Savage reports that John Cooper was from Olney, Bucks, England. This is probably because there was a group of immigrants from Olney on the ship he migrated in. This also coincides with the marriage found for him in TAG 64:193 Oct 1989. Start your exploration of Olney, Bucks, England, here:
 
The Buckingham Heritage Page

See Daniel Hanke's page, for John Cooper's, his wife's, English genealogy.

Born:   Abt 1594. Per ship manifest, arrived 1635, aged 41.

Immigration:   The Hopewell, April 1, 1635, aged 41 (I assume this was embarkation date. This was likely among the first ships in the spring of that year.) with wife Wibroe, aged 42, and children  Mary, 13; John, 10; Thomas, 7; and Martha, 5.
 

See the Hopewell Passenger List (note another ancestor, William Purrier, is aboard. William Purrier settled north across the island, in Southold, Long Island.)
Residences: Lynn 1635-abt 1640 > Southampton 1640 till his death. (Some histories also report his presence in Boston before Southampton, but I wonder if that is confusion with another John Cooper. He is definitely not the John Cooper of New Haven, Conn, a different man.)

Founder of Southampton, Long Island: He was likely among that group of settlers from Lynn, including Edward Howell, who founded Southampton, Long Island in or around 1640.

Spouse:  Wibroe Griggs. Her origins, relatives in England and New England, and the family of John Cooper are well presented in TAG 64:193 Oct 1989. She was born about 1593 (aged 42 in the ship manfest of 1635), in probably Buckingham Co, England. Their marriage record has been identified and proven as October 18, 1618, in Olney, Bucks, England. This was her second marriage. She was married first to William Pierson on July 25, 1609, in Olney, Bucks, England and had a son, Henry Pierson, who also came to the New World. He likely came at a different time. He also settled at Southampton. Thus, Wibroe is the "matriarch" to two American families. She died Bef. May 06, 1662, in Southampton, Long Island. She would have been 69 in 1662.

Died:   Aft. May 06, 1662, date his will was written in Southampton, Long Island. (The date the will was proven is not known.) He was about 68 when he wrote this will.

Estate / Will:   He left a will, dated May 6, 1662, date proven not known, some of the provisions of which are presented in TAG 64:193 Oct 1989. He mentioned:
 

Henry Pierson's children (Henry Pierson was his step-son)
Thomas Topping's son Thomas (Topping married Hannah White, daughter of John and Ann (Cooper) White; the child was Thomas Topping, a great-grandchild of John Cooper.)
John Topping's daughter Sarah (John Topping was Thomas Topping's brother and married Hannah White's sister, Sarah; the child Sarah Topping was another great-grandchild of John Cooper.
"my son John Cooper's children"
"my son Thomas Cooper's children"
"my daughter [Ann] White's children"
"my daughter [Martha] White's children"
"sister of Merrimak" (William Worcester, the vicar of Olney, England and of Salisbury, Mass, 1640-1642.
See the Notes on John Cooper, Immigrant

See Notable Cooper Kin, which include:
 
Albert Stanburrough Cook - Educator
Francis Augustus Cook - Admiral 1863-1900
George Hammel Cook - Geologist
Tapping Reeve - Chief Justice of Connecticut Supreme Court

By Branches, see:
 
Immigrant John > John > Mary, md Penny

Immigrant John > Martha, here's a page I have found with some of her descendants

Pierson The American Genealogist - Vol. 64, No. 4, October 1989 - "TheCooper-Pierson-Griggs Connection, Long Island, Massachusetts, andBuckinghamshire, England" by Thomas W. Cooper, II

Early Cooper wills in Suffolk Co, Long Island, New York
 

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Mary Cooper, granddaughter of John: I'm trying to pin down the identity of a Mary Cooper, who was married to my ancestor, John Penny, of Southampton, Rhode Island, abt 1693, at least in 1696. The best candidate I have to place her so far is as the daughter of John Coooper, Jr. of Southampton, Rhode Island.

Some Cooper Genealogies carry this Mary Cooper as married to a Samuel Whitehead in
1682. I know there were Whiteheads in New Haven, CT and also a separate John Cooper
family there. I've also seen Whitehead families in Long Island, so not sure where this
Sameuel's family is. Have also seen where this Samuel had a father named Samuel, confusing
things even more ie which did what.

I'm exploring whether the same Mary Cooper was married first to Samuel Whitehead, then
to John Penny. Does anyone have a firm date on the death of the Samuel who was married
to Mary Cooper? I've seen on the web a date of 1690 applied both to the father and son
Samuel Whitehead, so wondering if folks really know which one died at that time.

Also exploring whether this Samuel Whitehead married another Mary Cooper, possibly of
the John Cooper family in New Haven, CT not the John Cooper family of Southampton,
Long Island.

Would also like to know on what evidence is the Samuel / Mary Cooper marriage coming
from - a marriage record, a will of the father of the bride or some other family member,
etc??

The identity of "MY" Mary Cooper comes from:

4. Virginia Wines, Pioneers of Riverhead Town, (Copyright 1981), P.
29, (Liber A. p 114) John Pinney of the Town of Southampton,
blacksmith, appointed his brother-in-law Samuel Cooper as his attorney
"to sell all my housing and lands....to pay my debts.....Mar 22,
1696/7.

Can anyone provide assistance to try to pin down who this Mary Cooper is?

