DATE MICROFICHED PROJECT and G. S. FICHE # CALL # f* CM* 2^/0 7*/Os boss'/ófT &6 GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY V UI OF " • i , .'. DAV \\% OnLI i-> CITY, UTAH 4 CHJi- ^ Or J£SU r OF LA1TER-DAYC OGDEN FAMILY HISTORY CENTER 539 Twenty Fourth Street Ogden, Utah 84401 THE COOPER COLLECTION the research aid for all Cooper families Published quarterly by FAMILY QUARTERLIES, P. 0. BOX 110, TOMBALL, TEXAS 77375 Editor: Charlotte Magee Tucker Consultants: Jeanne Robey Felldin and Bil lie Brautigam Hardee SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $7.00 per year (4 issues including yearly index). $2.00 sample copy or single back issue. $10.00 per year outside continental United States. QUERIES: Free to subscribers; limited to 3 per issue, space permitting. This is the best possible place for a Cooper researcher to send queries. Remember: all the people reading THE COOPER COLLECTION are Cooper descendants or Cooper researchers! When you receive help on a query, please share it with us. Every Cooper we locate makes one less to hunt! CONTRIBUTIONS: Any material on any Cooper, anywhere, is welcome ON A DONATION basis. If you have done any private abstracting of Cooper material, we would be pleased to publish it. We are especially interested in complete material. For example, if you have copied all Cooper deeds for a particular period in a particular county, this would be of great help to other readers. Our aim is to track down everyone named Cooper. We plan on ropin' an' tyin' all of 'em! We need your help! IF YOU MOVE: Let us know your new address as soon as possible. If an issue is returned and must be re-mailed to a new address, a 500 charge is made payable BEFORE the second mailing. COOPER MASTER FILE: Send us your pedigree chart and family group sheets for your two earliest Cooper ancestors. This will help us help you! ABBREVIATIONS: The two-letter state abbreviations used by the Post Office. Also: b=born; bap=bapti zed; bp=birthpI ace; bur=buried; ca=circa; Capt= Captain; cem=cemetery; ch=ch i Id, children, church; Co=county; d=died; dau=daughter; d/o=daughter of; f=father; f/o=father of; g=great; gr=grand; h=husband; h/o=husband of; Hd=hundred; Lt=Lieutenant; m=married; mor=mother; mor/o=mother of; s=son; s/o=son of; tn=town; w=wife;w/o=wife of. BOOK REVIEWS: are given to authors and/or publishers if they will send a "Review Copy" to the editor in advance of the next issue. EDITORIAL POLICY: It is our intent and desire to publish only factual material. However, neither the editor nor Family Quarterlies will assume responsibility for errors of fact or for opinions expressed by contributors. And all subscribers are invited to submit their church, county, Bible, etc., records for consideration for pub- I i cat i on. THE COOPER COLLECTION is published in January, April, July, and October by Family Quarterlies, P. 0. Box 110, Tomball, Texas 77375. Subscription $7.00 four issues. Address all communications to Family Quarterlies. In this issue, I will attempt to introduce myself and tell you a few things about my interests. I hope that each of you will send a similar resume so that we might all get acqua i nted. I am 41 years old, have a fabul.ous husband and we have two great kids; Mike is 22 and Shannon, our daughter, is 12. Jerry has an insurance agency and specializes in insuring trucks. He spends spare time working out all his frustrations on the golf course. Unfortunately, this has been the coldest and wettest winter we've experienced since moving to the Houston area from Dallas eleven years ago. So, he's certainly anticipating spring. Mike is still living at home while working on his Master's degree in Civil Engineering at Rice University. His interests are varied, but mostly concentrated on learning and teaching the Bible. Shannon is a lover of the out-of-doors and spends most of her leisure time there. Her goals in life alternate between being a nurse or a vetenar- i an! My interest in genealogy began quite by accident. I had worked as a secretary for Texas Instruments both in Dallas and Houston for a total of about eleven years. When we moved to the "country", I retired and spent the first two years catching up on everything that I had neglected or postponed. A chance visit to the Tomball library involved me with a newly formed group who were studying research