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Priscilla Cooper (Carpenter)

Also Known As: "Dillie", "Priscilla Carpenter Wright"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Wrington, Somerset, England (United Kingdom)
Death: December 29, 1689 (92)
Duxbury, Plymouth , Massachusetts, Colonial America
Place of Burial: Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Alexander "of Leyden" Carpenter and Priscilla Carpenter
Wife of William Wright, of the Plymouth Colony and John Cooper, of the Plymouth Colony
Sister of Nathaniel Carpenter; Juliana Kempton; Alice Bradford; Joan Carpenter; Ann Carpenter (died young) and 3 others

Managed by: Gwyneth Potter McNeil
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About Priscilla Cooper

'Robinson-Yochem Genealogy Priscilla Carpenter

      Sex: F Individual Information
         Birth: Abt 1597 - England, United Kingdom
   Christening: 
         Death: 29 Dec 1689 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States 1
        Burial: 

Parents

        Father: Alexander Carpenter (Abt 1560-1612) 2
        Mother: Pricilla Dillen (1562-1653) 3 Spouses and Children 1. *William Wright (Abt 1583 - Bef Bef Nov 1634)
      Marriage: Abt 1618

2. John Cooper (Abt 1593 - Bef Bef 1683)

      Marriage: 27 Nov 1634 - Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States 4 Notes General:  Died in her 92d year.

Priscilla Carpenter was born in 1598 in Wrington, Somerset, England.3,1,2 She was the daughter of Alexander Carpenter and Priscilla (?).1,2

Priscilla Carpenter married as her first husband William Wright between 1629 and 1633 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, now Plymouth County, Massachusetts.1,2

Priscilla Carpenter married as her second husband John Cooper, son of (--?--) Cooper, on 27 November 1634 in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, now Barnstable County, Massachusetts.1,3,2

Priscilla Carpenter died on 29 December 1689 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, now Massachusetts.1,3,2


Priscilla Carpenter was born 3 Sep 1598 in Wrington, Somerset, England.  Her parents were Alexander CARPENTER and  Priscilla (Drucilla) DILLEN She was the sister of Juliana Carpenter. She first married William Wright who went to New England on the Fortune in 1621. Stratton, in “Plymouth Colony” believes that Priscilla did not come before 1627.  Priscilla died 28 Dec 1689 in Duxbury, Plymouth Mass.

  vii.   Priscilla Carpenter5596, born 1597 in Wrington near Bath, Somerset, Eng.5596; died 2 Dec 1689 in Duxbury, Plymouth, MA5596

  Notes for Priscilla Carpenter:

[Br%C3%B8derbund WFT Vol. 3, Ed. 1, Tree #0905, Date of Import: 14 Jun 1999] In 1619, in Leyden, Holland, Priscilla married William Wright. William Wright and Priscilla Carpenter arrived in Plymouth via the "Fortune" of London (55 tons); out of London early July 1621, arriving Plymouth, November 11th "with 35 persons to remaine & live in ye plantation." Among those listed as saints were William Wright ( -1633) Purchaser 1626; and Mrs. Priscilla Carpenter (1597-1689)-sister of Mrs. Juliana Carpenter-Morton; married, Leyden, 1619; died Duxbury; 1 child. SAINTS & STRANGERS by George F. Willison 1945, pp.444-445.

RICHARDSON GENEALOGY Priscilla (1597 - 1678), m. Leyden, William Wright, one of the passengers on the Fortune. After his death, she m. 2nd, Nov. 27, 1634, John Cooper.

  More About Priscilla Carpenter: Christened: 3 Sep 1599, Wrington near Bath, Somerset, Eng.5597 Immigrated: 1623, "Anne"5598

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Arrived at Plymouth Colony in the fall of 1621 aboard the 'FORTUNE'

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/9CWV-J5V/details?parents=L...

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Carpenter-297

Priscilla Carpenter was the daughter of Alexander and Priscilla Dillen Carpenter. She was born 1597 in Wrington, near Bath, (Somersetshire) England. Her siblings included William of Cobham, Mary, Alice, Agnes, and Juliana.

Priscilla, along with her one brother and at least four sisters, moved with her father, Alexander, from England to Amsterdam, Holland, about 1600; then to Leyden, in about 1609, as Alexander was a dissenter and went to join his religous group known as the Ancient Brethren.

In 1619, in Leyden, Holland, Priscilla married William Wright. William Wright and Priscilla Carpenter arrived in Plymouth via the "Fortune" of London (55 tons); out of London early July 1621, arriving Plymouth, November 11th "with 35 persons to remaine & live in ye plantation." Among those listed as saints were William Wright ( -1633) Purchaser 1626; and Mrs. Priscilla Carpenter (1597-1689)-sister of Mrs. Juliana Carpenter-Morton. Richard Wright died about 1633. Priscilla Wright died at Duxbury, Plymouth Colony. 1 child, Lydia Cooper Morton.

