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David is said to have come to this country from England with at least two brothers. He is believed to have landed in Virginia and migrated down to North Carolina where he may have started his family. He moved from the Edgecombe, Nash County, North Carolina area to Wake County, North Carolina where he is known to have owned land. He apparently then moved to Spartanburg County, South Carolina area about 1758, where he lived the remainder of his life. David's Will names his wife and all of his children.

Apparently, some of the older children had started families along his route and stayed in the area as David, Elizabeth, and the younger family moved on. This is unusual as normally the children migrated and left the parents behind.

Others have information that David was born in Virginia and was the son of William Cooper & Elizabeth, who were both from England. They had children: George 1715, Ann 1717, John 1720, Marvin 1721, David 1725, Thomas, & James.[marshallc83.ged]
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Birth, Marriage, & Death > U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: Elizabeth Wilder
Gender: female
Birth Year: 1726
Spouse Name: David Cooper
Spouse Birth Place: VA
Spouse Birth Year: 1725
Number Pages: 1
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1790 Census Not stated, Spartenburgh, SC
David Cooper Free W Males including head of household 16 & up 2, under 16 none
Free W Females incl head of household 2
Slaves 1
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Will of David Cooper dated 17 Mar 1792, copied from Box 7, package 15 Spartanburg, South Carolina.

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I David Cooper of the state of South Carolina and County of Spartanburg being old and well stricken in years and weak and sickly in body yet perfect and sound in mind and memory thanks be to God for His mercies. Calling to mind the mortality (?) of the body and that it is appointed for
man once to die and after that to Judgement I do hereby make and ordain this to be my last will and testament and first I yield my soul unto God that gave it to me in hopes of a happy ( ? ) through the tender mercies of Jesus Christ and my body unto the dust from whence it came to be buried with a decent burial at the discretion of my executors in hopes of a happy resurrection from the dead and all my worldly goods and chattel that the lord has been pleased to bless me with I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife Elisabeth Cooper one featherbed and furniture and lend unto her also one negro woman named Pol and one gray mare and colt and two cows and calves and household and kitchen furniture and if there is a (?)ight obtained for the land on which I now dwell to me or to my heirs that my wife shall have her dwelling on that all the days of her life and at her death all that remains of the lent property unto my wife shall be equally divided between my son Edward Cooper and my daughter Elizabeth Cooper and also I give and bequeath unto my daughter Rehab Fowler one featherbed and furniture and one white horse and two cows and calves and one heffer and one iron pot which I intrusted her with at her marriage and which she ha
already in her hands and also I also give and bequeath unto my son Marcome Cooper three head of sheep which he hath already in his hands and also I give and bequeath unto my son William Cooper one
featherbed and furniture, one gray mare and two cows and two cows and calves which he hath already in his hands and I also give and bequeath unto my son John Cooper one featherbed and furnitrue two
cows and calves and a heffer and one bay mare which he hath already in his hands and I also give and bequeath unto my daughter Charity Wilmuth one featherbed and furniture and one cow which she hath already in her hands and I also give and bequeath unto my daughter Orpah Amos one featherbed and furniture and two cows and one calf which she hath already in her hands and I also give and bequeath unto my son Sion Cooper one bay horse bridle and saddle which he hath already in his hands and two cows and calves which he hath lately received an two heffers which he is to receive and also I give and bequeath unto my son Malleki one bay horse bridle and saddle and a rifel gun which he hath already in his
hands and I also give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Cooper one black mare and one featherbed and fruniture and two cows and calves and one flax wheel which is her present (?) portion and I also give
and bequeath unto my son Edward Cooper one featherbed and furniture and three young horses, two sorrels and one black and two cows and calves and 1 13 ? 19 ( ? ) money which is in the hands of my
son John Cooper and one rifle gun and I do hereby constitute and appoint my son Malleki Cooper as my executor of this my last will and testement and I so also dis(???) and make void all other former will ( ? ) and bequeaths by (?) whatsoever acknowledging this to be my last will and testament. ( ? )
pronounced ratified and confirmed signed sealed and acknowledged this seventeenth day of March in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and ninety two in the presents of
Fred Trimmor David x Cooper
Obadiah Watson
Daniel Ledbetter