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Mary Cooper, daughter of John and Wibroe (Griggs) Cooper, did NOT marry Henry Pierson

For years, Cooper and Pierson genealogists have carried Henry Pierson, of Southampton, Long Island, New York as married to Mary Cooper and shown her as the matriarch of the Pierson descendants from that immigrant. Thomas Cooper II, in TAG 64:193 Oct 1989 convincingly demonstrates that Henry Pierson was a son of Wibroe Griggs from a previous marriage, and step-son of John Cooper, of Southampton, Long Island, New York. The Mary he married is unknown, and nothing further is known of Mary Cooper, daughter of John Cooper, than her entry on the passenger list when the family migrated to America.

The confusion started with John Cooper referring to Henry Pierson as his son-in-law in his will. In 1600 terminology, son-in-law could have referred to either son-in-law, as we now define the term, or what we now call step-son.

Although there was already evidence of this link before Thomas Cooper's article, the "smoking gun" piece of evidence is an English will, transcribed in the TAG article, where Thomas Cooper, son of John, and Henry Pierson, join together to sell some real estate and describe themselves as brothers from the same mother.

See the Griggs Page for more

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Who is Timothy Cooper, listed with John Cooper in the History of Lynn, Mass?
 
History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts
Pg 151
         TIMOTHY COOPER--was a farmer, and died in March, 1659. His children were, Mary,
         Hannah, John, Timothy, Dorcas, and Rebecca.


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Who is Hannah Frost / John Cooper??
 
The Frost Genealogy
Pg 331

HANNAH FROST, m. July 29, 1702, on Long Island, John Cooper.

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Other Cooper Families - These families are NOT related to us, that I know of.
 
There is a Humphrey Cooper line, out of Windsor, Conn.
There was a Timothy Cooper family early in Lynn, Mass, shown above.
There was a John Cooper family in New Haven, Conn.

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The Toppings were NOT sons-in-law of John Cooper, the immigrant

Some genealogies show "ghost" daughters of John Cooper as married to two Topping men, apparently to account for the parents of Topping children named in John Cooper's will. The thinking being that these children are grandchildren of immigrant John Cooper from unknown daughters. Thomas Cooper II, in TAG 64:193 Oct 1989, reveals these children were GREAT grandchildren of John Cooper, the immigrant, and were grandchildren of their daughter, Ann, who married John White. Note his will was written May 6, 1662, just after the births of these great-grandchildren. The family structure, thus presented, is:
 

Descendants of Anne Cooper

 1   Anne Cooper 1619 - 1686
..  +John White 1620 - 1662
.... 2   John White 1642 -
.... 2   Hannah White 1644 -
........  +Thomas Topping 1642 -
........... 3   Thomas Topping 1660 - > Mentioned in John Cooper's Will
.... 2   Sarah White 1646 -
........  +John Topping 1644 -
........... 3   Sarah Topping 1662 - > Mentioned in John Cooper's Will
........... 3   Temperance Topping 1663 -
...............  +Richard Woodhull 1663 -
  *2nd Husband of Anne Cooper:
..  +Zerubbabel Phillips 1632 -

If, the wife of John Penny was Mary Cooper, daughter of John Cooper, we have two lines of descent from John Cooper:
 

Direct Descendants of John Cooper

 1   John Cooper 1594 - 1662
....  +Wibroe Griggs 1593 - 1662
.... 2   John Cooper 1625 - 1677
..........  +Unproven Child 1625 -
........... 3   Mary Cooper 1662 -
...........  *2nd Husband of Mary Cooper:
.................  +John Pinney 1650 - 1714
.................. 4   Edward Penny 1695 - 1726
........................  +Katherine 1695 - 1734
........................ 5   Mary Penny 1718 - 1798
..............................  +Daniel Youngs 1712 - 1755
............................... 6   Rufus Youngs 1748 - 1828
.....................................  +Mehetable Tuthill 1760 - 1830
...................................... 7   Polly Youngs 1792 -
............................................  +John Aldrich 1790 -
............................................ 8   [2] Mary Jane Aldrich 1836 - 1862
..................................................  +[1] John Kasar Hallock 1831 - 1875
................................................... 9   [3] Morris Wells Hallock 1858 - 1941
.........................................................  +[4] Harriet Loetta Pollock 1865 - 1936
.......................................................... 10   [5] Inez Evangeline Hallock 1886 - 1976
................................................................  +[6] Arthur Willis Baldwin 1876 - 1961
............................... 6   Hannah Youngs 1754 - 1823
.....................................  +Zachariah Hallock I 1751 - 1820
...................................... 7   Bethuel Hallock 1790 - 1866
......................................  *2nd Wife of Bethuel Hallock:
............................................  +Harmony Howell 1790 -
............................................ 8   [1] John Kasar Hallock 1831 - 1875
..................................................  +[2] Mary Jane Aldrich 1836 - 1862
................................................... 9   [3] Morris Wells Hallock 1858 - 1941
.........................................................  +[4] Harriet Loetta Pollock 1865 - 1936
.......................................................... 10   [5] Inez Evangeline Hallock 1886 - 1976
................................................................  +[6] Arthur Willis Baldwin 1876 - 1961
................................................................ 11   [7] Doris Louise Baldwin 1917 -

Related Links:

Return to Mom's Side

Cuzzins Page - Other Cooper Researchers

See the Griggs Page for more on the matriarch of this clan.

See the Mew Page for more on the wife of John Cooper, Jr.

Cooper Links
 

Cooper GenForum

The Douglas Hanke Page - about as complete a page on the Coopers as I've found, with sources and back into England.

Did Mary-2 Cooper Marry John Burnett? - An interesting theory, with some indirect evidence pointing that direction - but still missing the "smoking gun".

Jen's Descendant Chart for John Cooper

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