A Richard Wright married Hester Cooke. Some sources feel that he was a son of William and Priscilla. This is improbable as Richard would have been about 10 years old when in 1619 When Priscilla married. He seems to have been born about 1608 (based on age at death). [1]

Sources

BRADFORD OF PLYMOUTH by Bradford Smith 1951, p.268: "William Wright and his wife Priscilla Carpenter had come over on the FORTUNE in 1621. Both Wright and Sam Fuller were carried off in the epidemic of 1633..."

    Source: Robert Charles Anderson, "William Wright",The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol III, Boston, New England Historic Genelogical Society 1995. p. 2075 - 2076. 

Source: Anderson, Sandborn and Sandborn, "John Cooper",The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol II, Boston, New England Historic Genelogical Society 2001. p. 200 - 205.
Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jrcrin001/Carpenter_sisters
Source: World Family Tree, Volume 1, pre-1600 to present Repository: Fitzpatrick Home Library
Sources: ANCESTRAL LINES,compiled by Carl Boyer,3rd, p99.
Source: Bradford's History "Of Plymouth Plantation", Wright & Porter Printing Company,Boston, 1898. (and other additions)
Source: Willison, George F., Saints and Strangers, The Cornwall Press, Cornwall, NY, 1943, Third Printing (and other editions)
Source http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/index.php - includes the Plymouth Division of Cattle.
Source: Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families through Five Generations Volume 12, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press, Revised Edition, 2011
Source: http://www.massmayflower.org/publications/md/md39/MD39-179-186.pdf
Source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30842190
Source: [[Http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bdoyle795/2239.htm
William Wright]]

   Source: [[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bdoyle795/2244.htm 

John Cooper]]

   Source: http://www.massmayflower.org/publications/md/md39/MD39-179-186.pdf 

Source: Public MemberTrees on Ancestry.com. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.
Footnotes

   ↑ Mayflower Families Vol 12 p. 55-56.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Patricia Short for starting the profile.

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Priscilla "Dille" Carpenter Cooper

Birth: Jul. 6, 1597
Wrington North Somerset Unitary Authority Somerset, England Death: Dec. 29, 1689 Plymouth Plymouth County Massachusetts, USA

  • Priscilla was a daughter of Alexander Carpenter & Priscilla Dillen.

She was a sister to Alice Carpenter, wife of Edward Southworth & Governor William Bradford. She was also a sister to Juliana Carpenter, wife of George Morton & Manessah Kempton, and Agnes Carpenter, wife of Dr. Samuel Fuller.

She was married 1st to William Wright who was on the "Fortune" in 1621 and died in Duxbury, Massachusetts in 1633. They were probably married in Leyden, Holland about 1619. [pages 444 & 445, Saints and Strangers by George F. Willison - 1945]

She married 2nd on 27 Nov 1634 at Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts to Dea. John Cooper, a member of Rev. John Lathrop's separatists from Southwark, England [across the Thames River from London]. Dea. John Cooper died in Barnstable, Massachusetts in 1683.

According to Plymouth Historian, William T. Davis, Priscilla was the mother or grandmother of Richard Cooper [1639-1724]. It seems quite clear by his will that Dea. John Cooper had no children. Davis also believed that Priscilla Carpenter and William Wright were the parents of Richard Wright, who married Hester Cooke. It seems most likely that Richard Cooper was a son of Humilitie Cooper and Richard Wright, who were probably living in the same household... like siblings. Humilitie was "sent for" back to England and died there before 1651. She had an adult baptism at Holy Trinity of the Minories in London in 1639, right about the time that Richard Cooper was born.

Parents:
 Alexander Carpenter (1560 - 1612)
 Priscilla Dillen Carpenter (1562 - 1644)

Spouses:

 William Wright (1600 - 1633

John Cooper (1591 - 1683)
Children:

 Richard Wright (____ - 1691)*

Siblings:
Julianna Carpenter Kempton (1584 - 1665)*
Alice Carpenter Southworth Bradford (1590 - 1670)*
Agnes Carpenter Fuller (1593 - 1617)*
Priscilla Carpenter Cooper (1597 - 1689)
Mary Carpenter (1597 - 1687)*
Note: no gravestone remains

Burial: Burial Hill Plymouth Plymouth County Massachusetts, USA Plot: no gravestone

Created by: Tim & Grace Record added: Oct 24, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 30842190

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St. James, Bath, Somerset, England
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