techniques, and shortly evolved into the Chaparral Genealogical Society. I served as 2nd vice- president in charge of projects, and we spent the first year or so surveying all the cemeteries in southwest Montgomery and northwest Harris counties. Then, as a result of many meetings and discussions, THE ROADRUNNER was born. I edited this quarterly for two years, and loved every minute of it. I'll have to admit it was quite frus­ trating at times, but as each came off the press, I would experience a great deal of pride and pleasure. This year (1976-1977) I am president of The CGS, and our pri­ mary goal is to publish the earlier mentioned cemetery surveys, and to place as many genealogical books as we can afford in our library in Tomball. For about 14 months, I have been working on a complete name index to Hathaway's NORTH CAROLINA GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL REGISTER (published 1900). In the 40s Worth S. Ray attempted such an index, but anyone who has tried to use it can cer­ tainly realize how inadequate it is. All the names are now transcribed, and I am now in the process of alphabeting them for typing. It is a gigantic undertaking, but I feel confident that it will be a very useful tool for anyone doing North Carol ina research. Jeanne Robey Felldin and I formed a publishing company, GENEALOGICAL PUBLICATIONS, a year ago and you have probably seen our ad in THE GENEALOGICAL HELPER, listing all our currently available material. If not, drop me a line and I will send you a brochure. So you see, I stay rather busy but feel that I couldn't have chosen a more fascinati pasttime than genealogy! WHERE WERE YOUR COOPERS IN 1790..? Census records are vitally important, perhaps the most important genealogical research tool available. Therefore, this will be the first of the 1790 series and when completed should contain all the COOPER heads of families known to have been living in the states of Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and North Carolina. To complete these records, included are 1774 Rhode Island tax lists; 1782-1786 Virginia tax lists; 1789-91 Kentucky tax lists; and the 1790 reconstructed Delaware census. This compilation is a gigantic undertaking and obviously there will be a few omissions or corrections. These will be listed at the end of this series. The key for the 1790 census for the above named eleven states is:.males, 16 and upward (includes head of household); males 16 and under; females (includes head of household); all other free persons; slaves. For the Virginia tax lists: 01-12 would indicate one white poll, 12 black polls; 11-1-1 would indicate 11 white souls, 1 dwelling and 1 other building. I have not been able to determine the meaning of the six digit numbers shown for town in Rhode Island (S1774), but will include this information in the next series CMT xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx providence, RI 1-0-1-0-0-0 (SI774) Aaron Cheshire Co., NH 1-4-3-0-0 Aaron Georgetown County, SC 1- 0-1-0-0 Abel, Esq. Rutland Co., VT 2- 4-3-0-0 Abigal N. Kingstown, RI 0-0-5-0-0-0 (SI774) Abner Albany Co., NY 2-0-1-0-0 Abner Greenbrier Co., VA Tax List, 1783-86 Abraham Orange Co., NY 1-0-1-0-0 Abraham Orange Co., NY 1- 0-1-0-0 Abraham Orange Co., NY 2- 1-2-0-0 Abraham Washington Co., VA 01-00 Tax List, 1782-86 Abraham New Haven Co., CT 1-0-1-0-0 Abraham, 2d New Haven Co., CT 1- 1-2-0-0 Abrham Albany Co., NY 2- 3-3-0-0 Adam Rutherford Co., NC 1-0-0-0-0 Adam Fa i rf i eId Co., SC 1-3-3-0-0 Adam Dauph in Co., PA 1- 1-3-0-0 Agniss York Co., PA 2- 0-3-0-0 Albert Orange Co., NY 4-2-3-0-0 Alexander Rutherford Co., NC 1-3-5-0-0 Alexander York Co., PA 1-2-4-0-0 Alexander, Jr. Rutherford Co., NC 1- 3-4-0-0 Allexander York Co., ME 2- 3-6-0-0 Ailing New Haven Co., CT 1-1-2-0-0 Ananias Dutchess Co., NY 1- 3-4-0-0 Ananias New York Co., NY 2- 1-9-0-0 Andrew(Iaborer) Philadelphia Co., PA 0- 0-0-12-0 Annias Suffolk Co., NY 1- 0-2-0-0 Anthony Edgefield Co., SC 2- 1-2-0-0 Appollos, est. Loudon Co., VA 00-06 Tax List, 1782-86 Archabald Frederick Co., MD 2-3-5-0-0 Archibald York Co., PA 2-0-3-0-0 2 Arthur Bedford Co.1 , VA J 01-00 Tax List, 1782-86 Arthur Norfolk Co., VA 3- 1-1 1} Tax List, 1782-86 Arthur Norfolk Co.•,) VA 4- 1-0 Tax List, 1782-86 Asa Berksh ire Co., MA 1-4- 4-0-0 Barnabas Cheshire Co., NH 1-1- •2-0-0 Beedy New Haven Co., CT 1-0- 1-0-0 Ben.