Elizabeth Cooper

Not the same as Elizabeth Walls Cooper (Crew) - 1694

Elizabeth (Crew) Walls died sometime after 9 June 1759, because on that day she gave this deposition to the court: " 9 Jun 1759. Deposition. Elizabeth Cooper aged 65 years or there about being sworn deposeth and saith that Richard Harvey dyed sometime in the month of Mar in the year she doth not remember & that her father John Crew married the said Harvey's widow about the time of planting of corn following, & that she had a daughter within one month of her marriage which said daughter was called Honour Crew & was married by that name one Ralph Tindall late of Sussex Co., dec'd and this deponant farther saith that her mother in law always said that ye said Honour was her father John Crew's child & that her father always ackn the said Honour as his child and took ye same care of her as he did his other children and that she was married to William Walls the same day her father was married to the widow Harvey. Taken before Benjamin Burton, justice of the Peace (Deeds "I", p. 345.)"

Notes

From notes in William Samuel Walls

""Per my colleague and distant cousin Brian Walls of Columbia, Maryland; William Walls married Elizabeth Crew the daughter of John Crew. They had a son, John Walls. Very little is know about these people. We surmise that Thomas and William Walls were younger brothers of John Walls but this is not yet proven. These are the earliest Walls family members found in Delaware but there are 17th century Walls to be found in Maryland. Many of them lived on the eastern shore." Lewis Kiehn, Sacramento, California

"John Walls was dead before 1739 when his wife was mentioned in her father's last will as the wife of Wrixam Christopher. In an earlier will of her father (Richard Bracy) he named her as Sarah Walls. The Jacob Walls found in Sussex County during the 1750's and 1760's named a son Jacob Bracy Walls, suggesting strongly that he was a son of the aforesaid John.

We can prove that this John Walls was was the son of a William Walls and Elizabeth Crew (daughter of John Crew). I know precious little of this William Walls, but from the dearth of land records about him suspect that he was possibly the ship captain William Walls who plied the waters of the Cheasapeake and the Mid-Atlantic Coast." Brian Walls posting 7/2/2002 Birth: BEF 1690 in probably England Occupation: ship captian Death: Y"

Comments

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crew-110

John (will dated Aug 1712) had a stepfather named Robt Hignott. That John Crew purchased 900 AC in what would become Sussex Co, DE with his stepfather. He had a daughter Elizabeth Crew who married William Walls, she married 2) Unknown Cooper. Said Elizabeth gave a deposition 9 June 1759 explaining that she had inherited 100 AC (Sussex Co, DE) from her father at his death, that her father John had married 2) Annabelle, widow of Richard Harvey and that Annabelle was pregnant with Richard's child when she married John Crew. The deposition goes on to say that John Crew treated the child Honour Crew as his own.

References

1. Ref: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/g/Gwendolyn-R-Hignut...
2. Ref: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=marciamcc...