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Lydia Cooper (Riggs)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: NJ
Death: December 28, 1732 (67-68)
Newton, Gloucester, NJ
Immediate Family:

Wife of Joseph Cooper of Cooper's Point and Joseph Cooper
Mother of Benjamin Cooper; Isaac Cooper; Hannah Morgan; Isaac Cooper, Sr.; Sarah Raper and 4 others

Managed by: Jennifer Schleinkofer
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About Lydia Cooper

A skeleton genealogical chart of the first four generations of William Cooper and his descendants is given on page 406 to elucidate the descriptions in this article.

Pages 404-406
The History of Camden County, New Jersey
George Reeser Prowell
L. J. RICHARDS & CO.
1886


Joseph Cooper (born 1666, died 1731), second son of William, the emigrant, married, 1688, Lydia Riggs, a member of the Philadelphia Meeting of Friends. They resided on Coopers Creek, just east of the residence of his father. They had seven children,—Elizabeth, who married Samuel Mickle and died without issue; Joseph, Jr., who married, first, Mary Hudson, and, second, Hannah Dent; Lydia, who married John Cox and died without issue; Hannah, who married Alexander Morgan; Benjamin, who was three times married: first to Rachel Mickle, secondly to Hannah Carlisle (a widow née Clarke), and thirdly to Elizabeth Burcham (a widow née Cole); Sarah, who married Joshua Raper; and Isaac, who married Hannah Coates.

Page 408
The History of Camden County, New Jersey
George Reeser Prowell
L. J. RICHARDS & CO.
1886


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Lydia Cooper's Timeline

1664
1664
NJ
1689
1689
1691
1691
1691
Newton, Gloucester, New Jersey, USA
1697
1697
NJ
1698
1698
Monmouth County, New Jersey
1699
1699
Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey, British America Colony
1702
1702
Newton Twp, Gloucester Co, NJ
1732
December 28, 1732
Age 68
Newton, Gloucester, NJ