Elizabeth Dalton

Elizabeth Cooker Dalton: The only wife of John Dalton Sr.

Elizabeth Cooker or Kucher as it was spelled in the records we found about her father, Simon Cooker (Kucher) was born December 26, 1767 in Bucks County Pennsylvania.

She died on September 21, 1858 in Hazelton, Buchanan Co. Iowa. We know she emigrated from Bucks County to Bradford County Penn. Sometime in 1835 she moved to Michigan with her daughter’s Elizabeth family (Hiram Vargason) and then with Moses and her other daughter, Jemima Dalton Vargason to Kenosha, Wisconsin, then to Iowa.

Below is the history of her father, Simon Cooker:

Someone has determined that Simon Cooker was born about 1734, and that he came from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The age determination was obviously made by using the standard Church estimate for a man being 26 years of age when his first child was born. His daughter, Elizabeth Cooker, who married John Dalton, was born 25 December, 1760, in Bucks County.

Bucks County is located on the Delaware River just north of Philadelphia. Several books inform us that much of the early settlement there was by German immigrants, mostly from the Palatinate, which is on the upper Rhine, and includes the city of Worms. The trip from Germany was often long and hard for the immigrants. Some of the captains of the ships were reputed to be cruel and inhuman masters. Others were known as kind and considerate.

One such emigrant ship is reported in the Colonial Records, vol. III, p. 456, as follows:

Philadelphia, 25 September, 17 32. At the courthouse in presence of the Honorable the Governor, and Samuel Hassel, Esquire, Mayor, the within list was swore to by Robert Turpin, Master of the LOYAL JUDITH. At the courthouse aforesaid one hundred fifteen Palatines, who, with their families, making in all --- persons, were imported here in the ship LOYAL JUDITH of London, Robt. Turpin, Master, from Rotterdam, but last from Cowes, as by clearance thence.

There were three lists of the passengers:

List A. The Captains list.

List B. List of signers of Oath of Allegiance to George II.

List C. List of singers of Oath of Allegiance to James III (A pretender to the English throne)

Each of these lists contains the name of Johann Peter Kucher. In one of them the name Cooker appears in parentheses, Obviously an anglicized spelling of the name. His age is given as twenty. Since only males were listed, we do not know if he was married or not. We also do not know if he is our ancestor, but the timing is right to have had a child (Simon) born about 1734. I found some other Kuchers in the records but none seem to match as well as this one. I have done some extensive checking of Quaker and other records, but all to no avail. I do not think at this time that we will ever be able to prove this connection. It is also possible that he was married in Germany and that he brought a wife and child, Simon Cooker, with him.

Simon Cooker, 1769 Pennsylvania Archives, 1769-1779 Third Series, Vol 14.

Proprietary Tax- County of Philadelphia.

Germantown Township-1769.

Simon Cooker

I also found Simon Cooker and his family on the 1790 census of Bucks County. His family consisted of:

2 Free White Males 16 and up

4 Free White Males under 16.

No further details are available. This certainly indicates a family of more than one child, as our records show. Since Elizabeth was probably married and gone by then, anyway, it probably includes one or more younger children and several wives and perhaps grandchildren.

Below source from the "The John Dalton Book of Genealogy"

Bucks County Transcripts, Pennsylvania Archives - 1779-1786, Third Series, Vol. 13.

Page 23, Millford Township - 1779.

Simon Cooker; Arces - 6; Cattle - 2.

Page 183, Millford township - 1781.

Simon Kucher; Acres--6; Cattle--1

Pennsylvania Archives - 1769-1774-1774-1779, Third series, Vol. 14;

Proprietary Tax--County of Philadelphia

Page 87, Germantown township - 1769;

Simon Cooker.

Daughter of Simon Cooker & Elizabeth

Married John Dalton Sr., Pennsylvania

Children, Margaret, Henry, Sarah, John Jr., Elizabeth, Simon, Jemima, Charles & Harriet. Inscription:

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