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Col. Benjamin Cooley

Male 1747 - 1811  (63 years)


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  • Name Benjamin Cooley  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] 
    Title Col. 
    Birth 30 Apr 1747  Greenwich, Hampshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8, 9, 10] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 27 Feb 1810/1811  Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8, 9, 11] 
    • Died "probably in Rutland, Vermont" [8]
    • Died in the 63 year of his age [11]
    Burial Congregational Church Cemetery, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Headstone of Col. Benj. Cooley    		 Headstone of Col. Benj. Cooley
    Image file from the Find A Grave website (findagrave.com), submitted by Alan Lathrop on 21 November 2010.
    Headstone of Col. Benj. Cooley    		 Headstone of Col. Benj. Cooley
    Image file from the Find A Grave website (findagrave.com), submitted by Alan Lathrop on 21 November 2010.
    Notes 
    • Captain in 1780 under Col. Ethan Allen. [8]
    • Served in the Revolutionary War. [11]
    • He was a Captain in the Revolution. [9]
    Person ID I153  The John and Tuly Huntington Family
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2017 

    Father Benjamin Cooley,   b. 5 Nov 1701, Springfield (now Longmeadow), Hampden, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Apr 1790 (Age 88 years) 
    Mother Mary Needham,   b. 21 Jun 1725, Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jun 1799 (Age 73 years) 
    Marriage 14 Feb 1744/1745  Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13] 
    Notes 
    • Mary Needham was Benjamin Cooley's second wife. [7, 8]
    Family ID F181  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ruth Beach,   b. 11 Jan 1756, Morristown, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Sep 1825 (Age 69 years)  [7, 8, 9, 10, 14] 
    Marriage 18 Feb 1773  Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 8, 9, 10] 
    Children 
     1. Benjamin Cooley,   b. 9 Jan 1774, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Dec 1858, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
    +2. Samuel Cooley,   b. 14 Nov 1775, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Feb 1846 (Age 70 years)
     3. Ruth Cooley,   b. 31 Dec 1777, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Azariah Cooley,   b. 7 Apr 1780, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Sep 1852, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
     5. Noah Cooley,   b. 2 Jul 1782, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jan 1852, the "Western Country" Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     6. Mary Cooley,   b. 29 Jan 1786, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Naomi Cooley,   b. 6 Oct 1788, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Dec 1870, Romeo, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
     8. Eunice Cooley,   b. 16 Apr 1791, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1879, Bridgeport, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
     9. Susannah Cooley,   b. 2 Apr 1793, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Apr 1793, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     10. Dorothy Cooley,   b. 17 May 1794, Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F80  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2017 

  • Documents
    Town of Pittsford records from Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont. Births, marriages, deaths 1745-1869, Volume 1; Image 20 of 136.    		Town of Pittsford records from Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont. Births, marriages, deaths 1745-1869, Volume 1; Image 20 of 136.
    From "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005." Image file obtained March 2017 from the FamilySearch.org website.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2] Grace Letitia Rondot Huntington, Personal family history of Grace Letitia Rondot Huntington.
      Name recorded variously as "Colonel Benjamin Cooley" and "Colonel Benjamin Cooley III"

    2. [S1] Elizabeth Ross Huntington, Personal family history of Elizabeth Ross Huntington.
      Name recorded variously as "Colonel Benjamin Cooley" and "Col. Benjamin Cooley III"

    3. [S59] Headstone of Col. Benj. Cooley.
      Name recorded as "Col. Benj. Cooley"

    4. [S60] Headstone of Ruth Cooley.
      Name recorded as "Col. Benj. Cooley"

    5. [S371] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, The Cooley Genealogy, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), 491-492.
      Name recorded as "Benjamin Cooley III"

    6. [S1977] Town of Pittsford records from Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont. Births, marriages, deaths 1745-1869, Volume 1; Image 20 of 136.
      Name recorded variously as "Benjamine Cooley" and "Benja. Cooley"

    7. [S2] Grace Letitia Rondot Huntington, Personal family history of Grace Letitia Rondot Huntington.

    8. [S1] Elizabeth Ross Huntington, Personal family history of Elizabeth Ross Huntington.

    9. [S371] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, The Cooley Genealogy, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), 491-492.

    10. [S1977] Town of Pittsford records from Pittsford, Rutland, Vermont. Births, marriages, deaths 1745-1869, Volume 1; Image 20 of 136.

    11. [S59] Headstone of Col. Benj. Cooley.

    12. [S371] Mortimer Elwyn Cooley, The Cooley Genealogy, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1941), 466-468.

    13. [S1906] Town of Brimfield records from Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts. Births, marriages, deaths 1727-1830, Volume 1; Image 4 of 133.

    14. [S60] Headstone of Ruth Cooley.


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