General Notes

ID: I04987
Name: Benjamin COOPER
Sex: M
Birth: 1697 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA.
Death: 1776 in Granville, North Carolina
Father: James COOPER b: 16 MAY 1661 in Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire,
England
Mother: Hester UNKNOWN b: 1663 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA.
Marriage 1 Elizabeth KELLEY b: ABT. 1699 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
Co., PA.
Married: 28 NOV 1720 in Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Children
Fleet COOPER , Sr. b: ABT. 1722 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA.
Benjamine COOPER b: ABT. 1723 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA.
Thomas COOPER b: ABT. 1724 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA.
Kennon COOPER b: ABT. 1725
Francis COOPER b: ABT. 1726 in Culpepper Co., VA.
Mary COOPER b: ABT. 1729 in Culpepper Co., VA.
Sarah COOPER b: ABT. 1732 in Culpepper Co., VA.
George COOPER b: ABT. 1740 in Loudoun Co., VA.
The hallowed pedigree of my COOPER family to the Earl of Shaftesbury
Coopers has proven false. Recent DNA testing of Melungeons has shown the
core genetic group were Portuguese Jews. The Coopers along with the
Sizemores, Blevins, Carters, Beans, Looneys and others were promoters of
the Watauga and Kentucky settlements, financed entirely by Sephardic
Jewish interests in Europe during the Spanish Inquisition. When the Old
Southwest (La Florida) was returned to Spain around 1780, panic ensued
among the Moorish and Jewish inhabitants and many took refuge in these
mountain settlements, purchased from the Cherokee.
As evidence that the James Cooper who came over to Philadelphia was
crypto-Jewish: his wife's name was Hester, a daughter was Esther, the
most common Jewish female name. Other common names in this line are
Benjamin, Isaac and Samuel, Rebecca, Joseph, David, Joel.... Biblical,
but not saints' names in the Christian tradition.
This is also the family of James "Fenimore" Cooper, who was always very
defensive about his genealogy. (He did not adopt the Fenimore
name--notice the -more ending-- until later in life.)
Freemasons and primitive Baptist churches were common covers for Jewish
aid/relief organizations and secret temples in East Tennessee and the
Carolinas. The colony of Purveysborough was a thinly disguised Jewish
colony, as was Daniel Boone's "Quaker" origins. The Boones/Bons/Buens
were Portuguese Jews. Descendants in California still practice the Jewish
faith.
According to the compilation America's First Jewish Families, Cooper was
one of the most common. It is also included in JewishGen, specifically
James and Hester Cooper's line.
I believe James Cooper (or descendants) made up the connection to a
"George Ashley-Cooper." Significantly, George's birthdate is given as 22
July 1621, the same as the historical Anthony Ashley-Cooper, first Earl
of Shaftesbury. The peerage records do not list a George Ashley-Cooper,
only Anthony and Philippa. Anthony-Ashley acceded to the title of Earl of
Shaftesbury on April 23, 1672, about the time an unknown James Cooper set
up a store on Market Street in Philadelphia.
This could also explain a lot about Fenimore Cooper's portrayal of
American Indians. They are really sublimated images of his own Sephardic
Jewish roots.
Below is a chart of the real Ashley-Cooper line.
Don Panther-Yates
Descendants of John (of Rockbourne) Cooper
Generation No. 1
1. JOHN (OF ROCKBOURNE)2 COOPER (SIR JOHN1) was born 1598 in Wimborne,
Dorsetshire, England, and died 1631. He married ANNE ASHLEY Abt. 1620.
She was born 1602.
Children of JOHN COOPER and ANNE ASHLEY are:
2. i. ANTHONY3 ASHLEY-COOPER, b. July 22, 1621, St. Giles, Dorsetshire,
England; d. January 22, 1682/83, Holland.
ii. PHILLIPPA COOPER, b. 1624; d. May 20, 1701, Mitchall, Surrey, England.
Generation No. 2
2. ANTHONY3 ASHLEY-COOPER (JOHN (OF ROCKBOURNE)2 COOPER, SIR JOHN1) was
born July 22, 1621 in St. Giles, Dorsetshire, England, and died January
22, 1682/83 in Holland. He married (1) MARGAR