Willis Osborn Cooper
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Mar 1874 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 1
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Death: 1882 - Gloucester, Massachusetts
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
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Parents
Father: Charles H Cooper (1850- )
Mother: Mary Ann Rich (1850-1924)
Earl Bellomont Richard Coote
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1636 - England
Baptism:
Death: 1701 - England
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General:
http://www.mass.gov/statehouse/massgovs/rcoote.htm
Governors of Massachusetts
Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont (1636-1701)
Royal Governor of Massachusetts
1699-1700
Governor Coote's noble upbringing led him to serve the Queen as Treasurer and Receiver General in 1689, and to serve in Parliament before being commissioned as Royal Governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York in 1697.
He began his administration in New York the next spring in 1698 and did not assert his dominion over Massachusetts until May of 1699, when he presided in person as Massachusetts' Governor. Bellomont had been the primary sponsor of Captain William Kidd's charter as a privateer, and when he was charged with piracy, Captain Kidd came to Boston to enlist Governor Coote's support. The political tide had turned against Kidd, and Governor Coote promptly had Captain Kidd arrested. The accused pirate was given a brief hearing and was then returned to London where he was found guilty of piracy and hung.
Governor Coote's governorship was otherwise uneventful. His attempt to govern three such distant territories took a toll on his health and he succumbed to a severe case of gout in 1701. William Stoughton briefly returned again as acting Governor until his death, resulting in Governor's Council administering the Colony's affairs until John Dudley returned from England to retake the Royal Governorship in June of 1702.
George Copeland
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Apr 1793 - Bridgewater, Massachusetts
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Death: 6 May 1871 - Brewster, Massachusetts
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Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Bangs Snow (1799 - 5 Jan 1874)
Marriage: 13 Sep 1823
Status:
Children:
1. Mary Ann Copeland (1840-1872)
2. George William Copeland (1836-1837)
Notes
General:
Father: Jonathan COPELAND b: 30 APR 1755 in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Mother: Deborah OTIS
George William Copeland
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Dec 1836
Baptism:
Death: 17 May 1837
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Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: George Copeland (1793-1871)
Mother: Sarah Bangs Snow (1799-1874)
Mary Ann Copeland
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Jun 1840 - Brewster, Massachusetts
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Death: 1872
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Parents
Father: George Copeland (1793-1871)
Mother: Sarah Bangs Snow (1799-1874)
Notes
General:
from Journal of Antiques:
"Here's Mary Ann Copeland, born in Brewster 1840, daughter of the town lawyer (a transplant from Bridgewater) and his wife, a local woman from a prosperous Brewster family. Having a large house and only one child, the Copelands took in respectable long-term boarders: clergymen, teachers–and an "itinerant" painter whose father and uncle were well-known throughout New England as founders of the Universalist sect. Giddings Ballou boarded with the Copelands from c. 1847 to 1853, painting many of the Copelands' neighbors. He also painted a number of Chatham portraits during his Brewster residency and eventually married a Chatham widow and lived in that town for the last twenty years of his life. Her portrait and those of her parents, also painted by Ballou, were preserved by descendants of her father's Bridgewater family.
Mary Ann Copeland (1840-1872) c. 1847 oil on canvas/27" x 22"/ " 2
Samuel Copeland
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Sep 1686 - Braintree, Massachusetts Bay
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Death: 9 Dec 1746 - Braintree, Massachusetts
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Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Kingman (Est 1688 - )
Marriage: Est 1710
Status:
Notes
General:
Father: John Copeland b: 10 Dec 1658 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., MassachusettsMarriage Notes (Mary Kingman)
Mother: Ruth Newcomb b: ABT 1658 in , Massachusetts
Children
Desire COPELAND b: 22 Oct 1715 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA
Samuel COPELAND b: 28 Oct 1711 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA c: in North Parish
Mary COPELAND b: 7 Jul 1713 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA c: in North Parish
John COPELAND b: 27 May 1718 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA c: in North Parish
Abigail COPELAND b: 6 Aug 1720 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA c: in North Parish
Ruth COPELAND b: 21 Mar 1733 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA c: in North Parish
Susannah COPELAND b: 22 Feb 1724 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA c: in North Parish
Isaac COPELAND b: 27 Mar 1726 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA c: in North Parish
Hannah COPELAND b: 29 Feb 1727/28 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA c: in North Parish
Bethiah COPELAND b: 27 Jul 1729 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA c: in North Parish
Seth COPELAND b: 21 Apr 1721 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA c: in North Parish
Daniel COPELAND b: 30 Jul 1733 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA c: in North Parish
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Michael Corbet
Sex: M
AKA: Michael Corbitt
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1740
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In 1769 John Adams defended a seaman named Michael Corbet, who killed a lieutenant from a naval press gang in self-defense. Adams was enraged when Chief Justice Thomas Hutchinson declared Corbet innocent before he could even present the critique of impressment he had prepared.
