Notes for Timothy COOPER

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Notes for Timothy COOPER

Hale, House & Related Families, Jacobus & Waterman, pages 500-501.
Timothy Cooper was a viewer of fences in 1668, and surveyor of highways,
1671.
His early death leaves him without much record except that of a youthful
escapade.
Before automobiles exceeded speed limited, or lads "scorched" the roads on
bicycles, the Selectmen of Springfield passed an order against the galloping
of horses through the town street, endangering the lives of the inhabitants.
On 24 Feb. 1668/9, "Nath Ely & Laur: Bliss Testyfied that they saw Timothy
Coop; & Jonath Ashly gallop & Run theire Horses in ye streete last Lecture day
in ye forenoor and yt as fast as they could Run," whereupon the young men,
along with John Hitchcock and Samuel Bliss, Jr., convicted of the same
offense, "it being expressly agt ye Towne order," were fined 2s. 4d. apiece.
[History of Springfield, Henry M. Burt (1898) 1:363, 375; 2:100].
Jacobus says his marriage was "probably at New Haven, Conn."
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In their introduction to "Hale, House and Related Families", Jacobus and
Waterman write [page xii] "We have, however, included a very full account of
the Cooper family, which had one branch in Springfield and another in
Middletown, Connecticut. Very little of value has previously appeared in
print concerning this family". (written in 1952).

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