General Notes

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) MARGARET COVENTRY February 25,
1638/39. He married (2) FRANCES CECIL April 25, 1650. He married (3)
COUNTESS MARGARET SPENCER August 13, 1655.
Notes for ANTHONY ASHLEY-COOPER:
The complete list of Lords Proprietor of the Carolina Colony is as
follows:
1. Lord Chancellor EDWARD HYDE CLARENDON, b. 1609-d. 1674
(1st Earl of Clarendon & Prime Minister)
2. Sir GEORGE MONCK, b. 1608 d. 1670
(1st Duke of Albemarle, General Monck)
3. Lord CRAVEN,
4. Lord JOHN BERKELEY, of New Jersy
5. Lord ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER, b. 1621 d. 1783
(1st Earl of Shaftesbury)
6. Sir GEORGE CARTERET, b. c1606 d. 1677 of New Jersey
7. Sir WILLIAM BERKELEY, b. 1606 d. 1677
(Governor of Virginia)
8. Sir JOHN COLLETON.
More About ANTHONY ASHLEY-COOPER:
Fact: 1st Earl of Shaftesbury and Lord Proprietor of the Carolinas
Child of ANTHONY ASHLEY-COOPER and FRANCES CECIL is:
3. i. ANTHONY4 ASHL