According to Adams, the 1769 case of Rex v. Corbet was very politically charged, involving asserted self-defense by American seamen armed with a fish gig, musket, hatchet, and harpoon against British impressment agents with musket, pistols, and cutlasses. Arguing justifiable homicide, Otis and Adams defended Corbet for gigging the British impressment officer who fired on the Americans. Impressment being illegal, our next Enquiry must be what the Rules of the civil Law are, relative to Homicide in Cases of Self Defense. Self Preservation is first Law of Nature. Self Love is the strongest Principle in our Breasts, and Self Preservation [the most important Duty] not only our unalienable Right but our clearest Duty, by the Law of Nature. This Right and Duty, are both confirmed by the municipal Laws of every civilized Society.
The impressers being trespassers and rioters, and the deceased having first fired a pistol in the face of Corbet, the latter "had an undoubted Right, not merely to make a push at Lt. Panton, but to have darted a Harpoon, a dagger thro the Heart of every Man in the whole gang."
Adams argued: "For if impresses are always illegal, and Lt. Panton acted as an Impress Officer, Michael Corbitt and his Associates had a right to resist him, and if they could not otherwise preserve their Liberty, take away his Life .... Nay I think that Impresses may be allowed to be legal, and yet Corbitt might have a Right to resist."
Clara Mabel Corbett
Sex: F
AKA: Clara M Coslett 4
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Oct 1898 - Montana 5
Baptism:
Death: Jan 1979 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Events
• Soc Sec Num, 031-01-9239 in Massachusetts
Spouses and Children
1. *Elmer Furbush Wiles (22 Mar 1892 - Feb 1984) 3
Marriage:
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Children:
1. Arlie Leroy Wiles (1918-2007)
2. Ella Mae Wiles (1920-1931) 3
3. Dorothy Isabel Wiles (1922- )
4. John Cole Wiles (1924- ) 4
5. Ruth Elizabeth Wiles (1927-2001)
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General:
parents b Missouri - (1930 census)
Nov 1917 - operated on at Sinai hospital, New York
Lloyd Carleton Corbett
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 2 Oct 1885 - Newport, Rhode Island
Baptism:
Death: 14 Nov 1915 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 6
Burial:
Cause of Death: accidental gunshot wound
Events
• Alt Birth, 2 Oct 1886 in Newport, Rhode Island
Notes
General:
Lloyd Carleton CorbettMedical:
born Newport, RI, 2 Oct 1886
parents Charles Walter Corbett, Hannah Maria Miller
school Boston Latin School
degrees A.B., 1908
unmarried
died Wellfleet, Mass., 14 Nov 1915
Corbett completed his college course in three years, but took his degree with the class, in 1908. Immediately after graduation, he became a salesman for the J.B. Williams Company, of Glastonvury, Conn. A year later he associated himself with the Boston office of N.W. Ayer & Co., advertising agents. He was very successful and developed a number of national advertisers. In 19[13] he joined the forces of Wood, Putnam & Wood, advertising agents of Boston, and held this position until his untimely death, November 12, 1915. With a party of friends, he was duck-hunting at South Wellfleet and was mortally wounded out on the flats near Lieutenant's Island by the accidental dischagre of a heavy bore shot-gun, the charge entering his upper leg, severing the femoral artery. He was very fond of hunting and has shot in Maine and Canada. His trophies include a moose head, several dear heads, two black bear skins, and many more. His fondness for the out-of-doors found expression in a clever little poem of four verses, one for each season of the year. This was found among his papers after his death, and was reprinted in "Outing Magazine." At the time of his death, he was actively engaged in preparations for the annual dinner of his class, being active in the entertainment features. He was one of the first to join the Business and Professional Men's Training Battalion of the 1st Corps Cadets, which was formed to meet possible emergencies brought about by the war. 7
age 30-1-12 6
Thomas Corbett
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1781 - Boston, Massachusetts 8
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Death: 8 Jan 1845 - Hingham, Massachusetts 8
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Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Mayo (1783 - 3 Aug 1872) 8
Marriage: 24 Apr 1805 - Boston, Massachusetts 8
Status:
Elizabeth B Corbin
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1833 - (New York)
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Death:
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Spouses and Children
1. *Daniel F Betts (3 Sep 1830 - ) 9
Marriage: 25 Apr 1860 - Clinton County, Missouri
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Notes
Marriage Notes (Daniel F Betts)
The Bible record is poorly legible in pale ink. The dates are clear, but not the given names.
