Frederick Cooley

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1 COOLEY, BENJAMIN, son of Barnas and Hannah (Shattuck) Cooley, b at Dfld 10 Aug., 1773, d 30 June, 1836, at Brown Hill, O., whither he had rem abt 1835, m.(1) 13 Oct , 1799, Elizabeth, dau of Noadiah Lewis, b 1771, d. 18 Sept., 1812 , ae 41 yrs ; m ( 2 ) Rachel , dau of Moses Hastings of Amh, b 20 Nov. , 1777, d . 1864, ae 87 yrs. His parents died when he was small and he was brought up by Benjamin Scott , Jr. An ingenious mechanic, a civil engineer and highly respected, made the survey and map of the town in 1830 , by order of the state law .

Nine ch :

Frederick , b12 Nov. , 1800 , d 30 Dec., 1800 ;

Benjamin Lewis and Betsey Shattuck, (twins) b. 19 Feb. 1804. Benjamin m Aurelia Carr, d 1858; Betsey d 28 Feb 1827

James. b 5 Jan., 1807, d 12 Jan., 1807

Frederick, b 18 April, 1808, d unm 30 July, 1881

Moses Hastings, b 19 March, 1814;

Eli Parker, b 31 July, 1815,

Lucy, b May, 1817, m Seth G. Morse

Fannie, b 29 Aug., 1820, d 26 March, 1822

Bibliographic information:

• Title History of the Town of Whately, Mass: Including a Narrative of Leading Events from the First Planting of Hatfield, 1661-1899
• Author James Monroe Crafts
• Edition reprint
• Publisher Higginson Book Company, 1899
• Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Digitized Jul 8, 2011
• Length 628 pages
• https://books.google.com/books?id=P2glAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&...

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