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From: Carol Botteron <>
Subject: Re: [GENMASSACHUSETTS] Ann COOPER m. Ephraim MORTON 1644
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:59:44 -0400
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>From: "Dale H. Cook" <>
>
>At 04:37 PM 8/6/2011, Carol Botteron wrote:
>
>>Were Ann Cooper's parents really someone else?
>
>They were. John and Priscilla (Carpenter) (Wright) Cooper had no
>children of which there is any record. "The Great Migration:
>Immigrants to New England 1634-1635" 2:200-202 shows John Cooper
>(whose sister Lydia married Ephraim Morton's brother Nathaniel in
>1635), who lived in Scituate and Barnstable, was married to Priscilla
>(Carpenter) Wright (widow of William), and had no children. Perhaps
>Ann was another sibling of Lydia and John, but I suspect not, as GM
>would have mentioned her if that were known (John Cooper's 1676 will
>mentioned only wife Priscilla and his "sisters" Lydia Morton
>(Nathaniel's wife and John's blood sister) and Alice Bradford
>(perhaps Alice (Richards) Bradford, wife of William Jr.?) but no
>other siblings and no children, and Ann (Cooper) Morton did not die
>until 1691). I will see what I can find - I need to have a closer
>look at Ann in any case as she is one of my ancestors.

Thank you, Cousin Dale. I look forward to anything you might find.

I descend from Ann Cooper and Ephraim Morton via their son Ehpraim
Morton (1648-1732) who married Hannah Finney. Ephraim and Hannah's
daughter Hannah married Benjamin Warren.

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