children:
Emma A, 27 July 1862
Wiles E, 5 Aug 1865
Clarance G, 25 Sept 1867 10
Elvira Corcoran
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1817
Baptism:
Death:
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Spouses and Children
1. *Freeman Kingman (26 May 1814 - 10 Aug 1882) 11
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Mary Corcoran
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1922 - Ogdensburg, New York
Baptism:
Death: 10 Jun 2006 - Orleans, Massachusetts
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Spouses and Children
1. *Edward Smith (Est 1920 - )
Marriage: Est 1945
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Cape Codder obit:
Mary Smith
Friday, June 16, 2006
Journalist, newspaper owner, Orleans selectwoman
ORLEANS - Mary (Corcoran) Smith, 84, died June 10 at Liberty Commons Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Chatham, She was the wife of Edward Smith.
Mrs. Smith was born in Ogdensburg, N.Y., and was raised and educated in Orleans. She graduated from Orleans High School. After school she went to work as a reporter for the Providence Journal. After her marriage she and her husband started a printing business. In 1947 they started the Oracle Newspaper, a weekly in Orleans.
Mrs. Smith was on the Orleans Finance Committee for three years, was the first female selectman in Orleans, and was a member of the board of directors for Hyannis Cooperative Bank. She was a communicant at St. Joan of Arc Church in Orleans and was an original member of the Cape Cod Commission.
She enjoyed gardening and was an excellent cook.
Besides her husband, she is survived by four sons, Michael C. of Orleans, Thomas S. of Yarmouth, Jeffrey D. of Alexandria, Va., and James W. of Orleans; two sisters, Anne Fettig of Orleans and Helen Lederman of Florida; 10 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated June 14 at St Joan of Arc Church, Orleans. Memorial donations may be made to The Orleans Rescue Squad c/o the Fire Dept. Assoc., 58 Eldredge Park Way, Orleans, MA 02653.
Mary T. Corcoran
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1897 - (Lexington, Massachusetts)
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Spouses and Children
1. *Dennis F. Hinchey (4 May 1873 - 16 Jun 1916)
Marriage: 30 Apr 1912 - Lexington, Massachusetts
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2. Joseph Campbell (Est 1895 - )
Marriage: 28 Dec 1919 - Lexington, Massachusetts 12
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Notes
Marriage Notes (Dennis F. Hinchey)
married by Daniel W. Cronin, PriestMarriage Notes (Joseph Campbell)
assume in Lexington, MA
John F. Kelleher, Priest
assume Lexington
Thomas Francis Corcoran
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1900 - (Harwich, Massachusetts)
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Death:
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Spouses and Children
1. *Anna Louise Twoig (Est 1900 - )
Marriage: 28 Jan 1925 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
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Ernie Cordeiro
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Dec 1930 - (Provincetown, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death: 24 Oct 1976 - dragger Patricia Marie, near Pollock Rip
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Cause of Death:
Events
• Soc Sec Num, 025-22-8257 in Massachusetts
Notes
General:
See story at Capt. Billy King.
Henry Louis Cordeiro
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Oct 1916 - (Provincetown, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death: Nov 1989 - Marstons Mills (Barnstable), Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Soc Sec Num, 029-05-1281 in Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Louis Cordeiro (Est 1890- )
Mother:
Spouses and Children
1. *Margaret Nelson (2 Oct 1920 - Nov 1982)
Marriage: Nov 1942 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 13
Status:
Notes
General:
1942, fireman first class, US Coast Guard, Portland MaineMarriage Notes (Margaret Nelson)
1960, of Provincetown
Louis Cordeiro
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1890
Baptism:
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Spouses and Children
Philamena V Cordeiro
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1911
Baptism:
Death:
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Spouses and Children
1. *Ferdinand Salvador (3 Apr 1909 - 7 May 1992)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Carol Ann Salvador (1945-2008)
Andrew Lewis Cordes
Sex: M
AKA: Andrew W Cordes
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Sep 1823 - Truro, Massachusetts 15
Baptism:
Death: 3 Oct 1841 - Lost At Sea
Burial: in Truro Congregational cemetery
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Giraud Cordes (1790-1861) 16 17
Mother: Priscilla Knight (1795-1869)
Notes
General:
Andrew Corded was among the 57 men and boys from Truro, in 7 vessels, lost in the October Gale of 1841, including his brother John.