Board: Message Boards > Surnames > Fleet URL: http://boards.ancestry.netscape.com/surnames.fleet/148/mb.ashx Subject: FLEET & COOPER Connection? Author: Gary W. Cooper Date: Thursday, September 22, 2005 Classification: Query Surnames: COOPER, FLEET, BACON
Can anyone PLEASE help with locating descendants of the following COOPER line from Virginia? Virginia patents and grants, as well as several other records suggest that a Fleet COOPER, mostlikely was born in southeastern Virginia. It could be that he was the same Fleet COOPER of Nansemond County, VA, who sold land along the Blackwater River on 9 Mar 1757 which he purchased in Feb 1745. Thee also is record of a Fleet COOPER living in Elizabeth City County, VA, who was fined by the Court 19 February 1718 for failing to attend church. Also in Elizabeth City County a Fleet COOPER witnessed the will of Robert BRIGHT on 19 Jan 1723/23. In 1645 or 1646 the SW portion of Elizabeth City County became Nansemond County. Possibly these two Fleet COOPERs living fairly close related. Earlier Virginia records link the "widow FLEET" and a Jno. COOPER and his wife as grantors in a 1675 Gloucester County deed. This indicates a possible FLEET and COOPER connection. Other York County, VA, records indicate connections between a widow, Anne FLEETE, and John COOPER, here attorney. These documents were recorded between 1665 and 1672. Regards, Gary garluke@juno.com
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