in 1720, Elizabeth Kelly. 7. Isaac. 8. Rebecca, died in 1755; married (first), in 1726, Ralph Hoy, ( second) in 1735. Daniel Kelly.
(II) William, son of James and Hester Cooper, was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, county Warwick, England, died in Byberry. Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, in 1736. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Groom, of Byberry, who died April 5. 1772. Her father, Thomas, who had emi- grated to Pennsylvania, with his brother Peter, the latter of whom finally settled in New Jer- sey, had purchased in 1704 five hundred and fifty acres of land on the Delaware, in Bris- tol township, Bucks county, but sold it four years later and settled in Byberry. Children of William and Mary (Groom) Cooper: I. Rebecca, married William Hibbs ; their daugh- ter, Rebecca Hibbs, married William, son of John and Hannah Trego; and their second son. Mahlon Trego, by his wife. Rachel (Briggs) Trego, was the father of the distin- guished scholar and geologist. Charles B. Tre- go, professor of the University of Pennsyl- vania, and secretary of the American Philo- sophical Society. 2. Thomas, born in 1726, died in 1805; married Phebe Hibbs. Their daughter, Mary, born in 1765, died in 1831; married Benjamin Cooper. 3. James, referred to below. 4. Joseph, died April 7, 1789 : mar- ried Elizabeth Stevens. 5. Samuel, died "a very old man"; married Grace Ridge. 6. Le- titia.
( III) James (2), son of William and Mary (Groom) Cooper, was born in Byberry, Phila- delphia county. Pennsylvania, in 1729, died in the spring of 1795. He married (first), in Christ Church, Philadelphia, September 18, 1750. Hannah, daughter of William and Ann (Carter) Hibbs, who died April 22, 1777. Her ancestors, who are said to have been in Burlington, New Jersey, as early as 1678, were among the earliest settlers at Byberry, and her parents were married in the Wrights- town Monthly Meeting, April 13, 1728. He married (second), in 1778, Elizabeth, born February 22, 1749. daughter of Jacob and Gertrude (Supplee) Wager. Her father was born February 23, 1724, and her mother. March 25, 1726. The former was a descen- dant of the early Swedish settlers on the Schuylkill, near the present Norristown. Mont-
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